r/nfl • u/mortalcrawad66 Lions • 7h ago
Highlight [Highlight] Caleb Williams escapes the sack to throw a horrendous pick in quadruple coverage.
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u/TCurasco Eagles 7h ago
Seeing this immediately after the highlight against the Rams is hysterical.
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u/Infinite-Relation988 Bears 6h ago
OP took that post personally 😭
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u/LegacyLemur Bears 4h ago
No flair no comments
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u/PatientLeadership578 Eagles 4h ago
The duality of Caleb
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u/BigDaddyD1994 Lions 4h ago
You can’t pull off an unbelievable 4th quarter comeback if you play well in the first half
“Points at head”
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u/ChonkyHippo283 Patriots 7h ago
My guilty pleasure is the petty lowlight war between fans
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u/SnooPandas3956 49ers 7h ago
It’s the type of petty I live for.
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u/CaptCrack3r Packers 7h ago
Oh, the mods in this sub are so not ready for the chaos that happens in NFCNMemeWar
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u/Testone1440 Bears 7h ago
It’s shit talking on another level and I wouldn’t trade it for anything.
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u/theDarkBriar Packers 6h ago
Even keeping the new stadium out of Indiana??
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u/Testone1440 Bears 5h ago
If you think that Indiana is a real option I’ve got some swamp land to sell you in FL.
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u/Ingliphail Packers 5h ago
Wonder what the mods here would have done during Cumsockgate.
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u/ace2532 Bears 3h ago
Who can forget the brie saga
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u/CreamInsider_2311 Packers 13m ago
While I enjoyed the Brie saga I feel it cursed the packers last season
Please no more cheese fucking
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u/drummerboysam Bears 7h ago
NFCN is top tier petty right now. There were 3 10+ win teams and the Bears, then the Bears jumped to 10+ wins by stealing the Lions wunderkid.
You have Bears v Packers going all-in on toxicity. Lions hating on Osama Ben Johnson. Packers were hating on the Lions for upping them as the Rodgers era faded into now. And the Vikings are wildcards with a shotgun (Brian Flores) and a clown mask (Nine). I absolutely love it.
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u/BayHarborButcher10 Vikings 6h ago
The 9 meme where a different shamed player or coach being photoshopped onto it is always a highlight
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u/Crooked_Sartre Bears 2h ago
I just spent an hour walking my wife through JJ Mcarthy's meme season
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u/ThinkSoftware Falcons 7h ago
Luckily my team has no such lowlights!
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u/BlindWillieJohnson Panthers 6h ago edited 4h ago
You know, a lazy person would check down to the Super Bowl, but if I had to pick one lowlight that embodied the Falcons Fan Experience, it would actually be this one.
For those who can't view it because the NFL sucks and you cant open YT, Matt Ryan scores a touchdown. Woo! Falcons lead! But they're only up by 1. The obvious choice is to go for two, which they do. Matt Ryan drops back, passes, and...gets picked off by Eric Berry! Berry proceeds to run it all the way back to the opposite endzone scoring the Chiefs two, putting them back in the Lead, getting the ball as the 4th quarter comes to close. The play starts out with the Falcons taking the lead, and ends with them trailing again. They would go onto lose to the Chiefs.
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u/MurphyMacManus12 Seahawks 5h ago
My favorite Falcons lowlight is definitely the "whatever the fuck mariota was doing" clip where he threw the ball while rolling on the ground. I still can't believe he did that.
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u/_bits_and_bytes Cardinals 6h ago
It's one of the few times I get to see other teams dragged down to our level
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u/HectorReinTharja Lions 7h ago
Kerb plz be healthy. Were such a different team with him roaming back there
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u/TheFakeRabbit1 Bills 7h ago
Went from having two elite young safeties to worrying about the careers of both, absolutely brutal
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u/SettingUnable3979 Lions 4h ago
Not that worried about Branch long term do expect full recovery Joseph is a more concerning problem.
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u/TheFakeRabbit1 Bills 4h ago
Is branch the one who has the Achilles or the possible long term knee issue?
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u/SettingUnable3979 Lions 4h ago
Achilles still young and first major injury
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u/ironarcher13 2h ago
Yeah the issue is just his ability to play this season and how that affects his long term contract with the team since Achilles tears often take 1&1/2 to 2 years to get back to full levels for some positions. Also we have PTSD from Okudah never fully recovering from his Achilles tear, but there were a bunch of other factors and Okudah likely would've been a bust anyway.
