BigbadB

Shout out to the tight ends tonight.

Yeah the backup LBs have been stepping up. I also like what I see from Toliver tonight stepping in for Prince. Gonna need guys like Toliver, Pierre-Lewis and Kwiatkoski to be starters next year. But heck, if they get Trubisky fixed, their money situation is a lot better for next year.

I'd be pretty happy with a coach that won a Super Bowl in one of his first 3 years as coach. Were you happy with a manager that won a world Series in his first 3 years? Football is different than baseball but there have been some "not that great" coaches that have one a single super bowl. Yes. I was.

Yes, the one with 2 1/2 completely mediocre seasons and one championship season I mean, there's like 3 active coaches who have won a championship this century, not named Belichick. 1 championship season is an accomplishment in the Patriots dynasty era. I'd be pretty happy with a coach that won a Super Bowl in one of his first 3 years as coach.

My take on that game is that the Bears are only slightly better than the Giants. It didn't surprise me in the slightest that Nagy started playing not to lose at 10 minutes remaining in the 4th quarter. He really deserved to lose that game by sitting on his 12 point lead with that much time left, but luckily the defense didn't completely wear out.

He was handed a starting RB gig only a few weeks ago and now his career is over. Nice work!

Mitch was horrible again last night, but Chase Daniel was way worse. Just throw Tyler Bray out there and see if all 3 need to be kicked to the curb in the offseason. Get whoever you can get with your first pick in the 2nd round and see how cheaply you can get someone like Andy Dalton for a year while the kid learns. Dalton isn't the answer, but I think he could win some games for this team next year, and I doubt many teams kick the tires on him as a starter. If he doesn't come cheap on a prove it deal, find someone who does.

I'm excited. I am going to my first Blackhawks game the day after Thanksgiving. Hopefully they can keep this winning streak going. Blows me away that Kirby Dach is 18 years old.

It’s 100% an aggravated assault by definition Yes, but it happened on a sports field so no charges will be filed. Throwing a baseball at someone’s head would also be aggravated assault, but the “it’s just part of the game” laws keep the lawyers at bay :roll: Reasonable doubt plays a factor in throwing at someone's head. You can't argue reasonable doubt when swinging a helmet wildly at someone's unhelmeted head.

Sure they do. Many people were alive before the Super Bowl was even a thing.

It's a frustrating franchise to be a fan, no doubt. I don't think anyone would argue that it's been pretty bleak, but it's also one of the greatest franchises given their history. Only the Giants have been in more championship games. Only the Packers have won more championship games. The Bears have the most Hall of Fame members. They have had some of the greatest Linebackers of all time. They have arguably one of the greatest RB's of all time, and they probably have the best two pack of RB's in history from one team in Payton and Sayers. We deserve to be made fun of when considering the QB talent this team has employed. Google the top ranked QB's in Chicago Bears history if you want to see a really sorry looking list. And it's not looking very promising going forward. We hire an Andy Reid disciple who is supposed to instill an offense that puts points on the board, and instead we have one of the worst offenses in the entire league. We have tall receivers. We have fast receivers. We have receivers that can get separation. We have receivers that can catch the ball in traffic. And we have a QB that was taken 2nd overall who cannot connect with these receivers consistently. You are welcome to act like a Cardinals troll visting a Cubs fan site to make fun of our continued fandom, but the Bears are definitely not the Detroit Lions or the Cleveland Browns. It's not even close.

The drives that produced points is what I have been waiting for all season long. Purposely looking downfield and actually hitting the open man can subdue a defense in a hurry. And after they started hitting guys downfield, the running game looked better, the Bears defense looked more alive. And then they appeared to go back to turtle shelling for the rest of the game. That's not how an Andy Reid style offense is supposed to run. You don't have a lead big enough to just sit on the ball with that much time left on the clock. Continue doing what's working you morons! Mitch appeared to be getting some confidence going and then the offensive (pun intended) play calling went completely conservative. Detroit was only a play or two away from actually making it a tie game because this coaching staff refuses to grow a pair. I do agree that they are going to look back on this as a huge development going forward, but the baby steps can't be any smaller. There was a perfect opportunity on 2nd and 7 to throw for the first down and lock up the game for good. Forcing Detroit to use a time out on a meaningless running play that Detroit was playing for was just playing into Detroit's hands. They didn't need that time out with the amount of time that was still on the clock. And sure enough, they damn near scored on that last drive without it. JUST GROW A PAIR ALREADY! If you throw the ball there and get a fresh set of downs, you can almost end the game taking a knee if that's what you want to do. I'm not sure how many coaches go from Coach of the Year to fired the very next season, but Nagy is just not getting it done and i worry that he isn't coach material.

Do not know but, he's listed as a UFA for 2020, would the Chargers put a franchise tag on him at 38-39? If they haven't lost faith in Lynn, I would think resigning is the most likely outcome. They can take another 2 year swing at things. They just beat a good GB team so it's not like they're falling apart like the Bears. Chargers aren't going to get a good draft position, so the top QB's available in the draft will likely be off the board. They'd be smart to keep Rivers around for another year. Rivers is about the only thing a lot of San Diego Charger fans still hang their hat on. Once Rivers is gone, they will lose another chunk of fan base. With that said, the Bears are looking like quite the dumpster fire at this point, which might be hard to compel any decent QB options to come to Chicago. Trubisky does nothing to make the offensive line look good, and the Bears won't be making any improvements to the line this offseason. Any money they do have to spend this offseason will need to go to a QB, and i don't think it's in the budget to get anyone that will cost $20m+. If this management team had any balls, they would have traded for a QB that could have salvaged a little bit of this season and provide enough hope to be decent next year. I'm so done with Trubisky that I don't even care if Daniel or Bray is worse. Do something. Anything. Except what you are currently doing.

