gflore34

Not really. If you want to quibble with "none", I'm talking about the young guys they expected to be key contributors this year and the years following - the supposed foundation of this team: Daniels (22), Cohen (24), Miller (24), Jackson (26), Roquan (22), Whitehair (27), Trubiksy (25), Fuller (27), Floyd (27), Goldman (25). Who in this group is playing better than last year? I'd expect to see some regression but it's pretty surprising to see it across the board. Okay, none of the young guys are on the back half of their career, okay. But there is a very good chance Mitch Trubisky has already played way more than 50% of his eventual career games in the NFL. Unless, Trubisky somehow becomes useful he's done after 2020 (Bears have the option for '21, correct?). Maybe Pace can use his middle-round magic to hit on a QB? Beyond Trubisky, the most disappointing player is Roquan. He was a beast at UGA and last season, then becomes a punching bag? There's got to be something wrong, you don't lose it like he has without something being drastically wrong.

Also the offense did jack squat all game but for some reason people forget that. What that reason is, we'll sadly never know... I remember, prior to the fg attempt, second or third down, Mitch had Miller wide open down the middle and of course, missed. On the Score they were speculating on teammates beginning to get frustrated with his terrible play, can't blame them. How many times can you defend a guy who misses you when you're open time and time again?

If the Bears wish to capitalize on their current window something such as that must be done. Thought I read something about Bridgewater as well?

I know this is you schtick or whatever, but the 49ers are currently undefeated with an offense featuring a basically an average QB in Garappolo handing off a bunch and a strong defense. And it's not even like they have a bunch of highly pedigreed RBs either and are handing it off to an Ezekiel Elliot-type 30 times a game. Where you're kind of right is that you better be able to defend the pass in the NFL in 2019, which is a huge part of the 49ers success right now. The Bears D, not so much, but it'd be a lot more interesting to see if their performance could improve if they had an O capable of staying on the field. Although that may not be it either, they have given up huge series at the beginning of halves or games where they shouldn't be fatigued at all. I got to see very little of the past 3 games, mostly listening on the radio, so this isn't even a defense of Mitch or anything. Yesterday sounds like it was very ugly by him, but there isn't a justification for Nagys play call split at this point. It certainly isn't a winning strategy. At best it only serves to force Paces hand on Trubisky's future. ETA: Bears D is still average at defending the pass, but last year they were elite. At the end of the day you want a elite passer rating differential. You can be elite at one and average at another like the Bears were last year. But average at one and below average at another... Well it's obvious the Bears could easily be 2-4 and are fortunate to still be at 3-3. If they can fix the pass D, they don't need to pass a bunch. The pass rush has been non-existent the past two games, yes, Kahlil getting held on nearly every pass play, but, still, nothing. Does Pagano need to start blitzing on every 2nd and 3rd and long?

That's all he's got, appears unable to do anything else, Nagy' must design plays to get him moving and run the ball much, much more.

Maybe, they should look at running the ball - a lot - think Mitch can hand the ball off as well as anyone, I think. Why not take the ball out his hands? The OL is complete trash. Yes it is however, I think its a better bet that they'll run block more effectively than pass block with an incompetent QB.

He's terrible but, Nagy may be worse, he's not putting him a position to succeed. As terrible as Mitch is, there a few things he does well, Nagy' got to leverage those things, give him a chance to succeed. The one thing he does well is maybe make something out of a broken play on occasion. You can’t scheme that. He had open receivers and missed them, again and again. He can’t think and he can’t hit open guys. He had made zero strides. Maybe that’s on Nagy a bit, but these are not out of nowhere concerns with Mitch. There’s a very good chance no coach could polish this turd. A little razzle dazzle got them to 10 wins, but that may be the high water mark. Maybe, they should look at running the ball - a lot - think Mitch can hand the ball off as well as anyone, I think. Why not take the ball out his hands?

He's terrible but, Nagy may be worse, he's not putting him a position to succeed. As terrible as Mitch is, there a few things he does well, Nagy' got to leverage those things, give him a chance to succeed.

Maybe but, give up after a handful of attempts?

1) you have to pass when you are losing 2) you should pass even when you aren’t losing because passing is awesome and running is irrelevant in the current NFL They didn't try to establish the running game, with this stupid horsefeathers of a QB, why wouldn't you try to run the ball?

