UMFan83

prediction: Drawn out run play for 2 yard loss WR screen for 1 yard Dropback that leads to Caleb scrambling and throwing away

Every Bears Packers game contains 3-4 inexplicably jump ball catches that somehow fall into Packers hands

But they just got a TD on it! (Ignore the other 20 times they ran it today unsuccessfully)

Also Caleb has a lot to work on this offseason. He’s had a promising season but he needs to grow because currently he is subpar imo

This offense is so so bad. The play calling is atrocious, the execution is atrocious. None of this helps Caleb improve

Brown apparently only had one 2 point conversion play ready and it sucked

This is an awful job interview for Thomas Brown which is ironic because he might become the first Bears coach to beat the Packers in 6 years.

As someone who has been fighting to ensure every team theoretically has a chance at winning a championship for years, I dont hate it. Here is how the first round matchups would work out if every FBS conference champ made it and seeding was based on CFP ranking with no advantages for conference champs (outside of making the field if you wouldn't otherwise make it). For teams that weren't ranked by the CFP, I based their seed on their SP+ ranking. Jacksonville State, ranked 72nd in SP+, was the lowest seed. 16 Jacksonville St (Sun Belt) at 1 Oregon (Big Ten) - Eugene, OR 15 Ohio (MAC) at 2 Georgia (SEC) - Athens, GA 14 Marshall (CUSA) at 3 Texas (At Large 1) - Austin, TX 13 Army (AAC) at 4 Penn State (At Large 2) - University Park, PA 12 Clemson (ACC) at 5 Notre Dame (At Large 3) - South Bend, IN 11 Arizona St (Big 12) at 6 Ohio State (At Large 4) - Columbus, OH 10 SMU (At Large 7) at 7 Tennessee (At Large 5) - Knoxville, TN 9 Boise St (MWC) at 8 Indiana (At Large 6) - Bloomington, IN I would then keep the QFs on campus. If the higher seeds won... 8 Indiana at 1 Oregon - Eugene, OR 7 Tennessee at 2 Georgia - Athens, GA 6 Ohio State at 3 Texas - Austin, TX 5 Notre Dame at 4 Penn State - University Park, PA Then make the semis and finals at neutral bowl sites. I kind of like it and it almost seems like the format we currently have was made with expansion to 16 easy by adding the other G5 conferences. If the trend continues where the teams with the bye struggle, they may just consider expanding to 16. It doesn't really dilute the field as we're not adding any more mid at-large teams, we're basically giving the top team something to do to keep them busy before the quarterfinal round (and if one of those bottom 4 teams managed to upset a top seed - it would be a moment talked about forever)

I find it funny that the 4 team CFP almost certainly would have had their first 2 loss team(s) ever selected if the format didnt change to 12 teams. And that only 1 of the 4 remaining teams has less than 2 losses. And none of them won their conference championship.

This is what is being discussed on Jacksonville radio. I’m assuming they are just about reliable as reports from guys that appear on Chicago radio:

Fair point. But you can also chalk that up to standard Chicago Bears organizational incompetence. I’m sure any GM has to get ownership approval to fire a coach in the middle of their contract. Some franchises that empower their football operation departments might just meet to get the rubber stamp, and others need to explain the justification. All I’m saying is no one has ever reported (that I’m aware of) that the McCaskeys had a stated rule to not fire a coach midseason. I can’t remember this ever even being mentioned as a thing prior to Trestman. When he wasn’t fired midseason despite the team completely falling apart and largely tuning him out, it was assumed this meant the Bears won’t fire a coach midseason. Anyways, semantics I guess.

Either Penn State or Notre Dame is going to be in the championship game. That seems wild to me for some reason.

I don't get why people act like firing a coach mid-season was some iron clad rule the McCaskeys had and Poles and Warren had to move heaven and Earth to make it happen. I would assume a vast majority of coaches are fired after a season. The Bears probably preferred to not fire a coach in the middle of a season, but there is no evidence that ownership was completely against it either. Not picking on you, its just something I've seen written about so much and I don't recall there ever being actual reporting that the McCaskeys are against firing coaches midseason.

Michigan has a better defense that they've showed at times this year but I really think Michigan is just in their heads. There is no other explanation for a Michigan team that has no quarterback winning on the road against a team that spent $20m on NIL to bring in top tier talent into a team that was already one of the 3-4 most talented teams in college football. It still doesn't make sense to me that Michigan won that game, but I'll take it. It looks like OSU is going to rampage their way to the title and honestly whatever. I don't want them to of course but if there was ever a year to handle an OSU natty its in a year where Michigan beat them on their field a season after winning their own national title and are bringing in their best recruiting class in several years. I can live with it.

I definitely think the Hail Mary and the resulting fallout had a dramatic effect on the season. It's very difficult to quantify how it changed the season because the team still had holes, a promising but inconsistent young QB, a dumbass coach and an extremely difficult schedule but I find it very difficult to believe that they lose those next 2 games after the exciting comeback win against Washington. Credit to them they bounced back and played tough in the first 3 division games, in a strong position to win all 3, but they lost all of them and at that point the season was unsalvageable and the team fell apart.

This is what I have been saying

I was pulling for the upset but I’m ok with Texas being OSUs next opponent if they win rather than ASU.

Can’t wait for the pen to come around in mid-July and us lamenting all the games we would have won if Jed better addressed the pen in the offseason

There’s this: Apparently he deactivated his account shortly after posting this.

Hope Mervis gets a chance in Miami and does something with it. Just wasn’t gonna happen in Chicago after doing nothing with the chances he was given and Busch locking up 1B. don’t really know much about Brujan, is he out of options?

sorry if this isn’t new news re: Jacksonville and Ben Johnson I’ve been a little out of the loop

I hear you. Between the Bears content, right winged content and drone/UFO conspiracy theories it’s really annoying to use these days. Should give blue sky another try

It’s just one metric measuring sacks and accuracy. It’s not saying he’s as good or productive as Zach Wilson outside of that. Clearly Caleb Williams has shown he is better than many of the QBs he is worse than on this chart. but you’re right though that this season can’t end quickly enough. Maybe it’s twitters wonky algorithms but the anti-Caleb faction has showed up in full force including the pro-Fields faction showing back up in full force. Unless Caleb has a ridiculous game next week, it’s gonna be a long offseason of Caleb hot takes.

Yeah I see a couple of Lamar Jackson years, Aaron Rodgers his last year with the Packers and Hurts in 2022 . Obviously Lamar is unique with his legs and they are all really close to the center whereas Caleb is a massive outlier. Hopefully Caleb can work on his footwork and throwing motion or whatever he needs to get his accuracy more normal but out of everything I’ve seen from him this year that has been the most concerning for me. I didn’t watch a ton of college film but I can’t imagine he’d be considered a generational prospect as he was if he was this inaccurate on basic throws in college. What happened to him this year?

Thread about Caleb that’s not so great: