Bears Week 2 at Texans: SNF on NBC

[jersey cubs fan]

Levis did not turn out to be a competent QB and for that I am grateful. Defense and special teams can win you some games and if your very luck. A single championship. But that stuff never lasts and we all know by now you need great QB play for sustained success. 
 

Houston is favored to win by a touchdown in this one and with a QB that can do things you can be certain a lot of people will be expecting them to do that with relative ease. Eberflus is gonna have to pull one out of his hat this week. 
 

The offense should be better after getting the first one in the books. I wouldn’t expect a huge explosion but a couple touchdowns would be nice. 
 

You’re all a bunch of huge babies for the way you overreacted to a rookie QBs first game. 
 

also Velus Jones needs to be replaced 

[Brian707]

Bears 23- Houston 20

Funny the lookahead line was Houston -3.5, I guess Vegas is figuring on the huge overreaction to week 1.

[Brian707]

Only 12 SB wins between those scrubs

[Old Style]

Lol, some of you whiny babies need to understand it’s OK to call out a rookie QB for having a bad game when he had a bad game. That doesn’t mean we’ve given up on him or that we are overreacting. And let’s be honest, his demeanor lends itself to more criticism when he doesn’t perform, not unlike Jay Cutler. I’m not saying that it’s right but prepare yourself to hear a lot of it from the masses if he doesn’t play well. 

[mul21]

17 minutes ago, Brian707 said:

Only 12 SB wins between those scrubs

So what we're saying is that the NFL is hard and not all hope is lost?

Caleb was bad.  The throws he made were largely inaccurate.  He saw a real NFL defense for the first time ever who wasn't just showing him a base defense and it rattled him.  Hopefully he learns from it and gets better and based on what we've seen and heard from him, there's no reason to believe he won't do exactly that.

[17 Seconds]

10 minutes ago, Old Style said:

Lol, some of you whiny babies need to understand it’s OK to call out a rookie QB for having a bad game when he had a bad game. That doesn’t mean we’ve given up on him or that we are overreacting. And let’s be honest, his demeanor lends itself to more criticism when he doesn’t perform, not unlike Jay Cutler. I’m not saying that it’s right but prepare yourself to hear a lot of it from the masses if he doesn’t play well. 

this will sound rich coming from me, but people almost immediately went into "woe is us" mode and at least one person flat out said that caleb sucked

[Soul]

14 minutes ago, Old Style said:

Lol, some of you whiny babies need to understand it’s OK to call out a rookie QB for having a bad game when he had a bad game. That doesn’t mean we’ve given up on him or that we are overreacting. And let’s be honest, his demeanor lends itself to more criticism when he doesn’t perform, not unlike Jay Cutler. I’m not saying that it’s right but prepare yourself to hear a lot of it from the masses if he doesn’t play well. 

I guess it’s too much to ask that people stop with the dumb “body language“ type stuff that has nothing to do with anything performance-related.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

I'm hoping that Tennessee was a uniquely bad matchup for us in that they have an insanely good interior DL to punish our interior OL.   The Texas DL is solid, but it's mostly edge pressure, not crazy push up the middle, so maybe the offense wlll, you know, score a touchdown. Or even more than one.

 

[Brian707]

11 minutes ago, 17 Seconds said:

this will sound rich coming from me, but people almost immediately went into "woe is us" mode and at least one person flat out said that caleb sucked

Some meatball caller on the Score said they should have put Bagent in to start the 2nd half

[Old Style]

14 minutes ago, 17 Seconds said:

this will sound rich coming from me, but people almost immediately went into "woe is us" mode and at least one person flat out said that caleb sucked

Well he did suck yesterday. But it’s one game. Unclench. It won’t be his last bad game. 

[Old Style]

13 minutes ago, Soul said:

I guess it’s too much to ask that people stop with the dumb “body language“ type stuff that has nothing to do with anything performance-related.

Yes, it is too much to ask that of the general meatball fan. Expecting otherwise is just going to drive you batty. 

