Rants and Raves 2024 Edition

Jesus serial philanderers are more loyal than you.

You move off a Steelers QB faster than The Rapist moves off the issue of consent.

 

Virginia.

 

So for the good, Caleb in the sense that--for everybody saying 'garbage time yards,' he passed for 213 in the 1st half. Yes, I know how many times he threw the ball yesterday, but we got the improvement statistically we wanted over the past 2 weeks, and it was nice. One bad INT, one INT that wasn't his fault. And until the Cowboys Ravens 3:30 PM game ended and Dak beat him with 379, his 363 passing yards was the most thrown by any QB this year. So, for as much as we're conditioned to complain, I really can't here in a rookie QB's 3rd game as a starter. But don't worry, there's plenty to harp on.

The OL, what else do I say at this point? I will say Matt Pryor in the 1st half and Nate Davis in the 2nd half and you may just have half of a competent game at RG. Pryor was fine in the 1st half, made a couple nice run lanes for Roschon and he was proficient in pass protection, but he fell apart in the 2nd half. Braxton was bad. Jenkins was bad. Wright was more bad than good, and Shelton, while still bad--I chuckled how even Coleman Shelton postgame is telling reporters he has no idea why they called option run on 4th and goal from the 1.

Now to Waldron. Ooof this is already a chore and its week 3 of his 1st year, and I'm tired, like I've seen the same crap for the past 5 years. The sequence where it was 1st and goal from the 2 and then 4 runs later you turn the ball over. Fucking unacceptable. The running concepts in general need to be burned and started anew. I'm not going to harp on him having Caleb throw 52 times in his 3rd career start, because you can't have it both ways--when you have no running concepts and can't figure out how to properly use your 8 million dollar AAV scat back, you have to throw 52 times or whatever the final number was. Now where I get pissed, is when I watch those cocksuckers up in GB, and how their coach just simplifies shit for a back up QB who's time in Tennessee was spent more giving the ball to the other team, just having one guy who has a fucking clue on offense makes a difference, but until then, the bears are lost in the wilderness, chasing the impossible.

Ryan Poles deserves a big fucking target on his back, and the bears' way of doing business by 'being quiet,' deserves every bit of ridicule. I'm not saying give away trade secrets, but that he'll stay silent and let the media do his work for him, only to look like an absolute fool from the roster that HE made, from the coach that HE married himself to last year, to the guy HE picked to call the offense. So to see the same hypetrain try to spin blame away from Poles at this point, is fucking laughable. You made this bed, Mr. "OL Guru," now fucking lay in it. Start by working out a bunch of OL sitting at home, or just do nothing, let the hypetrain on Twitter and Reddit kiss your ass some more, then wonder why your team can't scrape 7 wins or stop playing stupid football by the end of December.

Eberflus should have been fired. When Jason McCourty is in the press box saying on national TV that the bears wasted 2 timeouts for no reason, he sees it. I see it. Many do. But that's okay, Flus probably has a nickname or some term of endearment for being a lame duck mope, and Ryan Poles doesn't see it.

 

Two weeks in a row an offensive lineman has questioned play calling.

 

I just can't believe a new beard and being told to get a haircut by your wife doesn't turn you into a good coach. I really thought they'd cracked it with that one.


When you don't do stupid shit(like have him block their best pass rusher) and use him like you should, Cole Kmet can be a real asset to your young QB. I still think he's overpaid for what he brings, but he will be a chain mover who can stack catches if you get out your own way Waldron*. Kmet was a big part of things finally starting to click yesterday. Played tough too, keeping going after taking several big shots.

*Note: We really need a nickname for this shithead @tunafat. Something that befits wot a turd he is. I know im asking a lot but it needs to be up there with Lance "i got shampoo in my eye" Louis

 

Damn.

Caleb would be on a HOF trajectory already if he played up there. It helps when you have a good OL but we've saidit before LaFluer is an excellent coach who could get the most out of any QB on his roster.

Such a shame when we remember we could have had Harbaugh, who most definitely would have forced Poles hand on the OL (probably why Harbaugh was never an option for Georgie).

Flus is in the long tradition of Bears HCs who suck at in-game management: burning TOs, stupid challenges, questionable 3rd and 4th down playcalls. I didn't watch Hard Knocks and have no desire to but heard a lot of people talking about how the show seemed to go out of its way to portray Flus as a cool, solid HC. No doubt at the urging of the McCaskeys I'm sure.

Anyway before the season I had us at 1-2 at this point (1-3 after next week) so its not so much the outcome that I'm pissed at but how everything's played out. I thought Caleb was ok, some bad mistakes but hung in there all game and made better throws as the game progressed. That's the good news. The bad news is that I see no light at the end of the tunnel with this OL. It's not going to magically get better in week 6. That means Caleb is going to be under duress all year. It means we are going to lose more games than we should. But does it mean Flus gets fired if we win 7 games or less? That would be so Bears, bringing in a whole new staff in our QB's second season. Remember that's what I was worried about happening after it was apparent Flus was surviving Black Monday.

 

...and yet no one was there to advise Nagy about his visor. ...and the sky could have been the limit.

Do you mean the guy that throws challenge flags like they were beads at the Mardi Gras?

 

Eberflus actually defended the goal line play calls….doubling down on the 4th down call.

