Chicago Bears preseason

[minnesotacubsfan]

please stop talking...youre going to jinx the kid

 

lol

[Hairyducked Idiot]

Jinxes aren't real 

[jersey cubs fan]

Jinxes are real when you have a lot of doubt, they don’t really factor in when you are justifiably confident. 

[Tank]

1 hour ago, jersey cubs fan said:

Jinxes are real when you have a lot of doubt, they don’t really factor in when you are justifiably confident. 

What if you are confident in jinxes being real?

[We Got The Whole 9]

Not watching but 2 incompletes and a grounding on 3rd in the first series for Caleb.

 

Taylor with a 58 yard punt 

Edited August 17, 2024 by We Got The Whole 9

[Hairyducked Idiot]

2 minutes ago, We Got The Whole 9 said:

Not watching but 2 incompletes and a grounding on 3rd in the first series for Caleb.

 

Taylor with a 58 yard punt 

Missed two attempted quick hits, the grounding was a miscommunication with Moore about which way the route was gonna go.

[Old Style]

Oh, how I missed the 3 yard pass patterns on 3rd & 5. 

[Hairyducked Idiot]

Offense looks a bit sloppy today.  That second down pitch play looked out of sync, but I'd need to see it again.

Taylor has been worth 20+ yards of field position already, damn.

[minnesotacubsfan]

Really disappointing

 

 

[UMFan83]

I knew this was going to happen when I saw Kyle talking about Caleb’s 20th percentile outcome being a “better Kyler Murray”

[Hairyducked Idiot]

1 minute ago, UMFan83 said:

I knew this was going to happen when I saw Kyle talking about Caleb’s 20th percentile outcome being a “better Kyler Murray”

Three months from now, no one will remember a thing about this game.

The Bears seem to want to work on quick hits and the Bengals are playing extremely tight coverage. If this was the regular season, we'd be punishing that coverage decision, but it's not.

[minnesotacubsfan]

Scott had the world beat 

[Hairyducked Idiot]

And as soon as we called a couple of plays that punish press coverage, we got two huge chunks.

The Bears wanted to work on quick hits and the Bengals wanted to play press coverage.  If this was the regular season, we'd have adjusted earlier, but you wanna work on what you wanna work on.

[cwood218]

4 minutes ago, minnesotacubsfan said:

Scott had the world beat 

Seeing the replay it looked like if not for the pass interference he would have hit him in stride for a TD. 

[UMFan83]

7 minutes ago, Hairyducked Idiot said:

And as soon as we called a couple of plays that punish press coverage, we got two huge chunks.

The Bears wanted to work on quick hits and the Bengals wanted to play press coverage.  If this was the regular season, we'd have adjusted earlier, but you wanna work on what you wanna work on.

I agree that long term this is pretty meaningless and doesn’t tell us a ton but at the same time the word pregame was the starters were playing 1-2 series. Looks like Caleb is about to come out for his 5th drive so seems like they still want to see more from him today

[Hairyducked Idiot]

1 minute ago, UMFan83 said:

I agree that long term this is pretty meaningless and doesn’t tell us a ton but at the same time the word pregame was the starters were playing 1-2 series. Looks like Caleb is about to come out for his 5th drive so seems like they still want to see more from him today

Eberflus said they were looking for 20-35 plays, iirc.

[UMFan83]

Also that whole sequence of getting a big gain to get into the red zone followed by a false start. Sack, -1 yard screen pass and 5 yard completion felt very familiar as a Bears fan

[UMFan83]

Just now, Hairyducked Idiot said:

Eberflus said they were looking for 20-35 plays, iirc.

Fair enough i could swear I saw 1-2 series but maybe im mistaken

[Hairyducked Idiot]

There's our Williams porn for the week

[SpongeWorthy]

he’s a baller 

[David]

Fun drive.  Now put him in bubble wrap until Sept 8th.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

His pocket awareness is top 5 in the NFL right now, and it's not 5th.  

There was a moment where he looked behind him as he was bouncing around to keep track of where the backside guys were that I can't ever rememeber a QB doing.

[UMFan83]

Booker is absolutely a guy. Very excited for him 

[minnesotacubsfan]

watching Jenkins wave to Caleb to follow him on that td run was pure happiness for me

 

 

[Hairyducked Idiot]

Here's the TD if anyone's not watching.

He's got ungodly athleticism in the way that he can bounce and shift and explode two steps in any direction *while still maintaining an athletic, balanced base that lets him throw or change directions*. 

And he combines that with an unbelievable feel for pressure and holes.  There's been at least twice this pre-season where I've watched the play develop in the pocket and it looks like he's not just moving toward the space in the pocket, but he's moving to where the space is going to be before the space has actually happened.  Almost Gretzky-like in the way he sees what's going to happen before it does.