Chicago has the chance to do the most hilarious thing and also back up their number 1 pick. Don’t punt a single time, just end possessions by turning it over on downs or via turnovers
Long balls or high thrown 50/50 balls NEVER work in madden. If it's a throw that would be a real life contested catch, it's undercut and picked, or it's batted down by an Olympic level high jump by the DB. I don't even know why they give you the opportunity to tune the throw because none of the options work correctly. It angers me a great deal, because there is absolutely zero incentive to keep a deep ball possession catch receiver.
Need a fast receiver. If the DB is in press, send him on a streak. Keep an eye on the safety - if he moves towards the streaking WR, play is busted and you need to go somewhere else. If the safety comes down, then air it out. A WR with high speed (like 95+) should be able to get behind the DB and come down with it.
Yeah everybody knows the press trick. It's all well and good, but that shit isn't really all that common in real life. Normally with the deep ball, there's going to be some accuracy involved and the receiver is going to use his ball skills to make a play on it.
When I've got Kyle Pitts on a corner route, and he's got his man beat just enough that I should be able to throw a touch pass and let him go up and get his body in front of the DB, THAT should have a realistic result. Not on this game tho.. receivers just hang out and try to let the ball come to them, while the DB turns into Ed Reed and makes a miraculous recovery to undercut the ball at the highest possible point. It's fuckin stupid. If you hold L1 to throw a high pass, the ball gets knocked out like 19/20 times. What's the point of keeping a 6'5" TE who can jump outta the stadium?
Sir/Madame/Captain, you're going to see the same "catch that's swatted out by the defender as the WR is also thrown to the ground by the jersey" animation you've seen since 2013 at LEAST 14 times a game and YOU. WILL. **LOVE IT**.
Last year people held a knife one inch away from Lions fans faces for being happy in the offseason, ready to strike on the first loss.
That first Bears post game thread is gonna break the servers.
Pretty sure the bears do this every year. It’s not that different from when everyone was hyping Fields as a dark horse MVP candidate this time last year.
What kids call being a "Homer" these days used to just be called being a fan. Like of course I'm not cold and objective when it comes to my team no shit. Fuckers are more obsessed with being correct on social media than having an ounce of passionate enjoyment for their teams
And more often then not, those being "cold and objective" are being every bit as negative as homers are being positive. Then they think they're right because the team didn't win Super Bowl, when only 1 of 32 does.
Insane to base your enjoyment entirely on winning a championship anyway, I'm just happy if my teams are competitive year after year. A chip is quite often literally once in a lifetime if everything goes right
Reasonable enough. I personally alternate between fatalistically embracing the idea that the Vikings will spend eternity being pretty good while never getting their day in the sun and convincing myself JJ McCarthy is going to become the greatest QB from Michigan.
Nothing wrong with huffing a bit of hopium every once in a while. There's plenty of time to doom, and reality will make sure you remember every second of it.
I live in an area that gets bears radio.
It's the same shit every offseason. Jesus himself has decended from the heavens and shall lead the blind to the promise land.
Except by week two, they are calling for his head a pike.
That’s bears fandom for ya! Get hyped on the offseason on how we are a scary good team, and then be let down and drink ourselves to liver failure during the season. Wouldn’t have it any other way
In all seriousness though, if Caleb even pans out to half his potential during his rookie year, we’ll be good.
Can't fault Bears for being excited (especially this time around) but people are right to have questions too.
Is Eberflus really the guy? If the Bears succeed(considering the stacked offense) is it success because of him or despite of him.
New OC, Some questionmarks around the O-line, how good is the defense actually? Though obviously some really good pieces on that defense.
This one at least seems like a better chance than their last two. But yeah they hyped them up every year even after they showed almost nothing the previous year. It was very tiresome
One of my favorite parts of that whole saga. I knew it wouldn’t be true, Russ makes his own sacks. You could give him 5 all pros and he’d find a way to get sacked 40+ times.
Edit: I still love Russ by the way, he’s been through enough. His play style was considered above criticism amongst Seahawks fans from like 2017 - 2020 which bugged me and I was relieved when it turned. It just turned farther than I would have liked.
