chw42

I've done a 180 on Swift. I don't think they can get a better RB than him for his salary next year. You might as well keep him unless you can get a value RB on day 3. They really should be focusing on the defense in days 1 and 2 of the draft.

Cutting Edmunds saves a lot of money. They can also restructure a decent amount of money to make space. They can leverage the future a little bit to make some space, but I can't see them signing or trading for anyone too significant. They're going to need to improve through the draft.

His dead cap is bigger than his cap hit next year. I don't think he's getting traded. Poles made a huge mistake giving him that extension with 81 million guaranteed before he even played a snap with Caleb. Especially when you consider he was under contract for 2 more years at that time.

DJ is like Yoan Moncada. He acts like he just died every time he gets hit too hard. Maybe sometimes he does and he toughs it out, but I've never seen a player go down so many times and then come back a few plays later like nothing happened. Either he's a tank or he just over sells the pain. Then you have the constant effort issues despite being clearly a very talented player. It's frustrating, especially because he was a big part of so many big wins in the past month. We're not playing in this game without him, but at the same time, he contributed to us losing this game.

If you watch the all 22 of the interception, Ben Johnson drew up a play that created a massive window in the defense. Moore ends up running way too deep of a crossing route and doesn't flatten it like he's supposed to. If he turns his route into more of a dig instead of a deep crosser he would have been wide ass open. At the very worst that's incomplete because Caleb maybe leads him on the throw a bit too much. Everyone maybe should have gotten a little blame on this play. Johnson with maybe too aggressive of a play call (even though it should have worked), Caleb with maybe leads DJ too much on this throw even if he runs the correct route, and DJ for straight up running the wrong route for the situation. But the main issue stems from DJ running the wrong route. You can't be having miscommunications like this in the playoffs in overtime in a gotta have it situation. That's something that Ben Johnson and the FO have to address. Cause this is a personnel and coaching issue.

Shelton looks like he flopped. I'm not even sure that Dexter meant to push him. They kind of just ran into each other.

Yeah I get that, but even prior to the injury, he was trending in the wrong direction after a good start to the season.

Loveland was so dependable all year, but he had some absolutely terrible drops in the first half. At this point, I expect Rome to not come up with the tough catches. He plays like he's a much smaller receiver way too often. He's basically Chase Claypool without the personality and attitude issues.

I honestly thought they should have taken the points on the first drive. But the problem with that drive was Odunze short arming the TD he should have caught.

I mean yeah, but I'd argue that we were in those situations because the defense couldn't generate turnovers when they did the hardest part (force the fumbles).

That Bo Nix injury yesterday is probably why they don't put Caleb on designed runs more often.

The scariest part of watching the Bears offense isn't when they face 3rd and forever, it's when it's 3rd/4th and short. We just can't consistently hit in the quick game. The fact that Ben keeps going for it in these situations just makes it worse.

I'd actually argue the Bears had terrible turnover luck in the playoffs. They forced 6 fumbles in the last 2 games and recovered none of them. Stafford also had 2-3 tipped passes that didn't get intercepted. All the turnover luck they had in the regular season just went away. They also threw 2 picks cause the receivers ran the wrong route and another one was because the main receiver slipped on 4th down.

Obviously amazing season. But man...to get that TD to send the game to OT and then fumble the game on that interception. That hurts. I'm not sure this team had what it takes to go win next week in Seattle, but you play the games for a reason. I bet nobody thought this defense could hold Stafford and the Rams to 17 points over 4 quarters. If you had told me that before the game, I would have guaranteed that we'd win. The offense just could not convert key 4th downs in the first half. That pick in OT was probably on Moore. We don't know what the play is, but I don't think Caleb just throws it up there like that if he didn't think Moore was going to break his route off. DJ's kind of known for improvising at the worst times, but he played a great game before that today. That's just part of the DJ Moore experience I guess.

This is just cruel to both teams. Broncos basically have no chance next week and Josh Allen gets knocked out by a team without a QB for the rest of the year.

They made Purdy look slow. Meanwhile Purdy ran circles around the Bears defense.

To finish the job that Rick Hahn couldn't do.

Tomlin is done in Pittsburgh.

I used to think that if you're down by 2 scores with less than 5 minutes the game is pretty much over (at least for the Bears). But we've come back from that kind of deficit 3 times this year.

I don't think any team will pay a huge price for him when the Cubs don't really have a place to play him. You can't really negotiate with any leverage if the alternative is that he sits on the bench or spot starts a few times a week.

We just had him last year lol. He's a guy who can only rush the passer so don't ever play him when the other team can run at him.

What is this infatuation with Shaw that I clearly don't see? He had 3rd percentile exit velo, 16th percentile bat speed. He doesn't hit the ball hard at all. Sure he's fast and good on defense, but you can't stick at 3B hitting the ball that softly. His entire Baseball Savant page is blue (ironic) except his whiff% and sprint speed.

Teams run fake screen wheel all the time. Hell, Sarkisian runs it every game with the Longhorns and it usually works when they play bad teams. But the fact that Ben put Wright out there on the opposite side of the formation as a blocker made it look so much like a screen that Green Bay 100% took the bait and left DJ wide open. What's also great on that play is that if the safety bit too much towards DJ on the wheel, Loveland would have been wide open on the post. Ben dressed up a very vanilla play and threw in a wrinkle in there to basically make sure there was an option no matter what Green Bay did out of a single high look. This is why the details matter.

We got torched by Romeo Doubs yesterday. Puka might put up 200 on us if our offense can keep up.

Caleb's inconsistency is tougher to deal with when you have only 3 plays to get 10 yards. But when you have 4 downs every time, there's a greater chance he hits a home run or does something crazy like that 4th and 8 throw. He's better in a gotta have it scenario.