Hairyducked Idiot

I'm a misery porn fiend and the cut scenes are always so disappointing. Everybody is so chill and professional.

Obviously we don't know for sure what's true or not with rumors, but the rumors are that the bears put together a competitive offer for judon. I'm not in love with how loose we are getting with trading draft capital for veteran players. 2nds for claypool and sweat, fourth for Allen, fifth for bates. Now possibly an edge rusher. I don't think it will matter a ton in the long run because 1) the Panthers trade gave him a ton of runway to work with and 2) Caleb Williams' development is more impactful long-term than every other trade and signing we make combined. But I don't think it's best practices.

I'm watching it because I'm in full hyperfixation mode, but it isn't crazy appealing to me. I'm just not into seeing the personal side of athletes. The film breakdowns are way more fascinating to me. Plus it's just so inauthentic. You follow people around for a week and you get enough footage to tell any story that you want. Film a guy making a play, film his coaches talking to him, film him messing up a play. Depending on the order you the show the clips and the music you play over them, you can give the impression that he's either triumphantly ascending or it's all falling apart. Nobody knows what's really happening. Literally their entire schtick is getting you emotionally attached to obvious cut bait so it's more impactful when they do, in fact, get cut. I wouldn't mind a smidge more media literacy from the general population so I don't have to hear about how the guy who is gonna be a doctor or the eagle underwear guy should be making the team

We carried 6 WR, 4 RB and 1 FB on the opening roster last season. Even assuming perfect health, Jones just has to beat out one of Pettis, Collin Johnson or Horner. I don't like him, I didn't like the pick when it was made on day 1, but I can't say with a straight face that he's clearly worse than those guys.

Zero interest. I don't like trading for old players, and I don't like trading draft capital for the privilege of giving guys their free agent contracts.

I would be very surprised if Jones didn't make the team. They didn't go through all this effort to find new ways to get him the ball if they didn't have plans for him. I'm far from his biggest fan, but he can play multiple positions at a useful backup level and he's good in ST coverage

Best part was Simone Biles smoking her husband in the rope climb

That was fun. I know it's the gig but I feel bad when they focus on the parents of guys who aren't making the team.

It's up now

It wasn't the same window. There were over and under defenders bracketing each WR. When Williams was looking to his right at Odunze, the under defender was still there. When he looked at Moore, the under defender had broken off to pick up the RB who had chipped and released.

Hmm, timestamp should be in the link but it didn't work. It's at 8;09

Kurt Warner spent most of his video talking about how much he hates any slight difference on how plays are run vs when he was in the league, but Chase Daniel gave Williams the glazing I was looking for. His off-the-charts arm talent almost overshadows how polished and instinctive he is for the finer points of QB play. He makes stuff look easy that actually isn't easy at all. At 10:12 of this video is the naked bootleg. He fakes the pitch and quickly gets 10 full yards of depth behind the line of scrimmage, the end whose job is containment has to panic a bit to try to catch up to him and falls down 7 yards behind the LOS. Does that play look familiar? It should. We have a recent example of that exact same play being called for a different QB, one who is known for his slow operation in dropbacks despite his athleticism. So let's say instead of getting that full 10 yards of dropback, he's a step less fluid and starts turning his hips upfield at 7 yards (right where Williams' defender was)?

Bears fans seeing one pre-season quarter of Caleb Williams after three years of insisting Justin Fields was a starting QB.

I think rollouts were a sucker bet for Fields. He's not particularly good at throwing on the run (he's not terrible at it, but his accuracy can be inconsistent) and rollouts allow for tighter coverage by the defense, and Fields hates throwing into tight coverage. He never, ever attempts that ball that Williams got to Kmet.

He didn't do anything we didn't already know he could do, but god it looks good in a Bears uniform. There's always risk and downside, but right now this kid's median projection for his career is a top-10 QB in the league and the best in Bears history. And I think he can start being that guy from day 1. His pocket presence and awareness is so good, it's gonna make some mediocre offensive lines look amazing. He's top 5 in the NFL in this trait right now, from day one. He can do the big flashy scrambles, but it's also more subtle than that. He's got an instinctive feel for where he should be moving and how much time he has (9 dropbacks including the one that got called back for a hold, 8 pass attempts and one pull-down run for a first down). First pro pass is a 3rd and 12. He hits the back of his drop and wants to step up, but we have a Braxton Jones Special where he's being pushed back into the pocket but keeping the DE in front of him so it's not clean pressure. Caleb immediately resets where he's at while still keeping his eyes downfield and goes through his progressions right to left until he hits Moore in a tight window for his third read. Second pass was a designed screen, and I'm sorry to say this, but that was the most Patrick Mahomes anyone who isn't Patrick Mahomes has ever looked. Knows *exactly* how much time he has to let the play develop. Pause the video at 0:12 and watch how he manipulates both linebackers with his eyes looking right, then somehow no-looks a dead-on perfect pass that leads the receiver perfecty so he can catch it on a dead run into the open field. It's easy to say "oh, it's a screen pass, the running got all the yards," but he made that happen. Fourth pass was my favorite. Defense played it reasonably well and has everyone covered. Williams is running to his right and slightly backwards to keep the pass rusher off him. He snaps a quick-release throw without setting his feet and his momentum running away from it, and it's a laser 33-yards in the air, perfect accuracy. That's the kind of play that makes you wondering wtf your defense is supposed to do if you're a fan of other team. His offensive line wasn't amazing, his receivers weren't getting a ton of separation, and we had two stone-cold drops, and we're still coming away from this game happy with how good the first-string offense looked because that's what good QB play does.

I'm still not in love with spending a 4th-round pick on a punter instead of just signing an average one. But I gotta admit, those kicks were noticeable.

I have never in my entire life seen a QB with such an unnaturally good sense for running towards the pressure. The first sack, he had a lane to his right and could have gotten out, but he ran backwards towards the DE who had been pushed past and was coming back. The second one, he saw the pressure coming the whole way and just ate it. It's uncanny how often I have seen fans arguing that Fields get sacked from his "blindside" when it was actually his vision side he just never reacted to it so it felt like it was coming from the blind side. Meanwhile, we got the Trubisky experience in today's game. A few plays where he didn't look half bad, then suddenly the wide open receivers start getting sailed every third pass.

OK I just got a better look at the blitz-beating dumpoff to Swift and JFC how do you throw it like that. That was insane.

The end zone was a throwaway. The only bad decision was the near-pick that got negated by defensive holding.

Well, that was exactly as advertised. Excellent pocket awareness, improvisation to beat the blitz, quick release, insane arm strength and accuracy on the move. I don't think the offensive line was amazing, but he never got touched.

https://the.streameast.app/nfl-preseason/buffalo-bills-chicago-bears/25567136

Three passing plays. First one, the pocket breaks down and he dances forever btu there was an early holding penalty. Second one, absolute bullet with a great release to DJ Moore to convert a 3rd and 12 Third one, he gets blitzed and improvises a quick dumpoff into the space the blitzer vacated for a 40+ gain. The fact that it was 40+ is a bit lucky, but recognizing the blitz and getting rid of the ball is such a huge breath of fresh air.

easy, never worried

1) This has the potential to be an all-time funny loss 2) I knew the white sox were bad but their record looks fake

Fields' Steelers preseason debut. 5-for-6 but with two fumbled snaps (one probably on the C, one probably on him) and two sacks. Steelers forums arguing over how much of the blame to put on him. I know it's reflective of my various personality flaws that I'm still invested and amused by this, but I am invested and I am deeply amused.