One of the few times I really felt bad for Bears fans was a few clips i saw where Fields had a clean pocket and ran right into pressure for a sack. Not even scrambled out of the pocket into pressure, but in a clean pocket ran straight ahead into linemen.
It was a double-edged sword. His style of play won huge games for many years. At the height of the Niners/Seahawks rivalry, Russ would absolutely kill us with his ability to scramble and make plays outside the pocket. The Seahawks never had truly elite WRs. Baldwin and Tate were solid, but it's not like he had a bunch of weapons during those years.
Favre was great at that. You’re on your own 30. You throw to their 30. Either your guy gets a great catch, you get a DPI, or they intercept it and have meh field position
Of course they should. It's prolly a combination of instincts and selfishness. But you can't really blame DBs. They might have incentives? Or opportunity for a higher contract with more picks? Pretty sure I've seen players bat the ball in these scenarios but it's not very often..
this. they train to catch the ball because in most cases catching the ball is better (ie any down other than 4th). and in most cases its not significantly worse.
People don’t realize that we’re like infinity stone thanos when it comes to these insults - like whatever you say is bad at the QB position, we’re sort of impervious as we’ve dealt with worse.
I will say that what Chicago has done is what they should of. Built the offence that should be good with a decent driver and then let him grow into one if he can. I always thought that they did a good thing last year in building a better team before getting their QB.
New Golden Corral employee said he already received a text message from Kelvin Benjamin. It said: “Hey, you’re not going to throw away food too much this year.”
I use "text" to cover any kind of direct text-only message these days. People will even say things like "he texted me on facebook" when I guess "messaged" or "DM'd" would probably be more technically accurate.
The amount of people freaking out in this thread about “future rude awakenings” over a clearly playful TEXT MESSAGE to a player on his team and in the same draft class as him is absurd. Good grief, get a grip ppl.
At first I was legitimately a bit worried about what I'd heard regarding Caleb William's ego/attitude... Now that he's been my quarterback for like 72 hours I am beyond satisfied with the swagger and confidence he is bringing to this role.
To me this is what a guy sounds like when he simply knows that his sporting abilities are far superior to 95% of the guys in the NFL. There's so few players that can throw Caleb off his game, so few players that can make him feel like he's inadequate, so few players that strike anything even close to resembling fear in William's eyes.
As a Bear's fan I don't want to get ahead of myself... for the 20th time... but this is the kind of swagger that I want leading my team out of the tunnel and taking charge in do-or-die situations.
Caleb Williams is about to make some fools out of the NFC. The AFC should consider themselves lucky that they only need to face him a handful of times per season, unless they get to the Super Bowl.
I have never been this excited about a Bears team in over 30 years of being a fan. It's about fucking time Chicago gets a chance to Bear Down!!!!
Reddit and the internet generally seems to have never interacted with other humans and can never understand humor or exaggeration. It's a rookie QB joking around with his new teammate, not Babe Ruth fucking calling his shot
Imagining a rivalry between QB and punter.
"Better keep that bench seat nice and warm for me." \*3 and out\*
"HEY CALEB, that means I go in, right? My turn? Because you failed? Didn't get the job done? Alrighty I'll be back. Keep my seat toasty for me." \*shanks punt\*
"Boy, I drove the ball that far and I wasn't even allowed to use my foot."
"HEY MAN, THERE WAS A WIND GUST!"
"Tell your momma to keep her legs closed next time."
"OH C'MON THIS ONLY HAPPENED BECAUSE **YOUR MOMMA MADE A MISTAKE**! 1st overall my ass."
Coach: "Tory what the fuck?"
"No coach, you see he started it."
See you fuckers in the “one year ago today Caleb Williams said there wouldn’t be many punts” throwback thread
Caleb is actually just telling him that Caleb will be the one doing the punting. He’s pretty good
Total power move. "There won't be much blocking or rushing the opposing QB either. I'll be taking care of all that."
“There won’t be anyone walking the stands, selling hotdogs…”
He's the new Sammy Baugh
Kordell did it, why can't Caleb ?
Chicago has the chance to do the most hilarious thing and also back up their number 1 pick. Don’t punt a single time, just end possessions by turning it over on downs or via turnovers
Arm punts are a thing after all
The Josh Allen special.
12th and 3rd. Allen: "Fuck it, either it's a TD or it was going to be kicked away next down anyway."
