Douglas is also a much bigger man.

Look again, Bears run on the right side of the Packers D (Reed, not Lowry). Why? Because Lowry was closing gaps efficiently. Despite I do not care a much of PFF Reed was the worst marked DL on Packers against run!

Apparently, he is their Fullback. He can work the flats and all that for the short-yardage downs and move the chains. Hopefully, Rodgers is re-programing his mandala to makes full use of the scheme.

Last week that was mostly because of the holding penalty. He gave up one pressure but others gave up more. That hiding penalty was dubious and he held far less than others and less egregiously than others not called.

PFF had a howler on grading that game across all positions. I gather they’ve changed personnel. It’s not good and it’s pretty misleading in terms of Lowry/Reed for example. In the case of Newman I don’t buy it either on rewatching.

Newman got a lot of stick early last year deservedly because he misread plays. He got a lot of stick because he was played at T and he isn’t one. That isn’t deserved and it’s not determinative if his play at G. That’s not his fault and he was good as a G late last year at G and an enormous improvement over Hanson last week. I don’t give any credence to the PFF grades last week, let’s see if they up their game, but they need to. Let’s hope that as Jenkins settles so the rest of the unit continues to improve. Newman helped him out a few times early too, if you go and rewatch.

I like Newman, and think he can develop as a RG if the coaches and injuries would just let him settle in there.

That said, selling Newman is reasonable. He was below average, but he finally got back to where he ought to have been all along.

I think the case could be made for selling Meyers. I don’t think that this was his best outing. We could use some improved play at the C position.

Maybe the Bears are the ones who hacked the jugs machine!

If a player returns punts for an entire year, isn't it expected that he will mishandle at least a couple of them, and maybe more than that? Especially if he is returning both punts and kickoffs. I'm pretty sure that Desmond Howard muffed a couple during his great season in 1996. There probably aren't stats on this because I doubt that anyone keeps track of muffs and fumbles that are not turnovers.

Game 2 is early for this to happen, but I'm not worried at this point. Last year Cobb returned one punt and muffed it. In the preseason,, Tyler Goodson, who is often touted here as a superior player to Amari Rodgers, received a kickoff near the goal line and completely butchered the play and got buried inside the five-yard-line. You can't expect perfection, and I still think Amari looks significantly better as a returner than he did last year.

He just needs 2 or 3 more years to develop confidence.

"But, according to Leatherhead, because the other team didn't recover any of them, it doesn't matter."

If you feel the need to drag me into stuff, at least get it right. I've never said it "doesn't matter", it just doesn't matter as much because you don't turn it over, which is worse.

If you want to start throwing stones at "sloppy" play, you'd better start with a good size pile, because it's only the second week of the season, not mid-season, not the playoffs. I wish he'd catch every one cleanly, but I know that's not reality. Crap happens all the time on punts and kicks and has for over 100 years despite the best efforts of the greatest coaches in history.

My suggestion remains: Stop returning punts. Don't return kicks you don't have to. The percentages are against you on these.

Yep, why not wait til he muffs one in the playoffs the other team recovers to think about finding a decent returner. React AFTER it happens, not before.

I find it hard to believe it's that hard to find an average returner with better hands and, just as importantly, awareness than Rodgers shows. In fact I know it's not that hard because they brought that guy in late last year that had a couple nice returns and then left him inactive for the playoff game, I guess because Rodgers was going to have a viral role on the offense.

I'm perfectly fine with keeping him on the PS and giving him a last chance next TC but if he's on the roster once Hill returns draftocracy has reared it's ugly head to the detriment of the team.

* The returners name was David Moore last year, but his average was only 3 yards better than Rodgers so 🤷

He's really worked on his accuracy and decision making - for sure.

When he got usurped at Alabama by Tua, it was completely warranted - he was on a far shallower development trajectory when he was the starting QB at Alabama.

Nick Saban did that guy a favor - and while I didn't see him play lights-out a Oklahoma, he's certainly displaying the fruits of 3 years of hard work since being benched at Alabama.

I want him to succeed - for all the toilers out there - "training beats talent, when talent doesn't train".

Trading down for Hurts instead of up for Love when you have no intention of playing either for a few years makes a lot of sense. At least if he has to come in for an injured starter he can do a lot of damage with his legs. Then Gutey drafts L'Jarius Sneed one pick ahead of the Chiefs with that kept 4th round pick and he easily covers Scotty Miller in the NFCCG. SB!

Dont get me wrong - I loved Dillon from the selection. And I wanted to see them together - just thought that outside of that one run and a couple shorter ones he didnt make the Bears pay. And when Jones is out there with him - that should open things up. But I guess he can be a little bit off some games. I would like to see it when he has one of his games like last year and Jones has a game like he did against the Bears - think that that would deadly - And then if Caleb Jones gets into the game on those goal line plays - Red zone efficiency uptick.

mlf telegraphs a lot of his plays by package and formation.

he thinks he is being tricky, but all he does is make AR run the clock down trying to get the defense to think one more thought than mlf has already overthought. Yup, I said it.

Bingo !

I think that was an option call. I don’t like it, the chosen option or the formation.