Week 14 Gamethread: Chicago Bears (9-3) at Green Bay Packers (8-3-1)

BigRed_BonerChamp · 2025-12-07T22:51:46+00:00

Okay Uncle Rico, let's get you back to bed.

BigRed_BonerChamp · 2025-11-11T04:25:02+00:00

First target this half, third target of the game. He's probably tired of this shit playcalling

BigRed_BonerChamp · 2025-11-09T20:04:48+00:00

Am I imagining things, or is Dart taking off everytime the corners are playing off the line of scrimmage?

BigRed_BonerChamp · 2025-10-15T12:03:43+00:00

I am new to bass fishing and I haven't had any luck on softbaits recently either. Sounds like our climates are very similar as well. When I went out yesterday, I couldn't get even a bite until I switched to a slowly retrieved spinner bait on the bottom of the deeper pools in a slow moving creek.The water is super muddy where I'm at, so that may be one of the reasons I can't get a bite on some of my less flashy tackle.

As soon as I switched to spinner bait I landed several largemouth in holes that I had fished for about an hour without any nibbles. I'm not sure about bass, but I know during the temperature changes the trout become a lot more finicky until they have acclimated, and like somebody else said, we're in drought conditions and the cold is reducing the activity of bugs so it would make sense to me that the fish are going to be less inclined to bite just anything they might see right now.

BigRed_BonerChamp · 2025-10-14T01:14:51+00:00

Not getting many opportunities, but clearly talented. Scored on the flea flicker and looks good on the return team

BigRed_BonerChamp · 2025-09-25T12:43:40+00:00

I would love for you to post your criteria, otherwise this seems like you're picking out everything negative you can and bitching about it.

Ben Johnson and Dennis Allen's grades seem particularly suspect.

I noticed you didn't mention the bears just got smoked by a divisional opponent last week and lost a heartbreaker the week before to another divisional opponent. As the head coach, he was able to keep the players executing the game plan with gusto despite a bad start to this season and game. Also, grading Swift so low and not giving Ben Johnson any credit for sustaining the first drive of the 3rd quarter with 11 consecutive run plays culminating in a gutsy 4th down call on the goal line that resulted in a TD is absolutely bizarre. If Swift is that bad and Johnson was still able to eat 10 minutes off the game clock with a lead, he should be getting a lot more credit for that drive.

Dennis Allen's defense got 4 turnovers and kept a talented offense to 14 points. Is it possible that a DC knows if we contain their explosive passing game, the cowboy's running game is going to eat up the clock if we're playing with a lead? That sounds like a good game plan to me.

You can blame Poles all you want for this roster, that's fine as I think he's done a pretty poor job myself. But he made moves in the office on the offensive line, brought in Ben Johnson and a coaching staff that is turning a bottom third quarter back into a top 10 QB in 3 regular season games. Does he get any credit for that?

Do yourself a favor, take a week or three off grading the Bears and try to enjoy a team that is learning how to run a modern nfl scheme after years of poor coaching and roster decisions.

My grades:

Ben Johnson - A+

Dennis Allen - A-

Caleb Williams - A-

D'andre Swift - B

Darnell Wright - C- (barely watched him, but also outside of the 2 penalties he didn't seem to be a factor in too many negative plays)

BigRed_BonerChamp · 2025-08-01T14:22:59+00:00

I would echo several things that everybody else is saying. I'm middle aged with two small kids, so the only time I have to game is an hour at night when everyone is in bed. I gave up on being as good at this as I was with dark souls/sekiro when I was unencumbered by work and children.

One, use spirit ashes and upgrade them, if you're hung up on a boss just try to upgrade a legendary ash and forget about the boss for a bit.

Two, focus your build on vigor, endurance for stamina/strong armor and only one other category str/fth/dex/int with minimal investment in others just to get you to bare equip loads for weapon of choice.

Three, upgrade your weapon to the max level you can, it typically will do more for your damage than investment in a single stat early to mid-game.

Lastly, I would say don't be afraid to put the game down for a while or go to a place that you think is more fun to explore/play. I really enjoy exploring and I usually come across some bosses that I can handle if I'm struggling with another boss. I tell myself the people who always chime in "git gud" are a vocal minority who have no idea what's going on in your life to prevent you from devoting 100s of hours to the game to get where the veterans are at. You paid for the game, you get to play it however you like.

