The Bears right now are 2 point favorites at home, which is basically a pick 'em. This is the best chance the Bears have had in at least a fucking decade to beat this fucking team. It's not on prime time, it's Jordan fucking Love. What do you want to see this game, aside from a win? To me, Justin has to show up. It's year 2 in this system, year 3 in the NFL, there needs to be some strides in the passing game. We've got DJ Moore, they "upgraded" the oline, though I know they have been injured. I didn't get to see much of the preseason and none of Fields, so I don't know what to expect honestly. I know it's only one game, but this one to me is going to set the tone for the whole season. This is your division rival who has just lost their HOF QB and you are at home. Stand and deliver already it has been way too long. Introduce Love to the NFL in a way that fucks up his carrer.
I'm interested to see how the final roster shapes up first by 3 PM today, when teams need to have their rosters at 53 (then PS after the evening of waiver moves). Some moves absolutely need to be made, and one already has been, I'd like to see DL/DE signed/claimed. PJ Walker cut. I'm shocked Poles made that move, even though he paid him more than Simien and an undrafted rookie from Division 2. Not a good deal for Poles. Now Peterman hasn't been cut yet either, Bagent hasn't been officially listed on the 53 man, and cuts are happening/everybody is watching Will Grier/Dallas, because they aren't going to keep 4 QBs in Dak, Lance (John Lynch deserves all the shit for this bum ass trade), Cooper Rush, and Grier. They just traded a draft pick to the Phins for one of their back up IOL Dan Feeney with an insane mullet, some C/G who was a longtime starter with the Chargers who couldn't start on a bad, injured OL last year. Kramer hurt his hand, Whitehair did too but can still play, and Eiselen sucks. OL is looking bad right now. Alex Leatherwood got cut. I never understood the hype around him when Vegas/Oakland cut him. Now people are going wild because some shitbag provocateur suggested the bears "could/may" consider trading Darnell Mooney? Velus Jones may just be granted a roster spot, which pisses me off. Nsimba Webster, Daurice Fountain, Joe Reed, and other later PS game players/depth guys are getting cut. I cant wait for muffed punts and a dipshit not knowing where to be. Trevis Gipson wants to be traded, and the pundit reaction is finally 'scheme fit' after the past year and change of lying their asses off, saying that GIpson fits Flus' scheme when his whole career in HS and football and Nagy was an edge in a 3-4/3-3-5, not a down lineman in a 4 front. If you can find a sucker to give you a late round pick, adios to a perpetually blocked bum ass player. Poles signs another LB from Philly? Davion Taylor. ST ace in 2021, injured last season. Is Poles trying to move Sanborn or Sewell to the PS? As for the Packers? I'm trying not to think about them. Should they have 3 HOF QBs in a row, I will stop watching football--so I'm trying to enjoy this. I get Love has been up and down in the preseason, but vanilla playcalling and running plays to make sure starters are in their spots and do basic audibles and things of that nature isn't telling of what he's going to be. Love is going to look like a star if the bears cant generate any pressure, and there's a high likelihood of that. I hope like hell he's the turnover machine everybody knew him to be in college. For the #1 pick watch, uhhhh, Arizona is probably going to be the reason the NFL institutes a draft lottery like the NBA, NHL, and now MLB. They're cutting Colt McCoy, listing Kyler on the PUP for an undisclosed amount of time, and are starting a bum journeyman on his 4th team in 4 years who struggles to hit 5 yard quick passes in Josh Dobbs.
This is an chance to set a tone for the season. It's not like the Packers roster is devoid of talent. They have players on both sides of the ball. But there's no HOF QB under center. It's just a guy. My current thoughts coming out of the offseason, training camp, and preseason.... - Why oh fucking why does V Jones have a roster spot? The first chance the idiot got to field a ball in the preseason he fucking muffed it. If I see him doing anything but jet sweeps this season I am gonna lose my shit. - How does DJ Moore get YAC on plays where he looks like he's gonna be tackled by 4 guys? That's so nice to see. - The OL situation sure doesn't make you feel good. Everyone is hurt and we trade for a backup from the Dolphins that's been cut from teams that ranked in the bottom of the league in terms of pass protection. Cool. - Still haven't seen how bad Sewell's injury was in that last game. Counting on him for LB depth and maybe as a spot starter or occassional pass rusher. - I like our backfield a lot. - I want to like our secondary but our safeties have been missing in action and our #2 CB led the league in flags in preseason I think. - Overall this team will be much better than last season but I don't know if that translates to 7 wins or 10. A lot needs to go right for 10 wins and that includes staying healthy and we are off to a bad start in that department.
