Chicago Bears vs Washington Commanders Game Thread

I'll never understand why they don't bring more pressure in this situations

 

https://www.reddit.com/r/CHIBears/s/cLgjw5BTuh

Yep, there it is chitown

 

Meh doesn't effect the play but it does make him look stupid

 

What an absolute. Fucking. Moron.

F that guy.

 

Why would we rush 3 and then put a spy on the QB in a Hail Mary situation?!! Either rush 5 and pressure the QB, which I’d been fine with, or rush 2 and drop everyone else back to box out. A fricking QB spy on a Hail Mary???

Why would we give it to a guard at the goal line when Roschon has been money there?

Why was the entire team totally unprepared for this game coming off of a bye?

We know the answer to all of those questions. Most infuriating is not the loss or the way we lost (we’ve had dozens more soul crushing losses in the last 15 years that this game doesn’t even crack the list). Most infuriating is the lack of ANY accountability from Flus, who instead like his boss Georgie, is focusing on the “positives”.

It’s a depressing reality but the best thing for this team is we lose at least 10 games, fire the coaching staff, and hope to the football gods Georgie has a stroke and becomes a football savant makes a home run HC hire.

 

I would fire that clown twice.

 

And why are Sweat, Billings, and Taylor on the sideline? Why was it Dexter/Walker/Martin?

The spy on JD that play made it seem like a big middle finger to those of us saying. ‘Do it’ from the start of the game but it isn’t till the last play of the game where JD got spied.

I’m waiting for the question asking how often does the guard handoff get practiced. Can tell Caleb put it high and hands never touched it from the RB.

 

There’s no argument for using a spy on a Hail Mary. There’s zero % chance a QB is housing it there. A total waste of a defender.

 

It would have been nice coming out of there without surrendering a TD against this team despite the offense on every down trying to communicate their brain cell collective at the line of scrimmage in a loud environment and failing, play after play. Nope once again in true Bears fashion snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. The defense for 59 minutes and 37 seconds held up their end surrendering only 4 FG, but the offense couldn't get out of their own way enough to score 20 points. I like Caleb blang, but right now Jayden>Caleb no doubt.
Kiran certainly has the wingspan Poles covets as a tackle in this league but his footwork appears to be an abomination. He was virtually invisible when he came in. Poles seems to be stuck on stupid when it comes to evaluating OL talent, and that is exactly the opposite of what I thought when he came in. Blocking assignments are clearly being missed and/or miscommunicated or perhaps maybe the entire offensive scheme is suspect. Designed QB runs was an act of desperation by Waldron, and getting cute at the goal line was butt ugly.
This team is not ready for prime-time and is not a playoff team, the offensive philosophy has to change when in hostile environments because this shit ain't it!

 

Flus is a fucking push over. He commands zero respect. He is a cheerleader who calls a good defense. If I’m the coach and I look over my coverage on the last fucking play of the game and one of my DB’s is fucking around call a time out and get him the fuck out of there. Your telling me none of the coaches saw this idiot fucking around out in the middle of the field? You can tell from the post game and the tweet that his man was the guy left wide opened. Everyone talked about what there responsibility was on that play except Stevenson. Who turned around was like oh shit there’s a play going on and just jumped into the pile when the ball was arriving.

It’s a man on man situation everyone is manned up. You have one jumper and we know it was Byard he said so. We know Johnson was on McLaurin he said so. We know that Stevenson had no fucking idea who he was supposed to man up with because he was waving to the crowd when the play started. I can tell you that wide open dude who Johnson said should NEVER be left open was that cock sucker’s responsibility.

But this is what you get when it takes the players to hold the coaches responsible and not the other way around. I’ve worked with plenty of leaders like Flus. Good at what they know. Gets some good things done with some good talent but will always underachieve because they just do t have that ability to push others around them to be great. He will ask them to be great and sometimes they will be but never consistently.

 

I wanted to hit you back on this but you know, game thread.

Agree with everything you said but the thing about the Deadskins, they have taken the time and effort to build a good O-Line. I don't know where it would rank specifically but borderline top10 is a conservative estimate. They have a good WR and a really good back. And now they've found a good QB who's highly mobile. You put a guy like Kingsbury in a situation like that and simple will take you a hell of a long way.

The D is also being coached above its talent level by one of the best. Im a Frankie Luvu fan, he was excellent on a horrible team last year. I got the Bears not signing him this FA cos they are so set at LB, but tbh, i kinda still wanted them to sign him cos the guy can ball and you find a place for people like that.

Im not on board with them representing the NFC or anything yet. But when good teams play those guys they better turn up or they'll get smoked.

