BigSlick

At this point give up the td fast and give Caleb and, lol, Santos, a chance

How many flags do we need in a game

Just let the Bears win one game once is it so bad to let the Bears win a game

lol

Ahahahahahah if the Bears lose this I will laugh so hard I’m not even mad at this point

This has been a pretty crazy game but all credit to Johnson for calling a good smart game and putting 41 up on the board Caleb settled down a ton too and by the end of it finished strong despite a very frustrating start

I guess we got an insane gift in that Washington game but dear god DO NOT OVERRULE THIS

Oh my god if the Bears lose possession here and lose I WILL give up football for the rest of the year

Bizarre to even attempt a field goal there to cut the lead to 4. As low percentage as it is, I think you have to at least attempt to convert. football gods rightfully punished their cowardice

lol

I’m 93% confident they’ll convert this 4th and 13

Defense really especially collapsing Playing well on 1st and 2nd down and then giving up a 30 yard completion is really the most back breaking thing

A FG there only is ominous. Coulda been a huge momentum swing and two score game.

Ok the offense is really rolling now. we need the defense to get like 1 or 2 stops. Can they?

I do feel bad for the Bears DBs because it really doesn’t matter what they do, somehow the Cincy WR just catch everything

This defense is hilarious, they may as well not exist, Flacco gets whatever he wants

The Bears are giving me the desire to die that the late Eberflus era gave me. I watch them and I crave the cold hands of death.

Asked and answered!

This *should* be an opportunity for the Bears to work clock, have a nice methodical drive for points, and then get the ball back after half. Let’s see how they horsefeathers it up

I’m only able to hear the game on the radio but it sounds like Caleb is playing like horsefeathers again also don’t love how the kick off coverage is inexcusably bad

Really don’t love hearing Swift is out, there’s a real dearth of NFL quality running backs on this team and I fear that’ll make the team move even further away from the run. bleh. Good luck boys

I actually did completely give up watching the Bears between the Jay Cutler years and 2018 - those were years with literally zero hope. (I guess the John Fox years?)

I just don't really think Caleb has regressed as such - at worst he's been static. There's one area he's made leaps and bounds improvement: avoiding sacks, where he's cut his sack rate in half. I just don't vibe with "I see no signs of hope" thing. If I felt that way I wouldn't watch the games, to be honest. And even if Caleb was playing markedly worse than he is now (which is absolutely subpar), I still wouldn't have zero hope. Maybe this is just a personality thing. I have hope because he's shown enough to me in the last year and a half and there's still plenty of time (we're still less than half of a season into Ben Johnson's career) and learning to go. I have faith in Ben Johnson's acumen. I don't feel the need to make any proclamation yet. I've said before and I'll say again, I'm not making any grand proclamation until after the season is over. And even if he's mediocre he probably still gets much of 2026 to play (and given how many late bloomers we're seeing now, why shouldn't he?). Why make any conclusion? I watched Caleb's All-22 and it is one of those things where if you watch his tape outside of the game flow it isn't bad at all - which is a huge dissonance with watching him play as the game is going. Watching him play within the context of the game, the offense (aside from the first two drives) felt anemic and scattershot, and then you watch him play outside of the narrative of a game and you're like "huh, this isn't that bad" and you can see how and why certain plays didn't work out. But of course, within the flow of the game, it may have been disastrous. I can see why Ben Johnson was softer on Caleb, just looking at his tape abstracted from the game. I dunno, maybe I'm deluded and just a "hope springs eternal" kinda person. I absolutely overstayed the welcome on Justin Fields way until the end of 2023.

Why?

Everyone is a little too traumatized from 2024. It's ok folks, Eberflus isn't here to hurt us anymore. That being said, I'm more terrified of Jake Browning than Joe Flacco. The worse a QB is, the lower on the depth chart they are, the more I am convinced they are going to tear us apart. It's Cubs-vs-bad-rookies-they've-never-seen-before syndrome. Win the game, show some improvement from Caleb. But guess what, even if they lose, the world isn't over. Just go out there and have some fun folks.