[JJ Watt] I thought [Caleb] played really well today.

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  1. If you read some of the stuff people posted in here you would think Caleb was worse than Jamrcus Russell

  2. We all know about the field truthers who wanted “the haul” but there are people in this fanbase who believed we should trade down and draft JJ McCarthy

  3. The next 3 games are fucking scary man. @ Eagles, @ Packers, Browns. That Browns game worries me, hopefully Miles Garrett already breaks the season record for sacks by then lol that dline looks fucking scary.

  4. I’m sold on Caleb. I have been really since Dallas. He’s gonna miss some throws. He’s gonna run around and try to make plays. That seems like that’s who he is as a QB right now.

    The running around and trying to make plays I think has been much better this year… he’s not creating negative plays with them(strip sack aside today but guys like Watt and Crosby are gonna get theirs so one time is whatever). His completion pct isn’t high but he’s not throwing little 5 yard dump offs all game. He’s hitting on explosive plays and the offense is working with it.

    I think as time goes on, I’m talking over the next few years of his career, we may see that improve. As he and Ben get more in tune as he gets more comfortable in the offense and understands what he’s being asked to do and why. It’ll all come together.

    He’s under a microscope that’s to a level that’s weird. I was watch Drake Maye today do some of the same things but Maye gets grace for it.

    I really like and trust how Nate Tice analyzes teams and QB’s(he had Maye above Caleb coming out of college but they were 1a and 1b to him). He is very positive about Caleb and the offense. It’s a lot of the little things he’s doing well. He also points out that sometimes our first impression of how things looked weren’t bad. Like there was a throw to Oduze last week on that like 2nd and 20 that looked behind him but Caleb put it in a spot to protect the ball and protect Rome from getting rocked.

    Caleb’s also throwing the ball away a lot more this year or putting the ball in a spot that it’s an incredibly difficult catch but it’s only in a spot where his WR is gonna make a great play or it’s falling to the ground.

    I thought today there was only 2 really bad plays. Not sliding on the 3rd down at the end of the game and his incompletion stopped the clock(wounded up not mattering cause Steelers got charged their last TO for injury but still he needs to have a little more awareness there). And the strip sack. Those things happen though; remember the GOAT forgetting what down it was in Chicago and every QB gets stripped sacked at some point.

    Basically if all the people who know QB and football better than me are saying Caleb is playing well(Tice, Warner, Jenkins, JTO, etc) and making progress… I’m gonna trust them over couch analysts. I’m also not gonna overreact to a bad game, Quarter, drive or throw. It’s not like JJM where it’s only 2-3 throws a game and we’re hanging on to those and the rest is god awful. Caleb makes about 10-15 good to elite throws a game, a handful of okay throws and 3-5 sprays. Almost all are the correct read and decision though.

  8. I thought JJ did a really good job today of calling the game and not being a total homer for his brother. Really good objective analysis during the game.

  10. Yeah I mean what is the problem here. He is a top 10 qb halfway through his second year. We did it everyone. Our qb is a hit. He doesn’t have to be Tom Brady to be a good qb in this league.

  12. Thanks JJ. You’re wrong, but thanks.

    Caleb played okay but he is missing on too many easy throws. He needs to fix it before we want to be a serious title contender

  15. If it weren’t for the fumble in the end zone, I would say this was one of his best games.

  16. People were genuinely still calling for Bagent today I can’t understand where it comes from

  17. I can’t think of another quarterback who has had to battle narratives as much as Caleb. Maybe Shedeur Sanders? Like is Caleb a fully developed and perfect QB? Obviously not. But I think it’s clear to anybody who seriously watches this team that he’s got what it takes, the question is can he continue to develop in the areas of his game he needs to. The media and general public will never give a Bears QB credit until he’s hoisting a Lombardi and it is undeniable, and even then they might not. A good chunk of our own fans are the same way. This is what developing a QB with potential looks like, it’s not perfect but the progression is there, and frankly the naysayers are just Caleb and or Bears haters at this point

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