ok - are the Bear’s depth players this good the last two preseason games or did the other teams just suck
Bears two back up QBs are tearnig it up right now
The Bears have a lot of talent on that team.
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Bears are good, but not because of this. Preseason means nothing, Bengals aren’t playing anyone.
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As confident as I am in the Lions, I am certainly having zero thoughts of taking the Bears for granted this year.
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The Bears in preseason look like the preseason champs of 2008.
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Remember that 0-16 season we had? Remind what the Lions preseason record was that year? Preseason doesn’t decide anything except who you lose for the regular season due to preseason game injuries.
Lions once went 4-0 in pre season……
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So did the Browns.
Bears starters went 3 and out against bengals backups first 3 series. Had to blitz corners to get pressure on Bengals backups while playing starters on defense. Caleb made a highlight throw but also is holding the ball to long, will definitely run but nothing like we had to deal with when playing Fields. He struggled running the offense but made plays when it broke down. You can definitely see the arm talent though. Is going to take some big hits when the real games start. Odunze looks like a weapon. Good player.
It’s hilarious everyone talking about Caleb Williams. Guys, he was absolute ass. The plan from the beginning was to play the the starters for one quarter. Caleb Williams stat line for 1 quarter? 4/8, 11 yards. With an intentional grounding penalty. Chicago was SO bad, Eberflus put the starters back out for the 2nd quarter. They were deseperately looking for anything just to end on a high note.
People are deperately wanting to turn the guy into Jr Mahomes, and it makes me laugh. I can’t wait for the season so Caleb can play against real NFL defenses. The guy was a fraud in college, he will be a bigger fraud in the NFL, and I have no idea why people are paying so much attention to a guy who never won a title, never won a conference, never won a playoff game and literally was owned by Utah multiple times in multiple years.
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Living in Chicago, I absolutely love your take here. Please let it be so. Don’t think I can handle it if the Bears get good. Their fans are drunk loud and obnoxious as it is. Just imagine if they start winning again.
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I mean, i think the bears will get good…but i hope its like the ravens steelers where its not at the expense of the lions.
I thought he looked like a rookie 3rd rounder not named Hooker.
But the sports channels are all talking like he had a great game. 50% completion isn’t that great. He was running first and delivering the ball second.
However, that Chicago team has a lot of talent on it and if he settles down they can be dangerous.
No, it’s not. You know what’s worse? NOT completing 50% of your passes. Which is exactly what Caleb Williams did against the Bengals backup defense. Caleb’s statline for the game was 6/13 for 75 yards. 6 for 13 is an astonishing 46.2% completion percentage. He had one carry for 7 yards and the touchdown.
I still find it amazing how hard the NFL and media are working to do everything possible to glaze Caleb Williams, as the kids say. This goes WAY past he was a #1 overall pick. In his first game, the guy literally dumped off a checkdown to Swift and the word Mahomes was brought up. On a checkdown flip? I watched Nate Sudfeld make the same play against the Chiefs with Mahomes in the house, and no one was calling that one “a little Mahomie”.
All day Sunday, the NFL Network highlights were showing the Bears-Bengals and Chiefs-Lions games on highlights. For the Lions-Chiefs, the only plays they show are the Xavier Woods false start catch, the Mahomes behind the back pass, and the Woods bobble TD. They won’t show that Xavier Woods also got locked down by our “superstar corner” Jalen Reeves-Maybin, and that Woods also fumbled on a very routine tackle. There are zero plays for any Lions player, and then they quickly say the Lions won on a last second FG and cut away. It’s amazing we won a game with zero plays at all I tell you.
