Soul

Yeah maybe we can get this Raiders team next week.

I assume the Bears will need a few things to break their way, like a couple big turnovers, to win this one. Hey, it could happen.

They'll be fine if they win out. It was very early in the season and Oregon will finish with a decent resume. Ohio State has recovered from early non-conference losses to make the playoffs before and they still have games left against Penn State, Michigan State and Michigan to fatten up their resume. I guess the key is 'if they win out'. They've looked a lot better of late and maybe are putting it together but they looked really shaky the first few weeks of the season so we'll see. It would help if Big Blue would start doing its job in their biggest annual game, but...

Yup. Fields obviously has the basics down just fine. He needs to improve his play speed recognition and its just such a hard argument to say he'll get there with practice snaps and on the bench. Luckily I don't think they have another Browns like D/front to play, so every game should provide ample learning experience for him and it is just wasting development to put Dalton out there. As long as Nagy doesn't yank playcalling away from Lazor again, I agree.

Wasn’t he hurt and/or fighting injuries during some of that though?

...you tryin' to say Rodgers is still good? Eh, he’s alright I guess.

I don’t know why the Packers took a QB, certainly don’t see why they seem to be wanting to move to him as a starter. Rodgers could play another 5 years at an elite level. Watching him, he’s not really close to diminishing skills that take him out of elite status.

Can we please lay Nagy’s fantasy about being an NFL play caller to rest now, Jeebus.

Hoping against hope Montgomery is not lost.

This is going south fast

They’ve gotten to Goff occasionally but overall he’s had too clean of a pocket to work the field from.

LOL! Of course just as I said it! Awesome

Rush isn’t there. Too much time for Goff to sit back there.

Seems to me this is the right way to go at this point for Fields. Sure I’d love to see more passes I’m just not sure it would work out well.

The effort from Montgomery is consistently top notch.

More of that please.

The Nagy script. Quick stop the game. We need a week to prepare for the next drive.

Legit. I think I’m ready to call for a HC change. I decided to watch the rest of the team today rather than just Mertz. Everyone here is getting all over Mertz but the problems go way, way beyond him. How do you go from a play away from a Rose bowl win to bottom feeder in the space of one COVID shortened season. It’s time for heads to roll. By the way, a horrible epiphany hit me around the 3rd Q today. I realized that I get to watch Nagy offense on both Saturday and Sunday each week. Loads of fun up here in Madison…

I’m at the game right now. We just played your fight song. I get it, be nice. But what the heck??

Surprisingly fun game to watch JAX/CIN to kick off the weekend.

Yeah, I don't care about any of that stuff. It doesn't benefit me in anyway. I have a preference that sports teams should play in dense urban areas, but football might be the exception with their short schedule. Even in cases where it doesn't impact me directly I do just think it's better. I think the Super Bowls and Final Fours are overrated. But it amazes me that San Antonio built the Alomodome for ~$300M in today's dollars, never attracted the NFL team they were after and have hosted just about as many Final Fours as anywhere else (though no SB) . And now new stadiums will cost $2B to hopefully get a couple of those SBs and Final Fours. I'd love to see some financial argument that someone could spend < $1B and get a multi-purpose convention center that gets year round business, but can scale stadium seating for mega sporting events. Maybe it's not a feasible one though, but football stadiums are just very nuts now. Soldier Field is in an urban area but it’s kind of awkward, being located away from public transportation and not having much in the way of Chicago culture around it. Unless you are looking for that coveted Football / T-Rex combo experience. That said, I have so many fond memories of Soldier Field, going back to the 1970’s and watching games in the bitter cold with my Dad. I’d be fairly devastated if they left, even though it might make sense depending on what this new project would look like.

If they struggle to score 20 points and get 200 yards against this Lions defense, you’d almost have to do something. Short of firing Nagy (which I'm doubtful would happen), I'll speculate that Pace pulls Nagy aside and tells him, look you need to stop calling the plays. I mean, surely Pace saw the difference last year once it wasn't Nagy calling the plays! He's the guy who needs to recognize that and take action. Otherwise who will? If it's the McCaskeys that need to reach down to the HC, bypassing the GM, then that tells you all you need to know about these guys. But I just can't see a mid-season firing because it's never happened.

I would have strongly disagreed with that take before yesterday, and I probably still disagree but I'm more open to this way of thinking. That said, I am no football savant and have no idea if it would really do any damage. But he sure looked rattled out there late in the game which is not something I expected from Fields, even as a rookie QB making his first start. Yeah, yesterday was pretty bad. It's hard to even say that Fields would have been better yesterday had he had time with the 1s before last week or if he got a legit chance to compete for the job in camp. But it couldn't have been any worse. Mark me down in the (apparently) unpopular camp of wanting Dalton/Foles until Nagy is gone. Nagy will ruin Fields, I have no doubts about it.

https://www.change.org/p/chicago-bears-fire-matt-nagy-1672dec0-ccf0-4815-a688-46e4f2884b51

Trubisky not being the long term answer and Nagy consistently refusing to put together a game plan to play to Trubisky’s strengths can both be true. And quite likely was. True, I thought the Trubisky pick was bizarre at that position and wasn't at all surprised he turned out the way he did. But, there were times when he looked really good especially on the move so why didn't Nagy design to that more, or did Mitch just not take advantage of those opportunities? Difficult to say. With Fields though, I feel like good coaching and gameplan is all he needs to develop into an upper-half QB at least. I don't think anyone can doubt his raw abilities.