So we don’t have to make a new thread every week to discuss the same stuff. The Rams offense went vertical. They were explosive. They used misdirection. They used motion. Stafford was deliberate with the ball and knew exactly what was happening. The Bears averaged 6 yards per attempt with the ball traveling an average of 5 yards in the air per throw. Dalton threw some two yard passes at his receivers feet. This is Matt Nagy year 4. And this is not a modern NFL offense. Look around the rest of the league at what’s happening. And then look at this sad excuse. It’s fucking pathetic. Bears at least have a run game. But that won’t matter when you’re always trailing. Remember when playing the Bengals felt like a sure win? Yeah not so much now. Eddie Jackson….go fuck yourself. Always running your mouth and cashing big checks but then we see you make business decisions on the field when you won’t get physical at all. Can’t even tackle a guy that’s laying down. Embarrassing. So glad we cut Kyle Fuller so we could keep our #2 tight end. That was a great decision. No pass rush. I like Khalil Mack a lot. He does a lot of stuff that doesn’t show up in the box score. And I know he needs more help. But it would be nice to show up in the fucking box score sometimes. So much busted coverage. So so much. And so many poor attempts at tackling. Eddie Goldman…where the hell are you? This Rams team isn’t as good as last nights results will make the nation believe. A real QB and offense would have tore the defense up. The opportunities were there. Matt Nagy called not touching a guy that was down a learning lesson for the safeties. I feel like touching a guy that’s down is kinda something they should already know. But that’s me. Putting Fields in the game to handoff is stupid. Just play the kid. You have nothing to lose. It’s nice that the rest of the division lost too but the Bears will have the worst offense in the division while the Packers will make a solid recovery and both Cousins and Rodgers will torch this Bears defense if they continue to play like last night. I’m sick of Twitter debates about Pace vs Nagy…who is more to blame. It’s both. They both suck. Pace built this roster and created the cap issues we have to live with the next few seasons. Nagy is the worst head coach in football. Together they are equally to blame for the shit show we see. In closing…fuck you, Virginia McCaskey.
Last night we witnessed history. No, I'm not only referring to Fields first career TD. We saw the worst performance from a safety in the 101 year history of the NFL. I never thought I'd see someone top Cunte's performance against the Redskins in 2013 but No-Tacklin-Jackson did the unthinkable. Gonna be a long few weeks before Fields is starting. Outside of the egregious pick I didn't think Dalton was too bad. Nagy's playcalling/scheme was. Aside from everything being short, none of the routes allowed for guys to get YAC. It was catch and immediately get tackled. The Rams look worse than the other teams in the NFC West. Stafford will not be any better than he was when he was on the Lions. Jalen Ramsey is vastly overrated. The Rams have no running game. They can easily miss the playoffs in that division.
Monty looked great. Old man Peters was solid for the 1/2 he gave us. How he smoked somebody on a delayed blitz in the mid 2nd was something I haven't seen since Kyle Long. Goodwin, Mooney, Robinson, Kmet are legit weapons for any QB out there. Okay, positives over. Negatives. Andy Dalton is who he is. He's okay or a hair better than okay before he's garbage, and we saw all of it. The lone piece of credit I'll give him is that he got rid of the ball quick, which you have to against the Rams and part of the reason I think BWW's chart of only 1 pass beyond 15 yards is a thing. Khalil Mack. Do something. Anything. I get teams single him out, I get Robert Quinn sucks/gets constantly stuffed and highly paid to do it in 1 on 1s. He's getting paid handsomely to break the game but instead, he's watching it. If this is going to continue. and it didn't start last night--this whole team-building situation is fucked. The GM will need 2 years before he can start drafting/rebuilding for 4. The rams were beatable. Good teams don't give up 2 home run TD passes and a red zone turnover. You didn't draft Justin Fields to be Taysom Hill to Drew Brees. You drafted him and are benching him behind Andy Dalton. Time to work out a bunch of DBs off the street. Particularly at safety, because there are none on the roster. Sean Desai's plan looked more like Chuckles than it did Vic Fangio. They need EG back, and maybe I'm wrong--but at this point, with the effort/wasted years or window of the defense, Quinn being highly paid to do nothing, Mack the same--this season is probably going to prove very quickly that the defense needs a complete reset, short of Noquan (who also wasn't impressive last night). Ogletree looks like a genius taunting before another stupid penalty. What drove me insane was his 1 catch came on a play Robinson was lined up in the slot on the other side of the Ginger. Ran a simple wheel route the ILB was huffing and puffing to catch him. Wont complain because its a 1st but Robinson had 2 blockers and nobody on him. A good QB sees that. ARob being a great WR scores on that. Which leads me to my next point. Call me an optimist, but I think it is. I watched the Vikes/Bengals noon game. Vikes offense had 10 penalties in the 1st half, shooting themselves in the foot before they could get started. They shredded Cinci any/every pass play they put Theilen in the slot because the nickel on Cinci is as useless as Buster Skrine/whoever was out there last night for the bears. Kirk Cousins is Kirk Cousins, so passes behind guys happened a lot, and their standout WR last year Jefferson and him have zero chemistry. Dalvin Cook was himself as well and they moved the ball with ease at times. Joe Burrow had some great throws, but he also made some dumb decisions. Its doable. I think the bears can score 3 times, maybe even 4. I know how I'd gameplan...but then Nagy is a fucking moron, so... Not trying to over-meatball, but did Erin Rodgers look like he was throwing the game yesterday to anybody else? His hail mary INT with no packers WR in the vicinity looked it. Famous Jameis wasn't spectacular.
