2026 Bears Week 1, @Carolina Sunday 1pm on FOX

[gflore34]

Couldn't get my pirate stream to work, was anyone able to see what Carolina was doing to Loveland?

[We Got The Whole 9]

Completely dominated the 2nd half  

[Banedon]

I honestly thought the defense did some good things in this game.  Two Carolina scores were on short fields.  Thieneman looked excellent.  Got a couple of sacks, and Dayo looked motivated!

[Tryptamine]

Just now, Banedon said:

I honestly thought the defense did some good things in this game.  Two Carolina scores were on short fields.  Thieneman looked excellent.  Got a couple of sacks, and Dayo looked motivated!

Both rookies in the secondary looked promising. Everyone else was just bad.

[gflore34]

Yeah, the Bears' D made Byrce Young look good but, they're not immune to being bad in week 1.  Just saw, the Vikings let Watson get a free break, catch and fairly effortlessly run the sidelines for a TD.

Edited 12 hours ago by gflore34

[SpongeWorthy]

9 minutes ago, Tryptamine said:

Both rookies in the secondary looked promising. Everyone else was just bad.

kyler has a chance to become a hero if he comes back and helps out the secondary

stevenson and jaylon are running in cement out there

[Bobson Dugnutt]

291 on the ground, 269 in the air. 72.4% from Caleb. 501 yards of total offense. Pure dominance.
 

the decision to go for it on 4th down was silly. You can’t expect this defense to defend 20 yards. The play calling got a bit vanilla in the 2nd quarter but I loved the fast start in the 1st after too many slow starts last year.
 

for all the JVDB preseason love, I didn’t hear his name once. Did he not see the field, or just a quiet day?

This defense is going to have to find answers quickly. Jaylon and Tyrique looked horrible. I know he had a sack, but Sweat needs to be more disruptive.

[JBears79]

Is Ben Johnson on the hot seat? His offense didnt even put up 60.

[SpongeWorthy]

did braxton come back in after he got hurt? I didn't pay attention to who was playing LT after that

[Andy]

Stayed out of this thread all week but jumping in to say you're welcome, again, for revitalizing your entire franchise with a stupid trade

[Geographyhater8888]

16 minutes ago, gflore34 said:

Yeah, the Bears' D made Byrce Young look good but, they're not immune to being bad in week 1.  Just saw, the Vikings let Watson get a free break, catch and fairly effortlessly run the sidelines for a TD.

Bryce was slinging it. I hope we didn’t draft the wrong quarterback.

[BigSlick]

4 minutes ago, SpongeWorthy said:

did braxton come back in after he got hurt? I didn't pay attention to who was playing LT after that

Yeah I saw him back out there a series or two later.

 

Perhaps I have set the goal post too low,  but the D-Line was better today. Not great, not highly disruptive, but they got pressure with 4 more than a few times. The DBs were just brutal aside from Muhammad. didn’t see anything from Booker either.

 

[UMFan83]

Kyler Murray left the game today with a concussion. The Bears play the Vikings next Sunday so very possible we get Wentz or JJ

[Soul]

25 minutes ago, BigSlick said:

Yeah I saw him back out there a series or two later.

 

Perhaps I have set the goal post too low,  but the D-Line was better today. Not great, not highly disruptive, but they got pressure with 4 more than a few times. The DBs were just brutal aside from Muhammad. didn’t see anything from Booker either.

 

I want to see positives too and I don’t disagree, but I don’t think that was a particularly good offense.

[Wilson A2000]

1 hour ago, SpongeWorthy said:

did braxton come back in after he got hurt? I didn't pay attention to who was playing LT after that

Benedet took his place for a bit

[Derwood]

[Brian707]

2 hours ago, MidoreX said:

You're a pretty terrible human, horsefeathers off

This.

 

[NorthsideAvenger]

I think we all can agree the pressure is on Dennis Allen right now. The offense is going be something fun to watch. It's now up to Allen to make this efence at least slightly subpar instead of non-existent.  

[bukie]

1 hour ago, Soul said:

I want to see positives too and I don’t disagree, but I don’t think that was a particularly good offense.

On the flip side, it was supposed to be a much improved defense, and the Bears scored 59 offensive points with 8(!) touchdowns.

[BigSlick]

30 minutes ago, NorthsideAvenger said:

I think we all can agree the pressure is on Dennis Allen right now. The offense is going be something fun to watch. It's now up to Allen to make this efence at least slightly subpar instead of non-existent.  

If they can achieve merely "bad" instead of "perhaps worst defense in the league" we're a Super Bowl contender. 

[Wilson A2000]

 

[BigSlick]

oh my god are the Packers gonna go down to the Kyler Murray-less Vikings? 

Life is too good 

[Tryptamine]

Green Bay is in full implosion mode.

[BigSlick]

if Kyler Murray is out any significant amount of time, the Vikings winning vs. Green Bay and then shambling into Chicago with Carson Wentz is the best situation I can possibly imagine??? 

[Wilson A2000]

7 minutes ago, BigSlick said:

if Kyler Murray is out any significant amount of time, the Vikings winning vs. Green Bay and then shambling into Chicago with Carson Wentz is the best situation I can possibly imagine??? 

I might be more nervous with Wentz than Murray