CW - "Practice is harder than the game."

[NeverDieEasy]

During 1 on 1 film review of the Bills game with Flus and Caleb, Flus asked Caleb what he learned from the experience. Caleb's response was "Practice is harder than the game". Dang! He gets it. Also, his understanding of the offensive calls with his recognition of the defensive coverage, in real play time development, seems to be extremely high; even off the chart for a rookie.

I for one, a Justin Fields supporter, think the Bears. Poles and Flus are to be commended for making the tough decisions to trade Fields, select Williams and the quick turnaround of tearing down and rebuilding a solid roster. One more draft should put them in the upper echelon of teams for the next decade. In my 50+ years of Bears fandom I truly see the beginning of a competitive and dominating team we can all celebrate. GO BEARS!

 

[Xplosive]

Ruh roh... He will have a shock once he faces some of the more ferocious defensive lines. But compared to what he had at USC I'm sure he believes this defense is legendary

 

[DefNextYear]

Ruh roh... He will have a shock once he faces some of the more ferocious defensive lines. But compared to what he had at USC I'm sure he believes this defense is legendary

He must've absolutely lit up his USC defense, haha.

 

[Myk]

Keeping Fields and not getting a QB the year before was probably a tough decision.
When another #1 fell into their lap after Fields had another year it was not.

Especially after seeing the moves Poles could make for Williams, Fields was never his plan.

 

[ILoveDick]

Hopefully, this doesn't turn into a JF moment where after recently commenting on the speed of the game not being a problem...then getting completely destroyed by Cleveland's DL.

 

[modo]

Keeping Fields and not getting a QB the year before was probably a tough decision.
When another #1 fell into their lap after Fields had another year it was not.

Especially after seeing the moves Poles could make for Williams, Fields was never his plan.

If Fields was never the plan, they would have taken a QB last year. I think Poles really liked Fields and they would have moved on with the original number 1 pick they had.

Last year was not a big enough leap for Fields, and Williams was too good to pass up.

 

[Kurtosis]

You could also look at it as praise for the Bears defense.

Either way much ado about nothing to me. I highly doubt anyone on this team at this point will be taking any team in front of them in the regular season lightly at this point.

 

[Bearly]

Ruh roh... He will have a shock once he faces some of the more ferocious defensive lines. But compared to what he had at USC I'm sure he believes this defense is legendary

One way or another, someone will be shocked.

 

[alswank87]

Let’s translate this really quick. Caleb has only played in preseason. So, practice is harder than the preseason game. It kind of puts this comment into perspective. Let’s see if he continues to believe this during the regular season.

 

[Noonthirtyjoe]

Facing the Bears back 7 he will get good. Bears back 7 Facing CW, DJ,Keenan, Rome' Cement, Everett, will get good. Steel sharpens steel.

 

[Bearly]

Keeping Fields and not getting a QB the year before was probably a tough decision.
When another #1 fell into their lap after Fields had another year it was not.

Especially after seeing the moves Poles could make for Williams, Fields was never his plan.

It would have just been too wierd to take the next Ohio State QB with pick #1 2 years after taking Fields at 12 and not yet knowing what you had in hand. We certainly lucked out with how the '24 picks went down but Poles had lots of ammo to move up in this draft if Fields didn't work out and I think that was the plan. Be in a VG position to move on if desired and they would have been, even without the #1.

Calculated luck but still, better lucky than good. We can thank last year's rudderless clusterfuck O for Odunze as well, LOL.

 

[Nelly]

During 1 on 1 film review of the Bills game with Flus and Caleb, Flus asked Caleb what he learned from the experience. Caleb's response was "Practice is harder than the game". Dang! He gets it. Also, his understanding of the offensive calls with his recognition of the defensive coverage, in real play time development, seems to be extremely high; even off the chart for a rookie.

That'd be quite the departure from what we're used to. A QB able to beat a defense with his mind first, then his top 5 athletic abilities? Damn. It'll be weird watching that in Chicago.

I for one, a Justin Fields supporter, think the Bears. Poles and Flus are to be commended for making the tough decisions to trade Fields, select Williams and the quick turnaround of tearing down and rebuilding a solid roster.

Not tough decisions really, IMO. Poles came in with a clean slate and wanted to build his team, so he traded away Mack and Quinn and cleaned house. Trading away Roquan was probably a little more difficult. But once we secured the #1 pick from the Panthers, the decision to take Williams was probably made then and there considering Fields' lack of progress and thus wasn't a tough decision at all. What was probably a tougher decision than that was to take less from the Steelers to do Justin a solid rather than trading him just anywhere for a straight-up 4th rounder.

One more draft should put them in the upper echelon of teams for the next decade. In my 50+ years of Bears fandom I truly see the beginning of a competitive and dominating team we can all celebrate. GO BEARS!

Fingers crossed.

 

[BaBaBlacksheep]

This is the quote that the haters blast all over after his first bad game.

 

[gallagher]

This is the quote that the haters blast all over after his first bad game.

I prefer fans of other teams to our home-grown haters.

 

[Anytime23]

“It was actually kind of slow to me to be honest.” 2.0

 

[Xplosive]

Drafting another QB after year two of Justin would have been reckless especially considering Stroud literally said he didn't want to be in Chicago where his former teammate was playing.

That's like the Chargers taking Eli, it's dumb AF and people need to stop claiming it's what Poles should have "obviously" done.

 

[playthrough2001]

Hopefully, this doesn't turn into a JF moment where after recently commenting on the speed of the game not being a problem...then getting completely destroyed by Cleveland's DL.

I doubt Shane Waldron would block a talent like Myles Garrett one-on-one all day.

 

[NeverDieEasy]

Calculated luck but still, better lucky than good.

Oh, I forgot to add praise for Lovie also. His greatest win for the Bears just happened to be his final coaching game for Houston!

 

[msadows]

This is the quote that the haters blast all over after his first bad game.

Hopefully its not week 1 vs the titans, cause if he shits the bed all of chicago media/radio will be toxic as ****

 

[Dumpster Fire]

Hopefully this isn't like when Fields said "It felt slow to me out there, actually."