For the Bears-Bengals, the highlights only start in the 2nd quarter, where Williams was already supposed to be resting comfortably on the bench. They show the scramble drill prayer to Rome Odunze (who I do think is actually good), and the scramble rollout TD. For grins, they also show that Caleb SHOULD have had a passing TD in the corner of the end zone, but that silly rookie Odunze got himself out of bounds for the catch. How dare he! Then they quickly post the tweet graphic of Tyreek Hill saying who does Caleb remind you of…
Here’s what’s missing. They will not show Caleb’s game stat line, which shows how HORRIBLE he actually played in that game. Whenever NFL Network is talking about Caleb, they show his preseason totals for his statline, because those cherry picked numbers look a little better. They won’t talk about how during the first quarter, Williams was so bad that Eberflus put the offense back out in the 2nd quarter, even though they said repeatedly that the starters were only playing 1 quarter. At least the NFL.com game writeup mentioned the poor first quarter, but hey no one reads anymore so it’s safe to write there.
I think Chicago has a really good defense. I love their defensive line, they have very good corners and solid safeties and LBs. Chicago’s offense does not scare me. They have good WR’s on the outside, but their running game isn’t good and their offensive line is still piss poor at best. All training camp, the talk has been that the offense does not look good. They quickly excuse it away with the defense is just so damn good, or the defense knows their plays, etc. Lions fans have seen that game before. It’s the telltale signs of a bad offense, and it’s going to get exposed once the lights come on for real.
I’ve already got my theories why, but I think Caleb Williams is quickly going to become the most protected QB not named Mahomes. The list of excuses for poor play will be a mile long, and then when he makes his one good play out of 10, that’s the highlight they will run over and over on repeat. Chicago CANNOT have him fail. I get why they are protecting him. It’s the rest of the media that I don’t understand the immediate annointing. Other highly rated first overall picks have had to show there was something there, but not this guy. Good news is, one thing Chicago will lead the league in, that’s having the absolute cleanest locker room in the NFL. Mark it down.
Yea I’ve wondering the same thing. It’s like the NFL has to have Caleb succeed. He completely failed to rus the offense and resorted to hero ball and made an amazing play. That’s not a winning formula and Caleb won’t stay healthy holding onto the ball that long.
I think the Bears needed an offensive head coach imo and should have built in the trenches. But that’s just me. The Bears also couldn’t get a pass rush going against backups until they started blitzing corners. I was a little shocked how the bengals backups played the first half honestly.
Or if they had drafted a real QB, they could have been dangerous. But instead they went with the hype. Think of the killing they could have made by trading down and then get a better QB in Bo Nix.
Mahomes does things you’re not supposed to. And I could see someone not believing in him. It’s like watching Dominik Hasek in goal. Sure he’s an all-time great but he doesn’t do anything by the book - so he will have doubters early in his career. But everything Mahomes does is with a purpose of winning games and he’s really good at it. Caleb is not Mahomes. Not even close.
I agree completely with both of you guys. Before the draft, I was worried that Chicago would do the smart thing, and continue building their team. I was actually rooting for them to draft Williams, that’s how I feel about him as a player. I was happy when they drafted him, and more upset they drafted Rome because I think he is actually legit.
I also think Eberflus is a bad coach for Williams, and I think he will get fired this season, either during the year or just after it ends. Chicago HAS to have Williams succeed, and their worst nightmare would happen if Justin Fields actually starts playing well in Pittsburgh. Chicago has a reputation for having terrible QB’s, and they are desperately trying to shed it. Their last decent QB was Cutler. They wiffed on Turd-biscuit, Fields and now are taking another mighty swing with Caleb. They are trying to give him all the weapons, but as we’ve seen many times as Lions fans, it’s not about the WR’s that make the QB. It’s the line. As long as Chicago keeps taking them sexy skill guys, they will keep failing. Then it will be all about how “Well of course Caleb failed, he was in Chicago, they ruin all of their QB’s.”
When was Bo Nix EVER considered a better QB than Caleb Williams?? 
The Bears probably have the best WR group in the NFL. In my opinion, the last thing they needed was a guy who plays playground ball and gives up yardage to put himself into a worse position than he started with to throw the ball from. Hero ball isn’t for me. I like my QBs efficient, in control, and not making things more complicated than they need to be. Perhaps you have different tastes.
What do you think about Mahomes?