BigbadB

This type of signing makes me feel like they might already have the parts in place for a trade, which could be getting held up until after the Sasaki sweepstakes.

I saw it in real time, and all of the different angles. No, it was not clean. There are ways to prevent full impact at the point you see Lawrence going into his slide. Might not be able to stop hitting him entirely, but the high impact at his chest, neck and head area could have been prevented. Dude didn't care to try to avoid it. As has already been said, he's a dirty player. His attitude after the play was over was even worse than the hit, IMO. Evan Ingram gave him a hard shove in the back that knocked his ass to the ground. After that, he acted like he was the only one on the field who was wronged. Will Anderson prevented him from doing any more stupid stuff, and it took several minutes of Anderson holding him back while medics were attending to Lawrence.

He had that game won. Chuba fumbled, almost as if on cue to keep their high draft pick status safe. I don't honestly believe that. I also thought the first Thielen catch was good.

That hit on Trevor Lawrence was ugly. He damn near got decapitated.

This is a really tough audition for Brown. Two promotions in 3 weeks and games against teams with a combined record of 40-17 with a team that hasn't had a direction most of the season. At least he gets an extra holiday weekend to prepare. How much of an improvement in overall team play will we see now that the players aren't sulking before the clock even starts each week?

Yeah, I pretty much hate the floor designs. I was actually under the impression they were some sort of AI generated graphic like the yellow first down line in the NFL. Even worse if the players and attending fans see it.

Has Brown been named interim? Maybe it was mentioned in some of those imbedded tweets, but I didn't click on them to read....more.

My wife bought me a 5 pack of 20 mg edibles. I normally do 10mg, so this was my first try with a 20. We went to a friend's house for beers. Probably a total of 5 or 6 of us, including my wife. I was a zombie. I think I drank a total of 3 beers over 3 hours besides the edible. I was completely unsociable, mind racing and sitting like a lump in a chair I apologized to everyone later on, but it wasn't even enjoyable. 10's are perfect for socializing for me. My wife ended up eating the other 20's. I was afraid to do another one after how out of sorts I was the first time. And that's weird to me. I could always hang with everyone else when passing around a joint.

Happy Ebeflus Gets Fired Day, even if I'm a bit early to the punch. It's going to happen. I can sense it. You cannot be torched this badly by the press and keep your job. And that's ignoring how the players clearly feel about him as their coach. We can all find things to point to as to the downfall of another game. The Bears were huddling up earlier in that late 4th quarter when I felt there should have been more urgency. I do understand the idea of making sure you don't leave time on the clock, but there were at least 2 plays that each took 45 seconds off the clock. That's a minute and 30 seconds when you only had a little over 3:00 left in the game from your own 1 yard line. Get in field goal range and then waste time rather than put yourself in the position of not having enough time to do so. Only a Matt Eberflus coached team can have 1st and 10 from the 50 yard line at the 2 minute warning and not be able to at the very least attempt a field goal. Eberflus won't even fight for his team. Keenan never should have thrown that ball in frustration, but officials can ignore a guy's helmet getting ripped off on one side of the field and not the other simply because Eberflus is okay with that. These players are fighting for themselves. And that's why the change needs to be made today. He's not even man enough to take some responsibility.

You are giving Eberflus way too much credit here. Not burning time outs when you have them late in that Green Bay game is inexcusable. We see teams burn them all the time once they see what the offense is planning on doing. Using a time out on both those last two plays was a no brainer. Maybe you put Odunze and Allen or anyone else that's tall into that Hail Mary pass play to help bat the ball away. That time out might have even allowed Stevenson to actually be where he was supposed to be, since he is the very one who said the guy who caught that ball was his responsibility. Instead, he was jawing with fans and came into the play late and in the wrong place, and ended up tipping the ball to the guy he was supposedly supposed to be covering. Using the time outs assures everyone knows their assignments. It assures the coach has thought about how to defend those plays to the best of his and his players abilities. We've also always known Santos is not a long range kicker. He's probably the only kicker in the league this year that missed a 54 yard field goal (short) without it being blocked. He's accurate from short range, so getting him as close as possible was the smart play. They had time to run more plays and chose not to. If he makes that field goal, no one questions this one. But he missed, which gives all of us every right to question standing around watching the clock run off. That's what losing coaches do. It's also likely the type of decisions that cost him the locker room. Those players all want to win. Eberflus isn't winning and his decisions are turning what appears to be wins into losses.

Exactly. Imagine yourself being a billionaire and treating your play toy as the Oakland A's/Pittsburgh Pirates of big market teams. What's the point? I don't expect him to blow the luxury tax line out of the water or to go over at all. Just stay within the confines of that extra expense, just spend what's within reason to field a winning team. If at the trade deadline, you have a playoff caliber team, do what's necessary to get to the playoffs.

