it's fine if their guys are better than ours... but so many of these mistakes were mental or coaching. and it's happened a lot this season... despite their army of failed ex. coordinators/coaches that are senior assistants

As Alex Brown points out frequently during the post game show, you have to start pointing the fingers at players for MANY of these mistakes. Coaches aren't telling Vildor to suck or not communicate with the nickel.

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This problem is pervasive across the roster and has been apparent for multiple years. Is it the players that are the problem, then, the coaches, or both?

I'd say it's the last of these options.

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On the long pass to Watkins late in the game, Brown was all over the Bears DE for not keeping the QB in the pocket. Quinn is the guy to make the play there, and he did his job. All the Bears had to do was keep Huntley in the pocket and not let him buy time during that final drive. That's not coaching, that's lack of execution.

Also on the Football Aftershow, Kruetz was all over that 2pt conversion play called. Kaplan said him and Briggs knew the play right away; Kmet to pick, and they were throwing to Mooney.

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the 4th and 1 wildcat was a brilliant coaching sequence

I heard that too. That's 100% coaching because Mooney isn't close to being good enough to call his number and dare the other team to stop him.

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Yeah, unless there was a mistake in lining up, I really don't see the point of the wildcat with an empty backfield. Everyone in the world knows he's not throwing, so there is nothing whatsoever for the defense to figure out.

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Was Jimmy Graham even on the field for that 2pt attempt? If not, another terrible coaching decision in the span of about 30 seconds has they had to use a timeout as well.

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The only thing better would have been if Montgomery punted.

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I hated the call, but the failure of the play was 100% on Montgomery. He easily gets a first down if he goes left instead of straight ahead into 4 waiting defenders. No doubt in my mind Herbert would have gotta the first down.

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Yep.

Blame the player for that one.

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The whole Jimmy Graham Bears experience has been incredibly odd because it seems they only feel comfortable using him for a handful of plays each quarter. Dalton comes in, hit Graham for a decent gain, Graham actually seems to try and care, you think where has this guy been for the past few seasons. Then nothing the rest of the game. Why in the world would they pay him all that money and never use him? One of the many wrongheaded roster decisions that only Pace/Nagy would make. Then again, if you got anything out of your two second round TE draft picks you wouldn't have had to throw bad paper at an aging vet that nobody was offering half what you ended up paying him. Starting to wonder if the rest of the league has been advising George to keep Pace/Nagy because the rest of the teams know George is inept and want to keep Pace in place so they can continue to fleece the Bears for draft picks.

As I said before George McKaskey owns this years failure because nobody outside of Halas Hall would have brought the dynamic duo back besides George/Ted. I'm sure Virginia loves seeing the "fire Nagy" chants spreading to Bulls games, another national embarrassment for the franchise. Maybe she will take all the lost revenue due to no shows out of his paycheck.