After that debacle, anything can happen. This team wasn’t prepared to play - the entire defense took the afternoon off and Tevin Jenkins played at half speed. The only players who showed up today were Moore and Kmet. The coaches were asleep at the wheel I'm really wondering if Jenkins played injure...

Doesn't seem like the same Bears team it was the past 6 weeks, scheme wise and attitude wise. While I think the game is over, if GB scores a tuddy, they need to go away from this game. Yeah, I was really hoping that they'd come out loose and what-the-hell. Instead, only the offense did, and only fo...

Too many frickin backward plays. Bears OL has had some bad moments handling the puker pass rush. Need a few more power runs up the middle to soften them up, like what RoJo did. Yeah, we're going to have to lean on 'em a bit in the second quarter. Already proven that we can attack the middle of the ...

Yes! A game where the doinks go our way.

Full goddamned throttle, boys.

This game is different.

Win the toss? Give us the fucking ball.
Kick into the end zone? Run the fucker out.
Whole season avoiding the middle of the field? Wear it the fuck out and see what happens.

Don't even know if we'll score on this first drive, but this is a game-winning vibe so far.

Haven't checked out Dark; thanks for the nudges. It's a slightly different animal, but it sounds like Dark fans might like Beforeigners...wherever it is now that HBO turned into some sort of lifestyle platform at cut its international stuff. Oh, the Bears game. The Packers get too happy with Jaylon ...

Aaaaaand I can't believe I omitted the original cowpunks (anyone who got into Americana through Uncle Tupelo or Wilco owes 'em, too). Jason's a Northern Illinois guy who moved to Nashville, so I'd like to think it fits. And it kicks tons of ass, which is pretty good, too. https://www.youtube.com/wat...

lol it's all good man, we are allowed to have different opinions on things no biggie...I just don't see those as holes in his game, their the easy stuff that I wish Getsy would serve up more. Our disagreement boils down to you believe that Getsy doesn't call those plays because Fields sux at them, ...

Quick slants and drag routes, for starters. Because Fields can't throw them. He has thrown them, though. What are you talking about? He's thrown slants for first downs and touchdowns. He threw drag routes and crossers to DJ Moore 4 days ago :lol: Twist my arm, I meant that he can't throw them relia...

Only at BFO can a Velus Jons Disgust Repository can turn into a thread about Justin Fields and the “throws he can’t make”. To be fair, it had already turned into a thread about how Jones is giving it his honest best and deserves some credit for that. The thing had evolved by the time I accepted dpl...

Its definitely fair to ask why we don't see more slants - I get it and wonder myself. But the throw itself is pretty simple. For whatever reason, Getsy calls screens as his answer to pressure instead of slants. The ball has to come out just as fast on a WR screen as it does a slant, so that kills t...

From what I understand, it isn't a big part of the Packer offense either. I think the risk of a pick is too great. At least that's the rationale I believe. Seems to me though that Rodgers used to kill us with Slants against Lovie's D. I could be wrong, but that's what I remember. I think you're rem...

How about you, for starters? Those are two of the easiest throws for a QB to make. Not if he's still dropping back when he needs to throw them, and not if his motion includes checking the runner back to first. That was meant to be more goofy than harsh, FWIW. But there's a reason that Brock Purdy g...

dplank wrote: ↑Wed Jan 03, 2024 3:59 pm

karhu wrote: ↑Wed Jan 03, 2024 3:23 pm

Quick slants and drag routes, for starters. Because Fields can't throw them.

Who wants to tell him?

How about you, for starters?

Agreed that he seems like a heckuva guy and a heckuva teammate. He might've suffered more than anyone from the contortions the offense has gone through: Jones was drafted to be a YAC guy, and we just can't run the routes that play to his strengths. Maybe he gets that chance as a RB leaking out on d...

Agreed that he seems like a heckuva guy and a heckuva teammate. He might've suffered more than anyone from the contortions the offense has gone through: Jones was drafted to be a YAC guy, and we just can't run the routes that play to his strengths. Maybe he gets that chance as a RB leaking out on de...

This is very long but very good: https://x.com/_NickWhalen/status/1742341891448778841?s=20 Preachin' to the choir in my case, but that sums things up nicely. Nail 2024 without a high draft pick on a QB, and it won't matter if 2025's draft class is supposedly better (however we're supposed to measur...

1. Trade down.
2. Take the best WR available with our first pick.
3. Larry Bird JJ McCarthy and see if anyone notices.

5. Profit!

Agreed Otis. That first game still sticks in my craw. Yeah, Bears are a young and rebuilding team but we were teased with an improved offense during the preseason, and more talent on the defense. What we saw week 1 was an unprepared team, and it took them about 4 weeks to start to get it together. ...

Tepper is the feces that's created when stupid eats too much money.

Yeah, I stole that from King of the Hill, but Tepper doesn't deserve an original wisecrack.

southdakbearfan wrote: ↑Sun Dec 31, 2023 11:09 am FSU has 26 players out, basically a team of walk ins and 3rd stringers playing. Much the same for the other bowls I have watched.

Naw, that's just the usual Iowa offense.

There were passes thrown in yesterday’s game that we haven’t seen much of all season. Passes to the middle of the field, that crossing route to Moore, the gorgeous dime to the back of the end zone. If THAT was a sample of Getsy’s growth and development as a play caller? Then I will back off of Gets...

Yeah, I suppose it really depends on what you can get. There is a ton of value in knowing where you are picking and if you have another stud on the roster before FA and the draft starts. This thing is going to be so juicy! Also keep in mind that this QB draft class is considerably more talented tha...

I know it's post game excitement after a win, but if Poles moves on from Fields you have to wonder about the impact it's going to have on the locker room next season. The Bears really feel like they're building something here and there has to be a danger that could suck a lot of the enthusiasm and ...

I was so down on Getsy in the middle of the season that I got a little autocontrarian. In that light, how about the specific things he did today? On a couple of crucial plays, he schemed receivers open near the numbers on curls or what looked like sit routes--and some of those routes were deep downf...

Just a thought experiment. Is there a GM candidate out there who's clearly better at building a young roster than Poles has been? No one springs to mind. If Poles learns from his few mistakes, he's a gem. Is there a HC candidate out there who can build the chemistry Eberflus has, lead the defense Eb...

He's still not a long-term solution, any more than a 7-9 record means that we're back. But only a fool or a troll (no regular posters here qualify as either) would sneer at the game Fields and Getsy had today, or ignore the momentum we've built late in the season. They're both necessary steps to wh...

I keep having to remind myself that the less convinced Poles seems about Fields, the more he can ask for the #1 pick. It's the only smart play.

Dare I say that Getsy has called one of his better games so far? I think so. He still had one or two bad series' where he was running the ball into the teeth of the Atlanta defense, but overall I liked the passing plays. I really liked the way that they worked to get the ball into Moore's hands wit...

He's still not a long-term solution, any more than a 7-9 record means that we're back. But only a fool or a troll (no regular posters here qualify as either) would sneer at the game Fields and Getsy had today, or ignore the momentum we've built late in the season. They're both necessary steps to whe...