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Just wanted to mention that the Bears were not doing vanilla playcalling. It was very reminiscent to Mike McDaniels' first season in Miami where he showed his hand and then in year two everything seemed to come to a halt. It's too early to make the same determination for Ben Johnson's future, but it was very apparent that he was treating preseason like the regular season. Some fans like that mentality for understandable reasons. However, one of the risks to that is exposing your tendencies to the rest of the league at the beginning. Last season was to see if Bryce could be the guy. At the beginning, it looked like the damage from his rookie season had done him in. Mid-way through, he's back and looking good. At the end, he's still ascending. This season, the focus is on rebuilding the defense while developing our young weapons. Winning is always the #1 desire, but I don't know if we're deep enough on both sides of the ball yet to demand excellence yet. 2026 we'll have cap space, some expiring contracts to make decisions on, and knowledge of whether or not there's going to need to be a change at QB.

Ooo. I didnt know that Hansen had called week 2. Now I gotta watch both again and see what the "core" plays are that they both called and if they had different styles/tendencies based on their specialization(s).

Canales confirms that Coker is playing Thursday!

Last practice of training camp today!!! Padded practice BB3, TMac, Scourton, and Tremble all working with trainers DJ Johnson not practicing today Zavala back in pads Dalton looks to be fine throwing but still has his arm in a sleeve Canales made the offense run two sprints after the first portion of team drills. Wasn't happy with the execution.

tbh, I miss when some of the more knowledgeable posters would create threads like this. I always learned something about the team or the game itself that made me a better fan. Plus the discussions that would take place (don't get me wrong, arguments always happened but there would also be rational conversations) could open up to new information that wasn't noticed before (like what happened in here after all of the back-and-forth died down). I know I won't be able to provide as much insight as those with better football knowledge than me could, but if it helps anybody else learn more the way that the Huddle used to help me then weeeeeeeeee.

MLFootball and Dov Kleinman are trash aggregator accounts that should be blocked.

Threw the preseason offensive snap counts into a spreadsheet and found some data points that I thought were interesting: Brycen Tremayne saw a snap increase of 15. The only other offensive player that saw a significant snap increase that wasn't new/returning was David Moore (11). Jimmy Horn Jr saw the largest decrease in snap counts (-12) without a major change in his circumstances. TMac (-17) is nursing a sore hamstring, Coker (-29) was sick, Dalton (-20) got hurt, and Mays (-13) saw time as a starter and was no longer competing for center. Only offensive skills' players with more snaps than Tremayne (41) is Moore (43). Very close total offensive snap counts for Etienne (37), Evans (36), Horn Jr (36), and Mitchell (35). Two of the bottom five offensive snap counts are held by Emani Bailey (11) and Jacolby George (11). That caught my eye considering the news about George getting a pretty sweet deal for a UDFA and rumbles about Bailey looking good in what few touches he had gotten in practice + preseason. Possibly hiding them to stash on the practice squad, or maybe not doing what they need to on ST? Walton (64), Kingston (59), and Carter (59) are the third through fifth highest snap counts behind Nijman (78) and BC (76). Likely all competing for that 9th spot or to make a case for the team to take a 10th OL.

Bring me Kyle Dugger (after cuts)

Maaaan.... when I went to get those caps from the broadcast it had the Texans announcers and the way they were talking up Stingley like he had impacted the play was wild.

All good mang! I've done the same thing two or three times this offseason after you've already gotten a thread up and going.

Dalton looks like he has no issues with the elbow. Threw during warm ups with a sleeve on. No DJ Johnson. Hip maybe?

Also back at practice: Zavala. Cam Jackson, Coker, and Cherelus. Carter warmed up on the side

Light practice today. Will try to catch the thread up with any prior vids/tweets/news/etc. Figured with the game being on Thursday that I'd just put everything into this thread. Wouldn't be surprising for it to be a slow news week with light practices to rest starters. Anyone else amped to see if Bryce Perkins can steal Plummer's spot? ️

Great catch! I completely missed that by Hunt afterwards and after looking at what you had pointed out that ILB looks like he came downhill in a hurry and Hunt should've come off of his block sooner. That would have allowed Chuba to have taken the cutback for a greater gain (or at least, less traffic to deal with). Would have also made Icky's block being a shed a non-factor. Plays like this and all of these little mistakes that we see kicking us in the dick is also giving me hope because it's just a liiiiiittle more development (plus a liiiiiittle bit more luck) away from the bounces going the Panthers' way.

Broadcast replays I mentioned yesterday that I forgot to grab:

Weird to resurrect the thread for that, but way ahead of you: Now if somebody quotes something he posts and I think it's deserving of a poo react, then I'm going to give him a poo react rather than continuing arguments. Curious to both sides this though. I'm not going out of my way to shitpost any thread he's in nor immediately making things personal over a disagreement about the team. That's what people have been talking about in regards to mod behavior in the new reclaiming thread or whatever it's called.

I think with him getting aggressive with his players like he saw Dan Campbell do in Detroit means that there's a little extra pressure on Ben Johnson to prove that his offense can do what analysts were forecasting it can. Otherwise, he's going to be screaming at men who are much larger than him that won't care to listen. Wouldn't surprise me to see the Bears light it up this season offensively, but take a step back in year two with all of the tape gifted to the league.

I can assure you that some of us are doing just that, but the onus isn't on the people helping nor the people voicing that things can be better. The folks that need to be better are the ones that feel entitled to being a ***** just because their football team is bad. The Panthers losing on Sunday does not force me to go on the Internet and shitpost about a player so that I can lash out other fans not as unstable. That's a personal choice that a lot of people are making. The entire "people complaining need to shut up and do something themselves about it" to be perfectly honest is narcissistic and deflective. Sounding the alarm is doing something. As we can see though, sounding the alarm doesn't mean anything if people aren't going to take any personal accountability. Being completely serious, the best thing the board can do is look at the rules and see if any adjustments should be made (not derailing threads by being an asshole should definitely be on there if not already). Post the rules, pin them, and then act on them. I understand that many people don't report things, but I recall last season the folks that did report things having it thrown in their faces. Regardless of whether or not it's a volunteer role, that's unacceptable for a moderator. It creates the impression that it doesn't matter because people with the ability to do something want it to be this way. I know that mods don't want more work, but we can't be dogging out people for doing what they're supposed to and then say nobody is doing it. I'm less interested in airing grievances then I am figuring out solutions (otherwise, I wouldn't be re-watching wk2 preseason all-22... I think I might have a problem :p). I get that the mods have their hands tied, but maybe it's time for everyone to try a little harder to not be shitty to other people that like the same team as them as opposed to just the folks already trying (or complaining about it).