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Let the man free without having to go down I history with a losing record Bears.
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Per pro football ref, they still have them falling outside the top 10 of Blitz rate. Not sure if theyre accurate or not. Good hurry% and decent pressure% too. Maybe pfr has trash stats, but this seems I'll-developed as a theory. Just outside the top 10 in blitz rate (11th) and well below average in QB knockdown % (27th) ...but their pressure rate is way higher than I thought so I guess I'm full of crap. I'll also just add in that the Vike's pace of play (6th) also helps with rate stats like sacks. And I don't know if this is true or not, but logically I feel like sack rate and knockdown rate is going to be a negative correlated. So I didn't really question that outlier. But a weird pass rush too. Very spread out. So the blitz aspect obviously is relevant. Maybe theres still a theory though, but certainly "pass rush sucks" seems like a tall claim to defend. Probably eaiser to defend something like, "average pass rush masquerading as an elite pass rush, leaving their coverage exposed" would be a more nuanced, but accurate critique?
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It's nearly automatic that QBs have good stats like this against the Vikes. They have been the worst at defending against WR production in the entire league this year. That largely has to do with a complete lack of pass rush. which was not the case tonight. Take all of that for what you will. Yes. That's because they have to blitz a lot because their D line sucks, and because teams pass on them a lot because their pass D sucks. Per pro football ref, they still have them falling outside the top 10 of Blitz rate. Not sure if theyre accurate or not. Good hurry% and decent pressure% too. Maybe pfr has trash stats, but this seems I'll-developed as a theory.
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Yeah I know DVOA and I think QBR take score/leverage into account and so they won't be too kind to him tonight. It was also a pretty crummy night with his legs. That said in terms of purely just standing in the pocket and letting it rip probably his best game. . It's nearly automatic that QBs have good stats like this against the Vikes. They have been the worst at defending against WR production in the entire league this year. That largely has to do with a complete lack of pass rush. which was not the case tonight. Take all of that for what you will. Complete lack of pass rush? Don't they lead the league in sacks? What am I missing (I mean I know sacks can be fluky, but that fluky?) Anyways, would prob like to see Fields non garbage time stats tonight.
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Yea. I actually think it was Desai's best game Lots of Desai critics silenced tonight, although I shockingly still found one tonight on Twitter. He's a good coach. He'll end up with a long NFL career.
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No. Definitely not.
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Will be officially eliminated if that worth anything. One more week til the official interviewing thing and a short week. Does McCaskey keep holding on?
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4D chess move IMO
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Had to go re-watch that an I'm not sure "Graham open" is very accruate. He had a guy on top and beneath. By the time he leaked past the S open, Fields had two guys around him. I mean I guess he could have chucked if up for a jump ball early and it's prob better than the sack, but everything else was a disaster anyways.
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Arturas Karnisovas for President of Football Operations IMO.
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Nagy Offense is consistent and people just wanna throw that away, smh.
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Its always after Fields has made a couple nice plays too. Always. Be You Nagy. Be You.
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Graham trying to fill a DB spot for next year. Grant... Trying to do something lol.
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Deon Bush, Questionable to return, broken ankles
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I mean it's perfectly reasonable to ajust expectations and confidence levels based off the 9 game sample. He's still by far the most promising Bears QB probably ever. At least in my lifetime.
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Nagy word jumble time.
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I suppose the one thing that will help is most players seem to have per game roster bonuses which I don't believe are guaranteed. So a guy with a 500k roster per game bonus being replaced with 850k 2 year min vet is only a 350k incremental cost (pro-rated each week). So I guess theres a pay for there. But I'd have to double check on guarantees there because I know base salary automatically vests for vesting veterans who are on the roster week 1, but I don't know for sure on the roster bonus point.
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Nope. Every player on the roster counts. Practice squad too. Nah, salary cap only counts top 53 highest paid players. No. Your 53 active + IR + Practice squad all count. The only caveat I guess with the 53 man is guys only on a week or two do get pro-rated only the weeks they were on the 53. So at any given three your 53 is your top 53. There is the offseason 51 rule, but that switches as soon as preseason ends. Edit-IR in this case also includes the covid list.
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Nope. Every player on the roster counts. Practice squad too.
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Yay since I'm going to my first game in years next week.
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Ironically, the failure to be aggressive probably hurt their chances to win more than the opposite. 14-13 Chargers lead. Score a TD to go up 20-13, they kick the PAT instead of going for 2. That kept it a 1-score game, 21-13. If they go for 2 and get it, they're up 9 and the Chiefs have to score twice (which they did), but they'd also need two 2pt conversions once the Chargers scored again late. If they go for 2 and they fail, they're up 7 and the game is tied anyway as the Chiefs just kick PATs and don't have to go for 2 unless they are being super aggressive. So, there was really no difference between being up 7 or 8 points in the long run. Yea, the 2 pt analytic wave hasn't even really hit yet even though many coaches have gotten better on the 4th down analytics. Except for of course our own Matt Nagy. Addendum to that. Actually I'm okay going up 8 in that situation. Still value in forcing the 2PTA and if you do go up 9 you just signal KC to go into hurry up. But it seems to be one of those close call situations from a model sense.
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Ironically, the failure to be aggressive probably hurt their chances to win more than the opposite. 14-13 Chargers lead. Score a TD to go up 20-13, they kick the PAT instead of going for 2. That kept it a 1-score game, 21-13. If they go for 2 and get it, they're up 9 and the Chiefs have to score twice (which they did), but they'd also need two 2pt conversions once the Chargers scored again late. If they go for 2 and they fail, they're up 7 and the game is tied anyway as the Chiefs just kick PATs and don't have to go for 2 unless they are being super aggressive. So, there was really no difference between being up 7 or 8 points in the long run. Yea, the 2 pt analytic wave hasn't even really hit yet even though many coaches have gotten better on the 4th down analytics. Except for of course our own Matt Nagy.
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Legit low key its great that the Bears moved Quinn's cap hit earlier in the season because at least they have cap space to absorb all the players they'd need to sign off the street. Right now if the Ravens had an outbreak they might legit end up using every last penny of cap space to sign replacementa, and even then run out. I don't see much money they have left to move this late in the season. NFL teams. Just defer every last dollar you can, at minimum after the trade deadline, if not when the season starts.
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Didn't even watch tye game last night, but enjoying the meatballs meltdown on Staleys agressive decision making. The most interesting dynamic is the "smash em in the mouth" meatball fan not supporting agressive tactics.
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If you have a pair of football cleats and can produce a negative PCR covid test from the past 24 hours, please report to Halas Hall at 9am tomorrow morning ready to train with the Chicago Bears.