[Tryptamine]

A big step up in difficulty for this Bear team. The defense and special teams aren't going to be able to carry them to victory against this kind of quality opponent if Caleb no shows again. 

[Hairyducked Idiot]

44 minutes ago, Brian707 said:

Some meatball caller on the Score said they should have put Bagent in to start the 2nd half

Doctor, it hurts when I go like this (in regards to listening to the Score)

[WrigleyField 22]

You get what you deserve if you regularly listen to sports talk radio.

[CubinNY]

So how much was Caleb's issue and how much was the line a sieve? 

[jersey cubs fan]

1 hour ago, 17 Seconds said:

this will sound rich coming from me, but people almost immediately went into "woe is us" mode and at least one person flat out said that caleb sucked

Yeah. The continuous “who is overreacting” responses defending the general ninnyness are quite rich 

 

there were dozens of apoplectic responses 

[WrigleyField 22]

7 minutes ago, CubinNY said:

So how much was Caleb's issue and how much was the line a sieve? 

I say 70/30, which still feels conservative 

[Hairyducked Idiot]

1 minute ago, CubinNY said:

So how much was Caleb's issue and how much was the line a sieve? 

It wasn't *that* much of a sieve.  The run-blocking was abd, and there were like 4-5 plays where the pass protection broke down, which is too many to call it a good day.  But there were a lot more acceptable pockets than not.

I don't super trust official NFL pressure statistics, but they had Williams pressured less than average yesterday, and I don't think they're wrong in this case.

[WrigleyField 22]

Welp apparently Odunze has an injury and is getting an MRI.

 

 

Edited September 9, 2024 by WrigleyField 22

[Soul]

32 minutes ago, WrigleyField 22 said:

I say 70/30, which still feels conservative 

Later in the game, they moved to a series of outs, and Caleb looked better.  I know people want the scramble heroics but if he can put the ball on target quickly in the mid range out routes, use that.

Around that same time the defense started getting pressure on Levis as well.  It seemed to me that the Bears took too long to find what worked, but eventually they did.  You can't count on the punt block, but you should be able to count on QB pressure and the mistakes that usually follow.  And you should be able to draw up plays that get the ball out of Caleb's hand quicker.  Let the athletic plays happen as required, because we all know that they will regardless of the game plan.

[WrigleyField 22]

The fact that the quick outs was his most accurate target is the weird part.  Usually when a guy is struggling with accuracy it's like the slants or posts that get them in a rhythm.

 

Anyways sticking with my "burn the tape" take from right after the game.  I don't even think there's much productive for him to watch that. And a worst case scenario that seeing some of those God awful throws on repeat get in his head.  The kind of game where you want your QB to have a short memory.

 

Onward!

[Brian707]

47 minutes ago, WrigleyField 22 said:

Welp apparently Odunze has an injury and is getting an MRI.

 

 

Ugh well hope its just precautionary or he misses minimal time.

[Old Style]

1 hour ago, jersey cubs fan said:

Yeah. The continuous “who is overreacting” responses defending the general ninnyness are quite rich 

 

there were dozens of apoplectic responses 

Maybe that was the case in real time as the game was happening. I don’t check it then. But posts as any game are happening are often overreactions in the moment. Anything posted after the game didn’t really seem like an overreaction from what I saw. 

[Outshined_One]

2 hours ago, Old Style said:

Lol, some of you whiny babies need to understand it’s OK to call out a rookie QB for having a bad game when he had a bad game. That doesn’t mean we’ve given up on him or that we are overreacting.

I think part of what's happening around the forum stems from certain posters being waaaaaaaaaaay too online, to the point that they're constantly bombarded with hawt taekz from bots and blue checkmarked redpill addicts, which consist of nothing but overreactions designed to generate clicks and the sort of racially-tinged nonsense that causes every dog within earshot to howl for hours on end.

I'd like to think that most of us in here know the difference between constructive criticism and hyperbole.  However, that nonsense can put a person on edge.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

I think people try to manage their feelings by finding people to attack.

"This is bad for my sports team. I don't want to feel bad about that. But if I yell at the people saying it's bad for my sport team, I'll feel better."