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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.

He's giving me 2021 Allen Robinson vibes right now with his demeanor

wait what? edit: Wow. Injured or not that's a really really bad look

Can’t help but laugh edit: correction, actually the longest since at least the merger in 1970

My take on Caleb after 8 games is that I see him do things that I’ve never seen a Bears QB do before or at least rarely. He seems to have the between the ears component that other QBs have lacked and can read a defense and make adjustments at the line. He mostly keeps his eyes downfield even when scrambling and can make quick decisions that make plays happen out of nowhere. But his accuracy, particularly his deep ball accuracy, has been super alarming even if I believe it’s something he can fix. And today he had that same deer in headlights look that I’ve seen Justin and Mitch have when they look utterly defeated and have lost their confidence due to being pressured so frequently and that’s definitely scary. I tend to believe that good QB prospects can be ruined by poor development, though there are probably some QBs that are good enough to overcome that. I’m not sure which camp Caleb is in but it really doesn’t look like this offense is maximizing his strengths so that’s a bad sign. I still think he ultimately projects to be a Pro Bowl QB, but I can’t discount him being ruined by poor coaching and ending up in the Bears QB graveyard.

I think last year was your chance to get Johnson. We kept Eberflus and now Caleb has had a year of being developed by someone else. I’m gonna guess we missed our window with him.

How about the team that should have stayed in Chicago and instead kicked the Bears out many years ago?

It’s just scary that these are the results we’re getting from him with the 2nd easiest schedule in the league this year. Not all on him obviously but now we have by far the most difficult remaining schedule in the league and an injury riddled offensive line that promises to destroy any potential to develop the rest of the season.

Might as well fire them for keeping Caleb in the game

Bears have been in garbage time for much of the 2nd half and Caleb might not get to 200 passing yards

Announcers are just openly mocking the Bears and deservedly so

Holy horsefeathers