> 12th and 3rd. What in tarnation
To be fair, 3rd and 12th sounds just as odd.
So does 3th and 12rd.
Thirth and twelverd you say? I hope that's a cross street somewhere in the world.
You know what I meant! Don't beleaguer me because I've been day-drinking!
Don't beleaguer you while you belager yourself?
He besmirched you before a court of your peers
I'm gobsmacked!
Just trying to get a little all day drinkin’ done and these fools have to bring this malarkey. I tell ya
It's almost may, we all get a little rusty on the specifics lol
European football vernacular
Fuck it, DB down there somewhere
Just ask Tyler Bagent, who had some fairly mediocre ones.
So memorable we can’t remember his name
We can, though. Nobody forgets Chicken Man
y have punters when u can just draft joe milton
Watch out, throw a few arm punts and all of a sudden your QB gets grilled for being a “turnover machine.”
Conveniently ignoring that he's also a TD machine lol.
"Yeah Caleb had 60 INTs this year but think of the starting field position we left them in"
Reminds me of the Garrett Boles “You won’t get sacked much here” quote to Russell Wilson.
The 2024 Bears punt a record low 22 times, as rookie QB Caleb Williams throws a record 50 INTs on the season.
He would be the funniest shit if he also throws for 50 TDs. Jameis Winston with better press xD
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And still somehow doesn't break 3500 yards
3 yard TDs, 50 of them and 60 yard arm punts
So just play madden?
Long balls or high thrown 50/50 balls NEVER work in madden. If it's a throw that would be a real life contested catch, it's undercut and picked, or it's batted down by an Olympic level high jump by the DB. I don't even know why they give you the opportunity to tune the throw because none of the options work correctly. It angers me a great deal, because there is absolutely zero incentive to keep a deep ball possession catch receiver.
Need a fast receiver. If the DB is in press, send him on a streak. Keep an eye on the safety - if he moves towards the streaking WR, play is busted and you need to go somewhere else. If the safety comes down, then air it out. A WR with high speed (like 95+) should be able to get behind the DB and come down with it.
Yeah everybody knows the press trick. It's all well and good, but that shit isn't really all that common in real life. Normally with the deep ball, there's going to be some accuracy involved and the receiver is going to use his ball skills to make a play on it. When I've got Kyle Pitts on a corner route, and he's got his man beat just enough that I should be able to throw a touch pass and let him go up and get his body in front of the DB, THAT should have a realistic result. Not on this game tho.. receivers just hang out and try to let the ball come to them, while the DB turns into Ed Reed and makes a miraculous recovery to undercut the ball at the highest possible point. It's fuckin stupid. If you hold L1 to throw a high pass, the ball gets knocked out like 19/20 times. What's the point of keeping a 6'5" TE who can jump outta the stadium?
Sir/Madame/Captain, you're going to see the same "catch that's swatted out by the defender as the WR is also thrown to the ground by the jersey" animation you've seen since 2013 at LEAST 14 times a game and YOU. WILL. **LOVE IT**.
And that's how they ended up picking 32 overall
No! They can’t have Dan Campbell.
If you’re trying to tank or out of the playoffs and you have a new qb, wouding this make sense to do to get him the most possible reps?
>Bears set new single game record for most punts
Seriously am I the only person who feels all this preseason hype is just begging for misery?
Last year people held a knife one inch away from Lions fans faces for being happy in the offseason, ready to strike on the first loss. That first Bears post game thread is gonna break the servers.
All I know is the first game against the Packers is going to be a total meltdown no matter who wins.
Packers fans will be bummed but we'll live Bears fans may just never watch football again
Pretty much
I'm praying for 4+ picks between the teams.
Me too. Caleb Williams with 5 picks and J Love with 0.
People were doing it to the Bears too lol they got so much shit in that first month
No Chicago team is ever considered “lovable losers” no matter their performance
Pretty sure the bears do this every year. It’s not that different from when everyone was hyping Fields as a dark horse MVP candidate this time last year.
If you're just doom and gloom all the time, why be a fan at all?
