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It’s an extremely Bears decision to make, not gonna lie. So that’s probably what’s gonna happen.

Yeah. Ultimately will matter little in the outcome of the game but that was a really weak call

Knew this would be awful but it doesn’t make it any less aggravating.

No pressure at all on Goff so far

Quiet you

Eberflus is such a moron challenging that. It’s a big impact play, I get that. But there’s 0 chance they overturn it. Just wasting timeouts and challenges. Moron

I see we’re still doing the 3rd and long soft coverage conversions. Staple of the Eberflus defense

The Dodgers were probably like "what do we need to do to wrap this up before the winter meetings? you need an extra $8 million per year? Fine, done"

Yeah I didn’t even think about Sasaki. They are probably looking at it thinking “we can get Snell and Sasaki for an average of $18.3M for the next 5 years”

I mean my only reaction is just jealousy. It feels like we don’t even play in the same league as them. That’s an AAV of $36.4M. I don’t think the Cubs have ever paid a player more than $28.5M in a season. And Dodgers fans are probably saying “cool now what other top FAs can we sign this winter?” So yeah I don’t particularly love the idea of paying Blake Snell 5/$182 so not necessarily jealous of that. But insanely jealous of how easily the Dodgers throw money around while the Cubs had their entire offseason ruined (in Jed’s mind) because Bellinger picked up his $27.5m option.

I won't believe it until patch.com has a report out

yeah that will save our inconsistent offense that fails to hit for months at a time.

Do you think that going slightly over the luxury tax last season is in any way playing a factor in the offseason decision making? I was told that it's not a big deal that the Cubs went slightly over, but if Jed being unable to track his spending correctly is the reason the Cubs decided to have a boring offseason, I'm gonna be so annoyed.

I think the answer is somewhere in the middle. Averaging 300 passing yards a game is a 5,100 yard pace over a full season. Only 6 players in NFL history have thrown for 5,100 yards in a season. I get that its only a 6 game stretch but still that's a sky high pace for a rookie QB that is facing a lot of great defenses for a team this is going nowhere and will soon have to deal with players who are just trying to get through a lost season and lame duck (hopefully) coach.

Feel like Jed has a secret extension in place. Seems like this would be the offseason to finally do something bold (and maybe he still will via trade) to make the playoffs but he doesn’t seem to be too concerned about it It’s going to be funny when we’re in June after the offense hasn’t hit yet again for a 6 week stretch and Jed is sitting there acting surprised

Right which is why I was responding to a post that talked about how he was throwing downfield in coverage yesterday and how he might throw 1-2 INTs this week. My response focused too much on the lack of throwing INTs but I was basically trying to say keep slinging it like he has the last 2 weeks. While I obviously don’t want him to throw it to the other team, he’s been at his best when he’s not afraid to rip it and not worry so much about trying to be perfect.

The last time he threw an INT was the last time the Bears won a game. Not saying it’s a good thing to throw INTs but for Caleb specifically when he’s not throwing INTs he’s usually playing tentative and afraid to get rid of the ball like in the Patriots game. I’m not sure how he got into that mindset. He was playing so well against Carolina and Jacksonville and then all the sudden after the bye looked scared to throw anywhere that might be the smallest bit dangerous. I could see that happening after a bad 3 INT game or something like that but it almost feels like it was coached into him during the bye 😡. I don’t even remember him having any turnover worthy throws in the first 4 games after the bye. Yesterday I think he had 1 or 2.

What is this gibberish? BTW that whole thing was stupid and not really Eberflus's fault. there was indisputable evidence but somehow werent allowed to use it in the interest of fairness because all 30 stadiums don't have that camera angle installed. Who cares? Soldier Field does, and that replay showed he stepped out of bounds. Why screw the Bears over due to a technicality? But Eberflus's explanation still sounds ridiculously dumb.

Absolutely...this team should easily be 6-5 or 7-4 right now. Last year's team could have easily won 8 or 9 games. The Bears have punted on the last 2 seasons because we have a scared little bitch manning the sidelines. Kyle doesn't agree of course...I'm not saying the team is perfect but they have enough talent to be a playoff contender and our little bitch ass coach is holding us back and wasting years of our lives when we've been waiting so long to have an ounce of pride about our football team.

