Bears vs Vikings FULL Preview + Predictions

Bears vs Vikings FULL Preview + Predictions

Hey guys, real quick. Only 40% of our viewers are actually subscribed. So, let’s change that right now. Hit that subscribe button right below. Uh Chicago Bears at the Minnesota Vikings Sunday at one Minnesota favored by three here despite being the last place team. Yeah, in the NFC North three Bears in the four and five Minnesota Vikings rematch from week one. Indeed. Um, yeah, I I think that is pretty interesting that the like the Vikings showed against Detroit, they can still beat even very good teams. Um, because they have a lot of talent. Like it does require high-end play from a few of those guys, but they’ve got the talent to do it. I think they’re a better team than they showed earlier in the season when their offensive line was just a mash unit and a backup group essentially. Now they’ve got the most of the starting offensive line out there. It is a team that can do some damage. you know, McCarthy is probably going to be inconsistent as a quarterback because he’s so young and, you know, young and inexperienced, but they’re dangerous. Yeah, it’s a it’s a fun matchup here, man. I um Caleb Williams again playing playing pretty well, seeing what he does against Flores and that defense. Well, he’s riding high. I mean, he’s coming off that game where every all Bears fans are now anointing him as the chosen one and the guy we we got it right. He’s the number one overall pick, the superstar, the one that we’ve asked for so long. He’s here and now he’s going to go against Flores again. I want to bring it up again because Caleb Williams won the game with his legs more than anything, right? Two huge scrambles to get the game winner and he’s done that a couple times this year. his is he another quarterback kind of like Josh Allen in that like you didn’t realize how good he would be as a runner or how athletic he would be at the at the NFL level because that’s where I’m I’m not surprised by it, right? Like when I described Caleb Williams coming out, I was like the guy can he can zip it, he can throw a touch, he can throw on the move, he could do all these things. Arm talent’s outstanding. He is athletic. I’ve seen him, you know, have some big scrambles at Oklahoma and and USC, but the way he turned that corner the other day, like legitimate speed. Yeah. I I mean, I don’t a scrambler. Every time I watch him play, I I’m impressed by all of his physical traits. Like, every time I see him, it’s Herbert was like this for a while. Like, every time you saw Herbert, you’re like, man, that guy is bigger, stronger, faster, and has a better arm than you think he does. Just every time you see him. And that’s where I am with Caleb Williams as well. Like sometimes you see these guys and you’re like there’s a reason that everyone was so blown away by them as a draft prospect at at you know various periods. He’s bigger not bigger he’s stronger faster and his arm like the some of the throws he’s able to make particularly on the run are absolutely ridiculous. And every time you watch him you’re struck by that. Um so it’s not so much just the the speed that I’m impressed by. It’s literally every aspect of him when you watch him is physically impressive. Um, so two good games last couple weeks for Caleb Williams against Cincinnati. It was the Bengals last week against the Giants. The Giants have had some impressive fourth quarter collapses. It’s be the more challenging defense. Um, it was okay the first time around. I think Caleb Williams against against Flores, another one where he did a little bit more damage, I’d say, with his legs than throwing the ball. But, you know, remember last year Caleb had the think five big time throw game against Flores’s defense and made some huge throws in crunch time to get the ball to get the game to overtime in Chicago. Um, this will be a good one, I think. Yeah, I mean I Flores’ defense has gotten itself together in the last couple of weeks as well. Like everything about the Vikings is better now than it was earlier in the year when it was banged up or not playing well. Uh, the Flores defense the last couple of weeks I think has looked a lot better. That’ll be, you know, I think they’ll cause Caleb Williams some problems. Where he goes with the ball is always kind of interesting. You know, sometimes it’s a Dunce. Uh we talked about Zakias is still getting a ton of targets. Maybe you might want to give Luther Burton the ball a bit more given that he looks like a dynamic playmaker. Um they’ve got this nice split in the back field now with uh DeAndre Swift and Kyle Manungai, the rookie. So, and and you’re getting Coulson Lovelin more involved in the offense after a few weeks where he wasn’t really a factor. So, you know, the Bears offense has got players to to spread the ball around to, and it comes down to whether Caleb can get that done within this Flores pressure package. You’ve also got like again, every week there’s you seem to have two settings for Caleb Williams. The within rhythm, early in the game, under script, get rid of the ball quickly, efficiently, and then you’ve got the master of chaos. It’s broken down. I’m going to start scrambling. I’m going to fire all these passes on the run. and he doesn’t seem he only goes from one to the other. There doesn’t seem to be a a middle ground where he can incorporate both. I mean, Flores is the type of defense that forces you into the second one, right? Like just immediately can throw him into that kind of mode. So, that’ll be interesting is how quickly can Flores force Caleb Williams into that type of operation because I do think that’s where you want him to be as a defense. As much as he’s dangerous and he’s capable of beating you the way he did last week, I still think you want him in that zone. Let’s just force him into all ad living all the time. Oh yeah. I mean even Mahomes and Allen like you’d rather them play outside of structure. They’re capable of making it work but you still want them doing that. It’s just it’s just a lower percentage. Uh Williams is he is he is a very fascinating player overall. I thought you know remember last year the sack totals were through the roof. The offensive line wasn’t great but I think he always made them look worse. He’s at a point now, I highlighted a couple of those plays the other day, like Darnell Wright lost quickly and he was avoiding pressure. His pressure to sack rate has gone from one of the worst to the seventh best. There