The OL worries me, as always. I hate that we never get to feel good about this unit. I'm not sure yet who will be healthy for week one, but all the work they're doing to add bodies to that group says that they're not optimistic. The offense looked really bad in game 3 of the preseason. Fields looked bad, too. Here's hoping it was just an off day, but it's not like we've seen much else from them to tell us otherwise. I think week one comes down to the defense. If they can mess with Love, then this game is winnable. I have no idea who's going to generate pressure up front - Ngakue could put himself on the map if he shows up in his first game as a Bear, as could the rookie DT's if they make splash plays - but someone needs to. The secondary will have chances to make plays this week, and they need to make them. An timely interception or two would be huge. The fact that age played such a big role in Poles' free agency signings tells me that he doesn't think this is a quick turnaround either. I want to be optimistic about this year, but I also need to be realistic - I don't think they'll be as bad as last year, but I don't think they'll be in any playoff talks at any point. Beating our divisional opponents will be enough for me, honestly.
Guys I am banking on to have big seasons... DJ Moore for obvious reasons. Justin Fields. He doesn't have to light the world on fire. A season that sees him throwing for 3800-4200 yards and running for another 600-800 would be ideal for me. That and playing every game. Limit the turnovers. Mostly I just want to see a visible leap from year 2 to 3. Kyler Gordon. He started out last season really rough and then ended it playing well. He looked amped up in the preseason. He hits. He can provide run support and I think he can be a turnover machine. Jaquan Brisker. If he's even healthy. I don't know that he is. The Bears are very cryptic with what's going on health wise.
Wanna talk about the cuts before getting onto the inbreds and the wider season. I didn't mind the PJ Walker move all things considered. But then he stunk. I applaud Poles taking his medicine on the specific player, but damn the Bears are a Fields injury away from another total tank mode. I mean, you lose your guy at QB you're always in trouble, but the goal is if it happens for multiple games you have someone who can keep the ship afloat. Not here, Fields goes and its straight into tank mode. I like Bagents potential, by all means put the dev time in, but unless they sign a vet any game Fields misses is an immediate L. And Fields will miss games behind this OL but i'll get to that in a sec. Claiming Alex Leatherwood of waivers has turned into a very painful move for the GM. There's always a risk in picking up other people's 1st round trash, but holy hell! The Bears are on the hook for $4.6mil for Leatherwood this season. Add that to last season's pay and AL cost the Bears $5.9mil for 32 fucking snaps. That is fucking criminal! I'd say it really shook my faith in the GM's ability to evaluate OL but i lost faith in that a while back. Which brings me to the upcoming. Im with dline on this, i can't believe im going into another Packers opener feeling this shitty about the O-Line. The fuck is wrong with this team that it can NEVER learn the simple lesson?! The injuries will provide a lot of cover for the fact the Bears singular goal this offseason needed to be to get Fields help, a big part of which was avoiding getting him killed again, and it looks a hell of a lot like they might've failed. Where is Nate Davis, does anybody know? Has he taken part in a single practise this offseason?? Or has he taken the money and flipped them the bird? It was very telling to me when i read a Biggs piece the other day about how the Bears have put a huge amount of work this offseason into their screen game. Good idea on the surface, the Bears screen game for years has smelled worse than one of my climbing shoes after scaling El Capitan. And it looks like its even gotten better. From a low ass base admittedly, they may manage to be average this season. But Biggs went on to say the reason the Bears have done this is cos they know the pressure they're gonna be under this season. Teams are gonna come after this O-Line and they're gonna come after Fields. Well all i can say is you'd better have a hell of a lot of screen variations ha, cos while a well timed screen can create a big play, its not gonna consistently make up for a bad O-Line. Im pretty amazed the Bears go into this game as favs. I think the Packers DL is gonna eat our OL for breakfast, again. The unknowns about Love mean it could be a close game, but i have it down as a loss which is sickening to say. Going into FA with record cap space and a draft following on full of chatter about trade up offers, there's no way i would've said this team picks top10 in 2024. After the Panthers trade i felt sure we'd get a better pick from them than our own next draft. Now, i dunno. Maybe things will click and they'll shock me. But the old truths will always hold sway. It starts up front. The Bears OL is turd until proven otherwise. As for the DL, i want to be hopeful but its rookies and 1 year deals on the interior, and a 1 man pass rush on the outside. I haven't taken up gamepass yet, but im a total fucking mug when it comes to that so i know how its gonna go heh.
