How Bout Dem Bears?

We are going nowhere with Eberflus. A really good DC but an absolutely shocking head coach who should have been canned in January. He's in way over his head.

Crazy to think we'd be 0-3 if Will Levis didn't make that moronic pass attempt.

The Vikes and Packers are dealing with adversity at the QB position, but despite that they have winning records due to competent coaching, while once again we are falling over ourselves.

Yeah, I did wonder if they should've moved on from Eberflus after last year, and right now it looks like they should've. Just mistakes and sloppiness in every aspect of the game.

I thought Caleb did fine in the circumstances. Accurate mid-range passes. Some long passes were off-target, but part of it was QB and receiver not being on the same page (again, could've been coaching). Some was timing, but I think it's hard to get your timing right when the offensive-line is falling apart so badly.

One thing I like with him is his guts and mental-toughness to stay in the pocket when it's collapsing. Yeah, sometimes it costs him, and he takes a sack, but long-term I think it's good, getting those reps.

It used to drive me mad with Fields, he would run out at the first sign of pressure. You just never learn that way. And I think in general, you see that more these days, with college QBs not used to pro-style offenses.

I was pretty depressed at half-time, but I thought in the second half, things improved (for Caleb and Odunze, I'm not giving the coaches a pass). Good to see Odunze having a good game after being very quiet for the first two. Their first touchdown together was a cool moment! (until the coaching-staff blew it seconds later, getting confused about going for 1 or 2, forcing them to take a timeout, then running some crap play to miss the 2-point conversion)

It does seem like that, but I still think it's different this time, because they've never had a talent like Williams. If things don't improve drastically, Eberflus is gone at the end of the season. But amid all the terrible team play, I still see enough in Williams.

Oh I think Williams is definitely a good player who will work out to be a success in the league. But I just think the bears are making all the exact same mistakes as they did with trubisky and fields, starting with the decision to keep eberflus and then, in all probability, fire him next year. Don't get me wrong, that's probably the right decision next year, it's just that it should have happened before drafting Williams. But the bears like to take it one scapegoat at a time.

The worst thing, worse than the terrible o line, is watching Montgomery every week in Detroit, thinking about how much we paid to have Swift be the third best RB on the team, and they just will not accept they made a mistake with him. Could have gotten an o line guy or two for that price, and had Johnson playing much, much better.

It's the bears way baby!

From what I heard the 9ers were well on top and shat the bed. It happens. 3 points is what the bookies give for home advantage so that's all but saying it's a coin toss between two bad teams. I think a loss for us at this point would be a major nail in the seasons coffin already so it's a huge game for us to win. On the other hand if we see more improvement from Williams and signs that OC is learning (such as playing our best running back instead of our most expensive one), then we can say there's progress.

The weird thing is the o line coach was one of the only guys to survive firings at the end of last season. No idea why that was tbh. Along with his failure to recruit decent talent on the line, it's borderline believe from poles at this point, all the more shocking from a former o line player.

Watching the performance of the offensive line today, it's worse we are getting (Jenkins or no Jenkins). Just embarrassing, between penalties and just terrible play. It would be so cool to watch a bears team with a competent offense. What is wrong with our organisation that they just can't bring themselves to do it?

Howbout that DeAndre Swift? I for one never doubted him

The Bears offering Brady $10m in 2020 is very on-brand. Tampa paid him $27.5m.

Made up for it on that one!

Yeah and he's just much more aware. He is also very calm under pressure, like you can see he feels the sacks coming but he doesn't panic, knows when to run and when to stand up and find a pass. He probably will take a few sacks doing that but overall he isn't dishing shadows or getting caught on the hop. There's bigger and better defensive lines coming for him later in the season but these are not exactly a bad bunch either.

I'm the worst kind of fan for changing my entire view if the team based on their performance THIS WEEK, but you can definitely see progress on offense in the jar two weeks compared with the first three weeks. Very promising that the o line has been the best I've seen it in a long time, but the bar was very low for them in fairness, they could only get better. But credit where it's due. Waldron seems to learn from his mistakes.

Wow, yeah, I didn't notice that he didn't step into it. Good to see him and DJ Moore developing a bit of chemistry.

This has been a really poor performance from Williams and the o line. We're just not there yet when it comes to good teams, and our division is too strong. I think Williams is our guy but there's work to be done.