I have decided that the most Bears way to Bears up the Eberflus situation is to fire Eberflus after losing to the Lions, Thomas Brown taking over as Interim HC, the Bears going 3-2 down the stretch to finish 7-10 and then hiring Brown as permanent HC over guys like Shanahan and Ben Johnson. Shanahan and Ben Johnson's new teams meet in the Super Bowl next year while Brown goes 6-11 and a frustrated Caleb puts it out there that he wants out of Chicago.

The play before that honestly bothered me more. I'd have to watch the play again and I don't feel like watching highlights from another brutal loss, but he took the snap, looked like his 1st read was not open so he tucked the ball and ran right into a wall. It looked so completely different than the QB that we just saw lead 2 consecutive scoring drives by staying in the pocket and getting the ball out in rhythm. I know the 2nd down play was a lot more damaging but I didn't like to see the frazzled hurried scramble from Caleb to start the possession.

Plays the entire game completely poised in the pocket, but 2 plays in OT are the only 2 you choose to focus on? I get it, those were the biggest 2 plays in the game for him and he looked like a different QB, I pointed that out when it happened. But they were only the 2 biggest plays of the game because he was successful in maybe a dozen other big plays to get to that point. He could have held onto the ball too long after the Bears recovered the onside kick knowing that all the pressure was on him to get the 25ish yards he needed to get to OT and knowing the defense was playing back to prevent deep passes, but he stepped up in the pocket and fired a perfectly timed 27 yard missile to Moore to get the ball into FG range.

Caleb didn't become a highly rated HS recruit, win a Heisman, get drafted number 1 overall without having some mental fortitude. He knows he won the Bears those games...I really don't see him as being fragile enough to let this break him. Could he be playing better this year? Absolutely. But with Mitch and Justin and would take those little flashes of goodness and use it to hold onto hope that those mean better times were coming. With Caleb, those flashes of goodness are so good that they confirm without a shadow of a doubt in my mind that better times are coming. I mean seriously just re-read my post and soak in the fact that in the last 5 weeks he took the ball trailing with under 4 minutes left 3 different times and led the Bears to victory or OT. I'm not worried about his mental state....I wish his mental state wouldn't be tested every horsefeathers week but I'm not worried about it.

Wait is this a serious post? I just jumped back into this so if this is a bit my apologies....seems like a very bait worthy post from someone that doesn't usually have awful takes, so I must be missing something, but I'm gonna take the bait and spell it out anyways because it makes me feel better about myself and about Caleb. -Gets the ball down 5 on the road with 4:21 left, leads the Bears on a TD drive to take a 3 point lead with 25 seconds left. -Gets the ball down 1 with 2:59 left, leads the Bears to the opponents 30 yard line with 53 seconds left. -Gets the ball down 11 with 1:47 left, leads the Bears on a TD drive, gets the 2 point conversion, then when ST successfully recovers an onside kick with 21 seconds left moves the ball 27 yards to set up a game tying FG. That is in the last 5 weeks. The Bears lost all of those games because the defense allowed Washington to drive 65 yards in 25 seconds, the coach didn't try to get the ball closer and had the FG attempt blocked, and the defense couldn't make a stop on several 3rd and 10+ yard situations. But sure technically he hasn't proven he can lead the team to a comeback win so you are correct while also sounding ridiculously stupid. This isn't the same as Justin throwing a perfect pass on 4th down to a made up wide receiver that almost certainly isn't in the NFL anymore and that WR dropping it and then extrapolating that to mean that Justin could have led them to a comeback had his team not let him down. Caleb actually led the Bears to scores in those situations. If the world wasn't created for the exact purpose of torturing Bears fans, the Bears would be 7-4. 31 other teams in the league would be 6-5 or 7-4 if you gave them the exact same circumstances. But again we live in a world that was created specifically to torture Bears fans so we just have to accept that these things will continue to happen until we get the sweet release of death. (I'm ok really, just trying to be dramatic to drive home my point that we are tortured)