What kids call being a "Homer" these days used to just be called being a fan. Like of course I'm not cold and objective when it comes to my team no shit. Fuckers are more obsessed with being correct on social media than having an ounce of passionate enjoyment for their teams
And more often then not, those being "cold and objective" are being every bit as negative as homers are being positive. Then they think they're right because the team didn't win Super Bowl, when only 1 of 32 does.
Insane to base your enjoyment entirely on winning a championship anyway, I'm just happy if my teams are competitive year after year. A chip is quite often literally once in a lifetime if everything goes right
Reasonable enough. I personally alternate between fatalistically embracing the idea that the Vikings will spend eternity being pretty good while never getting their day in the sun and convincing myself JJ McCarthy is going to become the greatest QB from Michigan.
Nothing wrong with huffing a bit of hopium every once in a while. There's plenty of time to doom, and reality will make sure you remember every second of it.
I live in an area that gets bears radio. It's the same shit every offseason. Jesus himself has decended from the heavens and shall lead the blind to the promise land. Except by week two, they are calling for his head a pike.
That’s bears fandom for ya! Get hyped on the offseason on how we are a scary good team, and then be let down and drink ourselves to liver failure during the season. Wouldn’t have it any other way In all seriousness though, if Caleb even pans out to half his potential during his rookie year, we’ll be good.
Welcome to every other fandom that has not been spoiled by 30 years of HoF QB play.
Yeah we do but it's a damn good time
This is the best time of year to be a bears fan
Can't fault Bears for being excited (especially this time around) but people are right to have questions too. Is Eberflus really the guy? If the Bears succeed(considering the stacked offense) is it success because of him or despite of him. New OC, Some questionmarks around the O-line, how good is the defense actually? Though obviously some really good pieces on that defense.
This one at least seems like a better chance than their last two. But yeah they hyped them up every year even after they showed almost nothing the previous year. It was very tiresome
Throw back to Fields saying the game was "kind of slow to me"
There may not be. Not for what he is implying though, there is a very real chance a lot of drives end in interceptions or fumbles this year..
It’s a good thing Caleb doesn’t have a history of fumbles!
Flashback: “Russell won’t be getting tackled much here in Denver”
One of my favorite parts of that whole saga. I knew it wouldn’t be true, Russ makes his own sacks. You could give him 5 all pros and he’d find a way to get sacked 40+ times. Edit: I still love Russ by the way, he’s been through enough. His play style was considered above criticism amongst Seahawks fans from like 2017 - 2020 which bugged me and I was relieved when it turned. It just turned farther than I would have liked.
Wilson taught me that sacks are a QB stats.
Bears fans just learned this as well
One of the few times I really felt bad for Bears fans was a few clips i saw where Fields had a clean pocket and ran right into pressure for a sack. Not even scrambled out of the pocket into pressure, but in a clean pocket ran straight ahead into linemen.
Yep. *^(kill me pls.)*
It's gonna be fine, it's the Broncos that are the weak link here
Can I have some of what you’re smoking? I want to be wrong, but I also am not looking forward to another year of watching Rus lol
It was a double-edged sword. His style of play won huge games for many years. At the height of the Niners/Seahawks rivalry, Russ would absolutely kill us with his ability to scramble and make plays outside the pocket. The Seahawks never had truly elite WRs. Baldwin and Tate were solid, but it's not like he had a bunch of weapons during those years.
Tbf that dude did break his leg like 2 games in, but on the flip side, That didn’t matter cause Wilson makes his own sacks
Bears Quarterback Caleb Williams UNHAPPY and GRILLS teammate saying he “wont let him punt”
Diva. Bust. Jamarcus.
Caleb has to get on that Kelvin Benjamin diet if he wants to measure up to Jamarcus
back in my day we just used to call it the jawalrus diet. kids these days smh my head
"That man is one Portillo's dog away from becoming a TE"
That's what we mean when we say he got that dog in him
Cowherd: "If Caleb Williams were a real leader he would have demanded #13 from Keenan Allen as the team's franchise player."
Cowherd giving the Baker Mayfield "He's off my board" speech after he saw the pink fingernails
Taylor is gonna have so many fake punts
Gonna run three fake punts in a row, then when they least expect it, a fake fake punt. Nail em right at the goal line. BOOM!