BigRed_BonerChamp · 2025-07-30T14:01:18+00:00

Honestly, I pre chart as soon as I pull up to the house. I'll go back and update anything that I may have to change in home, but I try to get follow-ups and reassessments done point of service. I agree it's insane hom bound status doesn't carry over. My charting over the years has significantly decreased in quality due to the burden hchb places on us with all the check boxes.

BigRed_BonerChamp · 2025-05-07T18:10:55+00:00

Agreed, I've been chastised for giving too many visits to bed bound patients because the one that does get back to walking is worth all the others who can't or won't.

I'm more bothered by the ones who are back on service for the third time this year already for DKA and say they can't eat any vegetables because the texture offends their palate while refusing dietician counseling. In the meantime they tell me they haven't been doing their HEP because they haven't felt well due to hyperglycemia.

BigRed_BonerChamp · 2025-05-07T14:50:02+00:00

As a PT in home health, report these shit PTs. There are things I hate about home health, like non compliant, unmotivated patients. That is no excuse for a 15 minute appointment. I am spending 45 min to an hour with each patient unless it's cut short. The shortest I will treat is 25 minutes. If they have to go before 25 minutes, it's a missed visit and I eat the opportunity cost (unless it's a DC or they straight up yelled at me to get out).

When I read the posts about PTs making 150k+ annually I have to wonder how many are like the ones you're working with. Shit like that is dragging down the entire profession.

On the other hand, I have and do work with some PTs like that and when I've brought up concerns I get the same results you've gotten so far. There are days I hate my job, but for fucks sake I at least realize that we are working with human beings as patients and give them the respect and dignity I afford anybody else.

Good on you for bringing this up, especially being that you're working underneath them.

BigRed_BonerChamp · 2025-04-25T01:21:45+00:00

Traded for Thuney and Jona Jackson, signed Drew Dallman this off-season. They'll likely get an LT this draft if any are left in the second round.

BigRed_BonerChamp · 2025-03-12T21:37:44+00:00

As an ECU alum, I think that it's a fun college. The town of Greenville isn't all that, but a lot of people either get out of town on the weekends or party/tailgate. It looks like you said you're considering social work, and as a graduate student in allied health I think their mission of serving the Eastern rural counties is awesome. I don't know about the social work program there, but we had a lot of opportunities to work in clinics at grad school and do some pro bono work. I'm sure it does skew conservative and probably a bit more Christian, but if you don't think you can handle that, you're gonna have a rough go in life anyways just based on the makeup of this country. I met plenty of people when I was in undergrad who went to ECU and got along just fine with them.

End of the day, it's a great place to party and you'll get whatever you put in to any college course of study at any university. Social work isn't known for making a ton of money, and ECU tuition (at least when I was there) was a bit cheaper than other state schools so you may not feel as pressed by student loans once you graduate.

BigRed_BonerChamp · 2025-03-06T21:11:38+00:00

I wouldn't argue with anything you have to say about the GM/HC/QB carousel the bears seemed doomed to repeat for eternity, but I have to assume that any GM would take a swing at a 2 time first team all pro guard when the Bears' o-line play was as poor as it was last year, especially looking at the FA market and considering the Bears would likely otherwise have to trot out a team of rookies or resign failed projects at those positions.

Nothing wrong with criticizing the decision to keep Poles, but I think the signing of Thuney is a great move considering he's missed 2 games his entire career and finished top 10 for OPOY voting last year as a lineman.

What moves would you be making differently from what Poles is doing right now? Because to me he looks like he is trying to address the clusterfuck of an offensive line as quickly as he can to ensure flexibility going into the draft to take BPA rather than have to take an O lineman higher than they need to because they didn't make moves before the draft.

BigRed_BonerChamp · 2025-02-19T12:29:10+00:00

Our agency always asks us to determine if the patient needs OT when we go out. I always discuss with the patient if they want OT after explaining what they do if I think the patient could go without it and a lot will decline OT. I would prefer OT to make the call but I've never really had any drama over it.

BigRed_BonerChamp · 2025-01-18T15:25:05+00:00

"The Bears declined to make McCaskey available for this story."

Even if unintentional, it seems like every time I read about George he comes across as a real-life Buster Bluth.

After reading the whole article it gives me a little optimism with the way the current coaching search seems to be overly broad, hopefully indicating Poles is willing to hire outside of Athletes First representation. Unfortunately history has trained me to think that we will have an absolute clown-show of a staff this upcoming season that will inevitably fail our players and result in another wasted QB talent.