 

Utterly pointless. Even if he does take off and your spy is theoretically called on, no way in hell is Edwards taking down Daniels in open field. Either rush the passer with him or put him deep.

 

Going back and watching film. That early throw to Rome that was way behind him for an incompletion: I think that's just on Rome (via the coaching). He's running a crossing route into empty space, turns his head and his shoulders to the QB, but then keeps running. You've got to sit in that space, or don't present to the QB. Ideally, sit in that space. Now, we don't know what they coach, but the fact that they're clearly not on the same page on something as simple as this, coming out of the bye week, early in the game on what I assume is a heavily practiced / scripted play...

An unserious football team. That's all this is. There isn't anyone out there who actually knows how to run a football team properly, and you can't "fake it til you make it" in the NFL.

 

I wish I could give an award, the like button isn't enough for this. It was beyond stupid.

When Eberlose has lost rob, you know it's bad, heh.

 

I mean in all honestly buddy this is objectively false. This is one of the worst losses in team history. Im not gonna waste time saying its top 1,3,5 whatever, but its definitely up there. At the opponents own 35 with 6secs left this game was sown. To lose from there the way they did won't just be up there all-time for the Bears, it will be up there for ANY team. At the very least this is on a par with the Falcons loss in '08, which was a total heart ripper. I think the reason you said what you did is because:

1- It felt like such a one-sided game for so long that none of us really entertained the expectation of victory so we perceived there to be less at stake. And since this isn't CCS we're all smart enough to understand that the by far better team did actually win, which maybe makes it easier.

2- But more importantly imo, the thing that's changed isn't the defeat itself, its us. Just in the almost 20 years we've been sharing Bears games together we've seen them take every type of inexplicable, clown car, gut wrench loss you can think of. About the only way we haven't seen them lose yet is by some 50 lateral flipperoo when the opponent is out of HM range. And honestly, if the 2nd last play hadn't happened i would've half expected them to lose by that! Im sure the football gods have our cards marked, we just havent suffered thru it yet.

But anyway to the point at hand, we've simply built up a tolerance to this shit, at least to some degree. Its fucking sad when you think about it.

 

One really satisfying thing to see is that the national media has been ripping Eberflush and his coaches to absolute shreds the last 2 days. Everywhere you look they're describing the negatives in all-time terms and calling for mass firings. After being late to the party basically all last season its good to see them finally catch on.

Also, now that he's in year 3 of the contract and they won't have to break their 2nd golden rule of firings(eating 2 years of a contract), Eberflush is is well and truly on the hot seat now. I mean i'd say he's already a dead man walking but we all know the douche-canoes in that building arent that smart.

 

If you think this isn't an all time loss, ask yourself if we will see replays of this in the future. The goddamn double doink still gets airtime.

I listened to the "Pushing the Pile" CBS podcast with Prisco (ugh) but it also has Kyle Long, and he's turning out to be a good broadcaster. On that show, they asked a question to all the guys, and everyone of them said Eberlose won't be coaching the Bears next year. I wish I was as confident as they are.

Honestly dude if we didn't have a spy on Daniels, as stupid dumb as that was, we probably find a way to allow him to run the length of the field for a TD. Maybe Stevenson whiffs on a tackle, something fun like that. That's Bears football baby.

 

I'll tell you I really hate myself for buying in early after saying they need to show me something because convincing wins against doormats shouldn't have been enough, but for two weeks it felt really good to be a Bears fan. Even if they won that game it wouldn't have changed a thing.
In 1989 Jerry Krause fired Doug Collins and hired Phil Jackson. Doug had just brought the Bulls to the Eastern Conference finals and was a fan favorite and friend to MJ and MJ hated the hiring, and the rest is history. If the Bears really believe they found their QB they need to move on from Uberflush because he's certainly not Phil and he's not even Doug, he's dung. It just seems this coaching staff has piled too much on the rookies plate, and it's showing when on the road these presnap penalties are killing this offense that seems to be in flux, because things that work well (Kmet) are taken away.
I wish I could find the link but that second from last play Caleb was seen on the sideline imploring for the DBs to move up into press. While that game changed how I feel about this team under this leadership it doesn't by no means change how I feel about the Bears QB selection.

 

I hear this but apparently I am in the minority because I moved on from this quickly. You're right it may be because we had no business winning and maybe we are all to used to this shit. The Atlanta game you mentioned disgusted me. So did the Marion Barber/Tebow game in 2011, I remember literally feeling sick to my stomach about that one and not being able to fall asleep that night. Then of course several games against Peckers, a couple against the Loins we blew in the 4th quarter, double doink, etc.

Anyway my fear is that this loss is just a taste of what's to come this season as move into the divisional games.