Chicago Bears offseason

[minnesotacubsfan]

9-8

 

tough schedule

[BigSlick]

12 minutes ago, minnesotacubsfan said:

9-8

 

tough schedule

Do you think so? I look at it and I think "damn thats pretty soft" and that its nice they don't have to play divisional games (which are, this year, gonna be tough games) until the very end of the season. 

I look at TEN, IND and CAR in the first 5 games and I'm like - those are games you gotta take care of business, and then you still have WASH, NE and AZ still hanging around the schedule. 

If they slay some bums and go .500 with everyone else they have a winning/playoff season. 

[BigSlick]

36 minutes ago, We Got The Whole 9 said:

So we get Stroud, Young, Daniels, Richardson, possibly Maye. Besides our divisional games those are the ones that interest me the most right now. I want to see Caleb outplay these guys. Is McCarthy gonna start right away?

IMO, doesn't make sense to lump all those guys in with the one dude who had the best rookie season by a QB maybe ever

 

[We Got The Whole 9]

22 minutes ago, BigSlick said:

IMO, doesn't make sense to lump all those guys in with the one dude who had the best rookie season by a QB maybe ever

 

I think it's pretty apt. We passed on him for Moore and a shot at Williams. We declaratively chose Williams over all of these guys. 

[Brian707]

45 minutes ago, minnesotacubsfan said:

9-8

 

tough schedule

17-0

 

 

[David]

 

[Derwood]

All of their division games are late in the season. Fuucking weird schedule. First NFC North game in mid-November

Edited May 16, 2024 by Derwood

[Derwood]

 

[David]

9 minutes ago, Derwood said:

All of their division games are late in the season. Fuucking weird schedule. First NFC North game in mid-November

Positive view of it is it gives Caleb a chance to acclimate himself to the league properly before the most important games hit the schedule.

[David]

1 hour ago, Brian707 said:

17-0

 

 

16-1.  They're still going to lose in horsefeathers Lambeau (in an undefeated week 18 no less) because of course they will.

[UMFan83]

37 minutes ago, Derwood said:

All of their division games are late in the season. Fuucking weird schedule. First NFC North game in mid-November

Definitely a bit odd.  All the late divisional games, the multiple stretches where we don't have a home game for a month, the two 3 game road trips.  All in all though its a fine schedule.  I actually like this year's more than the last 2 where we played approximately 65% of our home games in December/January both seasons during years where the last 6 weeks of each season were relatively meaningless.

[WrigleyField 22]

2 hours ago, Brian707 said:

17-0

 

 

20-0

[Brian707]

The Chiefs play on every day of the week but Tuesday lol. First time since the NY football Yankees in 1927.

Bears back half of the schedule full of division games is odd but I would rather have that than a majority of them before week 11

7 of the 8 home games are at noon too. Not counting the London game.

Edited May 16, 2024 by Brian707

[UMFan83]

Another schedule oddity:

The Bears will not reach a point where they have played more NFC teams than AFC teams until Week 12.  Their first 3 games and 4 of their first 6 are against the AFC. 

[UMFan83]

And one last comment: once again the majority of the Bears prime time games are played on the road. The only one at home is a TNF game in Week 17 (yuck). The Bears haven’t had a home SNF game since 2019. Do they just hate coming to Soldier Field?

[minnesotacubsfan]

14 hours ago, BigSlick said:

Do you think so? I look at it and I think "damn thats pretty soft" and that its nice they don't have to play divisional games (which are, this year, gonna be tough games) until the very end of the season. 

I look at TEN, IND and CAR in the first 5 games and I'm like - those are games you gotta take care of business, and then you still have WASH, NE and AZ still hanging around the schedule. 

If they slay some bums and go .500 with everyone else they have a winning/playoff season. 

its the 3rd easiest schedule based on last years win percentage of opponents, it isn't that tough. I was just being dramatic

 

[UMFan83]

I'm sure many of you have seen this already but just in case you havent, very enjoyable 38 minutes and 3 seconds:

 

[Tryptamine]

Looks like the Steelers have chosen to just undo all the changes the Bears made to Fields, starting with his footwork. 

[UMFan83]

13 minutes ago, Tryptamine said:

Looks like the Steelers have chosen to just undo all the changes the Bears made to Fields, starting with his footwork. 

FWIW I'm pretty sure I read that the Bears gave him the option to switch his footwork back last year and he chose not to.

[minnesotacubsfan]

3 hours ago, UMFan83 said:

FWIW I'm pretty sure I read that the Bears gave him the option to switch his footwork back last year and he chose not to.

Ryan Poles: you can switch your footwork back if you want but if you do I'm drafting Caleb Williams

Justing Fields:         .

Ryan Poles: Welp, guess I'm drafting Caleb.

 

Edited May 24, 2024 by minnesotacubsfan

[Tryptamine]

People are really running wild with these early reports of Caleb struggling in OTAs.

[minnesotacubsfan]

is there any truth to the reports that Caleb sucked during OTAs? I've read 7 ints?

 

[UMFan83]

1 minute ago, minnesotacubsfan said:

is there any truth to the reports that Caleb sucked during OTAs? I've read 7 ints?

 

I'm pretty sure the 7 INTs thing is fake...I keep seeing this blurb about him getting benched on 7v7 because he threw 7 consecutive INTs or something, its always worded the exact same way and makes no sense. 

It is true though based on all reports that he struggled on one of the days during OTAs.  Here is a blurb from The Athletic:

Quote

When we watched the red zone drills, Williams was constantly under pressure while his receivers (which didn’t include Rome Odunze or Keenan Allen) tried to get open. There were a few just-missed interceptions. Sometimes, Williams couldn’t even get passes off as the secondary used its space advantage in the red zone to shut down receivers. We saw a lot of screen passes, many of which turned into scores. Occasionally, the offense struggled to line up or get a play off.

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5516383/2024/05/23/chicago-bears-caleb-williams-ota/

What doesn't typically get mentioned:

1) Reports suggest that the offense was actually better than the defense the day before this report

2) This is a new offense that everyone is learning going against an established defense and a rookie QB getting acclimated to the speed of the NFL

3) It's literally May and there's really no point in taking anything away from a couple of early practices run without pads. 

Basically yes it sounds like he struggled, possibly mightily, but I am pretty confident in saying that it should not change your expectations of Caleb or the Bears at all.  If Caleb absolutely dominated, it shouldn't change your expectations either.

[minnesotacubsfan]

so youre saying hes bound to suck

(im kidding)

 

 

[Old Style]

As someone that’s not sold on Caleb Williams being the QB of the century, any reports from camp now are worthless.  Whether great, terrible, or somewhere in between it just doesn’t matter right now. Getting worked up over them is dumb.