BigSlick

Poor Khalil. I always liked him, even if he never quite seemed the right fit for any of the offenses we ran. We probably should have dealt him in the offseason if he was gonna get so few looks anyway.

I don't really see the upside to firing Eberflus mid-season. I don't think it'll do anything to improve the play of the team and it's not like there's any coaching prospect that's currently on the team that I think can do a better job. It could, however, make the team crater even more. I think he's gone regardless by the end of the season unless the team pulls something miraculous and goes .500 or better down the stretch (extremely unlikely). Now, if they lose to the Patriots, at-home, next week, then yes. I would fire him midseason, lol.

Oh and also, we're in the unfortunate position where rookie Rome Odunze may be our best receiver. Keenan Allen looks totally washed - besides having some decent hands in the Jags game, he's really done nothing, can get no separation, and now he can't catch. I'm not sure what's going on with Moore - I want to be generous with him because he was so, so good last year in a pretty bad situation, so I don't know if he's gimpy or if they aren't using him correctly or what, but something ain't right with him. (I hope it's not his attitude, I really do). Where's Kmet? Everett appears to be a total waste. Did Tyler Scott get sent to the phantom zone? What looked like a real position group of strength is not quite that.

There's a lot of bad here, and I think Eberflus signed his own death warrant yesterday. The most damning thing isn't any individual decision here or there but that the team very obviously quit when things got tough and you just can't have that. I do want to manage the temperature though, because football is an emotional game of huge swings in momentum that can change on completely unpredictable things like the bouncing of balls or the throwing of flags. I don't think the team was so overmatched or so outcoached that something like, say, the refs throwing one of any possible flags when the Bears were throwing into the end zone and our receivers were being mugged, or the, frankly, inexcusable 'Leverage' penalty they called on us, would have us seeing a completely different game. Caleb wasn't great, but he was also moving the ball decently in the first half and was doing that amidst a bunch of drops and poor OLine play. There are some real hinge point moments in this game that, if they went the other way, could have meant a Bears lead, and a very different game. But I want to be clear - the fact the team completely fell apart when some unfortunate things happened is a point against them and the coaching. That the refs turning a fantastic goal line stand into a touchdown is devastating. But that shouldn't mess you up so much that you give up an inexplicable 50 yard touchdown run within the last 30 seconds of a half. The most optimistic of us had playoff dreams in the off-season, but the more sober fans (not necessarily myself!) knew this season was primarily about developing Caleb Williams. It still is. Next week is another opportunity for that. Carry on.

I’m tipping over into the “fire eberflus” camp because there are simply too many inexplicably bad things that happen to his teams that allow them to lose that don’t happen to other teams. Is he responsible for it? Dunno, don’t care. Can’t happen this frequently.

Like seriously that shouldn’t be allowed lmao

Lmaooooooo

If we can just deny a team a chance at scoring when they have 20 something seconds left

Two pretty rough drops today still not feeling apoplectic about the offense. They’re doing things

I wouldn’t feel that bad about things except the refs seem intent on destroying us?

If the Bears stop them here it’s the most historic epic stop of all time (I’m not counting on it)

Absolutely insane to the point I’m suspicious

There’s just no way they should call that

Are you KIDDING ME

Are you kidding me

Chicago has a chance at back to back scoring drives here

Defense can’t collapse like this when we need them most

They need to shore up in the run game

Well I HATE the fact that the playing conditions are awful now

Nice play D

Ummm what they’re letting the Cardinals DBs totally mug our guys

There was literally no false start? is the fix in? (Sarcastic, bitter)

We just need to score more

I think Williams has been more than fine. Odunze needs to come up with that 2nd down throw. Taylor majorly out kicked his coverage there

Well that’s a new one, I’ve never seen an Olineman sack their own QB before