UMFan83

At the end of the game the Bears snapped the ball with :20 left and got an illegal shift penalty called on them to lose 5 yards. But when the next play started there was 15 seconds left. Isn’t illegal shift a pre-Snap penalty thus no time should have gone off? I’m assuming I’m wrong because absolutely no one said anything.

So basically in 6 divisional games, Caleb led the Bears in game tying or game winning drives in 4 of them. -The blocked FG against GB -the last second TD and FG drive vs Minnesota to force OT -the Thanksgiving debacle against the Lions -the GW drive against GB

I don’t give 2 shits about draft position. We needed that so bad. The fan base, the team, everyone. We couldn’t end the season like that.

YOU LEFT TOO MUCH TIME FOR CALEB WILLIAMS

Wow hahah we’re not totally cursed

Oh god here we go again

Caleb needs to get the ball out in time. I don’t know if any receivers are open but every drop back leads to him holding and holding and holding the ball

Now Caleb all the sudden has to throw downfield after not doing it all day

Bears have their GW FG blocked, Packers make their GW FG. That’s the difference between these franchises

Bears should be using TOs come on

I’m pretty sure this franchise is designed specifically to anger its fan base

Too many Packers TOs, too many Bears negative plays

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.