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  1. BigSlick
    And Moore is a baller when he’s happy and motivated
  2. BigSlick
    I defy all the haters. Caleb Williams is a baller. He’s got a ways to go but he can do some insanely special stuff
  3. BigSlick
    HOW CAN THEY NOT EXECUTE A REGULAR RUNNING PLAY
  4. BigSlick
    It’s insane how bad the Bears offense is. Like it’s almost impossible to be as bad as they are. i make this post several times a year
  5. BigSlick
    Bears defense is utter trash as well
  6. BigSlick
    Lmao I can’t even be mad at that. They tried to do something fun on the last game of the year
  7. BigSlick
    Caleb is also holding onto the ball way too long on plays where he isn’t being pressured
  8. BigSlick
    Hey, the forums are back it would be extremely Bears for them to win based on special teams, fluke plays, and the starting QB going out but: I still think they’re gonna lose. Lmao
  9. BigSlick
    Unless they do something insane again and hire a Canadian football league guy whose brain is melting out of his ears, I’ll be back and optimistic for 2025. Because what else can I do? I’m a Bears fan.
  10. BigSlick
    it hit me how insane it is this team is worse than the 2023 Bears. We're talking about upgrading pretty much every positional group (QB, RB, WR, OL (?), having consistency at coaching (lmao), upgrading (lmaoooooo) at Offensive Coordinator, having a full season of Montez Sweat (remember him? I don't) and having all the good vibes of the offseason and.....they're significantly worse than the mediocre ass 2023 Bears who started 0-4 and who's QB knew he was likely losing his job for the last month of the season. HOW? How are you worse than that moribund team? It's almost impossible. And yet they're *Significantly* worse than the 2023 Bears.
  11. BigSlick
    us agreeing that Poles should be fired means nothing. Probably over 80% of the City of Chicago wanted Eberflus fired after last year, and they kept his dumb ass. I'd say its quite likely Poles stays another season.
  12. BigSlick
    This season has sucked, hard. Everything has gone just about as bad as it could have, aside from Caleb. (Who’s been up and down but has still shown enough for me to feel very good and optimistic). Of course, I’ll be feeling back and ready for football by next September. Almost no matter what happens, it’ll be very hard for them to screw up the offseason to the point where I’m not feeling better about where the team is currently. So it goes. im mostly just annoyed they wasted another year of my rooting life.
  13. BigSlick
    Caleb’s a Dude. Everything can be fixed quickly if you have your QB. But there’s a ton they gotta do. And Poles has not shown he knows how to hire a coach or draft a lineman, which are the most pressing needs. I bet Poles gets another year, but if he fucks this up it unfortunately dooms SEVERAL of Caleb’s peak, cheap years. Which isn’t ideal.
  14. BigSlick
    Just turned on the game to see the Bears surrender on their own third down and do nothing against the Seahawks 3rd down, I despise sports and I hate the bears
  15. BigSlick
    If Daniels ends up better than Caleb but Caleb is still a great QB, oh well. I won’t cry over it, who cares. We got a great QB. Scouting professional quarterbacks is probably the hardest least understood position in all of sports (maybe pitchers are harder, but it’s a very hard comparison to make between sports), and I still wouldn’t consider it a miss. I’m still concerned about Daniels’s body type lasting well over a career. Williams has been shockingly durable in a season where’s he’s taken more hits than one would like. Knock on wood.
  16. BigSlick
    I seriously thought it was a joke at first also, what Derrick Henry is doing at age 30, in the NFL of 2024, is truly unbelievable. Homeboy is almost singlehandedly keeping running back a position that can still have a Star, it’s wild.
  17. BigSlick
    It’s pretty wild that CJ Stroud’s current season is comparable, if not worse, than Caleb Williams rookie season. Good evidence of Kyle’s consistent point to give QBs two full years to really evaluate them. not that I think Stroud is bad or anything, but that he came down to earth slightly from last year. Still a good effective QB, but his development is not just up up and away without any bumps in the road
  18. BigSlick
    I actually wouldn’t hate Pete Carroll. Unlike Belichick, I don’t think he’s totally washed and checked out. But overall I really do desperately want an offensive coach, and I would prefer a younger guy.
  19. BigSlick
    It is my understanding that’s the case, at least for ESPN’s QBR
  20. BigSlick
    QBR is a weird stat that we aren’t privy to know the details of how it’s calculated which always leads me to be suspicious. Caleb being ~47.9 or whatever on the season however feels about right: if 50 is a league average season by an NFL QB, he is probably exactly that when you factor in his whole season. Which, for a rookie QB, is totally fine.
  21. BigSlick
    The only bad thing about Caleb not throwing INTs was it was clearly happening because he was playing scared, overthrowing people intentionally, not taking risks into coverage, and taking sacks instead of making something happen. That clearly wasn't happening as much yesterday and he didn't throw a pick (good!). If my expectations for Caleb's rookie season were a bell curve, he clearly isn't in the top-top part of the curve (2 standard deviations from mean), and he's not in the chunky bit above the mean either. But he's squarely in the realm of that 68% part of the graph thats within one standard deviation of a Median 1st Overall Pick. On the lower side? Yea, probably. He's had way too many games start incredibly slowly, and he's had too long of stretches being bad. But I can't look at what he's done on the season: 314/505, 3,271 yards, 62.2% completion percentage, 19 Tds, 5 Ints (FIVE!), 6.5 Y/A and say well...this is concerning. It's not. And all that amidst really (unforgivable) chaotic and poor coaching.
  22. BigSlick
    Literally haven’t had one since Cutler, so it’s nice. unfortunately we need 4 offensive linemen and an entire defense
  23. BigSlick
    Aside from his completion percentage, which is below average for pro offenses these days, Caleb’s season numbers look really good. we do have something special in him at least.
  24. BigSlick
    I think he's overrated and a bit of a psycho, but man this team would have twice the number of wins right now if they had Harbaugh as coach.
  25. BigSlick
    I haven't paid super close attention to anything with this team for a while, but 4.0 WAR for Crow-Armstrong sounds really...optimistic doesn't it? EDIT: Well looking at his stats from last year, he had 2.3 with less than a season starting and half the year not being able to swing the bat, so maybe not
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