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My post *edit mutiple posts* gets deleted yet repeated posts attacking someone's actions that have absolutely nothing to do with football don't? Subverting gender identity politics and using them to attack someone's character as a "joke" is ok on these boards now? Or is it just because it's Caleb Williams, who you seem to have an issue with?
2QB/SF absolutely. Borderline for 1QB leagues. 49ers DEF is banged up a good bit and I think CHI puts up numbers against them.
Bears offense seems to be on a revival of sorts but consider the injuries to the Lions secondary in the second half of the Thanksgiving game. I believe that the bet here is that the 49’ers have tapped out and the Bears are playing hard for Brown. The Bears have many playmakers. Both organizations play frequently so its a rival type of gridiron battle. I would lean on Williams if you are in a pinch. He has been good wrt ball control for a rookie and DJ and KA have been very productive since Brown grabbed OC reins
I’m currently starting Caleb and Winston over Bryce and purdy.
Over Will Levis at home vs Jax?
is still right here though. We hope folks will use it when someone is trying to be funny vs using it to laugh at others.
I think it's a product of having three OC's. The organization is a train wreck. They have had three top-10 QBs in the last decade and nothing to show for it.
And a Swiss cheese OL. This is my main criticism of Poles. He wanted to moneyball the OL and it has bitten him in the rear end. The Bears don't have starting quality players at 3 of the 5 OL positions AND have barely NFL quality backups. At a position where it's very easy to have injury, it doesn't make sense to be thin there. I'll also die on the hill that Chris Morgan needs to go. He's had nearly 3 years to "coach up" this OL and it still looks like a high school product.
Much easier to moneyball the QB than the lines.
Its certainly been a problem, especially as its not like any of them were considered good.
While that stat is troubling, I do think Williams has pretty clearly been better than Young was as a rookie or Wilson ever was. He's made some positive plays that rookie Young didn't, and Wilson never did in his career.
I’ll always believe the Bears downgraded from Fields to Caleb. That move set the franchise back another few years.
Keeping Eberflus and hiring Waldron was the death knell here.
Fields was not a good qb. Can't win with him regularly.
I'm amazed at how inaccurate he is on anything past like 15 yards.
As much as I liked Fields, he is inarguably worse than Caleb (year 4 vs year 1) at going through his progressions and seeing the field. Caleb definitely has some bad habits that need to be coached out (footwork, heroball, staying on program), but right now he's a better QB than Fields has ever been.
This guy gets it.
The OL can be rebuilt. The real challenge is getting a competent coaching staff, as we see how the organization hires.
It's hypocritical to say that Fields was treated poorly then use the same excuses/reasons used on Fields to denigrate Williams. Several things can be true at once. Fields could have been critically flawed AND the OL/Coaching suck. Will Caleb be the next Peyton Manning if the Bears upgrade the OL? Who knows. Will he be a serviceable or better starting QB in the NFL for a long time? I think the odds are stronger for Williams than FIelds.
Am I doing that? Having a poor OL and a bad coaching staff/bad organization seem to be the current excuses for why Williams isn't doing real great. I agree but I'm not the only one saying this. Both are important. They fix those and he's a decent QB? maybe. We'll see. At most, I'm saying there's the possibility that he might not be as good as we were told he was. That seems like it doesn't really have anything to do with Fields though so I'm a little confused or maybe I'm just stupid.
A lot of Bears fans preferred keeping FIelds and trading the #1 for a haul. Poles thought the roster (inclusive of Fields) just wasn't good enough and decided to reset the most expensive position (QB). That gives him 4-5 years to build a team around Williams before having to open up the checkbook for a mega contract. With that decision made, Poles supposedly promised Fields he'd get traded to one of Field's preferred teams. After his play this season, I don't expect Fields will get starter money from any team. He'll likely resign with the Steelers on a 2 year 10-15mil per year backup contract.
I'd hesitate to go that far, but here's some fun Caleb stats...
Better watch out Trav…the haters will come out in forces.
And then one like that
agree with Chaka on this…..it was obvious