Going into the Charger game, he had only missed a single field goal, and not a single extra point. He had made 20 out of 21 kicks (combined XP and FG). So because he wasn't perfect for the season at that point, he wasn't playing all that great? That's a weird hot take.

How many times has Pineiro been put in the position of having the game ride on his leg in the NFL? Yes, he should have made the kick, but it’s not a gimme, especially with the win if you make lose if you don’t pressure. Nagy should have done something to make the kick closer. They had no problem getting the ball into field goal range. Momentum is on your side. Momentum was stopped dead in its tracks the moment they took a knee.

The latest story is Pineiro wanted the ball in the center of the field for that kick, and had it been in the middle of the field, he would have made it. Instead, it was hiked from the left hash mark and the ball went wide left. Herein lies the problem. Mr. Pineiro has basically just thrown Nagy under the bus by explaining this detail to the media. So on top of bad play calling, it appears that Nagy may be losing his team. But, let's go back to the 43 second mark where the clock was stopped on a Charger time out where Coach, QB and anyone else involved with decision making processes were huddled on the sideline discussing what to do. We already know that running or passing was not an option because Nagy declared that to be so. Let's just take a knee and kick. Absolutely no thought of asking the kicker where he would like the ball placed? Even if they didn't think about it at that time, maybe while the clock was slowly winding down someone could have said, hey, where do we want the ball? There were still two plays to get the ball where the kicker preferred it. Nagy should have already known where Pineiro prefers to kick from. Yes, I'm very bitter about this loss.

Fitzmagic who fell apart against horsefeathers? No thanks He's playing on the worst team in the league and against a top 5 defense in the league. But let's keep throwing Trubisky out there because it's working so well.

You trying to salvage this year? It's an uphill climb with a top 10 QB at this point, let alone a journeyman. I am. But I don’t think they need a top 10 QB. Just a competent one like Fitzpatrick. Wishful thinking.

I’m watching Fitzmagic dissect the decent Steelers defense. What kind of draft pick would it take for him. They are probably only playing him now to showcase him for trade. He seems like someone who could just step right in. He’s a veteran with a solid arm.

Why would he not start? It's not like Chase Daniel is any good. Jersey already answered for me, but frankly, I'm done with the Trubisky era. I'm not a fan of tanking the entire season. The only problem I see with this team outside of play calling is QB. They have a 24 hour window to improve the QB situation, and already announcing before the deadline passes that Trubisky is starting next week tells me they aren't going to address the problem.

Nagy just announced that Trubisky will start against the Eagles this Sunday. Really looking forward to it.

San Francisco is fielding offers for CJ Beathard. Maybe trade Cordarrelle Patterson straight up for him? I don't really know much about him, but apparently a lot of teams are expressing interest. Moving Patterson would take away some of the gimmicky [expletive] Nagy continues to employ with his stupid playcalling.

That miss to Robinson at the 1 yard line was the very definition of why Trubisky is not an NFL QB. Short pass, wide open and he can't even put it in a spot where Robinson can at least catch it. I don't know the exact radius of the window to make that a catchable ball, but he wasn't close on what was essentially a non moving target.

I know this post is old and before the game, but I actually had this same thought process early in the game. I was thinking that he does rarely throw INT's (probably because he's so inaccurate that he can't even hit opposing defenses in the hands, either), and that I wouldn't even care if he threw some interceptions if it meant he was targeting receivers downfield. And there it was. He threw one and it didn't even bother me because they were finding success downfield. Not enough for my liking since it was working and it still wasn't translating into points, but at least they weren't trying to force 5 yard passes for no gains and punting. Mainly I just wanted to compliment your observation as I concur with that thought process. You have to take some chances. Alex Smith was the most boring QB in the entire league until Andy Reid got his hands on him, and Andy got Alex to be more than a ball control QB.

Chargers used their last time out at :43 which took the game to a commercial break. I turn to my Charger fan friends and say "watch, they are going to kneel on this ball with 1st down, plenty of time remaining AND A horsefeathering TIME OUT, and put all of this undo pressure on a rookie kicker when there are ways to turn this into a touchdown or a chip shot field goal. Then my blood began to boil as soon as they did exactly what I predicted. That play was so Nagy that I really don't know how much more of this I can tolerate. There was a lot of stupidity in that game, with that predictable ending probably being the highlight. The next one that really unnerved me was the offsides free play where Trubisky throws a 5 yard slant on an obvious free play. Who does that? Trubisky does. The general frustration was that when they actually threw for more than 10 yards today, they had success. But, they only did when they had to, not when they should have been doing it more. Why would you take spreading the field off the table when you are having success doing exactly that? In general, it was a successful day moving the football. However, the end result was the inability to translate yardage into touchdowns, so it's still an epic failure.