Week 10 - Patriots (2-7) at Bears (4-4) - Noon on FOX

[UMFan83]

I’m sitting here just stunned. I just don’t know where to go from here. The Bears feel farther away from relevancy than they were 2 years ago when they were 3-14. Is any of this salvageable?  Are we ever going to be good?

The Bears the last 12 years have done absolutely nothing to bring any joy to their fanbase outside of 2018 (which ended in the most painful way possible and then quickly proved to be a fluke of a season).  How many more years of our lives have to be pissed away with nothing to be excited about from a football fandom standpoint?

[Old Style]

39 minutes ago, SpongeWorthy said:

friendly reminder that two of the best coaches in the sport who both played quarterback for the bears (one is from naperville ffs) were available in the last two offseasons and we didn't interview either of them 

My brain is so fried right now and I can’t even think of the one other than Harbaugh. Did Sean Payton play QB during the strike? That sounds somewhat familiar. 

[SpongeWorthy]

who wants to start speculating on the next HC list:

ben johnson

zac robinson

liam cohen

belichick

vrabel

todd monken (too old?)

kliff k

DEION?!

 

Edited November 10, 2024 by SpongeWorthy

[BigSlick]

Obviously the Bears want every excuse possible to retain Eberflus through the end of the season but it’s very possibly they fire him if they lose like 10 in a horsefeathers row 

[Wilson A2000]

10 minutes ago, UMFan83 said:

I’m sitting here just stunned. I just don’t know where to go from here. The Bears feel farther away from relevancy than they were 2 years ago when they were 3-14. Is any of this salvageable?  Are we ever going to be good?

The Bears the last 12 years have done absolutely nothing to bring any joy to their fanbase outside of 2018 (which ended in the most painful way possible and then quickly proved to be a fluke of a season).  How many more years of our lives have to be pissed away with nothing to be excited about from a football fandom standpoint?

The Bears have young talent on both sides of the ball with a QB that has real talent. This is not 3-14 bad.

I get the impression that Eberflus wants to fire Waldron or at least change playcallers next week from his press conference.

Edited November 10, 2024 by Wilson A2000

[BigSlick]

I had forgotten why I checked out of the Bears for like half a decade. The John Fox years were the dénouement. You can only go through so much sad sack losing before you emotionally disconnect. I remember now.

[gflore34]

3 minutes ago, Wilson A2000 said:

The Bears have young talent on both sides of the ball with a QB that has real talent. This is not 3-14 bad.

I get the impression that Eberflus wants to fire Waldron or at least change playcallers next week from his press conference.

He should fire Waldron, something different has to be tried.  Your OL can't pass protect for anything, there must adjustments, or, at least attempts at adjustments, we don't see any of that from Waldron.

Edited November 10, 2024 by gflore34

[SpongeWorthy]

this is correct in the sense that a significant chunk of the team is going on strike to get him fired

[UK]

11 minutes ago, SpongeWorthy said:

who wants to start speculating on the next HC list:

ben johnson

zac robinson

liam cohen

belichick

vrabel

todd monken (too old?)

kliff k

DEION?!

 

That list should begin and end with Johnson.

[SpongeWorthy]

1 minute ago, UK said:

That list should begin and end with Johnson.

we'll lose a beauty contest for johnson because we're a loser org

[Cubfanintheknow]

Watching the post game press conference on Marquee. Reporters are asking a lot of pointed questions about the coaching and the the confidence they have. Caleb had an opportunity to throw the coaches under the bus; he backed them and said he has all the confidence in the world with his coaches.

He's saying the right things, anyhow.

[Wilson A2000]

3 minutes ago, UK said:

That list should begin and end with Johnson.

But then you see reports about him not wanting to come here bc of organizational instability. But cmon we’ve had the same bad owners and coaches for a long time!

[gflore34]

1 minute ago, Cubfanintheknow said:

Watching the post game press conference on Marquee. Reporters are asking a lot of pointed questions about the coaching and the the confidence they have. Caleb had an opportunity to throw the coaches under the bus; he backed them and said he has all the confidence in the world with his coaches.