you go. And and and you usually do that by winning with your arm. When when we say pressure to sack rate, it’s usually not sack avoidance from like a forced to miss tackle and scrambled out, but that’s how Caleb’s doing it right now. He’s doing it with his athleticism, which again, I don’t know if that’s the most sustainable thing or the way that you necessarily want to play, but it’s another part of his game that is difficult, right? If if if he is going to be so good at getting out of pressure, just same thing the same thing I said about Mahomes a couple games ago, as a pass rusher, you got a decision to make, right? you have to figure out, am I going to sell out to try to get the sack, to try to get the negative play, or do I have to play contain and keep him in and not let him um get outside the pocket where he is dangerous with his arm? So, it will start to put pass rushers, I think, in a bind if Caleb Williams continues to play like this. Um, other side of the ball, we did have a Bears fan bring up that we we haven’t talked about enough or I got DM’d, I think, and I’ll I’ll bring it up now. their the part of their defense and their inability to get quick pressure and some of the weaknesses of the Bears defense. We haven’t brought up enough about Jaylen Johnson being out for the season and Kyler Gordon and you know just so many injuries on the back end and Nan Wright who has been a career backup being a starter week in week out. Tyreek Stevenson being out there, it they’ve survived, right? They’ve survived with some weaknesses on the back end. And if if there was a game where this would be exploited, it would be against Minnesota with all of their receivers healthy. Jaylen Naylor connection now with JJ McCarthy the way they the way they’ve connected. But Justin Jefferson, Jordan Addison, Jaylen Naylor, Hawinson, they should be able to have success against this back seven and Chicago with their inconsistent pass rush. If there was a JJ McCarthy game for him to get back on track, you would think this would be the one. Yeah, they I mean they’re they’re definitely banged up on the secondary. And the other element that will be interesting there is that JJ McCarthy, the one kind of defining characteristic of him so far is he’s been big game hunting. Like he’s been going deep in at an insane degree. If you look at that uh that Sam Hoppin, you know, quarterback stat composite chart thing, McCarthy’s basically last at everything except average depth of target where he is first. So he’s he’s terrible at everything generally leaguewide, you know, relative to other quarterbacks, except he’s the most aggressive quarterback in the NFL in terms of average depth of target. So I mean that needs to come down. Like you don’t want a young quarterback living in a 10 yards average depth of target world. But the problem is his efficiency like so that’s part of why he’s not that efficient in some other things, right? Because he’s way more aggressive and those are lower percentage plays. So you’re like, well, let’s lower that. you get more efficient at everything else. But even if you like adjust for that and say, “Well, how efficient is he on the short stuff?” He he’s been wildly inefficient as well. So, I mean, that’s something they need to try and figure out where the balance is. Like, remember this, the first game was the one where he was like pretty rough for three quarters and then the fourth quarter caught fire, won the game. And it’s like these Bears. Yeah. And it’s that’s kind of what he’s been so far is you’ve got this wildly inconsistent player who’s psychotically aggressive in terms of everything I’m doing is trying to hit something over the top, but might actually work against this Chicago team where everyone’s banged up and they’ve got huge matchup f uh like advantages on the outside. Then you have the game flow aspect as well. I think Minnesota’s going to want to lean on the run game a little bit more coming off a 42 attempt game from JJ because of all the false starts and the game flow. You know, every other game he had he hadn’t thrown more than 25 times in his first three starts. So, I think they want to get back to that. That’s probably part of the reason why he’s thrown the ball down the field. But, you know, last week he was thrown the ball down the field a ton, too, despite dropping back 42 times. Usually, if you drop back that much, you’ve got some five yards, you’ve got some dink and dunk, you got more screen games. They got to figure out what that balance is. But they just they have the receivers, I think, to have some success against Chicago here. But I think they’re going to want to find a little more run game against this Bears defense and then put JJ McCarthy into better position to succeed and lean on his playmakers. Going to be a fun game, man. Massive implications. It is a week 11. There’s a lot on the line here. We’re talking the the Viking season hanging on by a thread. The Bears have a chance to go seven and three the uh with the Lions playing the Eagles, right? John Dailyaly if not keeping pace and overtaking Tiger Woods taking a one shot lead down the stretch. That’s what like at the end of Sunday at the end of Sunday. So Green Bay’s playing the Giants, but they’re in third at the end of Sunday. If Chicago wins this game at the end of Sunday, Bears could be in first place in the NFC North. So all that’s a lot at stake this weekend. Where you going to go with this one? Minnesota still favored by three here. Or if Minnesota wins and you know other teams lose, they could bunch the entire division up again back to where it was a week or so ago. They’d be five and five, six and four. See what Green Bay’s whatever they are with their They’re 5-3 and one with the game. Yeah. Like it could Lions could be six and four because they’re playing Philly. Like the whole division could be basically game apart. Yeah. Within a game. Um which would be pretty interesting. Moving day for the NFC North or compressing day. We’ll see. Yeah. Uh I’m going to go with the Bears to win this. I talked through it and and cover landed on the Bears. Had Minnesota initially, but I I talked through it and landed on the Bears. Harry’s going to take Minnesota. Thanks for watching all the way to the end of the video. Check the mic is live Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday. So, be sure to hit subscribe so you don’t miss a video. You heard the man. Subscribe.

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