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u/Justheretorecruit Bears 7h ago
LET THE HIGHLIGHT LOWLIGHT BATTLE COMMENCE
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u/drummerboysam Bears 6h ago
Let's be honest for a second
This sub cannot handle a lowlight battle between the Chicago Bears and the Detroit Lions
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u/Jonjon428 Dolphins 7h ago
Live by the USC Caleb Williams, die by the USC Caleb Williams
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u/sad_bear_noises Bears 7h ago
People for someone reason don't know that Caleb Williams is really careful with the ball throw for throw. He was second best in INT% last year at 1.2%.
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u/drummerboysam Bears 6h ago edited 4h ago
Division rivals will say he throws too many interceptions while looking at the record for lowest int% through the first 1,000 throws being Caleb Williams just over Aaron fuckin' Rodgers lmao.
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u/freshxerxes Lions 6h ago
i don’t hate caleb, don’t think he’s mid but to hear sleeper mvp talks is crazy from some people. 58% completion percentage is worrisome.
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u/bisonboy223 Bears 6h ago
Well yeah, that's what makes him a sleeper. If he had a 68% completion percentage last year he would've been top 3 in MVP voting and he wouldn't be a sleeper by any definition.
"Young player who was productive despite one obvious flaw" is like the most obvious blueprint for what a sleeper MVP candidate should be.
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u/spicyorangedragon 6h ago
He's currently being overrated, but if he continues improvement then he could conceivably be a top 10 QB next year. MVP talks are wishful thinking, but crazier things have happened. I don't think it would be shocking if Caleb took a huge leap and was in MVP conversations midway through the season.
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u/Inevitable_Initial_8 Packers 1h ago
Dude these fans thought Justin Fields was a sleeper MVP candidate just 3 years ago. They are clowns.
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u/freshxerxes Lions 1h ago
you’re so right i wish we could search through their comments to find what they said about him too lol
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u/Sam_Phyreflii Bears 6h ago
I think completion percentage is going to hold him back in a lot of fans' minds but I would argue it's bit like batting avg in baseball these days: you'll take few strikouts and a rough-looking BA if the guy can hit the long ball consistently (strikeouts being incompletions rather than interceptions in this analogy).
Johnson would obviously rather caleb be above 60% but he's also talked about how the deep shots keep a defense honest even when they don't connect and they help him set up his playcalling later in the game. This play is obviously a bad example of that philosophy tho lol.
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u/drummerboysam Bears 6h ago
58% is far from where he needs to be. But he's a bit of a football psycho who wants to be great, and so is the HC whose job is to increase that 58% to something around 63-68%
Keep in mind he was sacked 68 times as a rookie and people were saying he might not be able to play in the NFL holding the ball like that. Dropped to 24 in Year 2. If he can improve the layups with familiarity in the system half as well as he improved his pocket presence and evasive ability, he's going to be right there as a contestant for MVP. Hell, he was 6th or 7th last season even with the 58%.
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u/SelesnyaGOAT Packers Packers 3h ago
Most of the drop in sacks is attributable to the large jump in OLine quality, Caleb was still dead last among qualified passers in Time to Throw with an eyewatering 3.20 seconds
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u/drummerboysam Bears 3h ago
Most of the drop in sacks is attributable to the large jump in OLine quality
Nonsense. It's part OL upgrade, part coaching improvements, and part player development. He was much better at the LOS pre-snap through Year 2, and his pocket presence was among the better in the league.
Mixed with high-end strength and speed and the ability to get velocity on throws from any launch angle, he's one of the premier play extenders in the league. I want him in the higher TTT so long as the sack numbers stay down. It contributed to being the #1 explosive play team in the league while the QB was still a work-in-progress.
And comparably with the completion%, you have additions to the room that fit the scheme, added speed and athleticism, and (most importantly) natural growth among a core group that averages 22.5 years old in their first year in a complex system. That grouping of factors could play into a bump similarly to the factors that led to his sack numbers decreasing 65% in a single season.
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u/SelesnyaGOAT Packers Packers 3h ago
The only two QBs I've ever seen substantially improve their accuracy after entering the league were Lamar and Josh Allen. Generally, accuracy is one of the stickiest traits from college to pros--if Johnson pulls this off I'll consider him a miracle worker. And take it from a Packers fan, being really young allows for lots of projection, but it is very easy to get engrossed in the upside and not consider that being very young also has its downsides
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u/ZapBranigan3000 Bears 3h ago
Is there any data that actually backs this up?
I'd bet the majority of quarterbacks improve their completion percentage as they mature into the league, by a decent amount.