Reminded me of Rex's fuck-it-im-going-deep throws. I find it hilarious that Erin and Devonta Adams called this season the last dance, with their combined zero rings they've won since playing together. The Packers came into this season very overconfident. They'll still sweep us in dominant fashion.
38 attempts and NOT 1 fucking pass father than 15 yards down field. All we heard about was the added speed. I guess to Nagy that meant he would fool everyone into thinking we would have a deep passing attack and he would fake them out with all short roots all the time. It is criminal to have that much success running the football and not totals even one play action deep shot. I can’t believe we are going to make our rookie QB have to forget this BS high school play book and learn a new one this coming offseason. I will give the new DC 1 game to see if he makes adjustments. To see if he goes ape shit during practice this week and he holds the players accountable. If they come out with a sense of energy and laser sharp focus. I highly doubt that happens. Like Pagano before him this defense looks like it lacks aggressiveness and is as vanilla as hell.
So apparently my drunk ass saw #23 as #33, which explains a lot. I couldn't figure out how Johnson was shitting the bed so badly. #23 deserves to never see the field again. The twitter/reddit arguments are that there was no pass rush because the Rams were getting rid of the ball quickly. This is true for some of the plays, but definitely not true for the explosive big plays. Stafford had enough time to allow the WR to get deep before chucking it the length of the field. The pass rush IS lacking, no matter what they say. Desai starts out the year with a massive red mark. He's got 16 games to turn this defensive unit around, but I am not optimistic. They are aging talents for the most part and the mistakes were....fundamentals. Communication, assignments, tackling. It's fixable, but that combined with the lack of talent in the secondary.....it's going to be much worse than I feared. My only consolation would be the Rams are better than I think they are, but I also don't think they're near as good as they looked yesterday. Nagy is completely brain dead. You all have called out the plays are not only short stuff (which makes sense to "take what the defense gives you" and protect against a shitty o-line), but the problem is none of them are designed to allow any YAC. Nothing up the field. The 4th down calls represent pure fucking panic, not "ballsy" plays though I'm sure that's how he sees it. 4th and 4, down by 7, and now's the time to "put it all on the line"? 4th down calls can come down to hindsight often, because if it works, you're a hero, if it doesn't you suck. Then the very next drive, same part of the field, SAME shit, only this time Dalton fumbles? Have you learned nothing? This not only takes points off the board for the bears (granted, these were 58 and 55 attempts, definitely difficult and not gimmies) but then you give the Rams good field position. And the defense even stiffened a little on those! Pure fucking panic. And then at the end of the game the 4th and 15 down by 13 and you don't take the points there, and run a play designed for 13, I mean, what the fuck. We went 0-4 on 4th down conversions. FOUR attempts. It's like in golf, when you're 200 yards out, and there's water in front of the hole, and the right move is to lay up, but you pull out that 4 wood because fuck you, that's why. Nagy took this to the "Tin Cup" fucking extreme and I couldn't hate this visor fuck more. His goodwill from 2018 has long since evaporated. The other twitter argument is that the line wouldn't have been able to hold for any downfield shots. This is true, but then you bring in some extra blockers and take a shot to keep the defense honest? I guess the thing is, the Rams were playing soft and begging us to run, which we did but couldn't convert when it mattered. Special teams wasn't the shitshow I expected. "It's just one game" is also pretty true. The Bears will be better than they played last night, but they aren't going to magically become world-beaters. That 7-10 prediction is still on the money I think. I guess when I think about it, the Rams game was the L I expected, but I did expect them to compete, which they kind of did in the first half. The first half was very winnable with a coach other than Nagnuts. The second half the Bears had that long, painful drive to score, but at that point, that's 100% the Rams gameplan. Can this team beat the Bengals? Yeah, and they can lose to them too. Cut Jackson, Fire Nagy, Fire Pace, Die Virginia.
