How Bout Dem Bears?

davetherave wrote: »

The whole "Let's make them come to Chi-Town and deal with the weather" spiel hasn't really stopped teams beating us at home though :pac:

I should note I was being sarcastic. Most NFL teams play in **** weather of some kind!


Is Arlington really that far "out" though, when you consider the size of the city. It's got a train station in the car park, it's one street off of a highway for car access, big site to get restaurants, bars, parking, maybe even bung a hotel in there.

It's not that far out, no, as i said comparing to Boston or San Francisco it's not terrible. But I like the idea of a city center stadium, it's old fashioned but it just feels right to me. Selfishly (and I've only been to two games in soldier field but I recently have moved to Chicago and want to go more often) it will make going to a game a way bigger hassle from the south suburbs but I understand why they would want to move.

The only thing I suppose is as the Chicago Mayor says, they have a lease/contract for another 12 years so this whole thing could come to nothing.[/quote]

I didn't know about that, that probably does protect it for a while!

although the city is broke so I wonder if they could buy out of the lease. Would make a change from cities forking over money to these obscenely wealthy businesses just to keep them there while the city itself crumbles.

https://twitter.com/ChicagoBears/status/1405596779291230210?s=20

Good news from training camp is Justin Fields is impressing people. Bad news is we have no offensive line. We were thin at tackle to begin with but with injuries (minor) Matt Nagy didn't even know who was going to play LT in practice today when asked at his presser this morning. We're f*cked unless Pace can sign someone. Russell Okung? Maybe they are waiting to see if anyone decent is cut from another team but can they afford to wait..

edit: The line today according to Kevin Fishbain

Bars, Whitehair, Mustipher, Hambright, Simmons

🙈

So not in favour of sending him out under the big lights in LA on SNF on the opening weekend to get hit more times when a Frazier vs Ali fight then ?

quite a few reports that mr fields was on fire today ...............just saying :)

Pace solving a problem and then causing a new one as always. The o line situation is unforgivable. He basically made a series of compounding gambles. If Tevan Jenkins injury isn't an issue, and if moving him to a new position works out even though he's a rookie, and if getting rid of leno and keeping Jimmy graham works out, and if no other problems arise on the o line, we'll be ok.

I'm all in favour of drafting Jenkins, it was a great move. But Jesus there's so much wishful thinking involved in what we are at now. I really don't want to see fields for a while, until all the ifs above start getting answered.

the Bears game is on at 6pm here which means we all get to see it.

edit: which may not be a good thing.

https://twitter.com/BearsNationCHI/status/1426640955646652417?s=20

It's such a weird feeling to have a QB that not only every Bears fan is 100% behind but so many neutral fans/other sports people want to see succeed. I've never seen it over the past 20 years and it has probably never happened.

The NFL subreddit for example is full of non Bears fans that want to see him succeed. On twitter you have ex Bears like Taylor Gabriel and Cutty tweeting support. Pretty much every NFL/NCAA related handle too. Then LeBron and DWade, although the former is a Buckeye fan and the latter is a Bears fan so those make sense I suppose.

It's usually an equal mix of support, indifference and disdain for whoever is under center for us so this will take some getting used to.

I thought he was solid after a rocky start. Khalil Herbert carried his camp form into the first game and was impressive too.

Teven Jenkins had back surgery today and although the Bears hope he'll be back mid-season I doubt it. I don't know why this team cannot be honest with fans/media about anything. It really makes you doubt everything anyone in the organisation says. How do they benefit from lying about the severity of a rookie's injury in pre-season?

For 2+ weeks it has been "back tightness, we're not concerned" even though literally everyone else has been concerned. Signing Jason Peters "has nothing to do with the status of Teven" Nagy said on Saturday. B*llocks to that.

The lies. The North Korean-esque secrecy about everything. Limiting what the beat writers can/cannot talk about as a condition for them being allowed to attend camp. Video clips from camp expressly forbidden. It's a joke.

It’s a funny old game isn’t it.

Not a bad return for Mitch to Chicago. A TD and over a hundred yards. And three more quarters to go. I don’t know how long he’ll get but it’s a nice return.

Bears fans booing.

TD bills so 28-0 but as an eagles fan if I put that much weight into a pre season game score I’d have been in an awful mood since Friday morning.

in preseason , booing is really bad , especially booing dalton taking the field for the last drive

Wrecking Nall lives on for another year!

As pessimistic as I've been going into a season, and that's saying something. Corners and o line are disasters by all accounts, and as you say, Nagy has decided the success from giving up play calling was too painful to his ego. It bodes very poorly.

A lot of excitement around fields obviously but I'd hate for him to 1) get buckled behind a terrible o line or 2) do just enough to save Nagy.

The main cause of optimism is that I'm always wrong.

https://twitter.com/BearsNationCHI/status/1437061237112705025?s=20

some things to like about that game but it came to a QB throwing 2 bombs to receivers who had the freedom of california and how do 2 bears not cream the guy who has caught the ball and is on the ground gets up and runs

dalton just doesn't excite , all short passes , the O line looked like he was going to crumble at anytime , running 4th downs in the 1st quarter ?? nagys calls suck , bringing in fields for 1 play at a time and one was a shovel pass?

we saw how good fields is with his TD . nagy should have let him in for the last plays of the 4th quarter

Montgomery was great , hope his hand is ok

#freejustin

i think kansas city have had a lot of success with it , we went for 4th downs in the first quarter in field goal range at 7-0 down didn't make much sense to me

Nagy went for it on 4th and 15 when we were in the middle of nowhere, in a game where or QB had not at all threatened to pass beyond ten yards. He is probably the worst play caller in the NFL. As soon as I saw them out for that play I knew it was going to fail.

And this in a game where he actually called it pretty well at times, stuck with the run for a change. I didn't like all the gimmicky bullshit when he brought in fields, but there were signs of improvement. Then the real Nagy came back, looking to be "unexpected" by doing things nobody expects because they're stupid.

Defense was a complete shambles and an indictment of pace for getting rid of Fuller (to keep graham who they threw to once). Meanwhile Jackson was a disgrace but still found time to chew out alec ogletree. Mack was mostly anonymous. If hicks hadn't been there God knows how it would have gone.

Plus points were Montgomery was fantastic, the o line was way way better than I expected given the circumstances (and the opposition, I mean they basically kept Donald quiet, credit where it's due), kmet looked good, Robinson continues to be strong. Best of all fields looks great but I really hope he doesn't end up having Nagy or pace who both need to be gone. It was grim viewing even if we expected to lose.

Oh another good thing, we weren't the worst in our awful division...

https://twitter.com/BearsNationCHI/status/1438552992500916225?s=20

fields was very unlucky not to get his first passing TD got a crucial 1st down with a great bit of hussle right at the end

defense getting 3 picks in a row was incredible

20-3 up and bit of better game management and it would have been more comfortable

felt a bit for dalton , he was actually having a decent game but running is not what he does

one worry is the amount of unforced penalties , false starts and a very stupid 'taunting'

Dalton likely out a couple of weeks, so Fields almost certain to be starting for the foreseeable.

Agree with you peteed, I Feel bad for Dalton, he was having a good game Sunday.

that was f***king horrible , the O line and the calls sucked . felt so sorry for fields

9 sacks ........NINE

HORRIBLE