If it makes anyone feel remotely better about Braxton Jones' struggles, Verse has just been named defensive rookie of the month.

wab wrote: ↑Thu Oct 03, 2024 12:35 pm I wonder if Jax will have a fire sale at some point during the season. When is their bye?

I thought it would be Week 8 after the second of their two London games but it's not until Week 12, so late November after their games against the other NFC North teams plus the Eagles.

With a 4.34 40-yard time he's certainly well named!

He was very much a special teams guy as a rookie last year with 227 plays. He only played 12 defensive snaps.

Upon further review, this new kickoff stuff sucks. Something has to change. Heard talk on the radio that they may change it to the 35 to entice teams to actually not kick it out of/into the endzone. It certainly has become one of the most boring plays in football this year. When I have seen a retur...

malk wrote: ↑Thu Oct 03, 2024 6:15 am

RichH55 wrote: ↑Wed Oct 02, 2024 9:12 pm Ditkaphone - Huge fan of Bears - Hates otters

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

Have you ever had a Chicken Tarka?

It's like a Chicken Tikka, but a little 'otter.

If it makes you feel any better @dplank I can guarantee you the crowd will make it feel every bit a home game. Bears fans will be in abundance whilst Jags fans will mostly be going to the Wembley game the following week. The Vikings also have a "home" game at Tottenham this weekend and th...

At a certain point when it's like Center number 5 or 6 - it's tough to keep putting it on the Center. Whats that joke/line? "If you run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. If you run into assholes all day, you're the asshole." -Raylan Givens, Justified Did you even wa...

That's why it's good to watch different breakdowns because even these knowledgeable analysts don't always agree on certain plays. They're also looking at a selection of plays in isolation rather than every one and therefore don't factor in the flow of the game. In O'Sullivan's breakdown of the Rams ...

There are also other options out there including Davante Adams for around the same as Allen would cost cap-wise. Adams does have another 2 years left on his contract after this year with a dead cap hit of $15m, but there are no further guarantees so I'm not sure that dead cap hit would pass to a new...

Tickets arrived today. It's always a relief when that happens!

Just read a proposal for Allen and Herbert to KC for Trey Smith. I think the guy was half-serious. Trey is on the last year of his deal The Chiefs are also 4-0 with a 2 game lead in their division and aiming to become the first team to win 3 Super Bowls in a row. Would trading their star OG (who PF...

Speaking of which, Booker hasn't made as much noise the last few weeks as he did early on. I haven't been watching closely for him - how's he looked? Through 4 games he has 5 tackles (one of those for a loss) and one QB hit on 48 defensive snaps. This is nice look at the plays he's made: https://ww...

I feel like Gervon Dexter deserves at least a special mention -- he's out-performing Jalen Carter in their 2nd season to date Yeah, I'd temper the Dexter praise. He's been great at pressuring, but a liability against the run. Carter doesn't have the sacks, but with a 72 rating (to Dexter's 63), pre...

Kmet and Dexter mic'd up for the game...

O-linemen's perspective on some of the better plays against the Rams: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTdXjHRFRk4 Kmet actually had 3 successful chop blocks pulling from right to left. It just emphasises what's possible if players execute blocks properly to get the running game going, get play actio...

If it makes you feel any better dplank I can guarantee you the crowd will make it feel every bit a home game. Bears fans will be in abundance whilst Jags fans will mostly be going to the Wembley game the following week. The Vikings also have a "home" game at Tottenham this weekend and the ...

One former Bears QB taking a look at the play of another former Bears QB: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8IVMrGnmao Fields threw a couple of throws running to his left that weren't dissimilar to those we've drooled over his successor in Chicago making. He's also still having to cope with wayward s...

Not me. And don't get me wrong--really enjoyed Monty, and I felt he was a leader, too. I also felt that he was often hurt when he was here and Herbert out-performed him quite often to the point that it was tough to hold onto him. Who can even remember this now, right? Boy, what I wouldn't give for ...

The full injury report:



Sweat seems to keep acquiring new knocks. Last week it was his elbow, this week it's his ankle.

https://x.com/SharpFootball/status/1841197974149611827?t=gSWPsGbv-tnV3RQDlcRZcA&s=19 Ruh roh... small sample size but still So he's comparing Game 11 of Smith-Njigba's rookie season against the team that won the NFC Championship to Game 2 of his second season against a team that is currently 1-...

Well deserved...

And if I had bought Berkshire in 1984 instead of that new Vette, I 'd have about 6.5 million dollars instead of some very foggy memories of some very sketchy evenings. Wait a minute, are you saying an entire English county was up for sale in 1984 and you could have bought it for the price of a car?...

Not awful, but a couple of penalties, a couple of bull rushes where he got pushed right back but still kept himself between the rusher and Williams., and a couple of pattycake run blocks. Better than last week.

I've been a huge Tevin fan since he was coming out of college. But anybody could see that the blocking was much better with him out. Was it immediately after Jenkins was injured in the second quarter or was it more due to halftime adjustments and the fact they started running from under center more...

It's always interesting to hear different takes from guys who know something about playing the game at this level. Here's Chase Daniel's:

Jesus tap dancing Christ if Teven Jenkins was able to get to the corner DJ would have taken that screen to the house. This is what I've been talking about...well designed plays that are getting screwed up because one or two guys can't execute. Yeah, I don't know what happened on that one. It's a lo...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJEtHWDUXlA O'Sullivan continues to call out the blocking but also Moore for loafing and Allen for being slow. Even on Moore's TD the route he runs is lousy and we all saw he could have had another if only he'd kept running his route instead of giving up on it because...

Honestly not sure. The KC 2nd is gonna be 28th or later in the round so alot more like a 3rd. I'm looking at it as if Poles plays his cards right and let's Keenan walk, we can still comp a 5th rounder. Is there really much likelihood Poles would get a R5 if he doesn't re-sign Allen? That's the maxi...

There is never a bad time to bitch about paying running backs. When Swift scores, picture me saying "would have been a better 6 points for 6 or 7 million less" A lesser back would have probably tripped over, rather than leapt over, a prone Kmet and fallen flat on his face. The Bears rank ...