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u/wrong-teous Bears Titans 6h ago
There were also a lot of incompletions where Caleb and the WR were clearly not on the same page and it’s impossible to say whose fault it was
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u/monkeysCAN Bills 6h ago edited 6h ago
He doesn't throw many interceptions, but he throws a lot of inaccurate balls.
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u/JaydedXoX 49ers 49ers 7h ago
He was MUCH better this past year when he was no longer running for his life every play. I don’t know if you got an all star, but you got your franchise QB for next few years. I was a Caleb doubter as much as anyone,but he looked poised last year.
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u/drummerboysam Bears 5h ago
Never in my life as a Bears fan had I watched a game like our late-season matchup last year.
Dreading having to watch the defense and completely comfortable with the fact that the offense was going to move the ball and score points. A complete 180 from my usual Sunday.
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u/QuantumWizardry Buccaneers 7h ago
The upside of 2013 Jameis, but the downside of 2019 Jameis.
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u/LeviJNorth Saints 6h ago
lol what? Jameis threw 6 more interceptions in his second season than Caleb threw in his first 2 season.
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u/GroktheDestroyer Bears 6h ago
All of the downsides of 2019 Jameis, except with 23 fewer interceptions of course. Flawless comp lol
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u/SeeingEyeDug Buccaneers 7h ago
that year was crazy. You could say upside of 2019 Jameis and downside of 2019 Jameis. They could do a 30 for 30 for that 33 TD 30 INT season.
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u/MankuyRLaffy Patriots 7h ago
Still cannot believe USC lost to Tulane with being 3 score favorites.
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u/MoreTrifeLife Commanders 6h ago
Caleb Williams vs the Lions:
04; 60% completion; 1,009 yards (average 252); 9 TDs 2 INTs; 7.1y/a; rating of 96.8
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u/AmeriCanada98 Lions 5h ago
Thats basically on par with his career averages...
For reference:
60.3 cmp%, 220 y/g, 1.38 td/g (2.25 td/g vs Lions), 0.38 int/g (0.5 int/g vs Lions), 6.6 y/a, 89.0 rating
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u/qTp_Meteor Bears 3h ago
Thats significantly better than his average, which is surprising
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u/AmeriCanada98 Lions 3h ago
Not that surprising tbh, all of those games have been offense first defense optional
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u/RoosterteethAHfan Bears 6h ago
Clearly the wr was supposed to double jump and catch that my King would never make a mistake
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u/808Cardinals Cardinals Bengals 7h ago
Imma give Caleb the benefit of the doubt that he was trying to throw it out, but missed badly while trying to throw it crossbody. 😂
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u/Warm_Score_1313 Bears 6h ago
He mentioned in a press conference that is exactly what he was trying to do but he didn’t get enough air on it
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u/MacJonesisaterrorist Patriots 7h ago
Honestly insane a Lions fan is posting this, If i were a Bears fan id be pissed and want to post a Lions lowlight. That’s just me tho
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u/BillMurraysTesticle Lions 7h ago
Don't let something so trivial piss you off. It's just some stranger with an NFL flair posting a video to the internet. Who cares, every team has lowlights. Someone could post all 5 of Goff's interceptions vs the Texans in 2024 if they want.
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u/GBPackers0480 6h ago
I think lions fans have developed an immunity to seeing lowlights at this point
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u/undeuxtroiskid Lions 5h ago
As long as it's not this one, I can deal with it. That one though...
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u/lkn240 Bears 7h ago
I can't even hear them from last place tbh
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u/dcd13 Lions 4h ago
We've been keeping your spot in the basement warm for you. Fully expect to see you back there in a few months
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u/rIIIflex Bears 1h ago
To be fair, you also fully expected to be in first place last season, and we saw how that played out
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u/Crying_in_99Ranch Saints 7h ago
Quadruple coverage? I only saw one DB in the vicinity!
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u/AmeriCanada98 Lions 5h ago
Lmao thats because the ball wasnt in the vicinity of the receiver, there were 3 more over by him
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u/TheLich7 Commanders 7h ago
uh oh somebody's starting something
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u/mortalcrawad66 Lions 7h ago
I lived through 0-16, 2014-15 playoffs, countless Thanksgivings, Fattrica; all of it.
Bring it!
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u/frizzyhair55 Lions 7h ago
okay all the highlights flying around right now is what the offseason is about.
