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  1. BigSlick
    It simply astonishing how this team finds ways to lose. I’ve been firmly on the “the rest of the season doesn’t really matter, it’s all about Caleb Williams development” for a few weeks now, but good god. The Bears franchise doesn’t deserve its fans, it really doesn’t.
  2. BigSlick
    Incredible that Caleb has led what should have been two game winning drives this season. And the Bears have refused to give them to him.
  3. BigSlick
    It felt too much like 2018 for me to get excited when they were kicking the field goal. What was the most important thing? Turning Caleb around. They did that. Too bad they couldn’t give him a W on top, but they succeeded at that. And Eberflus just has bad vibes and needs to go. Let his stinky vibes go.
  4. BigSlick
    Lmao.
  5. BigSlick
    So I turned the game on this defense really loves to collapse immediately after the offense does something good
  6. BigSlick
    The -5.5 line is making me look all over for promo codes so I can wager a huge amount of money on the Packers honestly
  7. BigSlick
    It would be conceivably Bears-y to win this game, after they’ve destroyed their playoff hopes and mangled their team and are a huge mess. But not Bears-y enough to overcome the centrifugal force of Packers magic, which defies space and time. It, much like Cardinals pixie dust, is an unshakeable law of the universe. For some reason, unknown to us mere mortals, we’re not allowed to beat the Packers. And, for similar unknown, mythical reasons, they are always guaranteed very good quarterback play while we get bums. If we try to defy these laws, we are punished for it. Such is the way of things, and it was foolish and arrogant of us to expect different.
  8. BigSlick
    😔
  9. BigSlick
    Even if the team stays bottomed out, the odds they end up with a one or two wins are still quite high. It's just football. Weird horsefeathers happens. They could lose out, but I'd bet against it.
  10. BigSlick
    Agreed! If they end up 6-11 and Caleb is looking closer to the Jax-Car game Caleb, I'll feel good about where the team is going. The season will still be under expectations, but the arrow will be directed upwards.
  11. BigSlick
    It sucks that now, with the division x2 and Seattle and San Fran left on the schedule, that matching last years record would actually be great effort. That’s what happens when you blow that Washington game, lay a turd against the Cardinals, and collapse utterly against one of the worst teams in the league, at home. Maybe we should be thankful though? If they were 6-3 coming to this point and gutted out a 9-8 record to end the season, they probably would have retained Eberflus, even if the level of play was exactly the same. Still feels bad to look at everything and see 7-10 as the absolute ceiling. (Clearly I was very wrong when I ridiculed posters for saying that 2 weeks ago. I’ll eat that crow)
  12. BigSlick
    There's a way to be a soft-spoken coach that is at the same time respected. Lovie Smith managed that for about 8 years before things fell apart on him. Clearly, Eberflus is not that kind of guy. Of course, all the Shouty Guy Coaches have been also awful for the Bears ever since Ditka. There's no winning.
  13. BigSlick
    I mean, I expect the Bears offense to improve somewhat because its almost impossible for it to get worse. But I also expect the Packers to put about 45 on the Bears. I will not be watching this game.
  14. BigSlick
    One thing we do as sports fans is hear some unconfirmed rumor, say to ourselves 'well, I gotta take this with a grain of salt' and then utterly believe the entire thing I still haven't even seen the report of the report, just you guys talking about it
  15. BigSlick
    Where are these reports?
  16. BigSlick
    Eberflus has reached Marc Trestman level of cluelessness. Nobody wants to reach Dr. Death level of self awareness.
  17. BigSlick
    By the way, enjoy this, I think the play that finally ended Shane Waldron's career with the Bears (16:21 if it doesn't load there): The sprint out to the left with 3 routes going to the right. I remember seeing this when it happened and thinking "oh no, there's no way thats how the actual play is supposed to go". I have no idea what was intended to happen here, but it was definitely the most embarrassing thing I've seen from them since last year.
  18. BigSlick
    I still don't get how exactly DJ Moore got used the way he did this year. I'm sorry for being a broken record on this, but what happened? Why is he being used for dead-on-arrival WR screens and other junk plays? Does Waldron and/or Caleb hate him? You can tell that DJ wants to be more involved in the offense. One of the few offensive plays I even remember from the Patriots game was when DJ caught a curl, broke a tackle, and hit a first down and was fired the horsefeathers up. I thought there was a slim possibility that could fire up the team and the offense would get going from there. I don't think he's merely checked out because of his paycheck, I think there's something more going on.
  19. BigSlick
    I simply refuse to believe that any player truly wants Tyson Bagent over Caleb Williams. I mean, I can buy that DJ Moore is upset at his usage (and justifiably so), but no, I cannot believe he actually wants Bagent over Williams. Nobody is that stupid.
  20. BigSlick
    There’s zero value to this season aside from developing and assessing Caleb Willliams. There’s no other purpose to this season at this point. Now if starting Bagent furthers that, if things are so bad and Caleb is too exposed by the offensive line and also spiraling and needs to reboot, I’m open to that argument. But that’s it. If Caleb is dogshit, we have to find that out.
  21. BigSlick
    Whats the realistic chance the Bears win this game? 5%? Less?
  22. BigSlick
    I don't think its fun bad. I don't think there's a way this season can be fun bad to me. Fun Bad is when the team has no hope or prospects for the future, and you're starting Jimmy Clausen for some reason. This is just sad. Just a shocking reversal from week 6 to now. I don't think I've ever seen a Chicago team reverse course this dramatically. I was dismissing it at the time, but that Hail Mary really did break the team emotionally, which was clearly not a psychologically very strong team. (And Eberflus is definitely not the guy to keep it all together).
  23. BigSlick
    Maybe the next guy will find a way to use our star wide receiver as the main option more than the 32 year old who can’t run or catch. And possibly get our tight end a target or two. a seemingly intractable problem that no one can figure out
  24. BigSlick
    I mean. Ok. Waldron clearly wasn’t anything special and his game calling in the last game was particularly dreadful. But this feels like firing a hitting coach when an MLB team is struggling. Sure, do it. But I think Eberflus is much more of a problem here and they’re giving us a sacrificial lamb because they can’t fire Eberflus yet.
  25. BigSlick
    Yeah I agree- I'm certainly not rooting for Caleb to throw interceptions, but I think his tentativeness is a contributing factor to the team falling apart offensively. He's not throwing enough one-on-one balls (and his receivers are not helping by dropping the few ones that have come their way), and he's not competing in the middle and downfield. Let the thing fly, young man. It can't get worse than this.
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