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  1. BigSlick
    It’s crazy how no matter the QB, the coaches, what other players are around…the Packers always make the Bears look like horsefeathers
  2. BigSlick
    Bears Bad
  3. BigSlick
    Fields is holding onto the ball too long again.
  4. BigSlick
    He is simply not feeling the pressure well
  5. BigSlick
    Bears DLine not getting any pressure and also getting pushed around by the Packers. Bears Oline doing nothing. That’s the difference in the game
  6. BigSlick
    I fully expect the bears to be down two scores by the time they get the ball back lmao
  7. BigSlick
    Fields is driving me nuts yeah the Oline is being beat up but THROW THE GODDAMN BALL
  8. BigSlick
    I would just like to point out the CJ Stroud, as a rookie, had a season that would be indisputably better than any Bears QB season in history and led his team to the playoffs for those saying if we draft a QB we can’t expect to compete
  9. BigSlick
    What’s Dave Taub doing these days? Can we offer him the head coaching job?
  10. BigSlick
    The defense was still….OK against Manning at the peak of his powers, and Hester spotted the team 7. I watched highlights again recently and I forgot how much of a monsoon that game was. The variance that introduces probably favors the Bears, but then you also get the…Cedric Benson fumble ☹️
  11. BigSlick
    It's nice to have those things. Those things can definitely help you win, if and only if you have a competent and effective passing game. There is no way to win a Super Bowl in the NFL if you don't have an effective passing game. That's it.
  12. BigSlick
    I don't want to touch Jayden Daniels with a ten foot pole It's possible he ends up being a great pro QB, but I'm not gonna take a flyer on him. I'd rate Bo Nix and Penix way, way, way above him. Just talking physically, the guy needs to put on like 40 pounds of good weight to survive a pro pass rush. This is from a scouting report: "Daniels' arm talent and accuracy is a mixed bag. On one hand, he's a phenomenal deep thrower in rhythm. He regularly drops it in the bucket without needing his receivers to break stride. However, Daniels' arm strength and accuracy are less dangerous to other parts of the field. He doesn't always have the velocity to fit tight windows, and his accuracy in the 1-20 yard range comes and goes. Daniels' accuracy especially falls off when he's forced to throw out of rhythm or late in the down." For those of us living through the Justin Fields experience, its Justin Fields, except Smaller and Worse.
  13. BigSlick
    I think Eberflus stays Getsy stays Fields traded Is the most likely outcome, but I also think its somewhat subject to what happens in the Green Bay game. (A huge win may keep Fields, a huge disastrous loss certifies him going and possibly Getsy)
  14. BigSlick
    Haha, I've had the same experience with the QB Gurus. Earlier in the season I eagerly awaited their breakdowns of Fields's games...and now I'm like. Eh who cares. I know what I saw (he was good, or bad).
  15. BigSlick
    I think DJ Moore should have been a Pro Bowl starter, but I can understand if his numbers don't match up with the top flight receivers in the NFC. Still to do what he did with 4 games of a rookie backup QB and 12 additional games of...at times inconsistent QB play is remarkable.
  16. BigSlick
    I just want to say: I really hate the new format in football. I liked it when it was a 16 game schedule, 6 playoff teams, 2 byes for the top 2 seeds. This whole 17 game season, 7 playoff team, only 1 bye team thing screws my brain up and it's super ugly to look at. I want even numbers! I want things to make sense! The previous format was elegant and beautiful!
  17. BigSlick
    I don't entirely hate this plan. It all depends on what our scouts think of the second level QBs, like Penix and Nix (I don't want anything to do with Daniels or McCarthy). If you think that they're at the same level or just a smidge less talented (or you've found a steal) than the top line guys, and can get them in the middle of the 1st round, it will net you a ton more value. Of course, I'm far more comfortable with 1) being "keep Fields for another year or two" than you are, but its essentially the same plan.
  18. BigSlick
    One thing I think most Bears fans can agree with: King Poles is back. Dude has undeniably done a good job with the roster so far. now…the coaching staff….is another question
  19. BigSlick
    As much as I absolutely love MHJr and would love to see him on this team, you cannot just go and draft him first overall. It's the worst move by value possible. If you can get him in a trade down, do it. Otherwise, it is what it is. You can't keep the first overall and not get a QB - you're missing out on like, 4-5 blue chip players you can get with a trade down.
  20. BigSlick
    Yeah I'm really not too worried about what a rookie can do here - there will be more offensive help coming and the talent on offense is coming together. It'll be one of the better places for a rookie to start, and significantly better than what CJ Stroud went into.
  21. BigSlick
    Oh I wasn't very clear there - I do think its a negative. I was trying to list things that don't get factored well into his stats, but I edited it and it just kinda looks out of place. I look at all those stats you list and I still think he's roughly an average QB. Maybe that makes me an idiot! I don't care!
  22. BigSlick
    I don't think Justin Fields is a terrible quarterback and I've long maintained that it is entirely appropriate to withhold judgment on what to do in the draft until after the entire season is over. So yes, the Green Bay game matters, and it obviously has outsized importance because it's the Packers and its a whole thing. In most QB stats Fields is in the ~20-something range of starters. That doesn't look spectacular. I think he's gotten better after he came back from injury, but he's still been inconsistent. I think, on the whole, factoring in his legs and his field awareness and his propensity for insane plays nobody else in the league can make, he's currently about an average NFL starting QB (with the potential to be better than that, but also perhaps a ceiling that is below 'elite'). Is that enough? I dunno. If I was a cold-blooded NFL executive who didn't want to factor in what it would do for the locker room, what the salary cap situation looks like, the coaches, etc. etc. - probably not. As a fan, I'm a reactive moron who swings up and down based on the irrationalism of football wins and losses. I was stoked to watch the Falcons game. If he beats the Packers resoundingly I'm sure I'll be a gigantic homer and feel significantly more reticent to trade him. It is what it is.
  23. BigSlick
    Yeah I mean I openly despise Michigan and actively root against them but they played well, absolutely looked like the better team all game vs. Alabama and Harbaugh out-coached Saban. The only thing I'd say is I remain absolutely unimpressed with JJ McCarthy and I'm baffled by people who think he's a high level pro prospect.
  24. BigSlick
    Once again, there's a world of difference between 5'10" and 6'1" in the NFL. 6'1" is maybe shorter than you'd want to have your ideal QB prospect if you were building one in a lab, but 5'10" is so small it is nearly disqualifying. And if you don't like Williams, there's also Drake Maye who is 6'4". I honestly haven't scouted Maye very much so I don't have a lot to say, but there are plenty of folks who rate him higher than Williams. I dunno. We got a long ways to go before the draft rolls around.
  25. BigSlick
    Yeah that was a weird thing, I thought I remember the commentators saying that the league for later overrule those and make at least that first "interception" an incompletion in the stat book. I'm not terribly bothered by it overall because he played badly in that game and there were a handful of INTs that DBs just didn't catch. And that first Minnesota game still haunts me. I was at that game, Fields was coming off two extremely good passing games and he....stunk up the place. He was horrible. Getsy called a bad game, but Fields was terrible. And then we had to deal with a month of Bagent and interminable idiotic debate.
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