Speculation has been that Thomas Brown could end up being a head coaching candidate this offseason. They feel his coaching style is reminiscent of Mike Tomlin's. But, you can't possibly interrupt the chemistry that Brown and Caleb seem to be having by promoting Brown to interim head coach, can you? I read somewhere that Brown was a Poles hire, not an Eberflus hire. There was more speculation that Poles wanted a guy who he felt comfortable replacing Eberflus with if he needed to, and Brown seems to be that guy. And if Caleb and Brown develop a tight rapport to end the season, how does that potentially impact the whole starting over with new coaches idea? If Brown took over as head coach and found success, a lot of questions would be answered. But, is he even a consideration to be the next head coach? What if this team lost out with him as the interim? I suppose the decisions of whether to go for it on 4th down, challenge a play, argue with a ref, etc...wouldn't be that much more of a burden on Brown's ability to continue having success with Caleb. Honestly, a no head coach approach might be better than Eberflus constantly getting in the way of himself (disagree with Kyle on the value of a coach), but as of now, the only REAL important thing for this team for the rest of this season is the further development of the star QB. I will say that I was very pleased to see the ball spread out much more against Minnesota. I was worried the game plan would be too similar to the GB game and Minnesota would shut down the short game, but Brown seemed to create plays that moved the ball down the field much better, despite success at moving the ball on the ground.

I just really don't understand the idea of trading Bellinger. Who replaces his production? Yes, he makes more than his production dictates, but I honestly don't believe they replace his production in trade. His versatility in the field adds to his value. Who is his likely replacement if they do trade him? 83 wins last year despite an awful, awful, awful bullpen for a better part of the season. Improve catcher, bench and pitching staff and see where it takes you. It's not an ideal offense, but the 50m in available cash can easily improve this roster enough to be playoff caliber if you work the phones trading prospects for SP and picking up more reliable bench and bullpen arms via free agency. This team died last year because of the bullpen, lack of production at 3b and bench in general. It also didn't help that Hendricks got as many starts as he did, as much as we all wanted him to find a new groove. I think there is reason to expect or even assume that some of these guys will be better in 2025 than they were in 2024. PCA and Busch with some major league time under their belts. Down years from Paredes, Swanson, Hoerner and Bellinger. You can't assume they will all flutter again in 2025. Overall, you have some very talented guys in the minors knocking on the door now, so improve in the most obvious ways necessary to improve this team where they are the weakest, and stop the nonsense about trading Bellinger. I sense that a Bellinger trade will only hamper their chances to being relevant in 2025, because I don't think Jed finds quality replacement production, and he'll likely still be either paying part of Bellinger's salary, or taking back another one that won't improve the team at all.

Sure would be nice for you guys to not be using another top draft pick on a QB, which seemed inevitable at the halfway mark of this season. I have a few close friends in San Diego that became Panther fans when they became a franchise. Actually went to Soldier last year with them for the frigid November game. They sure haven't had much to cheer about since the prime Cam years.

yeah, I don't see how that happens, either. However, I could see a scenario where Caleb develops such a strong bond with Thomas Brown that he ends up taking over. I'm not hating that comparisons of Brown's coaching style is reminiscent of Mike Tomlin's style. Not sure who is making those comparisons, but it's nice to hear in the event the top names don't become available.

I think you're low on all three stats. What we know is every game will be tough the rest of the way. The run game will likely be abandoned early in each of these games in attempts to catch up or stay in each game, and frankly, the run game isn't very good most of the time anyway. If Williams can do what he did against Minnesota, he could do it against every one of these other teams, also. Not saying he will, but I'd predict he'll be closer to 300 yards a game the rest of the way. There will likely be more attempts on 4th down since the season is basically a wash now anyway. So, yeah, more yards, more td passes and more INT's since, well, more passing. 174 yards is what you are predicting him to average in his last 6 games. He's averaging 285 under the new OC. I'd like to think that this will continue to trend positively going forward.

Absolutely a top 5 favorite movie of all time for me. Maybe #1. Also has my all time favorite line in a movie..... "You're going the wrong way" with the response "How do they know where we are going?" followed up with you all are drinking too much hand signals. Always laugh at that. I too think this one will be ugly. Lions offense is unstoppable right now. Shocked that they leave the starters in way longer than necessary. Last week with a 3 score lead, they never did take Goff out.

I couldn't believe what I was hearing. What does Denver or SoFi or any other stadium not having boundary cameras have anything to do with cameras in Soldier that don't benefit/hinder either team one way or another. If you have a camera to make the right call, USE IT! It just continues to be a huge embarrassment to the NFL that college can make the right calls in real time and the NFL has unwritten rules and limitations on challenging calls by the referees. That plus the down time, which was kind of the whole point of limiting challenges. They sometimes take forever to make a call.