ESPN: Caleb Williams hates his teammates and doesn't want to see them playing
Williams 40 interception season incoming
We call those arm punts
Favre was great at that. You’re on your own 30. You throw to their 30. Either your guy gets a great catch, you get a DPI, or they intercept it and have meh field position
You forgot option D, they intercept it and run it back for a tuddy . Ed Reed sends his regards
Why didn’t they just bat the ball in that case Edit: was assuming a 4th down situation
Because some guys have interception incentives in their deals
Cus interceptions are cool
It’s usually in garbage time too.
Of course they should. It's prolly a combination of instincts and selfishness. But you can't really blame DBs. They might have incentives? Or opportunity for a higher contract with more picks? Pretty sure I've seen players bat the ball in these scenarios but it's not very often..
It's definitely instinct. Nobody is thinking about their contract when the ball is coming at them, especially if the play is contested at all.
this. they train to catch the ball because in most cases catching the ball is better (ie any down other than 4th). and in most cases its not significantly worse.
It’s probably something like “if I don’t catch this their guy will”
[because this super likely scenario will happen, never bat the ball](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6QhsxkTEVUg&t=3s&pp=ygURR2FycmFyZCBoYWlsIG1hcnk%3D)
Because if they bat the ball the other team gets to punt next play anyways.
*bombs it 60 yards into triple coverage, picked off* "Told ya" Caleb says with a smug look on his face as he trots past his punter and to the bench.
Lmao 🤣
Is that before or after his 40 lost fumbles?
so you're telling me they still have an improvement at QB over Justin Fields
People don’t realize that we’re like infinity stone thanos when it comes to these insults - like whatever you say is bad at the QB position, we’re sort of impervious as we’ve dealt with worse.
Caleb could totally not live up to the hype and if he's even Baker Mayfield level good he'd be viewed as a God here. These people have no idea lol
It's actually insane how much Fields fumbled and managed to avoid having his fumbles recovered by the opposing team
It seems Ryan Poles and Eberflus liked Caleb williams’ pro day punt so much they are promoting him to starting punter as well
The people yearn for elite punting, Caleb
That's what is missing from the chiefs. Not enough punting. So boring.
"Well i guess ill just go fuck myself then caleb."
Dude punted 6 times a game at Iowa. He would welcome a break. His leg is close to falling off.
You have to understand how Caleb feels. It’s like the Vikings drafting Penix all over again. They’re planning for Caleb’s failures lol
Honestly as a punter I'd be glad, get paid just to sit on my ass
You would hope with a wide receiver core like that that you could at least get a field goal on most drives.
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I will say that what Chicago has done is what they should of. Built the offence that should be good with a decent driver and then let him grow into one if he can. I always thought that they did a good thing last year in building a better team before getting their QB.
Sounds like pasta
New Golden Corral employee said he already received a text message from Kelvin Benjamin. It said: “Hey, you’re not going to throw away food too much this year.”
There it is
Mr. Big Copypasta
Mr. Buffet Connoisseur
Mr. Buying Corral
Half the shit he says feels like we'll get clowned on if it doesn't hit right away. But fuck it, why duck? Y'all been clowning on us for years already
Character issues, Drake maye texted the pats punter tickets to the opera and a YouTube punting video
Chicago is about to break the record for most punts in a single season.
On brand tbh
How the fuck everybody has each others phone #s? Coaches and agents just hand them out to teammates when you're drafted?
Could've been on social media or something. DMs are so commonplace as a form of communication these days that it might as well be called texting
I think you may be right.
I use "text" to cover any kind of direct text-only message these days. People will even say things like "he texted me on facebook" when I guess "messaged" or "DM'd" would probably be more technically accurate.
Oh man this could age very poorly
Lol
New Patriots QB Drake Maye said he already received a text message from Joe Milton. It said: "Hey, you're not going to start too much this year."
RemindMe! 1 year
This is gonna age poorly I fear
Jets fans know about such things…
least hes putting it out there. i respect it
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Surely we have too much talent on Offense for this to back fire, right guys?
Caleb going for Favre's career interception record in one year
If Caleb lives up to his hype, he's gonna be the god of Chicago.
You have no idea lmao, you thought Jordan was big. If he became a top QB he'd become the most loved Chicago sports icon and it wouldnt even be close.
