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And Caleb costs us 3 points again with poor awareness. Did this against the Commanders too. Unacceptable

I don’t think “even the Panthers” means much anymore since they have 1 less win than the Bears

Tory Taylor was such an arrogant pick for a team that has had 1 winning season in the past 12 seasons

Ohtani, Betts, Freeman, Soto. How many MVP candidates in their prime do you need on your roster?

Jed has gone to Japan multiple times this year I believe. Hopefully he did more then fill up on sake bombs and built a relationship with Sasaki.

Combined record of the teams that make up those 11 wins: 54-100. Combined losses where the Bears had a 90+% win probability in the 4th quarter: 3 (and another one the week before that 11-11 stretch started 😩) I know none of these really address your point, I just needed to add those statistics.

If this is true the Bears are so hopelessly broken

Why is it that no matter who the Bears hire to run the offense and no matter who the players are on the field, we are always hearing stories about how broken and poorly planned the offense is? I suppose its possible that anyone who breaks down film can find things to criticize if they look hard enough and want to tell a certain narrative, especially when the offense isn't producing. But horsefeathers its like we can never just get out of our own way. I would take "hey this offense looks average and here are some things they could do to improve it" but its always something like "wow look at how stupidly the Bears are constructing their offense, they have a TE running go routes and their top WR is just running 5 yards down the field and then spinning around in circles until they get dizzy and fall over"

I'm not saying we'll for sure win many of the games on our gauntlet, but I'm not going to just assume we lose every game. Not that Eberflus has a great track record of beating good teams but he did beat the Lions last year, almost beat them twice, almost beat the Vikings twice, beat SF (albeit in a Monsoon) in 2022. If the defense gets healthy (a big if at this point I know) and Caleb and the offense get in sync, I don't see why we can't improve. That said things could just continue to go downhill, especially if we don't win or play particularly well this week and the bad vibes continue. Overall though, while things are pretty glum I'm not completely giving up on this season yet.

Ahh I hate this even if there's logic behind it. Been obviously following him as the one hopeful piece of the Darvish for teenagers trade. Would hate to turn around and trade him right before he gets to the majors.

What is going on with our pecs this season? Also it looks like the Bears are already saying Brisker will be out this week. At this point we can't count on him to play at all the rest of the season, though obviously its still a possibility.

The Cubs offense was so dynamic and consistent last year that it makes sense that they won't do much offensively /s Time to look at GM replacements for next offseason.

To further emphasize how tough the Bears remaining SOS is, here is how it looks currently. After this week that number for the Bears will jump up to .687 (or whatever it looks like after the Bears remaining opponents play their games this week). No one is even close to us

Yep, this is college basketball...you aren't going to screw your season over if you have a tough non-conference schedule and take some bumps especially considering things like Q1 wins are much much more impactful than Q1 losses are bad. If you schedule 9 Q1 games during non-conference and go 3-6, thats 3 Q1 wins! Michigan made tourney 3 seasons ago with a 17-14 overall record because they had the number 2 SOS in the country and were 7-11 in Q1 games. Heck they didn't even have to play in Dayton.

The season is falling apart but we still need a game thread to talk about it right? Bears are playing their first home game and their first noon game in 35 days and things have changed quite a bit since we last played at Soldier Field. The Bears still have an 8 game home winning streak with their last loss being almost 13 months ago (10/15/23 against the Vikings). But the combined record of the teams they played during that streak is 41-69, with the 12-5 Lions from last year being the only team with a winning record that we've beat. As everyone knows, this is the last easy game before the gauntlet that will last the rest of the season. The Bears remaining opponents after this game have a combined record of 46-21 (after counting the division opponents twice), and that doesn't even account for the fact that the 49ers are 4-4 but have largely been injury riddled and are getting many of their best guys back. So the average Bears opponent the rest of the season is roughly the equivalent of a 12-5 team (.687 winning percentage). The Bears are probably screwed either way but if they want any hope of stopping the avalanche of negativity thats building up this game is an absolute must win. Bears are 6 point favorites Oh and

why do we only hire stupid people

Michigan looked incredible last night. Yes against Cleveland State who was somewhere in the 180s on KenPom but they won by nearly 50 and looked incredible moving the ball offensively. Last year's team would have won by like 6.

I mean he did use the 11th pick in the draft on a tackle, but you are completely right that outside of that the OL has been woefully underdressed. I'm not ready to fire Poles yet, however this season has been very telling. This is supposed to be the season he tanked 2 years building for and there are holes on both lines, massive questions about the entire coaching staff and related to that it looks like his team (filled with high character guys because thats something Poles specifically looks for and evaluates) is openly revolting. You don't need more that 3 years to rebuild a football team and if you do, you've failed. Basically the bad is starting to snowball and I'm not sure how to stop that snowball from growing. A win this weekend might help, but then again its the Patriots so what can you really take from that?

I mean they're not miracle workers. Though they did manage to go 4-2 with him starting, something the Bears weren't able to do with Justin.

Meanwhile in former Bears news as we digest another awful Oline performance. Winning organizations vs losing organizations...

Not imagining things. I've seen it pointed out on twitter and reddit in recent weeks as well.

Weird transcription. Moore clearly says "I wanna say no" which isnt exactly a ringing endorsement but is a lot different than "I won't say no"

I was just thinking about how in 2020 the Lions owner passed away and the team started being run by her daughter. The daughter, Sheila Ford Hamp, immediately came in and stated 'I want to win and this is my primary focus and goal in life at the moment'. She hired a football guy, Chris Spielman, to be the Lions CEO, he made some hires and the Lions are now the envy of the league. Meanwhile Bears fans had been trying to kick out Ted Phillips for years because he's an accountant, not a football guy. Because of this, the organizational direction was set by the general manager, who was replaced every couple of seasons because they aren't good. They finally got rid of Ted Phillips and instead of hiring a football guy hired Kevin Warren for the primary purpose of building a new stadium (which he seems to be failing at but that's beside the point). So once again the organizational direction is set by the GM and may change drastically yet again if/when Poles is fired. Maybe its not clear and obvious why ownership matters so much in the NFL. There's a hard salary cap so you don't necessarily prove you're committed to winning by how much you spend on players. But I think examples like that show where the Bears true priorities lie. Of course they want to win, but their focus right now is on a shiny new stadium, not doing everything possible to build a winning organization. There's gotta be a reason why a team like the Steelers has 4 losing seasons since the early 90s and the Bears have more than 20 right?

I thought you could touch the ball as long as you've re-established yourself in the field of play with both feet. We had the same issue on an interception by Brisker against the Rams and the rules analyst said that if he had gotten both feet back in bounds the interception would have been legal.