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I mean, again, I don't care what stats you look at, he was the worst quarterback in the NFL. Including Bryce Young in that mix too, you know, but week one, it was, it was horrid, but, but week three, I thought, you know, he really, obviously they threw the ball a ton, 52 times, but, but overall, I thought we saw some real development. I think we saw some real development. I just don't know if it's ever going to look great this year for a variety of different reasons, which, you know, number one is rookie quarterback. You always got to just remember rookie quarterbacks usually struggle. Rookie quarterbacks are usually are. And I think we overreact to their struggles overall is the biggest thing. And then we, when we get rookie quarterbacks who don't struggle, you know, then we get really high on those players. Of course, like we just talked about with Jane Daniels, but with Caleb Williams, I think he is just working with a lot stacked against him. You know, number one, it's the scheme. It's the offense. Don't love it. Don't love what Shane Waldron has presented for this team this year. The line play has not been good. Just flat out has not been good. Both from a run and pass game standpoint. Dion just with his averaging 1.8 yards per carry. Now that was a, that was a dumb signing at the time. Mostly because it mostly because of how fast they like that was the first thing that needed to happen in all free agency was Deondris with getting like a free year contract. Spend the money on O line. What are you doing? Like, I don't. Yeah. I mean, the, the other problem with that backfield too, Matt, was they already had guys. Like what? Yeah, they had like Roshan Johnson. Yeah, like what are you talking about? And even, and even Deontay Forman, when they asked Deontay Forman to play starter reps, he was a good player. Like what are you doing? Bringing in Deontay Swift. It doesn't make any sense at all. Yeah. And like, so yeah, they, they spend money on Swift. They spend money on Gerald Everett. Um, again, another luxury position. Like what? And now, and now Gerald Everett's barely playing. Well, as he should, because he's not good. Like he's a net negative out there. Um, so is the Deondre Carter, who they're having like, seal the edge on a run play at the goal line. Oh my God. I mean, it just is. What are we doing? The player usage deployment and, and that comes back to the front office too. Um, I just need the product needs to be better on the field for, for Chicago. But yeah, I, I thought that Caleb looked, they're also asking him to do a lot, by the way. Like they're not asked, they're asking him to run road dropback concepts and they're asking him to do a lot of the line. And I think he's doing that, which is great. I think overall his ball placement's been good. I think the accuracy's been good. Uh, he's just under pressure a lot and he's going to make some mistakes when he's under pressure period. Like that's just what's going to happen. But that first interception he had was, wow, that was bad though. That was. And again, we've seen that every single week. It is just some of these turnovers. You're like, jeez, what, what are we doing, Caleb? Stop throwing those. They're not, they're not Will Levis turnovers, but they're definitely, yeah, they're not that bad, but they are like, they're just, they're just classic mistakes, I think. I don't think it's anything with like, no, no, you're right with an arm talent or anything like that. It's just, no, he is going to make those mistakes because he's a rookie man. Like it is what it is. You can be as good a prospect as you want, but I definitely think I've gone a 180 on kind of the situation here. I do not think this is a good situation. I think they overemphasize like, let's get a bunch of weapons, but we do not have an offensive line. That I think has been problematic. But you know, I will say from a receiver standpoint, I think Roman Tunes has been great. I did not understand some of the criticisms of him as a player that other people had in the first, after the first two weeks, I thought his film looked great. I put up charting notes on him from week one and week two. Next week, and you know, his guy that was consistently getting open against man press coverage. And in week two, his zone numbers came down. I think a lot of that is because he wasn't able to really fully accelerate because he was done with the sprained MCL. And then this week, you really saw him take off like, but week one, he was great against zone coverage. And he had an incredibly high success rate against zone in the first game. So I thought he's looked great past the eye test. He obviously was super productive in week three, you know, and like all these rookie receivers, we're going to talk, even talking about Malik neighbors, who's, you know, the number one receiver in fantasy or whatever, none of these rookie receivers are going to be perfect. They're all going to make their fair share mistakes, but you just got to feed them the ball and let them go through it. You know, even DJ Moore, I thought, you know, the usage is, is okay there. So it