He's saying the right things, anyhow.

Him publicly throwing them under the bus wouldn't serve any propose, just make a bad thing worse.

[Wilson A2000]

2 minutes ago, Cubfanintheknow said:

Watching the post game press conference on Marquee. Reporters are asking a lot of pointed questions about the coaching and the the confidence they have. Caleb had an opportunity to throw the coaches under the bus; he backed them and said he has all the confidence in the world with his coaches.

He's saying the right things, anyhow.

He knows he’s part of the problem right now too

[Hairyducked Idiot]

21 minutes ago, Wilson A2000 said:

The Bears have young talent on both sides of the ball with a QB that has real talent. This is not 3-14 bad.

I get the impression that Eberflus wants to fire Waldron or at least change playcallers next week from his press conference.

There's a draft every year. Everyone has young talent 

[Wilson A2000]

 

[Wilson A2000]

1 minute ago, Hairyducked Idiot said:

There's a draft every year. Everyone has young talent 

Right, but the Bears haven’t had this much, including at the QB, in a long long time

[Hairyducked Idiot]

19 minutes ago, gflore34 said:

He should fire Waldron, something different has to be tried.  Your OL can't pass protect for anything, there must adjustments, or, at least attempts at adjustments, we don't see any of that from Waldron.

What can you do?  People throw around "adjustments" like Kramer talking about write-offs.

We tried max protect. No one gets open.

We tried quick hit spread, teams were crashing down on it.

We tried play action, the line couldn't hold up

We tried rollouts, and they didn't work because rollouts suck 

[Old Style]

Kingsbury was too obvious of a choice. 

[UMFan83]

3 minutes ago, Wilson A2000 said:

 

This is a loser organization that consistently makes loser decisions

[minnesotacubsfan]

4 minutes ago, Hairyducked Idiot said:

What can you do?  People throw around "adjustments" like Kramer talking about write-offs.

We tried max protect. No one gets open.

We tried quick hit spread, teams were crashing down on it.

We tried play action, the line couldn't hold up

We tried rollouts, and they didn't work because rollouts suck 

We tried playing offense but our rookie qb sucks

 

 

[Soul]

6 minutes ago, Wilson A2000 said:

 

I didn’t know about the agent connection and it makes me a little sick to think about.

[Wilson A2000]

4 minutes ago, UMFan83 said:

This is a loser organization that consistently makes loser decisions

Just look at the non-football ops decision they made. They hired a president in Warren after they’ve already bought a piece of land that they could own. Buy he wants to keep them at the same place that they were just trying to leave. I can’t believe that the McCaskeys didn’t know that he was going to lead them back to the lakefront. They have no idea what they’re doing

Edited November 10, 2024 by Wilson A2000

[SpongeWorthy]

6 minutes ago, Hairyducked Idiot said:

What can you do?  People throw around "adjustments" like Kramer talking about write-offs.

We tried max protect. No one gets open.

We tried quick hit spread, teams were crashing down on it.

We tried play action, the line couldn't hold up

We tried rollouts, and they didn't work because rollouts suck 

what is the affirmative case that waldron is good at his job tho

[Hairyducked Idiot]

10 minutes ago, SpongeWorthy said:

what is the affirmative case that waldron is good at his job tho

I dunno if I'd say good at his job, but he ran a competent NFL offense in Seattle.

You don't get to this point without a lot of things going wrong simultaneously. We wish it was as simple as firing some coaches or changing up the playcalling.

Whether through coaching or on his own merits, Williams has turned into a tough-throw-phobic sack machine.

The offensive line is kinda mid if everything stays perfect, but they aren't and it's a disaster, and it's not clear it has many plus pieces going forward.

The WR room has become a black hole for assets and it's still dysfunctional and in need of a rebuild.  The only real long-term piece is Odunze and has he actually shown anything special yet?

Our starting RB is a hole-blind third down back. Our backup rb is a backup rb and that's all he will ever be