Week 8 Gamethread: Chicago Bears (4-2) at Baltimore Ravens (1-5)

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1. BEAR DOWN.

2. Bears 73 Ravens 0

   Book it

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6. The bears went 5-12 last year. 7-10 was 2023

7. Find a way to win

8. I hope everyone has fun!!

9. Ben Johnson is going to run up the score because of the Lamar nonsense

10. This might be a rock fight

11. Isn’t the game tomorrow?

12. Once again I am going to remind everyone that mountain time exists damnit! Lol

13. Following the Lamar debacle it certainly feels like we deserve the win.

14. Reading the Bears injury report is like reading a novel the length of War and Peace..

    5 CBs out…

    Oooofffff…

15. On Iowa, fuck the Gophers. See ya’ll tomorrow.

16. Big league W coming up gang.

17. If we lose to Tyra Hindley ill be upset. Go Bears, score points.

18. Henry will be a problem tomorrow

19. Can we please score 50 on this team? Fuck them lying on the injury report

20. Got mandatory OT on Sunday which blows dick… but hopefully they pull this one off and I can check in on breaks.

21. Kinda early for a game thread, no?

22. This team still isn’t good enough to take a game like this for granted. 4-2 is fun, but we’re firmly in the sea of NFL mediocrity hoping a close game breaks our way each week against the other mediocre teams. It didn’t against the Vikings, it did against the Raiders and Commanders.

    Our defense is gonna be what it’s gonna be. Tyler Huntley is terrified to throw anything other than a 3-yard sit over the middle to his RB, and with good reason, because he has a Justin Fields-level slow release and a weak arm to go with it, so anything outside the numbers or down the field takes 3-5 business days to get there.

    If our defense, even with a full run of 2nd and 3rd string DBs, gets torched by Tyler Huntley, then we got what we deserved. He’s noticeably worse than Spencer Rattler. He’s made 10 NFL starts in the last 3 years and his teams averaged under 14 ppg in them.

    I don’t even *care* if our defense inexplicably struggles against Huntley, because this team was designed to be carried by its offense. Offense got the expensive coach, offense got the major trade investments, and offense got 4 top-10 picks in 3 years.

    There’s two things stopping this offense from being reliably elite right now, and I’d like to see progress on both of them.

    First, Caleb Williams needs to be better. He’s been an adequate NFL starter this season and we can (and will) spend hours debating whether “adequate’ is a good thing or a bad thing for this point in his career given his draft status.

    People are worried about his accuracy, but I think they’re missing the forest for the trees. I think he’s got a “reading defenses” problem which manifests itself in out-of-rhythm throws and miscommunications with receivers, both of which cause inaccurate throws. The inaccuracy is a symptom, not a root cause.

    He’s trying to play quickly, but it’s an artificial speed-up, not one of that comes from an intuitive feel for the natural timing of plays.

    He needs to get better at identifying what zone he’s facing and where to go with the ball in his post-snap read. He’s leaving big plays on the field, and the problem with that against zone is that those might be the only ones open. He gets himself into trouble when he gets off the first read when he didn’t need to and the defense has his checkdowns covered so now he’s improvising.

    And he *has* to stop making up his mind pre-snap in the red zone. He’s done it two games in a row and is incredibly lucky it didn’t lead to costly a costly pick or two.

    And second, the offense just plain needs to stop stepping on its own dick. Four botched snaps in two weeks, constant penalties. The *entire* focus of training camp was supposed to be these sorts of operational things, and honestly we should be more concerned that all that focus didn’t lead to much. Loveland gets a pass for being the victim of phantom calls two weeks in a row, but Theo Benedet isn’t nearly good enough to get away with multiple false starts per game.

23. Good Gordon signing king poles!

24. That shirt’s coming off on the post game breakdown. Bears W. By any means necessary.

25. Bears rule, ravens drool

26. Bear down 5-2 tomorrow lets get it

27. GOOD BETTER BEST

28. How I feel about this game, summed up in one GIF:

    

29. 69-0 incoming

30. Even with Lamar out this still isn’t gonna be easy

    Ravens are desperate for a win and will try anything to get it

31. Let’s have faith in our boys, and I don’t want to see any doomsday talk.

32. I don’t know how you can bottle up Henry for 4 quarters.i think Caleb is going to have to win this one and that should become the expectation going forward against any good team.

33. I’ll be at the game, soldiers. Let’s do this!

34. Ravens D has been horrendous, this really, really should be an offensive explosion (nothing is a given in this league). That said, CW: 27/36, 402 yds, 4 TD, 22 rush yds. Bears 34-28

35. Kevin Byard legacy game. 3 picks including a pick 6. You heard it here first, folks

36. Caleb has to win us the game tomorrow can’t keep relying on turnovers he just has to takeover if we have any chance.