What a terrible penalty.

Great drive against a tough defense. Fuck settling for 3.

Someone should tell Bryce Young that the DJ Paulie D blowout isn’t the best look for him.

Great effort by Johnson there. wTF.

I didn’t realize Carolina has a Top 10 defense overall and a Top 5 passing defense. Should be a good test for the offensive line, and their ability to set the tone with the run game.

Yeah, but they went back and added 25 points to his grade after people complained. But it’s totally not subjective.

https://jetswire.usatoday.com/2022/10/20/pff-takes-accountability-for-quinnen-williams-original-week-6-grade-now-has-highest-defensive-grade-for-week/

I think marginally, yes. The injuries to the offensive line and defensive secondary have been a real problem this year. All teams have to deal with injuries, but the Bears have been undermanned all season at those two position groups, and I think it’s shown up in the game results. If their pass defense and blocking had been marginally better in a couple of games, I can see the Bears scratching out a couple more wins. If they were 4-5 right now, we’d be talking about this team completely differently.

He dislocated his thumb two and a half weeks ago. People with actual medical knowledge suggested recovery can be anywhere from 4-12 weeks depending on how badly he tore which ligaments. The only reason he isn’t on IR is because they’ve maxed out how many players they can bring back from it; and all this talk of week-to-week is likely just s smoke screen for “competitive advantage.”

Where are you reading that there’s something “fishy” going on? I’d be curious to see what the rationale is for saying that.

The point is that once it became clear Washington couldn’t extend him, there was a 100% chance he would get traded to someone, and an extremely high likelihood that whoever traded for him would extend him. So if not the Bears, it would have been somebody else.

It’s hard for me to wrap my head around giving up a high second round draft pick just so that we can pay him top dollar. I know all the arguments for it, and I get that an edge of that quality is unlikely to make it to free agency, but overpaying is still overpaying. And the draft capital and salary cap space we’re giving up, if used separately, would add more utility to a roster than spending both on one player. Which makes this an overpay.

We have no idea what Johnson is asking.

Nah, I’m talking more than one throw. The deep ball to Scott (where they got the PI call) was badly underthrown too, and the deep crossing route to Moore was kind of a weak throw that got him lit up. And the did take him out for that Mail Mary, which was weird.

And conversely there hasn’t been ONE good deep throw to point to, to offset those bad ones.

Listen, I’m excited about the positive things Bagent has done, and the bad throws could just be bad throws and nothing more. But the questions about his arm strength didn’t come out of nowhere, even if they have been overblown.

Given how ugly his deep balls have been so far with the Bears, I think the questions are fair. But I also think people are blowing it way out of proportion. Hopefully he can make a couple of decent longer throws in an NFL game and we can put this whole thing to rest.

Another one at 1:58.

Check out here at around 1:03 and again at 1:58. He throws a couple of balls of around 50 air yards, no running start, not a lot of arc. They’re not huge, but they’re legit deep passes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9DSC9gNNuQ

I think the questions about his arm are perfectly reasonable until he shows it at the NFL level, but I think the narrative is being a little overblown.