Chicago Bears vs Detroit Lions Game Thread

We had the ball first down inside the 15 if not for the Tevin penalty.

 

Can someone explain how that happens? How do you sit on the sideline with a timeout and let the clock run out? How do you leave your rookie QB out to dry.

 

Caleb has to be better there

but that’s 100% on the head coach

 

If Eberfool still has a job on Monday I’m pretty much done with this team.

 

if he still has a job five minutes from now something is wrong

 

Game tape on this one is going to show Swift doing absolutely nothing, and a LB running right where he should've been. Useless in pass blocking, constantly putting his QB at risk.

 

The end of NFL games is fucking miserable to watch, in particular. They've got to change this shit.

 

Spoiler: Something is wrong.

 

Of these last 3 games all were easily winnable with like the 25th best coach in the league. We have the 32nd best.

 

Yeah, that was fucking inexcusable. You save a timeout for... what? A completion to then give you a chance to kick a field goal? Running up and spiking the ball after a completion takes... 10 seconds? If we're being generous. You ran 20 seconds off that fucking clock for no fucking reason.

Between the complete lack of attention to detail in execution at any given time, the absolute lack of accountability for anyone in the organization, and then the terrible game management decisions, this might be the worst coached team I've ever seen. At least, it's certainly top of mind.

Just disgusting.

 

The only defense Eberfool has to this is it was 3rd and long and they wouldn’t be able to spike the ball to stop the clock. What he couldnt figure out is theyd be way better off taking the last time out on third down then they could run the FG unit on the field on 4th down. They’d probably screw that up too, though

 

It takes way longer than that to revive Virginia

 

That was....shocking. I mean, I knew even if the Bears kick the FG they would find a way to fuck it up in OT, if the kick wasn't blocked again. I mean the sequence of events there at the end:

- Big play for a 1st down wiped out by penalty
- Big play given back by a lions penalty
- Another big play wiped out by a penalty
- THE ONE THING WE COULDN'T DO, TAKE A SACK, AND WE TAKE A SACK
- We let 27 seconds run off the clock before snapping, with a timeout in your pocket, and the play is a bomb down the field anyway?

This, Caleb is responsible for not realizing the situation and the clock, but your head coach can see what's happening and does nothing. And clearly didn't prepare him and the team to know they need to line up QUICKLY in a situation like that. No preparation, no execution, bad bad bad.

32nd is charitable. I think there are a slew of coordinators that could do better at HC than this clown.

FIRE EVERYONE. Or don't, keep the tank alive at the risk of ruining these players and get some high draft capital.

 

https://twitter.com/JoshDubowAP/status/1862242437932126545

 

I mean, it really is a case of finding new and inventive ways to lose. Can you guys imagine for a moment if we didn't have Caleb slinging the ball for a bunch of these throws?

 

Just…..fuck

 

Eberflus basically threw Caleb Williams under the bus for what happened at the end. He said he wouldn’t change a thing that he did and that Williams needed to get the ball snapped by the 12 second mark. This guy truly is an idiot.


"I like what we did there, Again, once it’s under seven ... actually under 12 — really you don’t have an option. Because it’s third into fourth, and you’ve got to throw it into the end zone then.

"I think we handled it the right way. I do believe that you just re-rack the play, get it in bounds and call timeout. That’s why we held it. It didn’t work out the way we wanted it to."

 

Now you know why I don’t visit often.

My son plays hockey too whoever else kid plays.

It’s much more enjoyable.

 

I watched the clip on twitter, and this snippet doesn't do justice to just how clueless he was.

HOCKEY! The 10Us have their tournament this weekend so no games, but next weekend we have a travel tournament over the mountains that should be some fun. And watching my son's team you see more disciplines in 12U than you did on the Bears FB field today, so there's that.

 

If they managed to get a first down. I think it was 3rd and 16 so that wasn't too likely.

Still, what a botched sequence of events. I think they should have called time out, got an easy five to ten yard completion and ran the FG team out there and got the kick off with a few seconds left. Aparently, Williams doesn't have the ability to call a play at the line yet? I don't know, but during the time out the HC should get the FG all set to run out in the field as soon as the play ends. Lots of blame to go around.

Anyway, it's a frustrating loss in a season of close losses.