{"id":468159,"date":"2025-10-23T02:29:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T02:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/468159\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T02:29:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T02:29:13","slug":"chicago-bears-sackwatch-2025-week-7-vs-new-orleans-saints-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/468159\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Bears Sackwatch 2025: Week 7 vs New Orleans Saints"},"content":{"rendered":"

Before getting into this week\u2019s Sackwatch, an update to my breakdown from last week. After some well-thought-out comments in the comment section, and realizing I haven\u2019t had many sacks that I\u2019ve broken down where taking a sack was the right play, I\u2019m changing the two sacks I put on Caleb Williams to Sacks Happen. It felt wrong to give him \u201cblame\u201d for making the smart play in those situations, so moving those two to the catch-all category when there is no Chicago Bears\u2019 player to blame made sense.<\/p>\n

This week, there was only one sack allowed, but it easily could have been a few more. Williams\u2019 escapability was on full display Sunday afternoon, but unfortunately, the Bears didn\u2019t have much to show for it.<\/p>\n

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\u201cGuys got open, and I think I missed,\u201d Williams said<\/a> about the passes he delivered after escaping the pocket. \u201cThat\u2019s what it boils down to. Other than that, it\u2019s just being able to have it on my conscience that I can help this team, not only by scrambling and delivering a good ball to receivers, which I didn\u2019t do that well today, and it\u2019s also understanding that I can run and hurt a team with my legs.\u201d<\/p>\n

Caleb didn\u2019t run at the NFL Combine, but he\u2019s a fantastic athlete. He set the Bears\u2019 rookie rushing record by a quarterback with 489 yards, and so far this season, he\u2019s yet to incorporate that aspect of his skill set into his game.<\/p>\n

Sack 11 \u2013 4th Quarter 14:15 \u2013 Chase Young\u00a0 and\u00a0Bryan Bresee
Caleb was working his progressions here from right to middle to left, but before he could get to his checkdown (Kyle Monangai in the left flat), the pressure got to him. Defensive end Chase Young and\u00a0defensive tackle Bryan Bresee got to Williams simultaneously, so it\u2019s only fair that I split the sack allowed.<\/p>\n

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Young was giving left tackle Theo Benedet fits all afternoon as a pass rusher. On this play, Benedet stayed in front of Young, even though he was bull-rushed back. Benedet may have sensed he was getting close to the pocket, so he set his anchor, but it looks like Young timed his push-pull move perfectly, and as soon as Benedet\u2019s feet stopped, Young pulled him forward off balance.<\/p>\n

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Right guard Jonah Jackson has had an underrated season thus far, but he got caught lunging and was off balance on this one. Bresse showed an inside move before a quick move to the outside to sneak past Jackson, whose feet were not in position to cut Bresse off.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the Sackwatch tally after 6 games.<\/p>\n

Sacks Happen \u2013 3
Caleb Williams \u2013 2
Braxton Jones \u2013 2
Drew Dalman \u2013 2
Darnell Wright \u2013 1
Jonah Jackson \u2013 .5
Theo Benedet \u2013 .5<\/p>\n

Here are the total Bears\u2019 sacks allowed through Week 7 in the Sackwatch era:<\/p>\n

2010 \u2013 31 Martz
2011 \u2013 21 Martz
2012 \u2013 25 Tice
2013 -11 Trestman
2014 \u2013 17 Trestman
2015 \u2013 13 Gase
2016 \u2013 13 Loggains
2017 \u2013 17 Loggains
2018 \u2013 16 Nagy
2019 \u2013 19 Nagy
2020 \u2013 15 Nagy
2021 \u2013 26 Nagy
2022 \u2013 27 Getsy
2023 \u2013 27 Getsy
2024 \u2013 20 Waldron
2025 \u2013 11 Johnson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Before getting into this week\u2019s Sackwatch, an update to my breakdown from last week. After some well-thought-out comments…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":468160,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2070],"tags":[374,1706,14209,1036,6870,692,391,2493,1472,2551,7,2550,2526,6,77701,3394,42677],"class_list":{"0":"post-468159","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-bears","8":"tag-bears","9":"tag-braxton-jones","10":"tag-bryan-bresee","11":"tag-caleb-williams","12":"tag-chase-young","13":"tag-chicago","14":"tag-chicago-bears","15":"tag-chicagobears","16":"tag-darnell-wright","17":"tag-drew-dalman","18":"tag-football","19":"tag-jonah-jackson","20":"tag-kyle-monangai","21":"tag-nfl","22":"tag-sacks-happen","23":"tag-the-bears","24":"tag-theo-benedet"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115421129736696890","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}