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This makes sense to me. 11 attempts, 3 sacks, 3 scrambles, 1 penalty for throwing ahead of the LOS, maybe 1 RPO opting into a pass. Given how well the run game was performing, a 50/50 split seems fair. Yes the Packers were up big which normally leads to more passing but the Bears were gashing them on that 4th quarter drive with the run and were an inch from being down 7 with plenty of time to get a stop and another drive. The problem is the number of overall offensive plays. 41 offensive snaps is really low and is almost as much on the defense being unable to stop the run (leading to less overall possessions) as it is the offense being unable to get a 1st down.

If anyone feels like watching some analysis from offensive all 22's from last week:

Always some kind of crazy drama in the NBA

Cubs win. Keegan back Cubs need to go 6-7 to win 70 games though I suspect many of us would prefer 0-13

lol the Cubs managed to score 3 runs on 0 hits to take the lead Walk Walk Error Fielders choice Sac fly

This doesn't surprise me at all. mentally I have been expecting to not see Lonzo until January at the earliest. If the surgery is 7 days from now and he's re-evaluated in 4-6 weeks that would put his re-evaluation in November. Even if he's cleared then, he'll probably need a few more weeks to get into basketball shape.

Haven't seen any all 22 breakdowns of Fields performance in week 2. Guessing no one wants to touch that one as there are not a ton of positives to mix in with the negatives. I did see this though:

He caters to the meatheads. He's your basic misogynistic, frat boy type always trying to prove how masculine he is 24/7. He's just a miserable horsefeathers who stirs the pot for clicks while providing nothing of any real substance. Not to mention has some serious sexual misconduct allegation lawsuits. Or did...not sure if they were settled

Was that the Mark Hatley era? Mark Hatley then Jerry Angelo then Phil Emery then Ryan Pace. To think that Angelo was the best of the bunch.

Passing on Randy Moss because he overslept for an interview and taking an unhinged RB instead. Sidenote: that was the same year ed lynch decided not to trade todd noel and jon garland for mike piazza (something like that, maybe pat cline was in there too) and then 2 months later traded them for felix heredia and matt karchner and don't forget the rick mirer trade right before that 98 debacle everyone had stupid FO's back then but ours were HOF stupid The Rick Mirer trade was easily one of the most head scratching moves I've ever seen in sports history. I only vaguely remember the trade when it happened but looking back on his numbers before the trade and I cant even begin to make a coherent argument in favor of even considering that trade.

This is the exact type of game the Bears usually find a way to scratch out, but man oh man would I be nervous picking this Bears offense at this point in time. If you feel you have to use the Bears, then this is the game to use them. Their easiest games after this are on the road (NYG, ATL, NYJ). Easiest remaining home game is either Washington or Detroit. Washington is on a short week and Detroit looks frisky.

NFL+ with a VPN? tell me more eta: I usually have to try and pirate it Honestly I've never used a VPN before but I'm sure you can find one with a free trial or just free online. NFL+ allows you to watch all local games on phones/smart TVs. You can get a free 7 day trial (I think its still available), after that its $5 a month. VPN allows the computer to think you are located in Chicago, thus the NFL+ games available to you including the Bears game.

NFL+ with a VPN?

I wish I was at that Saints game. I was at the Seahawks game and you could cut the tension in the crowd with a knife late in the game when the Seahawks had 2 drives at midfield where a FG would have won it. Amazing feeling to see a game winning kick to advance in the playoffs in person though.

He should get cheered but I'm guessing indifference since it's been 10 years since he's been our coach, he's coached against the Bears at Soldier Field before (he got cheers), Illini fans may have soured on him a bit and mostly because they don't typically spotlight coaches on the video board so there probably won't be a moment to cheer specifically for him.

Offensive DVOA rank by year since 94 (playoff years = *): 13* 3 18 26 17 18 23 18* 28 30 32 28* 18* 30 23 28 (first Cutler season) 28* 30 25 6 (the one good Trestman year) 16 10 (Gase season) 17 (Cutler last year) 28 20* 25 25* 26 30 (through 2 games)

Meh while the Bears sucked most of the time I was too busy being a kid/teenager to care if they were bad. I was a Bears fan because I lived in Chicago and that was that. The losing didn't start to bother me until the early 00's. The 2001 season gave me a taste of winning and I wanted it to continue but it was a fluke year.

I dont follow barstool at all but I see him appear enough in various places to know hes a giant douchebag. They all are but he seems even bigger than the others. He has one of the most punchable faces out there.

