Kirk is far and away the best qb in the division at the moment. Sucks that he got hurt, he’s just about the most likeable player in the division that isn’t on the Bears. “He’s a nice Viking.”

Love hasn’t looked good, but better overall the past couple games. The scary thing is he’s probably hindered by his supporting cast, and the Packers will probably be good again if he gets decent weapons. He flashes skill at times, but he does have a terrible deep ball. Decent game manager.

Fields either plays better than Kirk or worse than Love. No in between.

Jokes aside, he’s very talented and has a great knack for big plays, but he has struggled to prove that he can handle standing in the pocket and making a read, especially down the middle of the field. Love the guy but his time’s running out. IMO, he would be “the guy” if we didn’t have the Panthers’ pick.

Jared Goff.

My amateur takes:

We should be 6-6 at the moment.

It’s getting difficult to defend Fields with how often he fumbles, and especially at such bad times. It is a glaring problem for his play. Yesterday, luckily, it was more so because he was trying to extend plays rather than just not picking up a blitz. But it was still bad.

Putting together a winning drive after the fumbles made the QB situation far more confusing. He did what we’ve been begging him to do for almost two years, but it was after doing something we hate (twice). At least he didn’t completely crumble and showed enough poise to still win the game. That was a nice pass down the middle, something we don’t see him do much.

I need to see some analysis of his game before I make a personal grade. Right now, I grade Fields’ play neutrally as he played well enough to win but had two terrible mistakes. I need to see if the short passes were truly all he had or if he was missing intermediate guys again. Glad to see only two sacks against a blitz-happy defense, and lots of completions. If he was making mostly correct reads, then I may keep the grade neutral. So, he’s 1-0-1 for the 7 game prove-it stretch.

Defense looks good. Flus trying to save his job. Glad they finally realized that prevent defense prevents dick-all. But I still think Flus and Getsy need to go.

Winning games like this almost feels like a psyop by the McCaskeys to keep us happy while they continue to put out bad teams. But this team feels very close to being competitive in every game. The talent is there.

There’s gotta be a reason for the screens at this point

I’d like to see a deep shot here

With how the game was going and knowing how easily the game can always turn around on top of the Bears, I would never question Flus’ attempt to go for it on 4th. I supported his decision to go for it on 4th down against the Broncos too, but I didn’t support running out of shotgun after using a timeout. With a defense that has never proven to clutch up when they need, I will never have a problem with going for the kill.

The fact that he also went for it on 4th two times earlier and both succeeded, too.

My amateur takes:

Coaching:

Flus and Getsy need to be done at the end of the year at minimum. That was literally a historically bad loss. I am so sick of those two coaching scared. If you are the 3-7 Bears against the 7-2 Lions, you don’t run the ball on third and long when in field goal range. You don’t play for field goals when you have the opportunity to step on their throat. You don’t run the ball up the gut twice when you’re trying to chew clock and then leave it all up to a 3rd and long to keep the drive going.

Defense:

I think it was more bad Goff play rather than good defensive play yesterday. All of his interceptions just went straight to our guys and they were all wtf moments (maybe barring the Stevenson interception where they bumped LaPorta off of his route).

Not surprised that the offense actually did well when the defense wasn’t handing them the ball with sucky field position every time.

Fields:

Everyone needs to take a deep breath. This was game 1 of a 7 game prove-it stretch. Everyone wants to make a decision with Fields now, even though we all agreed it was going to take all 7 games to prove it. This game was a step in the right direction. He passed the test yesterday imo. It wasn’t an A+ by any means, but he passed.

Everyone wants to critique his accuracy now. His (deep) accuracy was never really a concern for us, but yesterday everyone was moaning and groaning about his deep ball overthrows. It was always his decision making that we didn’t like. I liked what I saw yesterday with regards to his decisions. No interceptions but still wasn’t afraid to take shots. I truly believe those throws will start to connect down the stretch once he gains some rhythm after the injury.

It’s growing more apparent that pass yards are not the correct stat by which to critique Fields. With the state of the Bears’ run game, the offense isn’t going to be a gun-slinging-first type of offense. I think we need to pay attention to yards per completion, completion percentage, and turnovers.

Tyler Scott screwed Fields yesterday. Anyone with working eyes can see that Fields put that ball where it needed to be, and Scott stutter stepped. The narrative of Fields would probably be completely different today if he caught that.

Not sure wtf happened with Wright on that last play (I think he was playing hurt?), but it was a terrible time for Fields to not feel the pressure after doing pretty well with that all game. Regardless, Fields was put into a bad situation in the end once again.

One of the only enticing arguments for drafting a new qb right now for me is resetting the contract clock.

That drive was Justin Fields 101. Get him on the move, get him in a rhythm

My amateur takes:

The Bears are so much more boring to watch when Fields isn’t playing. I like Bagent, but man is it boring to watch the offense when he leads it. It was really cool to see him win a couple games, and I liked how they were getting media attention other than coaches being fired or Fields being a bust. But I’m ready for Fields’ final evaluation. It’s clear that the offense’s ceiling is so much higher when Fields is under center. Hope he had some Rodgers-esque revelations during his injury period.

I’ve never seen so many bad throws come from both teams in the same game. Even though the Bears won, this was still a primetime embarrassment in my eyes. More embarrassing for the Panthers for sure, but the Bears looked bad.

Glad to say the Bears are clearly not the worst team in the league.

Lots of huge drop backs and all day to throw for Bagent on numerous plays, but to no avail. Are our guys really covered that well or did the coaching staff neuter Bagent too? He has never been that indecisive (yes I know he missed Scott down the middle).

This secondary is really solid when healthy. But the ‘when healthy’ thing is an issue.

Good to see the “grandpa” generating a ton of pressures yesterday.

Our run game is sick. MORE PLAY ACTION.

With regards to Flus/Getsy/Fields/etc., I think if one goes, they all go. Keeping one and not the others would contradict our complaints for when Fields was a rookie with Nagy.

Right when I thought the Bears were starting to look like an actually competent football team, they go out and do what they did last night. By competent, I mean limiting pre-snap infractions, making tackles, playing a clean game, catching the ball, etc.

I’m glad stuff like Bagent being a good story and the Velus drop make nfl fans feel bad for us instead of clowning us for once. It’s just another primetime embarrassment to add to the long list. Thank god they dunked on the Commanders.