Is it time to buy-low on the Bears in fantasy?

Yahoo Fantasy’s Matt Harmon and Nate Tice discuss if fantasy managers should look to buy low on the Chicago Bears. Hear the full conversation on the “Yahoo Fantasy Forecast” podcast – and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you listen.

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Buy high on Mungai, buy on Colson Loveland despite, yeah, I know he played the Bengals last week.

The Bengals are abhorrent at defending tight end, but it’s a good time to buy him.

If you can get Roma Doomsday as a Blo right now after the 0 spot, 100% do that because this is how Ben Johnson built it in Detroit.

It was, let’s build the run game first and then let’s build the, the, the pass game off that.

And like, Nate, how long do you think it takes defenses to catch up to that?

Because I think once they get this run game rolling, we talk about the under center passing that they’re doing right now.

And, and, and just like, how long do you think that takes it then like, oh, once they have this good run game, when our defense is gonna start to account for that, so then they can take advantage of the matchups through the air.

You’re starting to feel it.

I can, it’s the Bengals’ defense is so bad, but even the Ravens game, you could see how top down they they played, um, and it was just as far as far as where their eyes went.

So they, they honored the run.

Maybe that’s the best way I could put it.

And that, so you’re already starting to feel it, you’re starting to see it.

Um, and what you said, the under center stuff is significant.

I mean, it went from 28.8% last year for Caleb, now it’s over 46%.

Uh, so it’s one of the highest rates in the league.

Play action rate doubled 16% to 30%.

Um, throws over the middle have gone up, uh, throws of 10 or more a yards have gone up.

So this actually brings us back.

To our first point, the under center stuff.

When you’re in this type of offense, it is a chunk heavy offense.

Again, explosives.

That is great for fantasy.

That is great, great, great, because who gets the chunk plays, these guys.

So it’s, you’ve seen it in spurts and you see their opening drives have been really good.

So that’s where, and that’s what it was my original joke about Ben Johnson before they come.

Really got Roland was he was the opening script wonder and he would just fall off from that.

And then he became the sniper cause then it was like, all right, I want to compliment this guy, so I can’t be the opening script wonder.

That sounds like I’m knocking him.

But I think now when you watch it, it’s like, that’s what this idealized version of this offense is.

It’s like when they, they have those drives and it’s just chunk, chunk, chunk, gadget play, chunk, run like run play like.

The Bengals game, of course, was Routes On Air, but that’s what this is should be looking like, and I, I don’t know.

I put it this way, I don’t see a reason for it to slow down as far as like, I think they have a total bottom out week, cause the old line is pretty good right now.

Um, they just have some communication stuff they’ll clean up, but it’s gotten better every single week.

Is it time to buy-low on the Bears in fantasy?

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