I was actually a Steelers fan when I was very young because I had very blonde hair as did Bradshaw. But somewhere in the early '80's ('82 or '83) I started to love to watch Walter Payton more, and glad I did I liked the Raiders as a kid because they were evil or something that made sense to my kid mind... And they had Snake Stabler, the original outlaw QB who I still look upon fondly. I think it was Stabler going to the Oilers, and Payton with the Bears, combined with living in Chicago, that sealed it for me. I then was introduced to true misery as a football fan, but got to see the SB win too. 1994 was Wanny - that's a difficult introduction to the Bears. I'd say at least they got to see 2006. People tend to forget that year for some reason? It was pretty awesome. Didn't win the SB but I still consider that a fun year as a Bear fan. Because I'm an idiot and have rarely seen adequate football from the Bears I remember the Wanny years with a small amount of fondness. Like I mentioned 94 was the first year I remember following the Bears. I remember the Halloween rain game against the Packers and remember watching the scores the last week of the season to see if the Bears would make it despite losing. I drew pictures of Lewis Tillman in school because I thought he was awesome, though looking at his stats now wtf. The playoff win over the Vikings was a lot of fun. I watched the 49ers game with my dad. He told me there was no way the Bears were going to win but I was convinced they would. When the Bears forced a TO and then kicked a FG to go up 3-0, I gave him a high five. By the time the game hit the 4th quarter I was playing with toys or baseball cards or something. 1994 wasn't bad. Then Wanny told us the pieces were in place....95 wasn't bad either but I remember being crushed that we didn't get the help we needed the last week to make the playoffs. Then in 96 we started off the season by crushing the Cowboys on MNF and thought we must be awesome. It was all downhill from there except for the Lovie years basically.

I love when Bernstein gets all excited and geeks out when he's doing interviews like this.

And the Cubs will lose less than 100 games for the 55th time in the last 56 seasons

Sampson 1 ER in 6 IP Bote annoying continues to play well enough to be in the picture for next years team (I think)

Dating back to 1994 they’ve had a defensive minded head coach in all but 6 seasons. The rest have all been defensive first and the bulk of those were guys in their final job, with minimal prior head coaching success. You can say they’ve changed coaches and still same results, but those changes have rarely shown a concerted effort to prioritize offense. It’s not some weird hex, it’s organizational but philosophy. Defense first. Maybe hire an offensive coach on occasion but if that fails go right back to defense first. We are back in a defense first situation and have to pray they magically find a qb or have a Ron Turner situation where the OC cobbles together a good season once or twice. Nope. It's a curse. Are we sure a goat never walked across the endzone in Soldier Field? Obviously its not a curse but like the Cubs "curse" it sure feels like it at times. We are the only franchise to not have either a 4000 yard passer or a 30 passing TD season (albeit these are much more common things in the last 15 years than they were prior). They've had three 400 yard passing games in their entire history, the last being in 1999. There were fifteen 400 yard passing games in 2021 by 9 different QBs (including Mike White). We traded for a young QB who threw for 4500 yards in his 3rd season and then never hit 4000 yards again. Jersey correctly pointed out that there hasn't been an emphasis on offensive hires, and while Nagy was a complete disaster, Trestman did get results his first season before his inherent creepy weirdness alienated the team. While it feels like defense was the priority during those first chunk of years, it seems like they've tried to build a coherent offense in recent years (Cutler trade, Marshall trade, Trubisky/Fields trade ups, 2/4 HC hires offensive minded). They just haven't been able to put all the pieces together at the same time. But its not that the Bears haven't had elite offenses, its that they rarely have even average offenses and more often than not its anemic. At the end of the day, a good QB makes everything else a lot easier and that just hasn't happened here.

Not making excuses for being bad overall but some of that might be affected by small sample size. We know Fields is capable of big time throws...that's supposed to one of this strengths but he hasn't done it so far this year for the most part. OK it definitely sounds like I'm making excuses.

Add it to the list of Bears offensive futility. I swear that since I first remember watching the Bears regularly (1994) we've had about 10-12 offensive seasons that would be on most teams bottom 5 offensive seasons ever. Change the players, change the coaches, change the FO and we just cant figure out how to have any sort of success offensively, particularly passing offense. 70 passing yards in a game with good conditions would seem unfathomable to virtually any other NFL team, but for us its just another crappy offensive performance to throw on the pile. Every season's offense (except 2013 when the defense fell apart) can be broken down into one of 3 categories: Inexplicably pathetic, marginally passable, adequate but inconsistent (basically the Cutler years).