"3rd" Preseason Game (without HOF obviously)

Hey gents, I am still catching up on the summer threads, but can someone explain why in the "dress rehearsal" 3rd preseason game all the starters are sitting? I was pumped to see the starters into the 2nd half and instead here's Chase Daniels and Benny Cunningham on my screen.

Though a TD is pretty awesome for a starting drive, heh.

 

Yeah, this sucks.

 

Ballsy move. If the Bears don’t hit the ground running against GB you know Nagy will be reminded of this.

 

I have no problem with them not starting. Hope this starts a trend.

 

I'm fine with them doing it too honestly. Selfishly I want to see the starters, but the reduced risk of injury is a big win. The extra "practice" time would be good for such a young team, but I'm not upset.

I was also curious, maybe he did this because it's his former team? I don't think there's any bad blood or anything like that but I guess why risk it.

If it does start a trend, that's fine, maybe they'll shrink the preseason down to 2 games then.

 

Because the Bears decided that the first "3rd game dress rehearsal" to be played at SF in last 5 or 6 years was not important enough to play their starters for the fans.

Let me just, for the record, say: FUCK YOU MCKASKEYS.

I now expect a 12 win team.

Anything less, and you can go fuck yourselves.

 

This is actually their 4th preseason game, since they played the HoF game. I think I heard that’s why... they’re treating games 4 and 5 as if they were both game 4. They saw what they needed last week.

 

I was just thinking of you today Mongo when they announced the starters wouldn't be playing, and all your rants over the years about not playing the 3rd game here and still paying full price for the tickets came back to me, and then when they do finally play it here they sit the fucking starters. I thought oh man! Mongo is going to be pissed.

 

I hate it. I do not see the rationale whatsoever.

Playing football is inherently risky. A player could get hurt in practice just as easily as in a game. Holding out your first stringers is just a pussy move and the wrong thing to do.

No amount of practice could substitute for live “game speed” play against another team’s first stringers.

If anything, you’re setting yourself up for even more injuries and slowing progress.

Back when we all played football, you hit, you ran your ass off, you hit some more and you hit some more. Tackling drills all day long. It made us ready.

Shit idea, pussy decision.

 

All of this. plus the fact that .... they haven't earned the right!

A team like the Patriots with an established QB and an Offense everyone knows and is comfortable with, those guys have at least earned the right to sit(although i don't think its very fair on the fans). The 1st string Offense has looked like dogcrap this preseason. Trubisky hasn't looked good, the most noteworthy thing he's done is bitch on the sideline about a pick he was at least 50% responsible for. Assholes... YOU'VE GOT THE PACKERS WEEK 1!!

And F Nagy's reason that they had all practised so well during the week they didn't need to play. It was only a few years ago under Trestman the Bears won the SB for practise every week, only to go and lose on sunday.

When they go up there and shit the bed and put up like 3 points, lets all remember the coaching decision that they were all so in sync and so ready they didn't need any extra game time.

 

Yesterday was Nagy's decision rather than ownership and they wouldn't get involved in something like that.

But, going years without having a 3rd preseason game at Soldier, you'd think thats something that as owners, they could influence.

So yeah, F the McKaskeys.

 

Except they didn't treat game 3 last week like a game 3. They treated it like a game 2.

And they didn't treat game 1 (HOF) like anything other than a game 4.

Let me repeat myself "FUCK YOU MCKASKEYS"

 

Because Nagy and Pace are so fucking confident in Trubisky being ready to go, I drafted him in our fantasy league. He'll get the nod over Rogers because... Well.. He's so fucking ready he doesn't even need any PS reps.

 

I am...

But I'm not pissed just because they charge us so much only to put out a bunch of back-ups, I am pissed because in the few reps the starters have had this PS, they've looked like crap. I'm pissed because they've trotted out shitty team after shitty team since shit-canning Lovie and now they have decided their starters don't need any practice reps.

Trubisky has had 1 decent TD drive that was largely helped by a PI call this preseason. That's it!

He's thrown 16 passes (1 to the other team).

How in the fuck is it that they've "seen enough"?

Bull shit.

Like I said, I'm expecting at least 12 wins and Trubisky to be in MVP talks.

Otherwise, fuck this stupid ass team.

 

Benching the starters yesterday was utterly meaningless and will in no way impact the direction of the season, save for the fact we know they'll be healthy week 1.

If we win week 1, or even keep it close, my guess is no one here will admit their rage over Nagy's decision yesterday was unjustified. If we get routed week 1, as most of us expect, it also won't be because of Nagy's decision yesterday.

There are plenty of things regarding the Bears to be enraged about, yesterday is not one of them.

 

So if the Offense is good, you are right.

And if the Offense is shitty you aren't wrong.

Gotcha

 

Exactly. It's called having my cake and eating it too

 

But in all seriousness, I fail to understand how not playing a half of football in a meaningless game 15 days prior to a real game is detrimental. The preseason needs to either die forever or strictly be used to audition fringe roster players. Soon enough there will be a team who bucks the trend and plays zero starters the whole preseason but still makes the playoffs. Maybe Nagy is on to something. Maybe this is the type of fresh thinking we've been wanting for this team.

The preseason exists for the purpose of making money for the NFL, not for tuning up players for the season. That's what training camp is for. College football doesn't have preseason and now we're seeing big time programs playing each other in week 1 and they absolutely look ready to go because their coaches have them ready to go. I'm going to give Nagy the benefit of the doubt on this one.

 

Why can’t the Bears get out of their own way!!

No matter what the reason Nagy has for sitting the starters yesterday he needs to know it made the team look bad. Look bad to the fans, look bad to the Chiefs and look bad to the rest of the sporting world.

You know the NFL had this game circled. Nagy vs his mentor Reid. Battle of second year QB’s Trubisky vs Mahomes. And the 3rd preseason game where starters play into the second half to boot.

All Nagy did was take a giant dump on everyone. And for what? To save players from injury? That makes him look like a soft Trestman like pussy.

Now I don’t see this as the end of the world just an unnecessary spotlight a last place team that has a lot riding on this season does not need.

 

I was fine with it short of one thing.

I agree with Nagy when he made the point that the 1st stringers have logged 2000+ snaps at full speed against 1st string defense in practices and scrimmages. Another 25-30 makes no difference, especially when Nagy isn't busting out any of the exotic stuff he will from his playbook come the actual season.

Also while I didn't see much of the game because the Cubs were also on; I didn't see Justin Houston, their elite pass rusher on the field. Not once. Did he even play a series?

I don't see a point going through the motions with simple hand offs, routes, and blocking schemes. Let your back ups and guys fighting for a roster spot do that.

Then you see the injury like yesterday to that WR from Jacksonville. I'm pretty sure all you negative Nancy's would be singing a different tune if say......Trubisky or someone important takes a helmet to the knee like that and is now out for the year.

Most every NFL player hates the preseason because they know what matters, the actual season. When we played football, we weren't professionals where it was our responsibility to know everything because we were getting paid. I remember all the workouts, running, drills, scrimmages, 2-a-days, and everything else too. The game keeps rapidly changing and depth is now important because injuries are so damn prevalent now. ANd I was fine watching Wims versus White in what appears to be a great battle for the last WR spot. I don't believe Bellamy will be cut until I see it, dude is the player version of herpes.

The only thing I didn't like, and I'm pretty lukewarm on this because I think you're an idiot if you drop $110 plus tax per ticket for a fucking preseason game--but--people paid the price of admission. If I'm shelling that out, I don't want to see Chase Daniel.