2025 Chicago Bears Season Thread

[cheyisrameyah]

Crazy, and this is all without Jaylon Johnson.

Also without a dominant pass rusher.

This squad is not far from being the most balanced I've seen in my lifetime. I've been a Bears fan going back to the Harbaugh, Neal Anderson, Dent and Singletary days. I'm used to seeing the team being shit or the defense dragging along the offense. In 2006, the defense and Hester dragged the offense to the Super Bowl. The offense wasn't a liability but Thomas Jones was the clear star of the offense.

Just need the secondary to get (and stay) healthy and for Caleb to continue to mature and learn the offense.

The offense is really close to be balanced and the defense is getting it together. The pass rush could be better but it has improved.

Unlike last year, this team is finding ways to win, not vice versa. That's a credit to the coaching staff.

 

[Lou_Kayge]

Add a dominant pass rusher and top notch kick/punt returner to this current team and we will be a big problem.

 

[Complex]

Bears' Thursday injury report includes updates on D'Andre Swift, DJ Moore

The Bears released their second injury report ahead of their Week 8 game vs. the Ravens, which includes updates on D'Andre Swift, DJ Moore and others.

bearswire.usatoday.com

Grady Jarrett is practicing

Austin Booker is practicing, is he finally going to be taken off IR?

Tyrique isn't practicing

Santos looks to be back. I'm sure Moody will get a call by somebody.

Roschon stays hurt and he barely plays

 

[papi68]

 

[Lou_Kayge]

Damn. Did y'all know Kmet, Stevenson and Kyler Gordon are all out Sunday.

 

[c_commander]

Kyler Gordon and Braxton Jones were both just put on IL so they're out for at least the next 4 games. This secondary has been going thru it all year.

 

[Complex]

Damn. Did y'all know Kmet, Stevenson and Kyler Gordon are all out Sunday.

I didn't realize Kyler hurt himself at practice this week

 

[Complex]

Lamar is out

They're playing games

Still I'd rather us prepare for Lamar

 

[Complex]

Theo didn't look good on that

 

[cnc]

This should be a 14-7 game.

 

[Complex]

This should be a 14-7 game.

I would take 10-7

 

[Complex]

This team is so mistake prone with the penalties

At least we still got them inside the 20

 

[cnc]

This team is so mistake prone with the penalties

At least we still got them inside the 20

And the false starts have continued to come from the TEs.

 

[cnc]

Caleb HAS to run out of bounds and save the timeout on that run, drive has turned into a clusterfuck ever since.

 

[Pack Rat]

 

[Pworld297]

I'm tired of DJ not getting more targets. He always makes the first player miss anytime he gets the ball in space.

 

[cnc]

Finally a decent offensive drive, big check down by Caleb to get the ball to Swift on that screen. Need the defense to step up now.

 

[cnc]

 

[cheyisrameyah]

Game isnt over yet but its not looking good. Hasnt looked good all day.

 

[Complex]

Caleb can't make that turnover there

It started with that terrible false start call. The refs didn't even see it, they just threw the flag because Baltimore was complaining

our injuries this year

 

[cheyisrameyah]

Could really use a turnover on this drive

 

[Complex]

our defense is swiss cheese

 

[cnc]

That was a ridiculous throw.

 

[Complex]

That was pretty damn pathetic

 

[Pworld297]

One more year for this starting QB and if I don't see improvement, I'm out lol

 

[cnc]

What a dog shit performance. And Caleb has a layup at the end and airmails it.

The wolfs in the Chicago sports media will be out this week.

 

[Complex]

One more year for this starting QB and if I don't see improvement, I'm out lol

I'm looking at it as his rookie year.

but one more year, and I'm out from the Bears

I've been tortured long enough

 

[Madrox]

Caleb needs to get his head out of his ass and learn to do the easy things well, fast.

 

[Complex]

Caleb needs to get his head out of his ass and learn to do the easy things well, fast.

He hadn't really done that this game

but two or three throws a game it's going to be misplaced or unnecessarily strong

 

[Pworld297]

I'm looking at it as his rookie year.

but one more year, and I'm out from the Bears

I've been tortured long enough

He played 17 games last year, he has NFL experience, like the speed of the game and what it takes to be a pro so I can't look at him as a rookie. Now you can say this is a new offense and he has to get accumulated to it. I'm seeing plays that normal NFL QB's make and Caleb still struggling with. He gets one more year because it's a new offense.

 

[Complex]

He played 17 games last year, he has NFL experience, like the speed of the game and what it takes to be a pro so I can't look at him as a rookie. Now you can say this is a new offense and he has to get accumulated to it. I'm seeing plays that normal NFL QB's make and Caleb still struggling with. He gets one more year because it's a new offense.

I don't feel he received NFL level coaching

 

[Pack Rat]

 

[Lou_Kayge]

Justin Fields redeeming himself and leading the Jets to a win with around 500 yards of offense hurts too. We play Bengals next week. Caleb has to light them up.

 

[cheyisrameyah]

Justin playing well doesn't hurt me at all. I'm happy for him and wish him the best except for when he plays the Bears.

Caleb needs to get it in gear and fast. I noticed his struggles before today but overlooked it because a win is a win. Today, we lost and the wolves were already circling. The media will go in and the only way to quiet them is for Caleb to start looking better.

The first two drives should've been touchdowns. The defense is no longer putrid, I'd give them a D today for letting a backup QB put up 30 on them. They aren't good enough to hold a team to less than 16 points.

Like complex said, you almost have to disregard last year for Caleb's development because he wasn't getting NFL quality coaching. This year he is, the struggles were expected but it seems like he's moving backwards in his development. He looked much better before the bye.

I was expecting (hoping) that the team would hover around .500 this year with next year being the year that real growth by Caleb would be shown. I'm sticking to that. The pain is there, just need to see the growth. This was a winnable game.

 

[Lou_Kayge]

I have to confess, I didn't want a 1st year head coach. I wanted Vrabel, McCartney or Flores.