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  1. Hairyducked Idiot
    From my POV, which is that defense is stupid and only Fields really matters, it was fantastic. Watch this touchdown throw at 5:10: He drops back, he goes through his progressions, and the *instant* he looks at the WR he throws it in rhythm. The WR isn't wide open, but it's man coverage and Fields throws to the receiver's leverage to get enough of a window for the catch. Exactly what he didn't seem able to do early in the season. I'm struggling to think of many plays I would ding him for. He underthrew a deep ball early, but he threw a perfect one later.
  2. Hairyducked Idiot
    That was the first game this season I thought fields looked like a good QB on a bad team rather than a mediocre or bad QB on a bad team
  3. Hairyducked Idiot
    I think this might be the first actually good football team we've played this season.
  4. Hairyducked Idiot
    We threw it away not going for the field goal :(
  5. Hairyducked Idiot
    49-32 and 49-36 would both be scoreagami
  6. Hairyducked Idiot
    This is the best Fields has ever looked. I would take 17 games like this over some more 12-7 wins.
  7. Hairyducked Idiot
    I'll take that half from fields. Some of those throws, especially the TD, are exactly what he wasn't doing earlier in the season
  8. Hairyducked Idiot
    Last time I saw the Bears fanbase this hype about their future:
  9. Hairyducked Idiot
    Bears currently in line to pick 14th
  10. Hairyducked Idiot
    What's going to play a huge factor I think is how teams respond to this new offensive play mix. Through six games, teams basically conceded the RB run game and the Bears couldn't really make them pay in the air. If teams are still conceding the RB run game, are they also just going to concede 80 yards on the QB run game too? While it's not necessarily my favorite long term play for Fields development, it could lead to short term results. So if Cowboys adjust to the RB and/or QB run game, does it finally open up the receiving game enough? Right now the intermediate passing game of the Bears is good enough I don't think teams can ignore it. If they somehow design their scheme to basically concede the short passing game though, can they also combat a combined the QB/RB run game package? Or can the Bears be at a position that teams are gonna give them something that they just need to be patient and take over and over. Obviously teams will adapt so hopefully Getsy has got ideas not reliant on stealing from the Ravens run game. I would also like to see how well the game plan works in games where you don't get a +3 turnover ratio and recover all 6 fumbles. That's not gonna happen every time.
  11. Hairyducked Idiot
    Bears 0.5 games out of a playoff spot. I know the most likely scenario is they fizzle out to 5-12 or something like that, but there's a lot of dogpoop in the NFC and sometimes you get to be the luckiest dog poop and a bunch of close games go your way. The 7th seed in the NFC is going to a bad team.
  12. Hairyducked Idiot
    Yeah and it was actually just his 17th start. With how our offense is set up, we should find consistent success with a game plan similar to what we saw last night with the Greg Roman/heavy designed runs for Fields and constant motion in the background to create confusion. Our line is well suited for that type of attack. And his passing game will thrive off of that as well.Add in that it's a different OC from last season as well. Always frustrated me how much was expected of him around here based on the circumstances. I'm not saying everything has to be roses & unicorn farts but it's like he was expected to be MVP Rodgers this season when A-A-ron himself is struggling in a better situation right now. There's different levels of struggling. Rodgers struggling throws for 190, 2 TDs, 0 INTs. Something Fields has still never done. Something last night, where he did a little in the passing game and a little in the running game, is more than enough to get him effusively praised, he just couldn't do it before last night.
  13. Hairyducked Idiot
    I'm in the same place. He's shown definite improvement in the last few weeks in some of the areas of concern. His pocket presence is way better, he's shifting away from the pressure consistently instead of running into it half the time. He's throwing the ball away more often when he should, he's pulling the trigger a little more consistently. He's made some successful hot reads against blitzes. I don't know if he's ever going to be the pocket passer of my dreams, but he looks like he can be a useful NFL quarterback. But I don't wanna get *too* effusive with the praise from yesterday. He made some bad decisions, he has accuracy problems, and he fumbled four times.
  14. Hairyducked Idiot
    pff grades are rngs and we should not pay attention to them
  15. Hairyducked Idiot
    Bears had 5 fumbles, Patriots had 1, Bears recovered all six.
  16. Hairyducked Idiot
    Niemann is suing Carlsen and Nakamura for defamation. My 20-year-old media law classwork tells me he probably can't win, but I'm a known idiot.
  17. Hairyducked Idiot
    Mac Jones looked like every Bears terrible QB bust and Zapp Brannigan or whatever his name is looked like every stupid random QB who outplayed them for three weeks and created a QB controversy when the problem was that they both sucked
  18. Hairyducked Idiot
    If Fields played like this every week, there'd be a lot less controversy. Plenty of flaws and mistakes, but also plenty of good plays.
  19. Hairyducked Idiot
    Drop 40 on them
  20. Hairyducked Idiot
    Still plenty of mistakes and flaws on display, but I'll take that half all day from fields
  21. Hairyducked Idiot
    The entire QB class sucks outside of maybe Lawrence, and he isn't exactly Manning 2.0.
  22. Hairyducked Idiot
    Today's fun fact: Justin Fields has yet to throw for multiple TDs and zero INTs in the same NFL game.
  23. Hairyducked Idiot
    I still suspect that messing with his delivery to try to make it quicker has messed with his accuracy.
  24. Hairyducked Idiot
    Seeing as how we need to build the foundation of the offense around the QB either way, I'm fine with giving Fields all of 2022 and 2023 to figure it out. Unless they see someone they just love and want to bet their careers on, there's really nothing to gain by Rosening him.
  25. Hairyducked Idiot
    This one's pretty savage even for my taste: But my main takeaway is that I think the part about his head and feet being out of sync is a plausible explanation for his pocket problems.
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