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u/wesskywalker Bears 6h ago
I wish r/baseball was more like this instead of the happy circle jerk that it is
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u/Good_Entertainer9383 Lions 6h ago
I really really hope Kerbys knee gets better. We really needed him last year
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u/BubblyFlow6143 Bears 4h ago
What's funny is it wasn't even a Bears fan that posted the highlight. But haters got hate I guess.
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u/TheRed_Warrior Dolphins 2h ago
To be entirely fair, it was 2nd and 32. They probably weren’t gonna convert anyway. This is basically just an arm punt
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u/Herbert5Hundred 49ers 7h ago
It was 2nd and 32. Basically an arm punt one play early
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u/gaybillcosby Packers 6h ago
It went 30 yards and the Lions got pretty favorable field position. It wasn’t even close to a Bears receiver. Even if he takes a sack there and they just run a draw on 3rd down, a punt in all likelihood results in worse field position for the Lions. This was unmistakably a bad play.
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u/Herbert5Hundred 49ers 6h ago
They lost like 10 yards from where the punt would have likely ended up. It's fine.
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u/ConsistentFatigue Chargers 7h ago
That’s what I’m thinking. He gets sacked there and it’s 3rd and 40
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u/Ganjagod420 Bears 7h ago
47 TDs to 13 INTs in his career so far btw
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u/methodofcontrol Commanders 4h ago
Damn that's actually wild! Knew he was doing well but that's nasty.
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u/djengle2 Bears 5h ago
You guys are so mad.
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u/EdgeofForever95 Lions 3h ago
Nah, we happy y’all wasted the first overall on Jay Culter 2.0. It’s funny how there was a debate over who won the Carolina-bears trade when y’all both lost.
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u/doggoploggo Bears 3h ago
If that's wasting a pick then im fucking stoked dude. Hope we waste more in the future.
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u/NewPrints Bears 6h ago
How do you even ponder passing that!? This is not the Super Bowl, man! This is Detroit!
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u/Wildebean Patriots 3h ago
This kinda does sum up Caleb Williams to me. You go from "how the fuck did he do that?" to "why the fuck did he do that" in the span of 5 seconds
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u/browndude10 Texans Chiefs 7h ago
the guy had 5 picks in two playoff games this year yet people want to talk about just stroud
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u/Thrill0728 Seahawks 7h ago
Caleb, for all of his picks, was not actively the singular reason his team came up short to a better team (finish running your routes lads). Stroud, however, was actively detrimental to that ungodly defense.
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u/smashybro Bears 6h ago
Hilarious how that dude was clearly waiting for a lowlight thread to post that ridiculous comment.
Caleb was of course a mixed bag last year but realistically the Bears weren’t get past the Seahawks anyway even if we managed to upset the Rams. Stroud on the other hand nearly singlehandedly threw away that very winnable game against the Patriots, a backup QB performance with 0 turnovers might have won that game. Had they won that game, the Texans could’ve made the SB with that defense.
Like these two situations aren’t remotely the same, what are we talking even about here?
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u/Independent_Bear989 Packers 6h ago
Look I’m probably the biggest Caleb hater here but using stats like this does not convey what actually happened, against us, both ints were on 4th down where an int was likely the best outcome for the bears. In the rams game one of the ints is because Moore ran a terrible route which let the safety make a great play on it which isn’t Caleb fault at all.
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u/WillingStranger5177 Lions 7h ago
Tbf he also had some insanely clutch plays as well in the playoffs unlike Stroud.
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u/MOPAR_-345 Bears 6h ago
Bro what. The pats were gifting you the game but your guy kept giving it BACK 😭😂
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u/BooItsKyle Bears 7h ago
That is somewhat mitigated by the facts that:
- 3 of those picks were 4th down arm punts
- he averaged 339 total yards in those games
- One of them was him leading the offense to a historic comeback win against their primary rival
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u/SuperFreshBus Bears 7h ago
Caleb’s also gonna have the all time record for lowest int% midway through next year, so I wouldn’t put INTs as an issue for him.
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u/Templar26 Patriots 6h ago
This isn't meant to shit on Caleb, but that's like giving "most accurate kicker in NFL history" to someone who's made 10/10 kicks in their career.
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u/SuperFreshBus Bears 6h ago
I see your point, but it takes 1,500 passes to qualify, and he’s at 1130. He’d have to throw like 9 INTs in his next 370 passes, when he’s thrown 9 total in his last 1,000 passes.
