Bears Week 3 at Colts: Sunday at noon on CBS

[Hairyducked Idiot]

Tory Taylor update: Outkicked his coverage twice, semi-shanked OOB outside the 20 his best chance to pin them deep. Net of 36,0 for the game, 40.1 for the season.

There's no such thing as a special punter.

Edited September 23, 2024 by Hairyducked Idiot

[Soul]

It’s a 360+ yard day with 2TDs.  That is a line we don’t often see next to a Bears QB.  I’m happy to see that, for sure.

[SpongeWorthy]

16 minutes ago, Soul said:

It’s a 360+ yard day with 2TDs.  That is a line we don’t often see next to a Bears QB.  I’m happy to see that, for sure.

the texture of this game was really pretty flukey, we ran 84 offensive plays which is a huge number for a non-OT game. we were 9-21 on 3rd downs. the next closest team this week had in terms of 3rd down conversion opportunities was 14.

when the opposing team is going 3 and out a lot/ giving you the ball back early in drives, or when they do score scoring on chunk plays or off your own turnovers you're going to get a lot of pass attempts

[SpongeWorthy]

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Edited September 23, 2024 by SpongeWorthy

[Sosa21MVP]

Got home from the game a bit ago. I didn't leave Lucas Oil Stadium feeling good whatsoever about that game. The series in goal-to-go territory with 4 straight running plays capped off by a failed option play on 4th down kind of broke me.

[Bertz]

3 hours ago, Old Style said:

The numbers look pretty good but did this game make anyone feel better about Caleb? Still way too many issues with slow decision making and horrible inaccuracy IMO. I realize it’s only game 3 so I’m certainly not ready to give up on him but there wasn’t much to get me super excited about him either. 

It is September of his rookie year and he threw for over 350 yards at just a hair under 7 yards per attempt.  And this wasn't some game where they were trailing by 30 and he was playing against backups and vanilla coverages, it was never even a full two touchdown game.

There was some ugly and of course the team lost, but man I have a hard time not being very encouraged by what Caleb did today.

[BigSlick]

Listening to some recaps of the game and the “they didn’t commit to the run game!!” Narrative is there already. If anything, they’ve committed too much to it. It’s quite alright to throw in the towel if it doesn’t horsefeathers work at all. They’re averaging like 2 yards a carry throughout the season. 
 

Run as much as you need to to keep defenses reasonably honest but other than that, let it rip, Caleb. 

[gflore34]

People can make all the excuses they want about Caleb’ numbers being inflated by pass favorable situations. But, today we saw throws and glimpses of what Caleb can be as well, as what Rome can be.  May take some time, it nevertheless, is going to happen.

Edited September 23, 2024 by gflore34

[SpongeWorthy]

https://x.com/robertmays/status/1837945706402697274

[gflore34]

10 minutes ago, SpongeWorthy said:

https://x.com/robertmays/status/1837945706402697274

That’s right keep the negativity coming, it’ll be all the more sweeter when Caleb makes these horsefeathers faces eat their words.

Edited September 23, 2024 by gflore34

[jersey cubs fan]

It’s really weird to me that people are pretending 360 yards and 2 touchdowns didnt include 3 turnovers a bunch of bad throws and a fluke Hail Mary reception off a tip that meant nothing. Williams was bad for three quarters. The offense is trash. But at least they remembered Kmet plays on this team. They’ve got a long way to go to be able to competed with even mediocre teams, let alone bad ones like Indy. 

[jersey cubs fan]

1 minute ago, gflore34 said:

That’s right keep the negativity coming, it’ll be all the more sweeter when Caleb makes these horsefeathers faces eat their words.

One man’s reality is a Pollyanna’s negativity 

[SpongeWorthy]

4 minutes ago, gflore34 said:

That’s right keep the negativity coming, it’ll be all the more sweeter when Caleb makes these horsefeathers faces eat their words.

more of a comment on that its ok to get a 1st down on 2nd down and we're in a flukeish number of 3rd down situations

[Derwood]

14 minutes ago, jersey cubs fan said:

It’s really weird to me that people are pretending 360 yards and 2 touchdowns didnt include 3 turnovers a bunch of bad throws and a fluke Hail Mary reception off a tip that meant nothing. Williams was bad for three quarters. The offense is trash. But at least they remembered Kmet plays on this team. They’ve got a long way to go to be able to competed with even mediocre teams, let alone bad ones like Indy. 