Bears continuing to fully justify my ongoing boycott of the late night games. A lot of it i think we expected. The scoreboard was almost exactly what i expected. I didn't expect quite so many deep shots, perhaps reflecting the total lack of fear Mcvey had for the Bears pass rush, but their passing game shredded our secondary all the same. I know its only one week, and i do rate the Rams i think they will be very good this season, but this team is already in serious trouble imo, particularly on Defense. I thought they would be worse this year but on the wrong day v the wrong opponent they may have some 50burgers in them this season. I look at that D and all i see is a bunch of guys who are all mouth and no trousers. Some make a load of noise then steal paychecks, some keep it quiet and steal paychecks. i made plenty of posts defending Mack last year and even the year before but im not doing it this year. 1 tackle for the entire game is a fucking joke. I have 0 idea what his offseason prep looked like but i thought he was lacking in play strength. Remember when Mack would one arm bullrush and make the sack? Several times i saw him conventional 2 arm bull rush and just go nowhere. Swallowed up. And Rob Havenstien is no pro bowl calibre opponent. I fucking hate this new college jersey # bullshit, but i love that Eddie Jackson did it cos now its even easier to spot his screwup ass. Now Leno is gone Jackson is officially my last fav Bears player. That guy got paid and turned into a fucking bum. Just a pussy ass fishwife with a bionic fucking jaw. I would love for them to get him the F off my team but its never happening. I actually think targeting him is the game plan for opponents now so no one would trade for him. And the fucker has cap gits out the ass for another 2 years AFTER this one! So he aint getting cut. Hey, theres always 2024 smdh. Desai was an absolute train wreck at DC. I won't invoke the name of worst Bears DC in my lifetime only cos its week 1, but ive got to ask, WTF is Desai been doing all TC & PS. I don't even know how many communication breakdowns and blown assignments there were out there i lost count! But for that many from that many different players thats coaching. It was a very good Offense and i want to be balanced, but if you blow assignments then suddenly the opponent doesnt really matter. Its the pros, you'll get torched. The Lions could've lit that last night. As always, i could write a book on that fuck Nagy. But ultimately he's a guy in way over his head, who by virtue of never messing up the coffee order for an actual Offensive mind and all the other real coaches, somehow landed a job here. So much of what Nagy does flies in the face of football common sense *cough*throwtothesticks*cough*, but i'll never get how he can be so fucking dumb re RB's. Its like any time Monty did something good, get his ass off the field. What does that guy have to do to get 20carries in a game. Makes a beautiful 40+yard run on the second play and gets the ball another 15times all game. Fuck and die Nagy. Speaking of that run tho, im pretty sure that run was 95% Monty with like a 5% assist from Daniels for just about keeping Donald out of the cutback lane. But watch that play again, that was an off tackle left run in which Peters instantly got teleported 3yards backwards. Great vision, a sharp cut and play balance is what made that play. And yeah he's no burner, but if Monty was slow that would've been a 10-15 yard gain instead of 45 and getting pushed in the back out of bounds. End of the 1st half, 3rd & 1 at the 2. A-gap run to Monty, Mustipher and Daniels both get pantsed and now Monty, having just got the ball, is at the 5yard line with Donald & other random DL fucvk in front of him. Result: TD. Yeah. JP Holtz may have only seen the field on 5plays according to that tweet, but damn he caught the eye. He successfully lead blocked on the Fields TD run. And on another big run Monty had, im gonna say maybe the 2nd possession, he miraculously met Donald 1 on 1 in the hole and won to spring the run. Im gonna have to find that play. I can't imagine what fates put Holtz in such a position, lynch-pinning the entire play against a omni-DPOY, other than some supreme Nagy play design fuckery, but somehow it worked. Now hell call it again next week and get Monty killed. Finally #23 was so unbelievably god awful in that game that i had to go look up the roster to see if it was an actual player or just the ghost of Kyle Fuller flipping the bird at the team. Its a real person and he SUCKS! Marqui Christian. Sounds like a damned front man for a religious cult. Anyway he managed to make Buster Skrine look like an All-Pro. Shut up rob its true. Oh and next week its the Bungals. They may actually lose that game lol christ.
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Some more time to marinade, I forgot one thing that ate at me--on top of Monty's misuse. When you're down to your 3rd string LT after old man Peters breaks his hip and Borom got rolled from behind, maybe not for his first play--dial up a shovel pass right off of Wilkinson's ass--especially when he was unremarkable against the 3-5 stringers in preseason. Now, year 4--and Nagy's offense is just a coagulated bunch of individual plays that don't flow, dont impose the will, doesn't put anybody on their heels consistently and again--lacks identity. Stat sheets get padded, but its not reflecting on the scoreboard because the offense is predicated on not going down the field--just go side to side. Defenses certainly aren't confused, especially the one you just played that gave you plays/Dalton took what was given when he didn't suck. On to the bengals. Rah.
Rewatching the game and love seeing a screen pass where Damiere Byrd (5'9 175lbs) is asked to block Jalen Ramsey (6'1 210ish). That seems like a genius idea to me.