Yeah, I don't want to get into a rant on it, but to be entering this season unsure of whether you can field a capable starting OL is just complete incompetence when you count the fact that they had the most cap space, the number one draft pick that they intended to trade out of, and a QB that they were committing to. I'm going to be hopeful, but I'm also not paying for gamepass yet. I'll probably sit at a bar for week one, and let that tell me how this year's gonna look.
Tyson Bagent made the 53 man and is QB2? *Looks at alternative of Peterman and Walker* Okay. Sure. I liked a few of his throws in preseason, but he floated a couple of very ugly passes that turned the ball over and should have multiple times had Mooney not had gotten away with OPI to break up an uncatchable ball behind him. I'm not as wild about him as some seem to be. Yeah, the offensive line is just ass cheeks. Trevis Gipson got cut. I remember we traded a 4th ot the vikes to take this bum in the 5th round of a draft. Good riddens bum ass. I'm happy Terrell Lewis made the roster. Wouldn't shock me if he outperforms Demarcus Walker on the stat sheet by the end of the season. Dominique Robinson and Rasheem Green not being cut makes me nauseous. This is basically where I'm at. I lean towards 7, but if the DLine can be generate occasional pressure and young guys develop quick, who knows. Speculated he's a loafer. The whole twitter thread pissed me off (and disclaimer if/when it does y'all). Sounds like Poles greatly mismanaged evals and signed a mental midget (especially comping him to Whitehair in his evals as a player to emulate/"elevate his game to"). I try not to put too much emphasis on preseason, but I saw the same thing you did, but if we're going to grade based on preseason performance--I have to begrudgingly give Braxton Jones credit. He probably had the best preseason of all OL, and I'd have to say well above average/my expectations. I only counted one bad pass blocking a 5 step drop rep in game 1 in all of his reps. Now again, its preseason. He made speed, combo, rip, swim, and everything except bull rushes look like what other teams have done to the bears defensive ends. Easy work and made them disappear. I saw no DE bull him on any of his preseason game reps, and that's what I'm leery of.
Wow that is some tale, thanks for the find. If that is true then gotta say.....i've not been an Eberflus fan but i think he's handled that as well as he can....for now. Davis sounds like one of those difficult to manage players that is just gonna require extra effort from the coaching staff to keep on top of. Eberflus is going out of his way to bring the player with him, its the right approach. Lets hope the carrot works, cos next up is the stick and something tells me Davis would respond very badly to that. A war between a high price FA and the team right at the start of the contract does the Bears no good. More stellar OL work from the GM? I'll sign off with my reminder that i wanted them to target Seumalo.
I would be over the moon with this, but that's getting close to double his passing numbers from last year. DJ Moore will definitely help but like all of you, that Oline is going to give him fits, *especially* if the injuries all continue. Until the Bears prove me otherwise, I think it's a loss, but for the first time in a long time I'm going into it thinking they have a very good shot - their best in years. You're at home, in a season opener, against a rookie QB. While the owner was still around I had gotten to the point that I didn't see them even having a chance. Ever goddamn game some bullshit. The line went down to 1.5 and is back up to 2, but that's not much. I will bet money when Prisco and company all get out their expert picks next week that they will go Packers across the board.