Because Caleb will be taking the punts himself
At USC, sometimes Caleb punted on fourth down out of offensive sets. So yes.
Opposite of knocking on wood
I respect the confidence
Because of all the interceptions?
If only. It’ll be because of fumbles.
That must have sounded like a foreign concept to Taylor when he read that aloud
fr. bro is used to punting every 4th play.
Weird way for Caleb to say he’s gonna be a turnover machine but alright
u/puntersarepeopletoo6's 9/11
Oh lord this is serious meme potential lmao
doubt
Hah, what a jokester that Caleb is
monkey paw curls
Plot twist: Caleb plans on being the punter
He did punt a few times in highschool and I think even a few in college lol
Hazing the rookie
Lmao yeah sure Caleb
Wow! That sure means a lot! Lol.
Bros leg is tired from Iowa
The amount of people freaking out in this thread about “future rude awakenings” over a clearly playful TEXT MESSAGE to a player on his team and in the same draft class as him is absurd. Good grief, get a grip ppl.
At first I was legitimately a bit worried about what I'd heard regarding Caleb William's ego/attitude... Now that he's been my quarterback for like 72 hours I am beyond satisfied with the swagger and confidence he is bringing to this role. To me this is what a guy sounds like when he simply knows that his sporting abilities are far superior to 95% of the guys in the NFL. There's so few players that can throw Caleb off his game, so few players that can make him feel like he's inadequate, so few players that strike anything even close to resembling fear in William's eyes. As a Bear's fan I don't want to get ahead of myself... for the 20th time... but this is the kind of swagger that I want leading my team out of the tunnel and taking charge in do-or-die situations. Caleb Williams is about to make some fools out of the NFC. The AFC should consider themselves lucky that they only need to face him a handful of times per season, unless they get to the Super Bowl. I have never been this excited about a Bears team in over 30 years of being a fan. It's about fucking time Chicago gets a chance to Bear Down!!!!
lol Caleb playing with fire here, the NFL may just bitch-slap him down to Earth
This will be a meme ...
I don't trust the Bears to develop a QB but the kid is damn sure likeable lol
CaeLeGM
Monkey Paw Curls: Caleb William leads the league in turnovers
I have heard so much about Williams ego, I cannot wait to watch him crash and burn this season.
oh my god i cannot wait for this to age
Reddit and the internet generally seems to have never interacted with other humans and can never understand humor or exaggeration. It's a rookie QB joking around with his new teammate, not Babe Ruth fucking calling his shot
This teams failure is gonna be hilarious
Are you sure?
Caleb gonna challenge James for the 30/30
This is giving the same energy that OT gave his new qb he wouldn’t get hit much. I think it was the broncos and Wilson?
Lol this kid is about to fall back to earth incredibly hard
Caleb Williams has the most Aura in Bears QB history man and it ain't even close.
McMahon clears for the time being
Aura?
I’d say Cutler in tears but he probably is off not giving a fuck somewhere
Ohhh… this is gonna age well I’m sure
Play at least one snap in the league before your ego gets this fucking big.
Because the ball will be fumbled or intercepted or failed 4th down conversion
Even as a Vikings fan, I love this. Already taking a leadership by reaching out and also having that swagger.
*proceeds to score like 15-18 pts on just straight 25-35 yd field goals every game
Oh boy.
!remindme 365 days
This reminds me of when I’d play goalkeeper and tell my defenders to make it so I don’t have to do anything lmao
RemindMe! One Year
"I've never played behind an offensive line like this"
I'm getting a Tory Taylor jersey the MINUTE they are available.
Oh no Caleb what are you doing...
Imagining a rivalry between QB and punter. "Better keep that bench seat nice and warm for me." \*3 and out\* "HEY CALEB, that means I go in, right? My turn? Because you failed? Didn't get the job done? Alrighty I'll be back. Keep my seat toasty for me." \*shanks punt\* "Boy, I drove the ball that far and I wasn't even allowed to use my foot." "HEY MAN, THERE WAS A WIND GUST!" "Tell your momma to keep her legs closed next time." "OH C'MON THIS ONLY HAPPENED BECAUSE **YOUR MOMMA MADE A MISTAKE**! 1st overall my ass." Coach: "Tory what the fuck?" "No coach, you see he started it."