RichH55 wrote: ↑Wed Oct 02, 2024 9:12 pm

Ditka’s dictaphone wrote: ↑Wed Oct 02, 2024 7:21 pm

Don’t worry, the Bears will get an amazing support in London, we love the Bears.

Ditkaphone - Huge fan of Bears - Hates otters

In fairness I love Otters. Tarka man, still brings a tear to the eye.

He wasn't giving effort though, there were several plays where he clearly just dogged it. That's the part I find alarming, not his posture on the sidelines. Regarding JT - the weirdest wave off fans can give is the "he wasn't a good pro QB so therefore his opinions don't carry weight" arg...

I'm not against trying Bates at C when he's 100%, but I'm really skeptical that a UDFA G, who's been tolerable at that position as a pro, and has cross-trained a tiny bit at C, is going to be a giant revelation at C. Also, even though Jones' lack of anchor isn't nothing, I think it's getting blown ...

I don't know what's going on with DJ, but I don't like it. Watched JT's breakdown last night of Caleb, and DJ looks incredibly disinterested out there. Sloppy and half assing it. Regarding Waldron, JT continues to absolutely flame him for his personnel usage and his concepts. I think Waldron sux gu...

The amount of question marks are really frustrating lol. Whilst the main thing for this year is getting them competent so prevent Williams' development being stunted, you think where is Amegadjie going to fit in, should Wright move to guard, is Bates going to amount to anything? I'm not quite ready ...

That 4th rounder is looking like darn near a lock right now. Fields already started 4 games and is playing so well I can't imagine they'd change to Russ. Here's his stat line after 4 weeks: 77/109 Comp/PA Comp% - 70.6% which ranks 7th in the NFL 6 Total TD's against just 1 Turnover (1 turnover in 4...

G08 wrote: ↑Tue Oct 01, 2024 9:02 pm

Ruh roh... small sample size but still

What did Rome and Cole look like? Trash tier tweet!

I think the reason we don't do it is that some of the staff are feeling a warmish seat and if we trade him and then either Moore or Odunze get injured there'll be all kinds of grief. Still, Moore, Odunze, Kmet and Swift, plus the cameo from Carter and some prior pedigree from Everett even if we have...

A 3rd round pick and $17.5m of cap space sure would be nice to out towards offensive linemen next year...

https://x.com/patmcafeeshow/status/1840795412589871322?s=46&t=GSZ9BZca-EfU9rmQO04ivw I get the escalating cap implications, but man, you have to be right on practically every other decision to win without a really good QB. I think the point is that there are either more good QBs than we think a...

I find it interesting that people are having such a tough time with the games this season. Yes, it's been very tough to watch at times, but we are seeing a young team grow and begin to put some pieces together. Even during the losses, the Bears have never been completely out of it. They had a chanc...

A few nuggets about some Game Ball nominees courtesy of the reporters at the Sun Times: Jaquan Brisker is now one of two Bears defenders in the last 76 years to have double digit tackles and at least one sack and one interception in a game. Roquan Smith did it in 2022. Caleb Williams became the fir...

UOK wrote: ↑Sun Sep 29, 2024 9:53 pm Man, I am not handling these games well this season.

Solidarity brother.

UOK wrote: ↑Sun Sep 29, 2024 12:57 pm This season is well and truly over, lads. Coaches are fired and Williams is compromised.

Bears win!

@Ditka’s dictaphone and @malk are you travelling down on the day or are you making a weekend of it? Heading down on Friday after work with the family then catching up with friends over the weekend. We've got family a little north of London so will likely stay with them. Guessing you're doing a week...

It's important to think about who we're using that stat to assess as well. Waldron has schemed open loads of plays in addition to that, we just haven't connected on them. I haven't found a site that shows good stats split by depth of target but from here, https://nextgenstats.nfl.com/stats/passing#...

Lots of talk in this thread and others about other centers Poles could have potentially acquired rather than opting for Bates and Shelton. Folks know what I think of PFF, but what the heck... through the first 3 weeks: Coleman Shelton Rank: 20 Grade 62.2 Connor Williams Rank: 21 Grade: 61.8 Tyler B...

Week 1 Looking at this https://www.espn.com/nfl/playbyplay/_/gameId/401671719 (58 plays) We had two explosive plays an 11 yard scramble and a 20 yard run by Switf (granted this is me just trying to look at it) So 2 plays out of 58 is 3.44% Week 2 https://www.espn.com/nfl/playbyplay/_/gameId/4016717...

Edmunds has been playing out of his mind according to experts. I think Byard and Owens are good signings. Jury is still out on a few of them though... We can definitely add Billings to the list. Walker hasn't been poor for the amount spent even if his sack total is low. The problem is all his signi...

it can only go up from here, right? maybe caleb learns how to deal with a shitty line and oc and overcomes it for a decade (or two!) of excellence. doesn't flus know what waldron is gonna run before he runs it? can't he stop it? that fucking 4th down play is killing me. i can't imagine flus signing...

I don't think Walker was a terrible signing... maybe not great, but decent enough. Billings has been a load up front, so I'd add that to the good side. He hasn't spent a lot of money on the offensive side, choosing mainly to try and build that side through the draft. I haven't given up on Swift or ...

I still want to know the look it was meant to be against. The call is getting dragged everywhere but it doesn't seem impossible that its actually perfect for the look they were expecting and the problem is, as he admitted, not getting to the line quick enough to be able to check out of it. Also wor...

He's pretty hit and miss in free agency. Edwards is probably his best signing (should have paid for 3 years). Edmunds is ok as well though I still wish he'd have stuck with Sanborn. Who else has been a good FA signing? (For ref, I'm excluding trades but perhaps shouldn't be). Edmunds has been playi...

https://x.com/swiftynetwork/status/1839299378605076658?s=46&t=GSZ9BZca-EfU9rmQO04ivw He's pretty hit and miss in free agency. Edwards is probably his best signing (should have paid for 3 years). Edmunds is ok as well though I still wish he'd have stuck with Sanborn. Who else has been a good FA ...

I still want to know the look it was meant to be against. The call is getting dragged everywhere but it doesn't seem impossible that its actually perfect for the look they were expecting and the problem is, as he admitted, not getting to the line quick enough to be able to check out of it. Also wort...

I'd be interested to see what that graph looks like for just week 3. Weeks one and two likely heavily skew it. Hoge was banging on about how Williams was making full field reads and throwing to all three levels, comparing against Jayden Daniels. I think you're bang on about the first couple of week...

Colts were missing key defenders last week so the Bears, of course, couldn't run on them. Rams are missing their top 2 receivers but the D is playing very solidly, I don't expect a letdown from them. The Rams D has been porous on the run, just the Colts was, so this is going to be a key matchup; if...

It just isn't the same but that's very much a me thing. Moot anyway as I don't really have plans to visit the States again any time soon, Grand Rapids is the closest I've got so far. I'm really interested as to why the location matters that much for your interest in seeing the Bears on their home t...

DJ Moore needs to stretch the field, He has just 4 catches on 9 targets on all intermediate and deep balls. He has caught 15 of 18 targets on short passes. Conversely, Rome Oduze has 11 intermediate and deep targets and just 6 short targets. I don't know that he needs to. Moore running shorter rout...

I have no idea how anyone determines what type of job Washington is doing. Flus took over the defense after firing the weird dude, so it's really tough to say. But botching his first DC and OC hires is a big deal, and now he has Waldron which early returns are very poor. And he kept Morgan after cl...