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A great offensive line, then we can see what an awesome QB he really is!
In the salary cap era there is going to be a weakness on a team. Ours is the OL. The coaching staff needs to figure out how to work around it. Stop it with the 3 WR sets and empty backfield. Run the ball. Go 2 TE. PA. Adapt.
Not sure what your point is as we were talking about a QB's release time.
Anyway, no one expected the Bears OL to be "great". We did expect it to be marginally competent at least and thus far it hasn't been. It's been a disaster both in run and pass blocking. There's not much any OC or QB can do with that. It's gotta get substantially better to even start to assess them both.
Some part of this team, any NFL team for that matter, is going to be bad.
Coaching works around that.
It also wasn’t the OL sailing the deep balls 10 yards over everybody’s head in Week 1 or throwing behind everybody.
It also wasn’t the OL sailing the deep balls 10 yards over everybody’s head in Week 1 or throwing behind everybody.
In fairness, when you put a rookie QB1 out there without an NFL-quality offensive line, bad things like this happen. I would also add, that a strong running game is probably a rookie QB's best asset, taking some heat off of him.
We have no run game.
It was D.O.A. this season. No run blocking. No pass protection. Toss in a rookie QB and you have all the necessary ingredients for a rattled QB. And that is exactly what we now have.
"Per Next Gen Stats, the starting five Bears O-line gave up 28 QB pressures, with the tackles particularly struggling against Hunter and Anderson: Braxton Jones, eight pressures allowed; Darnell Wright, six pressures; Teven Jenkins, six; Nate Davis, four; Coleman Shelton, four.
The seven sacks allowed were the most given up by a Bears team since Week 17, 2022, at Detroit (also seven)."
lol at anyone that thought Jones was the only one doing his job. pff and clowns are the only ones thinking it.
It also wasn’t the OL sailing the deep balls 10 yards over everybody’s head in Week 1 or throwing behind everybody.
In fairness, when you put a rookie QB1 out there without an NFL-quality offensive line, bad things like this happen. I would also add, that a strong running game is probably a rookie QB's best asset, taking some heat off of him.
We have no run game.
It was D.O.A. this season. No run blocking. No pass protection. Toss in a rookie QB and you have all the necessary ingredients for a rattled QB. And that is exactly what we now have.
NFL quality OL will make any qb bad. Brady as a vet, Mahomes this past week, Brees, Manning. Not 1 qb1 performs well when they spend the all game under pressure. Rookie QB in his first games will have even more struggles. Its one of the reasons I'm somewhat optimistic about CWill, he did break, but it took 1 1/2 games of constant in your face pressure for it to happen; and in a game where they just needed 1 or 2 big plays, so he started forcing it.
Give him even an average OL and he likely is doing just fine in weeks 2 and 3.
In fairness, when you put a rookie QB1 out there without an NFL-quality offensive line, bad things like this happen. I would also add, that a strong running game is probably a rookie QB's best asset, taking some heat off of him.
We have no run game.
It was D.O.A. this season. No run blocking. No pass protection. Toss in a rookie QB and you have all the necessary ingredients for a rattled QB. And that is exactly what we now have.
NFL quality OL will make any qb bad. Brady as a vet, Mahomes this past week, Brees, Manning. Not 1 qb1 performs well when they spend the all game under pressure. Rookie QB in his first games will have even more struggles. Its one of the reasons I'm somewhat optimistic about CWill, he did break, but it took 1 1/2 games of constant in your face pressure for it to happen; and in a game where they just needed 1 or 2 big plays, so he started forcing it.
Give him even an average OL and he likely is doing just fine in weeks 2 and 3.
I just read in Brad Biggs column that our running backs are averaging 2.48 yards per carry and the offense overall is only 2.97 yards per play - the lowest two week production by the Bears in the modern Super Bowl era. Yowser, that is mind blowing. Can't run. Can't pass. Can't protect the QB. Two weeks ago Poles was bragging about the offensive line talent on this roster. He has to be feeling like a total ass right now.
Every GM has to make hard choices as no one can "invest heavily" at every position group. My guess is that Poles thought he could cut a few corners investment-wise on the iOL as he believed in his evaluations (perhaps too much). He bragged just last month about having "so much depth" on the OL. The guy has been overtly proud of what he's done there.
+1 I've been thinking that he must be pretty ashamed of the performance of the offensive line. All the hype about him and Cunningham being ex-offensive linemen and him bragging about the great OL he's put together this season.
And then they go out on gamedays and crap the bed (in front of a national audience on SNF too).
Poles must feel like a blooming idiot right now after his press conference bragging about this offensive line a few weeks ago. And he should.
I would hope he's RED HOT and blowing up the phones of Flus, Waldron, and Morgan.
I know what I'd be doing if I were the boss-man like he is. I'd be telling Morgan he's got 2 weeks to show major improvement or he's fired.
Not sure what your point is as we were talking about a QB's release time.
Anyway, no one expected the Bears OL to be "great". We did expect it to be marginally competent at least and thus far it hasn't been. It's been a disaster both in run and pass blocking. There's not much any OC or QB can do with that. It's gotta get substantially better to even start to assess them both.
Some part of this team, any NFL team for that matter, is going to be bad.
Coaching works around that.
It also wasn’t the OL sailing the deep balls 10 yards over everybody’s head in Week 1 or throwing behind everybody.
I'm as harsh as anyone here on garbage Bears QBs but sorry, TMP, it's nowhere near time to start blaming Caleb.
We can't even begin to assess him until the OL isn't a goddam sieve. And even then he's gonna still need time to learn the ropes.
2) Caleb’s own issues at QB; namely the deep ball accuracy and this caused a couple of picks last week too.
He seems to be plenty deep ball accurate - but not when he's sprinting full-out to avoid a sack. We have seen incredible deep ball accuracy this summer. In fact some of those deep balls were eye-popping passes with pinpoint accuracy. He reminds me more of Aaron Rodgers than Patrick Mahomes in that regard.
But no QB in the NFL (that I know of or have seen in 60+ years) can consistently throw deep ball accurately running all-out laterally like that, though. Actually, one of the few guys I have seen do that kind of pass, has been Caleb Williams. But you can't "live and die" by that play. There will be wild throws. JMO.
EDIT: I think Caleb will curb those wild throws though. They are mostly desperation throws. If he had a pocket he could do pocket passing.