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  1. BigSlick
    If he's out the Bears are definitely experiencing a blessed season like 2001. And hell, I'm here for it.
  2. BigSlick
    Here's the thing: just be honest about every performance. Cowboys game? Spectacular. Raiders game? not great. Commanders game? Pretty decent but with some painful missed opportunities. Saints game? Pretty bad in pretty gnarly weather conditions. Etc. But we're not even halfway through the season. I'm withholding any meaningful judgment until the end of the season. Even then, I have to imagine even if he continues up-and-down performance he's still locked into the starting role for next season. And he should be!
  3. BigSlick
    It’s weird to be impatient about Caleb right when like half a dozen former assumed busts are now killing it. Daniel Jones is the QB of the best team in the league! We have to avoid the apologia that we’ve had formerly with Trubisky and Fields, but we also have to patient.
  4. BigSlick
    I'd probably stick with Moody, though you gotta keep in mind this guy has had some serious accuracy issues in the past... but unfortunately as dependable as Santos has been for the past few years, he's become outclassed by the standards of the position these days. You need a guy who can boot it out of the endzone when you need it (Santos can't do that) and you need a guy who can at least attempt 50+ with some credibility, which Santos has done but his leg is not strong enough to make them consistently.
  5. BigSlick
    It really does feel like the "come back to earth" game that we've seen the Bears experience in previous years. We beat up a few bums, and then we play some team that maybe fell on some tough times but has a legit offense, and the beat the everloving horsefeathers out of us. The Niners game last year is one such example I can think of. (Chargers game in '23 may apply, he Cowboys game in '22 when they dropped 49 on us, and on and on) Would love for this to not be a repeat of that phenomenon.
  6. BigSlick
    On Dan Bernstein's podcast they mentioned that last year (all of last year) they had only 20 big pass plays (20+ yards), this year they've already surpassed that in 6 games. Wild. Matt Abbattacola also intimated what I suspected, that they're specifically coaching Caleb to not scramble for yards but look for big plays downfield. Now, I dunno how much credence you give him ("people I've talked to" ok, who's that?), but it certainly looks that way, and is appropriately awkward. He just isn't doing the things that come naturally to him. And if that's the case, I'd say, stop it. He's historically been more effective when he's just feeling it on the scramble, and he is quite nifty with his legs. He doesn't generally take big shots (though obviously its a concern long term). I'm less worried about what Caleb is doing while scrambling than what he's doing in the pocket, in rhythm. On the other hand, Ben Johnson is 1000000% a smarter, more qualified offensive genius than me. So I should probably just put my faith in him, no matter how bleh it may look in the early term.
  7. BigSlick
    Well I guess we aren’t moving into 2nd place in the North tonight. the Lions are a legit ass team. Yeah they dropped a couple to two good teams but man. They’re good.
  8. BigSlick
    I'm also on team "give young QBs more time" but there's a reason why teams don't give QBs as much time as they used to: contracts. Because of draft slotting and how contracts work, you pretty much *have* to know what you have with your QB by the end of year 3 or you're kind of boned.
  9. BigSlick
    Oh my god we would be so so lucky to avoid Lamar here. I’m not counting on it though. Huge opportunity for the Bears to “arrive” here though. They’ve been playing a bunch of scrubs (and the Commanders, who didn’t play amazing), so if they can look even just decent in a competitive game, it means a lot. Weird to say against a 1-5 team, but it’s real. Would be a great game for Caleb to look good.
  10. BigSlick
    I think I’m seeing some overreaction to Caleb’s game yesterday this morning. He was bad, he wasn’t disastrously bad. I think folks have somehow memory hole’d just how bad things can get (some of the Justin Fields years seems to have left people, there were long stretches with a completely inoperable offense. Not 175 yards passing, 26 points). Hilariously, PFF grades Caleb higher for yesterday than it did against the Commanders, which is just silly. Patience. If Caleb still looks like this or worse by the time we hit our NFC North stretch, then I give you permission to panic about him. No sooner.
  11. BigSlick
    Next week will be a huge gut check for the defense. Lamar coming back, at home… I fully expect him to drop some major points on us. Next week is a huge test for Caleb, honestly. Can he keep up? Can’t have the game he had today and expect to win. Against even a battered Ravens team we’ll get blown out if Caleb repeats this game.
  12. BigSlick
    This is meatbally of me but I love seeing this stuff. What a contrast to Eberflus.
  13. BigSlick
    I think today we actually saw a significant impressive defensive effort vs an admittedly bad QB. Pressure was there, Sweat had a good game, Brisker was awesome on blitzes and the coverage, for the most part, was good. A couple bad lapses on those two good drives the Saints had, but overall I’m starting to believe the ball hawking is a real thing and not just luck. I also don’t super mind some of the penalties on defense because it’s from dudes trying real hard and being mean, which you need on defense
  14. BigSlick
    I have to imagine Johnson is stressing him throwing rather than running on scramble plays - and maybe he even picked this game in particular to overcorrect because it’s such a weak opponent. But damn dude, he’s so much better when he’s picking up 2-3 first downs with his legs than throwing uncompetitive balls.
  15. BigSlick
    The refs are really picking on Loveland early in his career, not exactly sure what it was. Caleb could have been helped out by some of his receivers making tough catches but IMO, I don’t remember any glaring drops. Most of those were contested catches with the DB draped all over them. Mostly, Caleb was just off target and panicked out of the pocket. Running circles around and I don’t know if he ever scrambled for yards, which he had several opportunities for. He was better, not great, in the pocket. Overall a pretty bad game, picked up by his defense and running game. He’s gotta be better. But he has the whole rest of the season to improve.
  16. BigSlick
    He’s been really bad on broken plays today though I’m confident that progress is being made but it’s not linear
  17. BigSlick
    Why is this offense STILL DOING THIS, AT HOME??
  18. BigSlick
    3rd and 20+ remains one of the worst downs for our defense
  19. BigSlick
    Ok that immediately punished us for not getting the pick there
  20. BigSlick
    Oh my god. Please god, let that not punish us later
  21. BigSlick
    Im going to die with the words “THROW THE BALL” on my lips
  22. BigSlick
    Caleb has been SO BAD on the run out of the pocket. What is going on there?
  23. BigSlick
    Thank god they didn’t throw another roughing penalty on that one. rattler got popped. get a TD here and ice this game
  24. BigSlick
    We’re probably (probably) gonna escape this one with a win, but we should be up by like 27+ and comfortable given how the games gone big step back from the last few weeks offensively
  25. BigSlick
    Rattler was unacceptably bad for the first like 5 drives and committed 2 turnovers i dont award a winner in that battle
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