Thoughts and Observations: Week 1 Packers

[JUSTWIN]

He got rattled. It happens to every QB except the legends.

And we've seen him in similar situation last year - Ravens and Lions - where he did not show fear and made plays. I am not sure what the hell happen last night??? It would really suck if he is already starting to regress.

 

[WindyCity]

And we've seen him in similar situation last year - Ravens and Lions - where he did not show fear and made plays. I am not sure what the hell happen last night??? It would really suck if he is already starting to regress.

QB development is not linear. It is up and down.

The moment got to him. It is a great learning moment about not doing too much and remaining calm.

 

[JUSTWIN]

QB development is not linear. It is up and down.

The moment got to him. It is a great learning moment about not doing too much and remaining calm.

Again, I hope you are right, Windy. Everything is riding on this kid. If he doesn't pan out, it will probably be another era of mediocrity and then rebuild...rinse and repeat. Queue the Ground Hog's day theme song.

 

[Enasic]

I do believe he Trubs and Nagy could learn from this. However, I need to see more fight and confidence from Mitch in any and all situations. He had the perfect chance to come back on Rodgers and GB in lambeau, and win at the end. I want to see my franchise QB relish that moment and he shied away worse than a leper at a beauty pageant. It's not encouraging but certainly you can't make any conclusions off one game either. Next time, the results and play on the field need to be better and more consistent throughout the whole game. Absolutely has to be.

 

[A.C. Milan]

I do believe he Trubs and Nagy could learn from this. However, I need to see more fight and confidence from Mitch in any and all situations. He had the perfect chance to come back on Rodgers and GB in lambeau, and win at the end. I want to see my franchise QB relish that moment and he shied away worse than a leper at a beauty pageant. It's not encouraging but certainly you can't make any conclusions off one game either. Next time, the results and play on the field need to be better and more consistent throughout the whole game. Absolutely has to be.

Yeah totally agree with you, Trubisky can and must learn from this, i want to see him to fight more, not just throw the ball away or run way too soon

 

[bearsforever]

Again, I hope you are right, Windy. Everything is riding on this kid. If he doesn't pan out, it will probably be another era of mediocrity and then rebuild...rinse and repeat. Queue the Ground Hog's day theme song.

I think we are good for now. If Trubs doesn't seem to be working, I think Chase would be serviceable. Is he the answer, no. But he has been in this system and knows it and can go out there and run it.

 

[Burque]

None of this is true.

Can't simulate game conditions in a fake game.
He didn't have any kind of look on his face when it was 20-3, you couldn't see it with a helmet on anyway.
There wasn't a "bunch" of head scratching decisions, literally like 2.
There wasn't wild inaccuracy for a guy that completed 66% with at least 2 drops.
Trubisky has started all 13 games he's played.
You point out it's 13 games in, then say it's time to start justifying the pick, which contradicts yourself. It's not even a full season worth of games yet.

WTF are you talking about? You didnt see passes get overthrown on the regular in the second half? You didnt see a vanilla offense show up in the second half which should be entirely head scratching?

We had the Packers in a choke hold and we let go in the second half of the game and got our asses kicked. That second half was sickening. Our offense was poorly called and executed in the last thirty minutes. period. Our defense set us up to win and we failed. The sooner the coaches and team realize that the sooner they can get on board with the fact that you NEVER let your foot off the gas. What a fucking chit show.

 

[Burque]

This came down to one play. @xer0hour should admit that Fuller didn't earn his money last night. period. end of discussion.

average DB's make that interception in high school games.

 

[Toast88]

Just a few things I took from Matt Nagy's Monday presser:

-He took responsibility for the call of two consecutive screen passes, and said he shouldn't have done that, that he made a mistake and will learn from it.

-He defended the Third and 1 call at the end of the game, said it was a play they liked for that specific situation. It could just as easily have worked out. (I don't necessarily agree with him on this, but whatever.) His quote: "We have a lot going on there. We have some crossers. We had a swing route. We were good with that."

-He stressed that this will not shake the offense's confidence one bit, and that they will be aggressive and ready going forward. (I suppose he had to say that, but I still like that he said it out loud.)

-He said they're going to use the game to get better, and that while no one in the locker room is hanging their head, he wants them to "feel this one" as motivation to get better. (Again, not earth-shattering stuff)

-He said the first thing when they got on the bus, Trubisky went up to him and told him he wants to get better. I suppose that's good, and yes, he does.

 

[WindyCity]

New coaches all got therir asses kicked

From our buddy @BaxFootballGuru New #NFL head coaches 2018
#Cardinals Steve Wilks L, 24-6
#Bears Matt Nagy L, 24-23
#Lions Matt Patricia L, 48-17
#Colts⁠ ⁠ Frank Reich L, 34-23
#Giants Pat Shurmur L, 20-15
#Titans Mike Vrabel L, 27-20
#Raiders Jon Gruden L, 33-13
outscored 210-117

 

[legendxofxlink]

New coaches all got therir asses kicked

From our buddy @BaxFootballGuru New #NFL head coaches 2018
#Cardinals Steve Wilks L, 24-6
#Bears Matt Nagy L, 24-23
#Lions Matt Patricia L, 48-17
#Colts⁠ ⁠ Frank Reich L, 34-23
#Giants Pat Shurmur L, 20-15
#Titans Mike Vrabel L, 27-20
#Raiders Jon Gruden L, 33-13
outscored 210-117

Nagy is the best of the new coaches since we're all being impulsive.

