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Remember when only Trubisky missed passes badly? Cousins has been wretched.

That Alex Smith broken leg not only happened on the same day, for the same team, with the game ending in the same score as Theismann's. But both injuries happened right past the 40 for Theismann (own 41), and right before the 40 for Smith (opposing 39). And Romeo Crenell who is Houston's DC, was the Giants' special teams coach in 1985.

Bears go from no SNF home games since like 1987 to 2 in 4 weeks. Sent from my moto e5 supra using Tapatalk

Trubisky NFC offensive player of the week.

It is, I just hope he doesn’t cost us a playoff game on a poorly aimed 35 yrd’r. As it stands, I’d have enough concerns with his potential that going for it on a 4th and 6 from the 35 yrd line instead of the “sure thing FG” would seem like a viable option. I just want him to be slightly better then league average. He’s not close to that right now. That would be a 52 yard FG. It's always a viable option. And history shows he will likely wind up slightly better than league average.

Special teams in general is bad. Kickoff returns are a disaster with a 2nd returner now. Coverage units aren't great. Gave up an onsides kick. They've already lost a game because of that phase.

This might make sense if the wind was pushing his kicks way off the mark. But he was hitting uprights. 4 times. honestly, it kind of reminds me of Goulds first year where he was missing (and missing a lot). That time, it was def the wind causing most of his misses. But if it isn't the wind or ball placement or a slick turf causing Parkey issues, then he just sucks. You can't tell me there isn't a viable replacement out there who can reliably hit xp's and higher than 72% on FG's w/o the field being the cause. You can't tell me that you saw the kicking between Gould and Parkey and still believer there is a viable replacement. Like Jersey said, he hit the uprights 4 times. Literally missing by inches (you can hit the upright and still make a kick, so this is literal). He was fine before yesterday (not good, but fine). He was bad yesterday, but not that bad. He'll likely be more like before yesterday than he was yesterday.

Honestly, this team has all the elements. It seems like nobody had anything good to say about Trubisky this week, but the Bears offense is quietly up there with the elite offenses in the league. They are right at 30 ppg, which is elite. We already know about the defense. They may not be putting up historically elite numbers, but they are clearly as good as any defense in the league. They sack the QB, force turnovers, and stop the run. Today showed why they are a dangerous team. If they can execute early on offense, while getting a couple stops on D. They can get up early and allow the defense to pin their ears back. The NFL is a passing league, but the key is forcing teams to have to pass. It's how you get a pass rush, and that is how you get turnovers.

Lombardi isn't totally wrong on the Bears though. They really haven't beaten a good team yet. Can only play who is on the schedule. They've only played IME 3 teams that are decent, the Seahawks, Dolphins and Patriots. Beat Seattle, a couple of plays made the difference in a close loss at Miami and the Patriots-Bears game was decided on 2 special teams TDs and a hail mary to the 1. Not that we should be counting almost wins at this point, but the point is that its not like the Bears are getting dominated in their losses. They haven't been dominated in any game this year. Also I'm pretty sure Lombardi is a former PFF guy and PFF has the Bears as one of the best teams in the league. It's not like they have been overmatched against good teams. They beat Tampa when they were thought to be good. Beat Seattle who then became decent. FWIW, Chargers are 6-2 with wins over CLE, BUF, TEN, OAK, SF, and Seattle. They had a shot at 2 of the top 3 teams and lost both by double digits. Minnesota's only win vs. a contender is a good win at Philly. The Eagles themselves don't have a quality win since the season opener vs. Atlanta, which only became a quality win as of Sunday. Nobody's talking about them not beating anyone, and those teams all have losses way worse than anything the Bears have.

Twice in 11 days. Sent from my moto e5 supra using Tapatalk

Interesting twist on this game... Bears 5-3, losses to GB, Miami, New England Lions 3-5, wins against GB, Miami, New England. Lions have only beat the teams the Bears have lost to. So if the Lions win, the only thing we can determine is that the Bears will have beaten themselves. Sent from my moto e5 supra using Tapatalk

Flex sucks. Sunday night game followed by a Thursday noon game. Looking at 60 hours with travel between division games. Sent from my moto e5 supra using Tapatalk

This is actually pretty significant. Granted 70 of the +82 is from 2 games, but the top teams in each conference (actually have been 1 & 2 overall) have played each other in the Superbowl all but 1 time in the last 5 years. And that year, the Broncos beat the #1 AFC team in point diff. (Patriots) and faced Seattle (#1 overall point diff). The Bears are behind the Rams (+99) though. So, some work to do there.

I stand corrected from earlier, Roquan actually had a pretty good game. He got lost in man coverage on 1 play (great play call against man), and missed a big tackle on the opening series to prevent a 3-and-out, but he was all over the place today. 13 tackles, a pass defensed, forced fumble. Right now on the Bears defense: Fuller, Mack (when healthy), Hicks, Trevathan, Jackson and Callahan are playing like Pro Bowl players. Obviously, everyone on that side of the ball was great today against Peterman, who wasn't dreadful. I think an underrated aspect of this team that got lost against Miami and NE, is that this team can really cover on the back end. They also typically tackle well. I think Fangio dialed back some of the aggressiveness in coverage in those aforementioned games and the 2nd half vs. Green Bay. These are not guys that want to sit back in off man coverage. Offensively, it wasn't pretty. Still can't get a decent run game going. Howard ran over a few people and Cohen ran around them to make any decent yardage. And I think the lack of time of possession didn't really help them get into a rhythm when Mitch looked like he was "on" early. Really disappointing to take that sack early to take the team out of FG range. Can't happen. Also really would have liked points after the Amos INT, though that drive was derailed by the 2nd inexplicable OPI flag on Burton. Still 190 yards of offense is not good enough, no matter how you slice it. 90 yards of pass interference calls though in the Bears favor. Penalties were bad. Leno, who has looked like the offense's only pro bowler so far had 3 false starts, including on back-to-back plays. Not a great game for him. No push from either guard in the run game.

I mean, he is another pass rusher. The Bears pass rush was actually pretty decent today, despite not any sacks before garbage time. Wasn't horrible last week also without Mack. Irvin would be worth it to add another pass rusher to the mix, maybe rejuvenate Mack for the 2nd half push, and to keep him away from other contenders. But honestly, I don't think he's really necessary. Mack, Floyd, and Lynch are enough when added to a good 4-man rotation at DL (Hicks, Goldman, RRH, Nichols), and I'd like to see more of Isaiah Irving. But I won't complain about an upgrade at any position. Wouldn't claim him on waivers (and pay his $4M salary), but if nobody claims him I'd imagine the Bears would be a preferable spot for him.

Would really not like this trash team scoring multiple TDs against us. Even if it is garbage time against the #2s.

Nagy making no secret about trying to get his QB a TD pass.

1st rushing TD allowed comes after the Bears should have been off the field multiple times and weren't because of terrible penalty calls.

Kyle Fuller playing at a pro bowl level. 3rd INT he's caused today.

This game not going on the Roquan Smith highlight tape. Getting picked on quite a bit today.

Tampa Bay game it is!

Nevermind then.

Hahaha. That's a bad call.

Shitty OPI call