It works during the game with clock not being a factor, or a close game. His defense is the same old bend but don't break concept that has kept the scoring to a minimum most of the time. But, that's about the only thing I can defend at this point. There are very clearly times when you need to disrupt the rhythm of the opposing QB, and he never seems to scheme the necessary plays to do that.

Someone posted a graphic that showed up on my Facebook feed that showed the game was like 13-9 with 6:47 left in the game. Final score 34-26. I looked at the box score, and it actually shows the game was 13-9 up to 5:16 left on the clock when Dallas made it 20-9. It was a 41 point 4th quarter totalling 7 different scores. I had the game on, but was paying way more attention to the Bears.

I don't know if it's just that every coach makes idiotic decisions all game long and I don't notice, or if Eberflus is just the exception to the rule, but his incompetence all game long now is just staggering. Maybe I'm just looking for reasons to think he's really just this incompetent, or he really is this bad. To me, there is just no way you can let him finish the season. I get not doing it now on the short week, but holy crap it can't get much worse than it is now. The Bears defense in OT was playing defense like a team up two scores and just trying to keep the plays in front of them to run out the clock. At the very least, they looked like a team thinking that regardless of what the Vikings did on their series, that Chicago would get another chance with the football. To MinnesotaCubFan. Dude, this is NOT Caleb's time. No rookie QB in the history of Super Bowls has ever taken their team to the big game, let alone won it. And I'm sorry, but Caleb did put his team in a position to win late multiple times. It's not his fault that management decided to prevent his comeback from actually being successful. The Bears were a half inch out of bounds (Keenan Allen's challenged catch) from absolutely scoring on that series. The muffed punt never should have happened, and it clearly led to another score for the Vikings. The Bears played well enough to win this game, but coaching stood in the way once again. No, coaching had nothing to do with Keenan not being completely in bounds on that catch or the muffed punt or the blocked field goal, but coaching haunted this team in so many other ways that I absolutely put all of the blame directly on them. This team is poorly coached in every aspect of the game. They are second in the league in pre-snap penalties. Other teams get away over and over again with roughing up our receivers and QB's and the calls don't seem to ever reciprocate in the Bears favor. Eberflus couldn't win a challenge if he had 100% evidence the wrong/right call was made. His use of clock management is laughable, and he stores timeouts like a squirrel hiding nuts for the winter at times he should use them, then wastes them at times when he desperately needs them. There has been enough said casually by the players that they've had enough, so to not even have the players in your corner says all that needs to be said. I really like Poles, and I was hoping that his decisions turned this franchise into a winning one. He chose Eberflus as his head coach, and he stuck with him at a time when a clean slate might have been a better choice with a potential franchise QB walking in the door. I don't think he can be the guy to make the next choice. And I really don't think I have any faith that the decision makers can find the right people to do the job.

What is Ballesteros' estimated time table?

My first favorite Bull. Yeah, I'm that old.

The QB can be at fault for sacks, but when your line is so dysfunctional that the QB always has to be looking out of the corner of his eye, or is playing under the guise that someone is always about to sack him, it likely affects his ability to process plays properly. I'm not going to say that everything wrong with this offense revolves around the line or the play callers. But, defenses know that the Bears are not connecting down the field, and defenses know the line is a weakness that can be easily exposed just sending one extra guy from somewhere/anywhere. Williams has been inconsistent and wild on his throws, and he's also held the ball too long on plays where he absolutely needed to get rid of it. Brown found a way to make plays happen in less than 2 seconds. GB wasn't prepared for that, even though they were stacking the box like everyone else has been doing. The next team will quite possibly tighten up their defenses closer to the line to take away those quick plays, which should open up some slants across the middle and one on ones deep. But, I don't expect the Bears to be prepared to adjust to the defense next week, so I'll remain skeptical that they can achieve any decent passing yardage until I see it.

Pretty sure if that kick isn't blocked, Santos still misses it left or right, because the Bears...... Nothing defines the Eberflus era any more than the Bears offense standing there with precious time running off the clock and no one has any clue what they are doing. Did anyone see the end of the Buffalo game? 4th down and they still just went for it. They didn't stand around waiting on a plan to kick the field goal. They committed to winning that game and they went out and won that game. Eberflus time and again finds ways to put the Bears in the position to lose games, and like magic, he ends up losing games. It's inexcusable. I'd be interested to know how many times Eberflus might get a coin flip called right. In my mind, he would lose every coin flip, because he he's the most unlucky person I think I've ever seen. It's a comedy at this point. I will admit, I did end up at the edge of my seat at one point during this game, but I was highly skeptical of that kick being good. And I don't care what anyone else says, sitting there watching the clock roll down to :03 with not only a time out in your pocket, but plenty of time on the clock to run more plays to try to get closer and everyone's just standing there with their thumbs up their butts. It's a super bad look. How do the players keep supporting this guy? The fans sure aren't.