What a fucking joke:

 

Per Dan Wiederer

Through 3 games Bears have:
Trailed for - 127:49
Led for - 7:35

We are VERY lucky not to be 0-3.

 

This is very true. Poles has done some good things for sure, and the #1 overall trade he got value, which is also great. But sticking with Eberflus is a definite ding on his record. And what he was done (hasn't done) with the OL is fucking criminal, and it's not like this is some 20/20 hindsight shit, we've been saying it here since he got hired.

My favorite bit there was when he said, "wasted, well, I don't want to say wasted, but if they still had them". No dude, you were right the first time. And at the end of the game, after they got that first down, those two timeouts would have been enough to maybe give the Bears a final hail mary type possession.

The OL isn't going to get better, and I think neither will Waldron, we know what Eberflus is. I don't think he's is even remotely in the hot seat. This is a year with a new offensive system and a rookie QB and WR, he will have all the rope in the world. They could go 3-14 and he'd still be safe. Poles has decided to marry himself to this fucker, so we all have to hope that it all just magically clicks.

Caleb has been improving game to game, but it's also clear his clock is getting absolutely fucked. But he will show enough improvement to give these chucklefucks another year at least? Yes, that plus the defense. Little things like clock management and challenges mean nothing to this org.

There's no doubt it was unexpected anyway. I sure as shit didn't see it coming.

 

Oh, and lest we forget, one of the actual backbreaking moments of this game was the Special Teams offsides on 4th and short, extending the drive that put the Colts up 2 scores. Absolutely brutal.

 

So this is what we can look forward to all year? In one picture

 

Conditional 3rd for caleb Williams and Rome Odunze

 

We hadn't seen you in a while. Did the chain come off your bike? Hope the walk home wasn't too long

 

Yep.

The 4 turds lying on the ground while the play's still going on, i think we all knew was coming. The breaking thru bedrock to discover a new lower layer of crud re the playcalling is something i didn't think possible. But that playcall is one we'll still remember 20years from now.

 

I'm ok with Eberflush there, I actually meant the shithat who works for him that calls the plays. Walrus would fit, cos he's also a useless tub of lard and changes direction at the same speed a walrus would. But i just know you can do better than that.

 

Well I wasn't able to watch the game till late last night.

My takeaways:

• I would charitably give the OL a grade of C-. Easily their best game of the season and yet they still sucked more often than not. Still don't feel good about them going forward.
• Stop with the WR screens. They are too predictable and the WRs suck at blocking (Moore can be fine if he puts effort, which he doesn't always).
• Kmet managed to make a couple blocks yesterday, about damn time.
• Swift finally made some plays. About damn time.
• Pass rush still isn't consistent enough. Felt like Stafford had lots of clean pockets to fire it downfield.
• My favorite play of the game was the 1st and goal at the 1. Caleb lines up under center, Roschon in the power I and we pound it in. Where the fuck was that last week?
• The Aussie finally had a good game, still not worth a 4th round pick but a case could be made he was the MVP yesterday.
• Good game for Caleb. The miss down the sidelines to DJ in the endzone in the 2nd quarter, I feel like that was more on DJ for slowing up on the route initially? But yet another example of Caleb and the WRs (particularly DJ) not being on the same page.
• Still felt like we were outplayed for 2.5 quarters But Bears stepped up from the mid 3rd quarter on.

 

I'd correct you and said best 1/2 game of the season, and even then that’s a stretch. They were absolutely terrible in the 1st half, and even in the 2nd half, they looked like their 'best' this year on 1.5 drives.

Agree. Saw too many 'fake WR screen' then misdirection plays that just didn't work, and the only way they could have is if the entire defense bit on the 4 WRs bunched in a diamond to the right of the QB and didn't cover the one WR to his left. I liked weeks past when Waldron went extra hard on quick slants. I'll never have a problem calling too many of those.

Had to be the first game Waldron didn't treat him like he's a workhorse, between the tackles guy who needs 20+ runs a game. Crazy how good a guy can look when you use his strengths and not expect them to conform to your scheme.

You have one really good DE, a 3T who, pops for 1-2 plays a game (then gets out worked by an injured Andrew Billings), then just looks lost in the fray other times.

That, and for as much as we shit of Stafford for the decade and change we've seen him QB the LOLoins, the guy's also a good QB. There were plays where (Ev pointed it out in the game thread)--pass rush aside--you just can't give that guy 18-22 yards wide open (like no DB/defensive player within 10 yards of the guy) up the left seam because your safeties and the DB they chose to pick on (Stevenson) played the worlds softest zone.

Stafford has been around way too long to just let him have 'gimmes' like that. A guy like Anthony Richardson a week ago, he's still green enough that he probably still can't process fast enough to see it (or his OC to simplify his game cuts his field in half and that play may never have been a read for him), well--Stafford isn't that.

And even though I will help lead the charge shitting on him, maybe don't do that when Andy Dalton comes to town next week. He's another guy who's been around too long for huge chunk plays up the seam will be executed unless the WR drops the ball.

The back up C playing FB made it better. I think Waldron got the message. Well--at least I hope.

 

Given the state of the OL and the potential for the WRs to get seperation quickly, I'll never understand why this hasn't been a bigger part of the playbook now and in years past. In my lifetime the quick slant is the most underused offensive playcall, inexplicably so.

 

@Jjratface this is inappropriate.

Remove this post or I will report it to Tim.