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  1. Hairyducked Idiot
    Fun fact: eberflus has never beaten a first string qb as bears coach.
  2. Hairyducked Idiot
    I thought for the first two games they looked like an ordinary bad, 5-12 destined NFL team. Yesterday they looked like a historic threat to go 0-17, but the chiefs are really really good and the broncos are really really not. This week should tell us more.
  3. Hairyducked Idiot
    The coaching staff didn't ruin him. He's exactly who he's always been. This is why he dropped in the draft. This is who he was in his rookie season. This is who he was last year. The excuses have swirled and shifted, but he has remained constant.
  4. Hairyducked Idiot
    I wouldn't be opposed to getting a veteran placeholder for a year or two if they aren't in love with any of the top QBs this coming draft. If they really like one, fine, but I don't want to force it because we feel like we have to and be stuck with a guy for three more years of this. I said it before we traded two firsts to move up to get Fields: I want to build the most absurdly QB friendly situation in the league. I want pundits debating whether our next young QB is actually good or if he's just a product of the team investing so much in giving him a good situation that any QB would do well. We need an entire interior offensive line, probably at least one more WR in the future despite how much we've invested in it, and I still want a real franchise LT not a Aldi's brand one.
  5. Hairyducked Idiot
    tbf, this team is running into a lot of injuries and just played the best team in the NFL in their home opener. I thought they looked better than 2022 for the first two weeks.
  6. Hairyducked Idiot
    I literally can't think of a player who had a good day today. I guess Sanborn
  7. Hairyducked Idiot
    They tried all the things they wanted people to try. And we saw exactly why they won't work. "Just tell Fields to let loose." He did today. Chucked it deep a bunch. Was almost never open (although one time it was and Moore stone dropped an amazing throw). You can't just decide what you want to do in advance against NFL defenses, you have to read what they're giving you and take it. There's no successful scheme that won't require him to make reads. More runs? He took a forewarm shiver to the face on a run and should have been in concsusion protocol. Slants? We did get a TD on the slant, but it was brutal execution from Fields. He hezzied and hitched and almost got his WR killed, turning a free TD into a tough contested catch. Play-action and rollouts? We tried them, Fields still just hopped hopped hopped in place.
  8. Hairyducked Idiot
    Even on the TD, Fields hitched and hesitated and it got his WR hit and the play almost broken up when it should have been a walk-in uncontested catch.
  9. Hairyducked Idiot
    Can't believe they sent Fields back out there. That gets his stat line up from "Henry Burris" to "Moses Moreno" at least.
  10. Hairyducked Idiot
    Coaching staff was gonna let a visibly dazed Fields stay out there. Criminal.
  11. Hairyducked Idiot
    And there's the inevitable result of exposing your QB to extra hits because he can't throw.
  12. Hairyducked Idiot
    In Fields' case, I think this is who he was always destined to be. In the history of the Bears, I think we've repeatedly undervalued the position 80% of our recent history and let Ryan Pace trade up to pick guys the other 20%.
  13. Hairyducked Idiot
    Fields has taken a ton of shots downfield today.. They're not there. Your QB needs to be able to drop back and read the defense, taking what's open. You can't just overcome an inability to do that by pre-programming different default modes. "When in doubt, run" or "when in doubt, check down" or "when in doubt, go deep." The problem is the doubt.
  14. Hairyducked Idiot
    Bears will set the NFL record today for most consecutive losses while giving up 25+ in each one
  15. Hairyducked Idiot
    It's gonna be years before this team is viable even under the best case scenarios.
  16. Hairyducked Idiot
    It's a little fun bad. This is gonna get *so* bad. The players are gonna absolutely melt down, and soon.
  17. Hairyducked Idiot
    Now we get Fields up to a half-decent box score line against a prevent defense so that we can't even get the catharsis of them admitting how bad it is.
  18. Hairyducked Idiot
    There's no good way to work around a QB who can't make reads, but on the list of options we've tried for "do this after you're done hopping for 5 seconds and don't know what else to do" chucking it deep is my favorite.
  19. Hairyducked Idiot
    Fields with the best throw I've seen from him all season and Moore cold drops it. Then Fields gets fooled for a pick.
  20. Hairyducked Idiot
    It's still incredibly unliekly but 0-17 feels doable.
  21. Hairyducked Idiot
    Investments we've made in our WR room: declined an extra first in a trade, traded a second, used a fourth, gave up a third-round compensation pick, and we still don't have anyone good signed beyond 2024.
  22. Hairyducked Idiot
    Positives: Did not get safetied Only hurt our own players with personal fouls Advanced the ball past midfield No turnovers or 3 and outs in the first half
  23. Hairyducked Idiot
    This is another one of my dumb language pet peeves, like "generational" and "best player available." "HISTORIC MOMENT" besties no one's going to remember what happened in some random pro sports league on a random weekend in 200 years, if there's anyone left to remember.
  24. Hairyducked Idiot
    *goes back to check how bad the packers lost, down 17-0 last I checked...* oh come on
  25. Hairyducked Idiot
    Ehhhhh. There's probably a world where a really good NFL QB instantly gets the ball out, but Wright got cooked pretty much immediately.
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