Since were stuck with this crap at QB can anything be done? Some kind of a gimmick offense? Go to no huddle full time? Sometimes I don't understand what Mitch is waiting for on some throws, late in the first half, he holds on to the ball forever then, decides to try dumping it Cohen. He's got know, with this line, he's got little to no time and must get rid of the ball quickly. Just how horsefeathering stupid is he?

Let's get to fixing the Cubs, with a few good moves and some luck health wise, they can be right back in the playoffs.

Goodbye Cardinals, should have not gotten that far in the first place nevertheless, bye, bye.

What do you know, an over performing team regressing, getting beat down.

Beating Scherzer twice does mean something, lol. Sorry you can't do "small samples!!!" to things like that. That guy wrecked almost every one he faced. Since Jeff Albert (came over from Houston) became the primary hitting coach, the Cardinals have had the 4th best offense in baseball. Nationals, like the Braves, have a crap bullpen. You need that to win in the playoffs. Cardinals will just hack fouls and take take take until the 5th-6th when starters are lifted and feast on their pen. Just like we did Atlanta. I don't put a lot of stock into WAR for pitchers when the stat doesn't consider weak contact/ground balls. And that's the moneyball market efficiency that Cardinals were all-in on. Mikolas, Waino, and Hudson are all groundball specialists. The whole staff is. With Edman and Wong and DeJong in the infield... it'll be smooth sailing barring crazy BABIP luck. Cardinals are the best postseason team remaining with HR/FB rates too. We keep the ball in the park in a homer-crazy league. That's how you win. That's how we'll beat the Nationals. Was listening to the board cast last night, color announcer was talking about the Cardinals offensively being the worst of the remaining teams. Think were seeing a little of that, thus far, got to give the National' pitching a lot of credit.

It does matter, especially vs. the Bears, right now, if they resort to relying on Mitch and the passing game that's almost a guaranteed Bear loss. They've got to be patient with running game, keep pounding, eventually, it'll start to be effective.

Mahomes should have been picked off twice in addition to one time he was - we're always reading this about Mitch. Mahomes and Watson both looked terrible at times, made dumb mistakes, Mahomes threw the ball up grabs on several occasions. I'd imagine most would still take either over Mitch and rightfully so, for the most part Mitch has been terrible. Keep hearing about a "good" Saints defense, don't see it, statistically, they're middle of the pack perhaps, it's the sacks, think it's the only statistic in which they're top 10. Do not think it unreasonable that the Bears should be able to move the ball and score some points.

I remember being at a Cubs-Mets game where the Cubs scored 10 before recording an OUT .

Now's the time to knock Molina on his fat ass. Ballgame's no longer in question.

Think I'll stay asleep on Edman...

He also threw his helmet and did a throat slash. My dream is for Acuna to hit a walk off homer off Martinez tomorrow and take 5 minutes to round the bases. Problem with a walk off is Mr Professional future HOFer Respect the Game douche will just sprint to the club house. So admiring a moonshot around the 7th/8th inning would be amazing Believe you're correct so, my idea of Acuna waving goodbye to the Cardinals as he rounds the bases may not be quite as effective as what you've put forth.

My god please plunk the horsefeathers out of him his first at bat. Mr respect the game He also threw his helmet and did a throat slash. My dream is for Acuna to hit a walk off homer off Martinez tomorrow and take 5 minutes to round the bases. That would be awesome! We'll hear about him not "respecting" the game from the Cardinals all offseason.

That, at best, was a questionable flag, looked more to me as if he fell over a player on the ground. Nevertheless, with as awful as the defense was, you still win the game with an average OB. Or, not committing those inane meat-head taunting personal fouls, they did twice.

Whining or not, that choke hold [expletive] needs to be called, appears to be a Packer specialty vs. Mack. Recalled seeing the same “excellent” blocking on Mack from the Packers last season.

Oh, what the hell; he barely uses it, AND he thinks Trubisky stinks now, too? What did they do with my sulley. you gotta go to "tweets and replies" to find the good stuff Good stuff regarding Mitch' inability to read through the progressions and not very encouraging. Also, found the article about the Packers' media boasting how they completely shut down Mack funny. Yeah, he was shut down, they horsefeathering HELD him on nearly every pass play and did not get called.