 

[BobInIndy]

My take from the game:\
1st Quarter, scripted plays, Trubisky looks composed and great. After that quarter, GB D made adjustments and Chicago O didn't make the correct adjustments.
Our D didn't seem up to the task of GBs no huddle. That may come back to haunt us.
Our O is a long way from going to a no huddle, since that's quite a bit of a burden on the QB.
Regardless of what Nagy said about the pass on 3rd and 1 or 2, based on the lack of timeouts by GB, 1 or 2 running plays would have been a better call(s).
We had been running the ball well and as Halas told Ditka, use a QB sneak to get a yard...we had two plays to get 2 yards. That would have put the game away.
Trubisky needs to get better vision downfield. Receivers were open, in some cases wide open. Hopefully, he'll get better.
My concern is more about the D's inability to stop GB in the 4th quarter. I'm not sure it was all conditioning. Our weaknesses were shown to all our competition.

 

[anotheridiot]

Chicago skipped their adjustment, they figured they knocked Rodgers out and were feasting on Kizer the second half.

Heard a stat this morning, the three times the bears blitzed, Rodgers threw 3 passes for 145 yards, including the 75 yarder to cobb.

I still go back to watching both monsters of our midway Mack and Floyd being the two guys running down Cobb on that play.

A safety does not let any opposition player behind them period.

Just an unbelievable first half of football. Thats what we can take away from that game.

Lets see how much time Smith plays Monday spying on Russell Wilson.

I cant wait for our noon sunday football schedule to start..

 

[bearsfootball516]

Chicago skipped their adjustment, they figured they knocked Rodgers out and were feasting on Kizer the second half.

Heard a stat this morning, the three times the bears blitzed, Rodgers threw 3 passes for 145 yards, including the 75 yarder to cobb.

I still go back to watching both monsters of our midway Mack and Floyd being the two guys running down Cobb on that play.

A safety does not let any opposition player behind them period.

Just an unbelievable first half of football. Thats what we can take away from that game.

Lets see how much time Smith plays Monday spying on Russell Wilson.

I cant wait for our noon sunday football schedule to start..

Rodgers is one of the best in NFL history against the blitz. You're basically better off just not blitzing because if you don't get to him, he's going to burn you.

In regards to the Seahawks, they have an awful offensive line and some of the worst WRs in the NFL. I see them watching the second half of the Bears/Packers game and trying to replicate what Green Bay did to get the ball out of Rodgers hands fast, except the Seahawks don't have anything close to the equivalent of Cobb and Adams.

If I'm Chicago, I play bump and run at the line, drop the linebackers into zone to jump any quick passes and let the safeties drop back. That forces Wilson to hold the ball until things develop downfield, and by that time, the D Line has gotten to him.

 

[Matt2012]

The issues with Trubisky, Nagy, and the overall offensive performance in the 2nd half Sunday night have been well documented.
And frankly, it's not all that surprising with a new system and inexperienced qb/coach.

Where I place the majority of the blame is on Fangio. His defense got gashed in the 2nd half and he couldn't figure it out with a gimped Rodgers out there. It was absolutely pathetic. As the veteran coach on the staff with a very stout defense, he needs to get the job done with a 20 point lead. It's as simple as that.

 

[greg23]

Just a few things I took from Matt Nagy's Monday presser:

-He took responsibility for the call of two consecutive screen passes, and said he shouldn't have done that, that he made a mistake and will learn from it.

-He defended the Third and 1 call at the end of the game, said it was a play they liked for that specific situation. It could just as easily have worked out. (I don't necessarily agree with him on this, but whatever.) His quote: "We have a lot going on there. We have some crossers. We had a swing route. We were good with that."

-He stressed that this will not shake the offense's confidence one bit, and that they will be aggressive and ready going forward. (I suppose he had to say that, but I still like that he said it out loud.)

-He said they're going to use the game to get better, and that while no one in the locker room is hanging their head, he wants them to "feel this one" as motivation to get better. (Again, not earth-shattering stuff)

-He said the first thing when they got on the bus, Trubisky went up to him and told him he wants to get better. I suppose that's good, and yes, he does.

This is disturbing.

I get the 3rd 1 call if GB has timeouts left.....but not with 0 timeouts, 246 left, howartd just ripped of 13 yards and you've been grinding out 3rd downs the entire series to put the game away.

At that point in the game you arent playing for looks and matchups...you're playing a strategy game against the clock and how to end the game.

Say we score a td...up 10 with 240 left amd gb getting ball back...rodgers prob has a 75% chance to still beat us

 

[jc456]

Misleading stat though. Trubs had 10 passes behind the LoS and was 9/10 which gross inflated his completion percentage. Take those away and he was 14/25 for only 56% completion. By contrast JG and Watson only had 2 passes each behind the LoS.

So it was a Fisher Price offense that Trubs ran hence why he threw it 35 times, completed 23 of them but still only ended up with 171 yards.

that's called conservative.

 

[anotheridiot]

The first half was incredible. If they can get three quarters of that and use Howard late in the game there will be some wins for this team this year.

 

[10veitout]

The first half was incredible. If they can get three quarters of that and use Howard late in the game there will be some wins for this team this year.

Too bad you won't be beating up on Deshone Kizer most the season, he handed you a 14 points swing with his turnovers on his only two drives.

 

[CRM 114]

Too bad you won't be beating up on Deshone Kizer most the season, he handed you a 14 points swing with his turnovers on his only two drives.

Unless, of course, the glass figurine that is Aaron Rodgers gets injured again.