All I can say is fuck this team. I had hoped that Poles would be the guy to turn this shit around, instead, it's more of the meet the new boss same as the old boss. The guy collects OL like he's shopping at the Dollar Tree where you fill up your basket with needless garbage that is either not fit for human consumption or it's broken or soon to be. The fact that you traded a 6th rounder a few days before the final cuts for a guy you could have had if you just waited for the Dollar Tree to take out the garbage means he's desperate. I had high hopes coming into the offseason with all that cap space and the selections after trading down and at this point, it certainly seems like like a whole lot of nothing, I just hope I'm wrong. I guess we'll see soon enough. I still not convinced Fields is the guy, and if he goes down and they throw Bagent to the wolves he certainly won't be either. The one guy I want to see if they work, and if so, how they work him into the offense is Tyler Scott. If he comes along and they work him into space and DJ does his thing it could be a long afternoon for opposing secondaries. I think overall 7 wins are being mighty generous to a team that didn't seem to seriously address flaws with protection and pressure, but here we are. Go Bears
I was listening to Hoge and Jahns today, and they are saying Feeney is going to START at center, a week after being picked up, and that it might be due to his shotgun snaps and the injury is a cover? You fucks had all offseason to address it, when Mustipher was the hottest of hot garbage, and did fuck all about it. This team.
Literally just a win. Just win. I don't care if Fields throws 4 picks or the refs gift us the game on a BS call. All I want in week 1 is a W over those fuckers to start the season. Then I'll get back to critiquing every little thing wrong after week 2.
Greedy NFL smartened up this year with the international game pass. Tried logging in for one of the preseason games with my VPN and they told me I couldn't access it using the VPN, and obviously my IP address also means I can't access it from the US. So I canceled it (fortunately my auto renew was scheduled for this week) and caved and bought the full package with Redzone through Youtube. Nearly $400 dropped. Some time later I see that the NFL+ plan, which includes Redzone, was going for only $99 for the whole year. Even though that wasn't the Sunday Ticket/Game Pass package, I figured that was better since all I really like was Redzone anyway and I can just use a euro bootleg stream when the Bears game can't be seen on local TV. But the NFL bastards wouldn't refund my Sunday Ticket purchase through Youtube. Whatever. This is how it's going to be going forward.
Back in July the moneyline on the Packers was +125 so I dropped a chunk of change on that. Since then the Packers moneyline on DraftKings has moved to -112 (as of today) as more money comes in after the casual fans were impressed with Love's preseason. But believe me this is a bet I am dying to lose!
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I want the Bears to win this game so bad. But I know that Sunday evening I'm gonna be in a pissy mood because we will have seen the Bears make some dumb coaching decisions, commit some bad penalties, get screwed by some terrible calls, get hit by a last second bomb and the safety totally blew coverage, and everything else that tends to happen when we play the Packers. I want to be more optimistic after this offseason and for a while I was. But the closer week 1 gets the same old feelings creep in. Poles didn't do enough for the offensive line. He didn't address the center position. The additions on defense were nice but the pass rush is likely to still be anemic. Fields should improve......every possible ounce of logic says he should. Second year in the system. He has a true #1 WR. He was an accurate college passer and has tremendous physical tools. Everything you can think of says the arrow should be pointing up in a big way. But....he's still a Chicago Bears QB. Which automatically makes him retarded. You know Justin Jefferson, at 24 years old, this year will surpass every single Bears receiver in total career yardage this year. Probably by week 2. But don't worry because we spent all offseason practicing screen passes. Hoping for the best on Sunday. Hoping the window is open for us to beat up on the cheeseheads for a few years. Maybe return some of the frustration of the past few decades. It's literally been 30 years of them basically dominating this rivalry. They've won 2 titles in that time. We've went to the playoffs 7 or so times and have won 4 playoff games. The fucking Randall Cobb play. The fucking fumble no one bothered to pick up. Jay Cutler's 5 interception Bears debut. The season finale where we let them limp in the playoffs. The conference title we lost at home. The I still own you. 8 straight losses. Losing to Brett Hundley. The OMG Aaron Rodgers is crippled but brought his team back in the 4th quarter bullshit. Matt Barkley's 5 interceptions in 2 games. The Packers secondary openly laughing at Cutler. Man the fuck up and go out on Sunday and prove you have some balls to make this a rivalry again. Because it hasn't been a true rivlary for some time. It's been a full sized man holding a midget away at arms length and repeatedly kicking him in the balls.
Dude, you need to get your eyes checked, seriously, and while you're at it get a Psychiatrist to do a couple of laps inside your head for good measure.
"Dude". Crack me up tuna ha ha ... Last season's babyfan would have totally fallen for this new Jay Cutler look. This season I'm much smarter!
