Whether he’s good again or regresses is anybody’s guess.
Y’all killed Dallas. They had a really bad game. Dallas had been the best offense in league all year. They chose a real bad Sunday to fall apart.
Any Sunday in the postseason is gonna be a real bad Sunday if Mike McCarthy is the coach. He was a playoff choker almost his entire career at Green Bay, and I think he always will be.
He's a pretty good coach in the regular season, but the playoffs are a whole different game. You're now playing against the best teams and best coaches in the league; teams and coaches who have learned that the only way to advance is to raise your game to an entirely new level. Coaches who win are the ones who are able to do that - coaches who understand that every single game is an eliminatiion game, men who respond to that kind of pressure by getting better.
And that was never Mike McCarthy. Never will be.
Jordan had a good year but in the most crucial moment of his season he decided to play hero ball and committed the cardinal sin for an QB and cost the team it’s season.
Considering what a flawless second half to the season he had (he truly was the best QB in the league after Thanksgiving), the 1-point-short-of-perfect QB rating he put up against Dallas, and the fact that he was beating the Niners (who were clearly the better team) all night long until the last minute and a half of the game, I'm not the least bit concerned. He didn't neeed to prove a damned thing more to me than he already did.
I just don’t understand the thought that Da Bears are not a good team up and down the roster.
You've got a good roster, but there's more to a good team than a good roster.
It's your coach and your GM who are the Achilles heel, as far as I'm concerned. Poles makes really bad decisions on such a regular basis you can almost set your watch by it, and Eberfluis is one of his biggest ones. Eberfluis is weak - he can't consistently motivate his team or establish discipline, the position coaches he hires fail to develop players to the levels that are expected, and he seems to do his worst under pressure. His clock management sucks and he doesn't play aggressively late in the game.
How many 4th quarter leads did your team blow last year? I know for sure it was at least 3, which tied the NFL record. By almost any relevant statistical measure, Chicago was the worst 4th quarter team in the NFL, and that's almost solely on the coach.
Eberfluis does not appear to do well under pressure, and he's going to feel a lot of it this year. His whole future is riding on rookie quarterback Caleb Williams and a brand new offensive coordinator. Eberfluis' job depends on both of those men having really good years, because if either - or especially, both of them - do poorly, Eberfluis is going to be on the hot seat. He's in a contract year, and he'll be unlikely to get an extension.
The best he could hope for would be for Poles to keep him on for 25 as a lame duck, and Poles just may be dumb enough to do it. Setting the Bears up for - what... I guess a 4th straight year of instability, anxiety, and uncertainty, especially for their young quarterback.
Sorry, man, but the guys on the field are only half the team; the small half. The leadership is the bigger half, and if that half doesn't work properly, the players can only do so much.
Luckily only about 2 weeks till the Bears and Houston in pre-season. Seeing as CJ Stroud had such a great year, I kind of feel Caleb‘s gonna want to put on a show for everybody,
I'm sure he does. Whether he is able to is still a complete unknown. Quite a lot of the Bears' future (both the near and medium future) are planted solidly on his shoulders; the fates of a lot of people depend largely on what kind of year he has. And history shows us that highly drafted quarterbacks have a surprisingly low chance of working out.
Especially when they are drafted into a dysfunctional, sloppily coached team.
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