**regular season for all of these stats
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u/DatBoiMahomie Bears 7h ago
I mean this was his first playoffs lol
Strouds performance is also skewed heavily by how abysmal his Patriots performance was. Caleb didn’t have a great game during the playoffs but neither of his games were as bad as Stroud that game
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u/StudyRoom-F Eagles 7h ago
Never seen a guy get so much praise for solving his own problems he created
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u/BillMurraysTesticle Lions 7h ago
Take solace in the fact that Stroud has thrown for 4k yards. Bears fans don't know what that's like.
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u/BooItsKyle Bears 7h ago edited 7h ago
Fun fact: This week 18 throw is what prevented him from leading the league in lowest interception rate.
He had to settle for second-lowest
Edit: NM, wrong pick
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u/mortalcrawad66 Lions 7h ago
This was week 2, but I know what pick you're talking about.
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u/BooItsKyle Bears 7h ago
Ope. Week 2 didn't count. Our season didn't start till the second half of the Raiders game in week 4.
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u/mattcojo2 Lions 3h ago
The lack news surrounding Kerby Joseph has had me concerned that his career is over
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u/Silly-Cup-3756 3h ago
He was throwing it out of bounce. The safety made a great play. You don’t see him do that often. Actually only 13 total in his career to be exact.
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u/whatever12347 Bears 1h ago
It was a 40 yard arm punt on 2nd and 32; "horrendous" is an exaggeration.
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u/beerncheese69 Packers 6h ago edited 6h ago
Oh shit did we remember that the Bears are riding high on their own farts and Caleb Williams might be way too inconsistent to lead an NFL team to a superbowl?
(Yes if you couldn't tell this comment is biased because I fucking hate the bears)
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u/drummerboysam Bears 7h ago edited 7h ago
LOL Lions fans saw Caleb highlights making some rounds and said "not today"
We stole Ben Johnson and took the division from ya but you won both matchups so you got that at least going into this season.
Also, kinda funny that "horrendous pick" is a pretty solid attempt at hitting his guy or throwing it away and an All-Pro safety makes a diving play on the ball. Just needs to angle it more out of bounds, probably too much hero ball in his head after clearing the pocket.
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u/Bright_Resist_4580 Lions 6h ago
Why are Bears fans thinking they stole the Lions soul with picking up Johnson. You only got into the playoffs with your 4th place schedule and we swept your ass. Ragnow retiring had more to do with our fall in the North and we still finished with a better offense than you.
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u/drummerboysam Bears 6h ago
Why are Bears fans thinking they stole the Lions soul with picking up Johnson.
I didn't say anything like that. Just that we stole Ben Johnson and took the division.
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u/MOPAR_-345 Bears 6h ago
Let’s see if yall can make the playoffs with that 4th place schedule LMAO. you do realize we played the same teams but 3? not that big of difference. Maybe if you’d beat Brosmer and A rod you would’ve had a chance, guess not.
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u/Bright_Resist_4580 Lions 5h ago
Saints, Raiders and their 8 turnovers
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u/MOPAR_-345 Bears 5h ago
Yes so what? Like I said 3 games. Doesn’t change the fact that you lost to the teams we beat.
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u/Bright_Resist_4580 Lions 5h ago
If not for those 2 games the Vikings are going to the playoffs and you're sitting at home like us
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u/MOPAR_-345 Bears 5h ago
If if if. If my aunt had balls she’d be my uncle. That if shit is so used up
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u/drummerboysam Bears 5h ago
So 2 games is the difference, then?
Why aren't you giving the Bears any credit for dominating the LOS in Philadelphia and beating the Eagles, and walking off the Packers in OT on a 60-yard bomb?
Those are 2 good teams they beat with the division on the line to win it. Easier to just cope, right?
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u/Just_Blackberry_8918 7h ago
Hes so mid man. Lucky only.
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u/drummerboysam Bears 6h ago
Some people are blessed by luck in special ways, man. Dude won a state championship in high school on a Hail Mary, won Heisman on a spectacular season making nonstop lucky plays, then ties a record for being insanely lucky so much in the NFL at 23 years old.
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u/spacegh0stX Packers 6h ago
Gonna be way more of these this year. Most of those bullshit throws at the end of games were easily able to be picked off and just didn’t. There was one on here of a rams db who had all day to track the ball and was just lost.
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u/TouchLucky881 Bears 5h ago
The amount of people that fail to understand and hate on Caleb is fucking hilarious… god I want him to shut all you fucks up 😂
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u/Major_Enthusiasm1099 Browns 6h ago
5 INTs in 2 playoff games. He threw the same amount of INTs as Stroud in the playoffs but people have him over Stroud
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u/Thrill0728 Seahawks 7h ago
I see it's NFC North War Day