Packers humiliate Bears - who gets the deflated ball?

Two things can be true: Fields played poorly and the coaching/gameplan was terrible.

One game in a long season but....it was the same as last year with no improvement, not even small steps. That makes it a schematic and coaching problem above all else.

Screens work when they are used in conjunction with downfield passing. The throw back screen to Jones work because Love was throwing the ball down the field. So when he roll out it felt to the def like they were setting up a deep shot. DL gave chase and LBs flowed to Love's side of the field. Stop, plant, throw back and TD. But the DEF had to react that way because of how GB was running their OFF.

Now the Bears: DL stop their rush and closed on the screens from behind because...there was no downfield passing. When they felt the OL block and float out, because there had been soooooo many screen passes it was easy to recover quickly. They didn't have to fear Fields setting and tossing downfield. Because he wasn't going to. Screen passes work when the DEF is reacting to something else. Screen passes don't work when the DEF doesn't have to react to anything other than screen passes. NFL defenders can defend WR screens when they know its the staple of the OFF. Look at the Mooney/Claypool disaster we saw. At the snap Mooney steps back and the Claypool does even pretend to run a route. He just stands up. GB now knows its a screen and the defender was on Claypool before Fields even throws the ball. Again, by throwing sooooo many screens they gave away the plan. Its really game planning 101.

Fields echoed what he heard when they installed the game plan when he said something like "We had numbers on the outside we just didn't block. Those were chuck plays we left on the field." Yes but NO! Because there was no down the field component to the OFF GB LBS/S/CBs could prioritize where their attention went.

I honestly think Getsy saw the two screens for TDs in the PS as proof his concepts worked.

Meet the OC for the Bears.

Poles handed a late round 2nd year player the starting job of the most important position on the O, next to the QB, LT. And he looked like shit yesterday. 

That is pure f'n hubris on full display. All the HITS, all the everyone has to compete, expect his draft picks that is. Never a reason to go into a season w/a 2nd year ? at LT and a rookie RT. 

Worse they had questions at C, and apparently their primary backup plan for RG if Jenkins got hurt was their starting C. What an absolute terrible thought process the entire OL was this year. 

Just brutal: