Bears @ Chargers - Sunday Night

[Jiddy]

The Bears defense is awful. They look decent against lesser talented QBs. The second they face a competent NFL QB it's over. Eberflus' defense is complete shit. Just call it the Cover Who or Cover None. He shows no exotic coverages...rushes 4 all the time...and the soft zone defense is just picked apart over and over. It's bad.

Everyone who has been watching this team could see it coming that we were going to get shredded defensively last night. We can't stop any team with a marginally competent quarterback. It's sad.

It pains me when we hear ex-Bears like Urlacher and Briggs stand up for Eberflus and the Cover 2 when it's obvious you need ridiculous talent to pull it off. But not just ridiculous talent: Ridiculous talent at every level of the defense. Even when we were good in the Lovie years, if even one of our better players got injured the falloff was so ridiculous you would just assume we had absolutely no depth. But really the scheme just demands so much more talent to pull off. Yes, it works if you are Brian Urlacher and cover 5 extra feet of radius around you. It's just not feasible 95% of the time.

That we thought we could pull off Eberflus' D with absolutely no pass rush is arrogance at the least. That's what gets me. EVERYONE KNEW WE HAD NO PASS RUSH...yet we slammed our heads into the wall anyway.

I'll be glad to see Eberflus go. Done with this sh*t.

 

[beardown07]

31 career starts. That's less than 2 full seasons.

By comparison Mitch made 50 career starts for the Bears. Cutler had over 100. 31 for Grossman. 33 for Orton.

So I'm curious to know what names make up the list of guys who would be given less time than Fields.

All those guys won games.

 

[BearsWillWin]

All those guys won games.

Mostly riding the back of defenses that ranked in the top of the league while with Fields the defense has ranked at the bottom.

But I'm sure that makes no difference at all. Let's just nevermind that in the long losing streak this team surrendered 24 points or more in every single game.

 

[BearsWillWin]

It pains me when we hear ex-Bears like Urlacher and Briggs stand up for Eberflus and the Cover 2 when it's obvious you need ridiculous talent to pull it off. But not just ridiculous talent: Ridiculous talent at every level of the defense. Even when we were good in the Lovie years, if even one of our better players got injured the falloff was so ridiculous you would just assume we had absolutely no depth. But really the scheme just demands so much more talent to pull off. Yes, it works if you are Brian Urlacher and cover 5 extra feet of radius around you. It's just not feasible 95% of the time.

The defense only works when you have a stud DL that can get pressure without help.

Even under Lovie the defense regressed after Tommie Harris, Alex Brown, and Ogunleye were no longer themselves anymore. And it didn't improve again until we got Peppers.

There are too many soft spots in the defense to allow QBs to have time to throw.

 

[Jiddy]

Mostly riding the back of defenses that ranked in the top of the league while with Fields the defense has ranked at the bottom.

But I'm sure that makes no difference at all.

All those guys won games.

I mean...Yeah...Fields would have a winning record as a QB if you put the mid 2000s Bears defense behind him these past 2 seasons.

 

[Jiddy]

The defense only works when you have a stud DL that can get pressure without help.

Even under Lovie the defense regressed after Tommie Harris, Alex Brown, and Ogunleye were no longer themselves anymore. And it didn't improve again until we got Peppers.

There are too many soft spots in the defense to allow QBs to have time to throw.

I mean...It makes sense. How many times did we hear the "Welp...The offense didn't get it done AGAIN and here we go about to lose the game in the 4th quarter." It's because the pass rush would slow down at the end of the game and here we go...Guys are getting easy 5-10 yard pass chunks all the way down the field and we fans are praying for a turnover. It had it's faults even with great talent.

I'm just kind of amazed we are running it with absolutely minimal "just a guy" talent out there. This season is such pain. But Eberflus is so gone by end of the season...so at least we can hope the next guy has a better approach in 2024.

 

[beardown07]

Mostly riding the back of defenses that ranked in the top of the league while with Fields the defense has ranked at the bottom.

But I'm sure that makes no difference at all. Let's just nevermind that in the long losing streak this team surrendered 24 points or more in every single game.

Sure, but in plenty of those 24 pt games, at least 7 pts were attributed to Justin turning it over.

It seems fairly obvious, that Fields' biggest problem resides between the ears. Been that way from the start...haven't seen any real consistent indications of improvement.

#teambagent

 

[beardown07]

I mean...Yeah...Fields would have a winning record as a QB if you put the mid 2000s Bears defense behind him these past 2 seasons.

He couldn't carry Jay's jock, but sure, Rex and Orton I'll give ya.

 

[averagejoe]

Emotions a little raw after another implosion.
Doesn't matter who the OC is, it amazes me that when we need 6 yards, we send in a play that gets 4 or 5.

 

[Jiddy]

He couldn't carry Jay's jock, but sure, Rex and Orton I'll give ya.

Nobody could carry Jay's jock baby.

Whole f*cking city of Chicago is calling him a quitter...Dude goes to the mall.

 

[BearsWillWin]

He couldn't carry Jay's jock,

Yeah. Jay never turned the ball over.

#shitidiotssay

 

[beardown07]

Yeah. Jay never turned the ball over.

#shitidiotssay

lol wut

Nobody said Jay didn't turn the ball over. Stop being a whiny bitch.

 

[BearsWillWin]

Stop being a whiny bitch.

Wanna take a look at your posting history there champ?

 

[Lake Shore Drive]

Bears insider Josh Shcrock does't cut the Bears much slack with his grades for this game:

Schrock's Bears Report Card: Grading Tyson Bagent, offense, defense in Chargers loss

Tyson Bagent was overwhelmed, the Bears left their physicality in Chicago, and Matt Eberflus had no way to stop Justin Herbert. The report card from Week 8 paints a picture of a team that has a long, long way to go.

www.nbcsportschicago.com

Only the run defense gets a good grade for last night's efforts. I'll tell ya tho, I think giving the coaches a D- was being generous.

 

[justanidiot]

Except they're saying its an illness.

that would be the first time an illness was blamed. (nobody wants to say Covid anymore). He has been on the list all season. Left that third game with an injury, then Jackson left, and he returned and was still diving onto piles after a runner was down.