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  1. Hairyducked Idiot
    I honestly don't konw what htey'll do. I could see them telling him "scerw it, just start throwing, quit trying to overread." I could see them doubling down on what they did last week. I could see them going full college-style wildcat.
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    https://twitter.com/danwiederer/status/1701994499369513433?t=cUVFQG6dnfx1A7X0OZWJsg
  3. Hairyducked Idiot
    I don't wanna blow the entire doom boner wad on week one no matter how good it was. Even I have trouble believing they can be that bad for a full season, even if I just saw it a year ago.
  4. Hairyducked Idiot
    Yeah I'm not full doom boner on Poles yet, it's early, but I just don't love what seems to be his vision for the team.
  5. Hairyducked Idiot
    Watching the Jordan Love QB school video was interesting. 1) the difference in timing, anticipation and release from fields is incredibly noticeable. Snap, drop, throw with a crispness that I have literally never seen from our guy. 2) he has serious accuracy issues. Even when not pressured he's not putting the ball exactly where he wants to. 3) like everyone else said, it's impossible to be sure how good he is until he faces a defense that isn't this bad
  6. Hairyducked Idiot
    Right now you're risking losing the whole team. I remember the rumors in the offseason that are least one offensive starter didn't believe in fields (people guessed it was kmet). Football players know when they can't do their jobs because teammates are failing their assignments. The secondary sees the d-line getting zero pressure. DJ Moore knows that Fields took 80 yards off his season total on Sunday. Everyone in the film room is gonna see offensive linemen blocking each other. Poles spent the 75th and 32nd overall picks across two drafts for receivers no one wants to see in the week 2 actives list.
  7. Hairyducked Idiot
    Like, in theory, some of it should be fixable? There were a lot of guys running the wrong routes, guys not knowing who to block, things that shouldn't have been there to begin with but seem easier to fix than lack of talent.
  8. Hairyducked Idiot
    Well they somehow managed to say Jones only had one pressure against when I definitely saw his man in Fields' face more than once
  9. Hairyducked Idiot
    Also in a video where every other offensive lineman looked like clownshoes at one point or another, Darnell Wright escaped mention, so that's probably good.
  10. Hairyducked Idiot
    More stuff from that film breakdown: 1) Nate Davis is *way* worse than I realized. Just brutal in pass protection. 2) DJ Moore is gonna be disgruntled by the end of the season if this keeps up. He had 75+ yards of easy catches just not thrown to him. 3) I'm over Cole Kmet 4) The offfensive line desperately needs new coaching or someone who can call the protections at the line better. So many plays where people just don't know who they're blocking. Jones had a particularly bad one at 34:00 that I assume PFF graded him as a plus for the play.
  11. Hairyducked Idiot
    It's here. I'm 15 minute sin and the phrase "brutal turn down" (i.e. Fields turning down an open pass) has been applied to three plays already. But he's got plenty of rips for the play design and other players too.
  12. Hairyducked Idiot
    Given that those top-65 picks have not broken into the starting lineup and were selected by the front office that took velus Jones jr. at 71, I'm whelmed at most
  13. Hairyducked Idiot
    I mean, at this point, I'm convinced Justin Fields is just a bad QB. The ability to snap-process NFL plays and throw the ball to the right spot at the right time is the most important ability a QB can have. Fields is a fun experiment in how good a guy can be if he's maxed out on every other skill and zero'd out on that one. The results have been not good. Sure, it's possible he turns it around at some point this season, maybe even this week. He's gonna get the rest of the season to try for whatever that's worth. This team is pretty much exactly who we thought they were. Interior offensive line is abysmal (I'll admit, I didn't hate Braxton Jones as much on film as I usually do, although he's still overrated by PFF). Defensive line might be the worst unit we've ever fielded. I'm mainly interested to see if the coaching staff 1) sticks with the current plan to Shane Matthews-ify Fields 2) Goes back to early last year and lets him run around trying to break plays, taking a million sacks but sometimes doing something awesome or 3) gives up and goes to some sort of full college-style offense with lots of designed Fields runs. No. 3 is the one that gives them the best chance to win a few football games this season but it's a white flag on Fields' career as a QB.
  14. Hairyducked Idiot
    Gordon out two months with broken hand
  15. Hairyducked Idiot
    Well, that's what they claim to be doing. We have no way of verifying it or replicating the results.
  16. Hairyducked Idiot
    It's also possible that pff doesn't know what they're looking at.
  17. Hairyducked Idiot
    It's been two years of watching Jones look miserable on game day every single week only for pff to come out on Monday and swear that he was good. I honestly wonder about those rumors that pff takes money from agents to tweak grades...
  18. Hairyducked Idiot
    Braxton Jones is bad, Nate Davis is a run blocker and the rest of the interior ol is scraps.
  19. Hairyducked Idiot
    We scored some points with it last season for a month. It's not sustainable but it might squeak you out some job saving wins.
  20. Hairyducked Idiot
    Fun with arbitrary statistical cutoffs and ad hoc list creation: Career starts with at least 225 yards and 2 tds passing: Rex Grossman - 14 Mitch Trubisky - 13 Shane Matthews - 5 Sam Darnold - 5 Ryan Leaf - 2 Jamarcus Russell - 2 Jordan Love - 1 Josh Rosen - 1 Tim Tebow - 0 Justin Fields - 0
  21. Hairyducked Idiot
    If I were an NFL coach trying to save my job and reputation here, I would give Fields maybe 1-2 more games to show he can play like a normal QB, and when that inevitably fails, pivot into the full "run-first QB" offense and hope to get half a season out of that before defenses catch up and/or he gets hurt.
  22. Hairyducked Idiot
    I think there's probably some cultural component to the bears' problems. McCaskeys interview executives and want to hear about tough, traditional Bears football. Those executives hire GMs and coaches. We place too much value on the run game, on toughest, etc. But we didn't ruin fields. We took a QB who fell hard in the draft because some scouts saw a fatal flaw and hoped we could fix or overcome the flaw.
  23. Hairyducked Idiot
    Looking where you're supposed to look and not getting rid of it *is* the processing problem. He's clearly studied the playbook thoroughly, understands pre-snap reads and what his progressions are. What he has always struggled with is that whatever part of his brain is supposed to trigger and say "that's it, that's what we're looking for, throw it" doesn't trigger consistently unless the receiver has extremely visible separation, which won't always be there in the NFL.
  24. Hairyducked Idiot
    I think Fields is exactly what he's always been going back to his college scouting reports: A guy who is as talented as you can possibly be in everything *except* processing defenses, which unfortunately is possibly the most important skill an nfl QB can have.
  25. Hairyducked Idiot
    Yes. Because he could only do it last year while also taking sacks on more or less every play, and they had to coach that out of him, so this is the overcorrection.
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