Post by riczaj01 on Sept 10, 2024 6:56:41 GMT -6
Walker showed why he's starting over any of the backup specialists. He can get pressure, while also working against he run. DL early wasn't getting to the qb, but it was forcing pressure, and as we saw w/CWill pressure is a qb's worst enemy; it broke Levis and he made really bad mistakes. Williams wasn't good but Levis broke, that's what DL pressure does to a qb. Bears DL looked good. Entire starting DL did fine by the end of the game
2ndry is the teams biggest strength and it shows.
Vajayjay all on his own removed an 100% from the ST's grade.
Watching JT O breakdown CWill, seems like he overall liked the O playcalling. I'd say the coaches in general had a good day.
Yet Flus praised VJJ after the game. Maddening. Not sure what that dude has on this staff and Poles, but they just refuse to admit this isn't working.
OC/OG were a last year, during the offseason, during FA and in the draft, and after. I'm getting tired of every GM/HC pretending the OL isn't important. Throwing money at shitty failed OL'men from other teams to replace your shitty failed OL isn't fixing anything. Mid/Late round projects aren't going to fix it either. Brax didn't have a great game either.
Not only was Caleb nervous, which should be expected, he never settled. Some of that is on him, he all on his own has plenty of bad tape, but the forementioned IOL never gave him a shot to settle down and relax. Unlike Levis though, the one brightpoint for Williams was the pressure rattled him and he had a bad game, but he wasn't broken b/c of it. Levis broke and threw terrible passes b/c of the pressure.
JTO actually in his tape asked if the Bears had a rotation going on w/the OL and mocked it b/c it's such a terrible idea; and it showed all game. Real problem is that it wouldn't have mattered b/c every player they have on the IOL, outside of Jenkins(who was also bad) isn't starting quality.
VJJ---want to like him, feels like he'd be fun to hang with, but he should never be in a position to catch another KO again. But, I have a feeling on Sunday day, he'll be out there on the first KO. He's like the anti-Bellamy. Bellamy was terrific on ST-- a 4 phase PBer. He was a terrible WR, so naturally the Bears used him as a WR whenever possible. VJJ is terrible at his primary job--catching KO/punts. So Naturally the Bears want him to be a RB/WR/all-around-OFF-weapon.
his only real complaint was no Kmet in the passing game, and he felt there was to much forcing of the ball to Allen via WR options. But said if you look at the routes that were forming before the pressure got there they all normally looked good.
agree w/VJJ. Just don't think he's great at anything. He's a depth RB/WR, and that means his job is KR/PR, but he's awful at that. IMO that means there is no position for him.