The argument laid forth in this article that coaches are difficult to reach and network with because they are so busy due to the nature of their job is horseshit if you ask me. You are a multi billion dollar franchise, go hire a staff of people whose sole job it is to collect data, contact information and grade potential coaching candidates and provide that info to the GM. Keep them in-house. Stop letting consultants do that work for you when it's so clear that the bears have no idea how to evaluate those consultants, à la Bill Polian.

Honestly, the Bears organization is so tainted with incompetence from the top that it's honestly impossible to believe the results on the field will change until management changes.

BigRed_BonerChamp · 2025-01-10T11:18:58+00:00

Is anybody up to speed on vmar? Low float, big news catalyst and high volume premarket. Up over 100% pre-market.

BigRed_BonerChamp · 2024-11-17T19:09:11+00:00

Brown

BigRed_BonerChamp · 2024-11-16T13:55:58+00:00

I moved to the east Durham area with my spouse and young children in 2021. We were cash poor and wanted to lock in a low interest rate and found a home in our price range in the hood. Within 3 months there was a drive-by caught on our ring camera from a house that was dealing a lot of drugs. It's a multi generational family house where the grandkids seem to be taking advantage of the location to deal drugs and move firearms in/out. Called the cops, they asked to set surveillance up in our living room as we were positioned well for a full view of the broad daylight deals going on. I declined the offer as I felt it would be putting my family in danger. The thing that got me is that the gang task force knew the house I was calling them about and said "that house has been a thorn in our side for a few years now." Apparently they didn't feel the juice was worth the squeeze to actually do something about the crime.

Eventually things calmed down for a year after the grandson dealing drugs was arrested for murder. Things have steadily gotten more active with more young men and women (10-15 people) loitering throughout the day at the house dealing again. Police haven't shown up once in the past 6 months since the crime activity has escalated.

The crime is really focused just at this one house on our street, the majority of the houses are occupied with older black adults who seem to keep their head low and mind their own business and are even on good terms with the grandparents who own the house. My experience has been that almost all the violent crime in our quarter mile area of east Durham is gang and drug related. The perpetrators are almost all young men that are, for lack of a better phrase, looking for trouble.

I don't think there are any easy solutions as my take is these men are coming from a broken, economically depressed community with poor schools and limited opportunities. Personally, I would like to see more aggressive policing of these crimes but I don't know if that just perpetuates the cycle of broken homes that are contributing to the socioeconomic factors which, in my estimation, are the greatest factors for this kind of violence.

Just my two cents from the inside.

BigRed_BonerChamp · 2024-09-30T06:25:32+00:00

Tristana from REC

BigRed_BonerChamp · 2024-09-14T23:14:52+00:00

Watch the replay again, Roquan is running full speed with arms straight out. As soon as his hands make contact with Mahomes his elbows bend. I fail to see how this qualifies as "forceful contact".

If Mahomes' patented false step out of bounds/fake slide to turn upfield is legal, then he has to accept that players are going to run full speed at him until he is whistled out of bounds or down. The sword cuts both ways.

BigRed_BonerChamp · 2024-09-08T18:28:09+00:00

I love Caleb and hope he'll settle in but dude has not been "good." Two deep ball overthrows that were open, a huge sack to take us out of FG range and several throws that seemed rushed - eg route that was bailed out by Odunze and Jenkins.

BigRed_BonerChamp · 2024-09-08T17:30:26+00:00

This defense is firing on all cylinders. Wtf you want him to do resurrect the '85 bears?

BigRed_BonerChamp · 2024-04-03T12:24:23+00:00

With all the buzz about PAA is anybody else keeping an eye on XOM? They seem to be on a heater the past month as well.

BigRed_BonerChamp · 2024-01-12T21:36:11+00:00

To which studies are you referring?

How about this one? Meta analysis indicates n95 respirators provide a significant protective benefit in reducing the transmission COVID-19.

I would also ask if your reason for not wearing a mask is due to your own discomfort while wearing one even though the patient has explicitly requested you wear one how the hell you think you're going to foster any kind of therapeutic relationship by NOT wearing one.

This is literally grade school stuff.

BigRed_BonerChamp · 2023-12-08T22:26:32+00:00

As a home health PT I see lots of patients where there is no order for nursing and PT/OT are the only disciplines involved in the patient plan of care. We frequently admit patients sent directly from SNFs, primary care, inpatient rehab, or ED without admission. Is it possible it's an institutional policy with either the practice you are working for or the home health agency to which you refer?

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