Didn't you "not watch the game"?

[Soul]

2 hours ago, Sosa21MVP said:

Got home from the game a bit ago. I didn't leave Lucas Oil Stadium feeling good whatsoever about that game. The series in goal-to-go territory with 4 straight running plays capped off by a failed option play on 4th down kind of broke me.

That’s what made me go into rage mode on our OC earlier in the thread.  That was the game, as it turns out.

[Brian707]

I know a meatball like take. But I hope Eberflus gets the Doug Collins/ Rick Renteria treatment this offseason 

[CubinNY]

I suppose if one approaches the season of a year one rebuild it's not so bad. They couldn't run on a team with a poor run defense. The coach makes the same dumb mistakes he's made in the past. The defense looked good but got worn down. All these things are not new and have not been corrected. 

Same Bears/

[Derwood]

Let’s break down what went wrong on that 4th and goal option play:

 

Any questions?

 

[gflore34]

15 minutes ago, Derwood said:

Let’s break down what went wrong on that 4th and goal option play:

 

Any questions?

 

Next time have Swift turn around and throw back to Williams who probably waltzes into end zone.  Serious, just a feeble attempt by line as whole, there's the bad call plus a complete and utter failure to execute.  It's literally the whole horsefeathers line, the poster child for OL ineptitude.

[mul21]

Actual gripes about the offense:

1. Why was there not more play action on first down against a team that was so obviously selling out to stop the run after getting man handled the first 2 weeks?  That opens up a lot of things for Caleb and maybe they don't struggle so badly early.

2. Why does our tight end keep getting left one on one with pass rush specialists?  It's burned them 2 weeks in a row now.

3. Roschon Johnson needs to be the primary RB.  He hits holes harder and faster than Swift and as bad as the OL is at sustaining blocks, that's the only hope for the running game for the time being.

[BigSlick]

I'm not even mad at the 4th down play specifically. I'm mad they ran 4 straight run plays when they haven't been able to do any short yardage running all season long (and really weren't any damn good at it last year either) and didn't give Caleb Williams at least one chance to lob it into the end zone. 

[gflore34]

1 minute ago, BigSlick said:

I'm not even mad at the 4th down play specifically. I'm mad they ran 4 straight run plays when they haven't been able to do any short yardage running all season long (and really weren't any damn good at it last year either) and didn't give Caleb Williams at least one chance to lob it into the end zone. 

In this scenario there's a better chance Williams get his first TD pass sooner while giving the Bears the lead.

[Bertz]

It didn't end up in the box score because of the penalty but this was the most impressive play of the day IMO

[gflore34]

19 minutes ago, Bertz said:

It didn't end up in the box score because of the penalty but this was the most impressive play of the day IMO

It's a throw like this and others we saw which gives me hope.  We didn't see much, if any, this from Trubisky and Fields, I believe we'll continue to see more of these plays from Williams in the coming weeks.  Right now there's a horsefeathers-ton of bad, mixed in is some good and don't have to look that hard to see it.  The good offering some light at the end of the tunnel, just it's going to be a really long tunnel.   A long tunnel with non-stop look how much better Darnold, Daulton and Willis are than Williams BS.

Edited September 23, 2024 by gflore34

[Hairyducked Idiot]

2 hours ago, Derwood said:

Let’s break down what went wrong on that 4th and goal option play:

 

Any questions?

 

It's a speed option, cut blocks are standard.

That play has to be audibled or call a time out.  They called it because they expected the colts to overload the middle again.  The colts didn't and had an extra man outside the tackle on the wide side.  

The play fell apart because there was an extra man out there, and because Braxton Jones was being asked to get around and seal the edge on a guy way too far to his left 

It's a perfectly standard normal part of an NFL goal line package, but it was defeated by look at the line