One sucks and the other doesn't suck. I only got to see the 4th quarter again, and now I'm thinking should I just continue to watch just the 4th quarter or take a chance on the entire game and watch 4 quarters of good football.
What a game. I wasn’t a huge Foles fan but I thought given the chance he’d legitimately beat Trubs. Night and fucking day. Pocket awareness, accuracy, and most importantly, the absolute key, he can read a defense. Trubs mentally just doesn’t have it, he can’t read a D. that should close the book on the Trubisky era, but we’ll see. I think it’ll stick because despite Nagy cuteness, the deep ball was there and Trubs couldn’t hit it when called. Those 3-4 plays are what sealed his doom. Nowhere in the neighborhood. tume to reassess the season boys
Reading through the game thread after watching the game before bed - avoided spoilers all day. Blang might wanna buy a lottery ticket.
Fuck that, I'll buy the ticket...blang buddy throw me some numbers. I believe bigrob owned up to that and said it was a bad choice of words.
Watched the game on replay at midnight last night, drank heavily for the first three quarters. Was a real pain in the ass waking up this morning for my kid's teacher conference. I genuinely have no idea how they won, given the alcohol and 2 AM ending. I can't say I'll go watch it again later... So, I have three takeaways: 1) Pagano is on my bad side. Soft coverage preventing our pass rush from being impactful, ineffective use of Eddie Jackson, and bad personnel calls. Remember the Packers game last season, when Bush got torched for a TD early? There was no reason for Bush to have been in that position, given the other safeties on the roster. Yesterday? Joel Iggy covering their TE in the red zone. Easy score. Why a backup OLB that barely sees the field is out there on the second play of the game in such a crucial situation baffles me. And if Pagano isn't directly responsible for both of those personnel decisions, he needs to string up whoever is and fix it. Pagano needs to get his s*** together ASAP. 2) Eddie Jackson was a playmaker during his time with Vic Fangio. Then came last year, with Pagano, and the whole team was bad. Jackson got paid huge money anticipating that last year was an aberration. I just didn't feel good about the deal... and I'm preparing myself to climb up on that pedestal. It wasn't just Pagano putting him in bad position yesterday (though to reiterate, he did) - Eddie just did not play well. Sure, he's had two turnovers taken away by penalties so far this season (if drunken memory serves), but one was his doing and was deserved. I might need three hands to count the amount of deep passes that were either complete or luckily incomplete, where Eddie was out of position to make a play despite his assignment. It's going to be a real issue against teams that don't hand us the game back. 3) Nagy going with Foles. Look, it's taken WAAAAAYYYYY too long for this team to ditch Mitch. And we were all ready for it to take even longer, given Nagy and Pace's inclination to this point. But credit goes to Nagy, seeing that Mitch was just done, and putting in Foles. Personally, I would've done it in week one or two, but I guess three is the magic number. Whatever - it happened. That's all that matters. And credit to Nagy for pulling that trigger. Now let's be done with it, and let Mitch ride the bench into free agency. 3-0. Whew.
I didn't think Nagy had the stones to do that mid-game, but here we are. He performed well enough to come back from two games if you consider the points they took off the board and the ball that got wrestled away. I'm actually impressed he came in off the bench looking impressive but I'll temper that optimism that it was against a defense that was banged up and easier to move on than Lay Down Sally at the end of the bar. As long as you aren't to drink to drunk you'll be fine.
Hahaha I know I cracked up when I read that shit, but bigrob is coming around I just hope this last game doesn't get him out over his ski's.
I'll add that the run defense is bad right now. Yeah, we miss Goldman. But once guys get into the second level our LBs/safeties are either terribly out of place or can't get off blocks from WRs to make the tackle. Again the LBs are having zero impact. The few run plays we did contain yesterday was when we won the battle at the LOS.
Absolutely. They ran all over us. The defensive line is obviously the biggest issue - like you said, Goldman's absence is killer - but RB's were hitting gaps and running into open field far too frequently. That had better be the focus of practice before Indy.
Do you guys think that defensive philosophy could change with Foles now at QB? Wouldn't this be the best time to tighten that up? Maybe with Foles at QB they don't have to play not to lose, because he has shown the ability to move the ball and make better decisions.
This is the kind of experience and leadership you want from a starting NFL QB. Foles describes the game winning TD pass to Miller: "When we were in the huddle, I explained to Anthony that if I do happen to kill (the original play), I’m going to throw it to the L (in the end zone lettering 'ATL'). So get to the L and it’ll be a pretty stiff ball," Foles said. "So I knew just in case I didn’t have time to get it off cleanly, he would be there. So we had that conversation and he did his job. We executed." https://www.nbcsports.com/chicago/bears/nick-foles-might-be-missing-piece-bears-inconsistent-offense
I was just coming here to post the same thing. Notice where Miller makes the catch...it’s right on the L that Foles said he was throwing to. Did so while getting hit too.
You know, a ton of people asked when Mitch struggled against Detroit and New York that if bad Mitch was the winner of the QB competition, how bad must Foles have been? We may never know the truth, but right now--can't blame any fan who believes that Pace/Nagy did everything they could for the guy one of them drafted #2 overall when the better guy got benched. The LBs did suck again. But thankfully, Dirk Koetter was a dumbass who wouldn't attack them or run at them in the 2nd half. Cant say the colts with their good looking rookie RB are going to be doing that... Why in the hell Joel Iyiegbuniwe was man with their TE in the red zone with no help? Why the hell was Joel Iyiegbuniwe in the game not on a special teams play at all? Skrine and Gipson got targeted by Matt Ryan often. Look. I'm just going to go full meatball now. This is year 2 of the 2 year deal Pagano got. Denver is 0-3 under Vic Fangio with a hurt starting QB, and has a hard schedule ahead (including the Chefs, Raiders, and Bolts 2x). Elway is under pressure in Denver. Things get bad, they clean house at the end of the year, it kind of fits perfectly...thank Dave Wannstedt's favorite guy/show him the door and get one of the best in the game back. Then I remember its the bears and doing the simplest of things is often painful with this franchise...
We should try to remember tho that it was a stupid question in the first place and those people are idiots. Foles didn't have a normal offseason/preseason to prove himself, thats all it was. Hell word was Trubisky didn't look good in camp either, but better the devil you know. At least it didn't cost us any games.