just, I think this will slowly trend up, but because I think Caleb is working with a lot stacked against him, there's always going to be some issues this, this year. That's for sure. Okay, so Ramo Dunes, a he ran 53 routes. I mean, he was, he did not leave the field. It was, you know, again, I thought he was trying to still come back from some kind of injury, I guess not 11 targets, six grabs for 112 and a touchdown. And you really did see some of that, you know, explosive nature from Ramo Dunes here in week number three. And more, meanwhile, also played, also ran 53 routes, 10 targets, eight grabs for 78. So what the person that is not here, obviously, is Keenan Allen here. So does adding Keenan Allen back into this mix? Does it make it messier for Caleb Williams? I wonder. To be honest with you, Matt, I feel like Caleb has done a lot better these this past week and really over the last couple of weeks by just locking in on a guy, and let's just get that ball, ripping that ball out there. I have not seen his first read numbers. I didn't look into that, but it feels as if he is saying, okay, I got my read and I'm going to stick to that and let's just rip this ball. And so again, it just, I think the results have been a little bit better. In week one, I almost wondered, did he have too many options? I know that sounds ridiculous on a surface level, but I just wondered, is he making too many reads? Is his mind all over the place? I mean, you know, is he just out there just trying to figure out what to do versus week three? I thought he looked a lot more decisive. No, I actually really like this take from you about, is there too much going on in terms of the, in terms of the Bears receiver room? Because I know that sounds crazy, but yeah, no, I feel you. I mean, like in terms of first read targets, DJ Moore had nine and Roma Dunes, they had nine in his game, like, well, there you go, same, which is, and then Cole Comette had seven. He was, and then nobody else really moved the needle into it. We have four Deondra, Deondra Carter, first read targets. We do not need those. Well, but no, but here, actually, when you read those out though, again, that it's to the point that I'm making here that a lot of his throws were just first read throws. You know, DJ Moore had 10 targets, nine of them were first read targets. Roma Dunes, they had 11 targets, nine of those were first read targets. So that's a huge portion of what we're talking about here. 100%. Yeah. No, I, in the way they use those two guys too, I think was, was right. DJ Moore had three designed targets according to fantasy points data, that, and then Roma Dunes, they had none. Right? Like, I always say, I think I said this on the show last week, I'll just go to my grave, not understanding, like, why teams don't want to design targets to DJ Moore, get the ball in his hands and let him roll after the catch. They did a little bit more of that in this game. That's good to see, you know, also he has the lower average of the target, where his Roma Dunes is 21.3 average of the target, like, yeah, listen, let's get this dude who can run, who can separate and who can win tight coverage passes, let's get him the ball down the field, man. Yeah, I kind of agree with you about this, this, this idea of almost overloading a rookie quarterback with guys. I, I do think that sounds, maybe we're just wrong about this. We're theorizing. We're, we're kind of trying to take shot this a little bit, but yeah, because I don't, like, I, you guys know where I'm at with Keenan Allen at this point. People listening to the show know where I'm at with Keenan Allen. I think he's like a role player, but he's not a guy that, yeah, he was like the first three target player in week one, and like you saw how that offense went. Okay. It was not good. Like I think more and O'Dunes, they need to be more involved going forward. So if you get Keenan Allen back out there and he's taking like the DeAndre Carter snaps. That's fine. I'm cool with that. Cause sure. For you, you said for first three targets, I need zero first three targets for DeAndre Carter. Correct. They need to stone zero. So yeah, I, I, but I, I do think like, okay, if you want to paint yourself a positive picture as a Bears fan, more a Dunes, a more DJ, more, more cold combat in week three. And I think the results were good there. Caleb's still going to make mistakes. There's still going to be kind of like talented, but troubled moments for him. But I think the receiver usage was right. I think, um, Roman Dunes, a looks fantastic. DJ Morris, who he is, uh, things can get a little bit better from here for the Bears, but I do think they're always going to have a little bit sacked against him because of the Waldron and offensive line effects. Pet emergencies can happen at any time. That's why Vege, ER for pets is open 24 hours a day, including weekends and holidays. Vege has revolutionized the ER experience for pets and their owners. Not only do you see an emergency veterinarian right away, but there's no more waiting and worrying in a lobby. You get to stay with your pet the entire time. 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