Chicago Bears Beat Falcons Despite Ben Johnson Questionable Call

He said, appreciate you. At least he's nice. Bears get the dub, 31-23. We can all, as it says in the commercial, release those tight ends. Boys, what is your answer? Outside of a very scary five minutes, what was your takeaway from today's game? For me, it was the sloppiness of the penalties and then the greatness that Caleb is able to bring to this team. yeah he's able to make the simple throws that he did all day and then get the chunk plays so it just shows you how efficient the offense looks when caleb is back but we definitely got to show up these penalties but they were a drive killer we lost we left at least two to three touchdowns on the field not including the missing field goal and then the the inept of ben johnson And it's 10-minute, I'm throwing the towel in type of stuff. That was ridiculous. But we won. We're back on the winning streak. We got a short week. So I'm glad we got this dub. J.C., your thoughts? Yeah, glad we got the W, but I'm with Drew on, you know, the penalties have to get addressed because, like I told you, there was a graphic where I think it was like the beginning of the third quarter where they were already ahead of their average of 6.4. They had nine penalties at that point. And so you got to clean that up because against a better team and not, not that Atlanta is a walkover. Clearly they have talent on both sides of the ball, but that can cost you the game. And I don't like the fact that Ben got, I don't want to say he purposely got cocky, but maybe he thought that, okay, if we protect the ball, we run it with Roschon, then we're going to just kind of bleed out the clock. That didn't happen because as you know, teams are going to be punching at you till the, till zero. Yeah. And it actually worked and you gave them life. So I want to see him, how he addresses that. If he addresses that, I hope the media does question him on that. Outside of that, this is the reason why, you know, you have a franchise quarterback. Caleb made all the difference in the world with his arm, not even with his mobility. Cause I think he's still a little, a step slow. I feel like, but good, good job overall. Glad we came out of Atlanta with the win. I'm just glad we out of there. Yeah, no, I think that's, that's kind of what it comes down to, right? Like the theme of today's game was, um, you have the kind of offense that can overcome just about anything, but the penalties are a problem and maybe listen, maybe it's the officiating crew. I mean, I think somebody said it in the chat. There's a crew that throws a ton of penalties pretty consistently, but that's something you got to deal with. That's something that you have to be able to overcome. And so it's nice to know that the bears have an offense that is able to overcome that defensively. I thought you had a good defensive game until, you know, I will put it on your head coach. I doubted Dennis Allen said it because you saw the same thing on the offensive side with Logan Jones coming in as well where you wanted to go hey we're gonna freaking put our backups in that that's that's a spot that again I said it during the game I'll say it here I think that your players you hope that your players make you right in that moment and they didn't you gave up eight points you end up getting a fumble on a good defensive play and and you you know put yourself in a position you didn't need to be in very good that yet again though that you can go back to an offense that can put you over the top so when you have a team like that that that you feel you know can do a lot for you in that situation you feel good about it but man like you just you made that game tougher than it needed to be sometimes that's the nfl uh what would i like for you to not do that it was 31-7 with 10 minutes left all you had to do was push your starters in there even if you went to prevent defense you don't pull your starters until five minutes left in the game even the rookie head coaches know that and and to that it added so much stress even though they might have been not stressed on the sidelines because Ben Johnson knows what he has on his team yeah that he could call his starters back in there and they were able to play efficiently after that and not completely check out but for me it was it wasn't neat it wasn't needed yeah you put yourself on a spot that wasn't needed and again but on the flip side of it we felt good about seeing Logan Jones out there we felt good about well Jordan yeah you said Jordan Vanderburg got a couple of good pushes in there yeah i mean like good pressures but they gave up the eight points so you kind of don't care about it but it's nice but then like you know i just i thought you gave up unnecessary momentum but at the end of the day it never felt like your offense couldn't go out there and make a play for you and that's very good versus an Atlanta defense they got pressure on Caleb all day all day they were in his kitchen all day they was cooking on his stove i mean and so like i think that's the part for me where it's good to see the Bears be able to bounce back from that it's good to see the Bears uh still be able to come out of it with the win and yet again the conversations that we're having nope are uh you know self-inflicted issues making the making the harder for you the penalties make the games harder for you and i get it like the officiating crew is gonna throw those flags but six i'm sorry not six uh wouldn't end up being 12 penalties for 133 yards bro because we had we had more penalties unacceptable than they had yards for a while all the way up until those last you know those last we gave it away we we had more penalty yards and they had offensive yards yeah yeah that's that's i i don't want to say that because they ben johnson is talking about ben jay creed was like ben johnson is the second year he's gonna get goofy sometimes for you to be so with that no no for him to be such an elite mind you can't get goofy and pull your starters some of those fourth downs maybe but pulling your pulling i haven't seen a coach do that defensive starters with with with 10 minutes left in the game bro that's that's that's beyond goofy well you gotta hope he doesn't do that at all and learn from his mistakes uh in the future because well listen i think that it was trying to save reps for guys as you go into this Patriot game. You know what I mean? I think that's really all that it comes down to. You're trying to save reps, but saving reps don't help you if you lose the game that you're in. You won this game, so it's going to be something people talk about this week that probably is not going to be an issue down the line. It's probably not going to be something that we're going to be talking about week in and week out. I'll say this. I hope it is. We are. We talk about situational football, about being all, every week we talk about it. And you tell me, I just got to, No, here's the thing. That was, to me, a bad play call. You just don't like how he views situational football. That's where we'll differ. Correct. You don't like his situational football. Going for it on fourth down don't bother me. I think that that's modern offense. I think that when you get it. It's where you go for it, though, on fourth down. Like when we go for it, it was on our 25. To me, fourth down, no. Punt the ball. If we're on the opposite side of the 40, yes, situational football matters. Field goal versus touchdown. Yeah, but Drew, you didn't want them to go for it when they were on fourth and one. At the goal line. I did. I did. You did not. You said take the points. They didn't get it. You said, I told you to take the points. But that's because we missed it the first time. No, we went for it. We kicked it the second time. I thought we went for it again. We went for it the first time. We kicked it the second time. That's what I mean. His situational football don't bother me. It does to me. that was you trying to save reps for guys for thursday and or you're trying to get guys reps into in a real game scenario so you can see what they look like I get the point but your players gotta make you right yeah to me your players didn't make you right you're overthinking the game when you do that I understand it makes sense when it looks right like you said if the players make it right Roshan holds on to the ball they bleed the clock out then yeah you look good by saying oh okay kind of killing two birds with one stone yeah you win this game you give your starters 10 minutes of rest going into Thursday's game against uh New England right yep so I get it but it didn't work so now you got to eat crow so like that that's the thing is it can backfire uh also I would be remiss if I didn't shout out uh Kyler Gordon because I I Kyler Gordon's back ladies and gentlemen oh sweet jesus listen before we get out of here big love to Kyler you know now it's can he keep it up can he keep it up can he stay on the field can he continue to play in this manner um because if he can he's he's the best slot corner in football bar none like he you know maybe immediate maybe you put a Kobe Duran up there right immediate because he was he was on uh special teams and he came in as soon as on defense immediate impact I would say maybe you put a Kobe Duran up there like that might be the guy that's in that conversation But, you know, for the most part, he came in and he played well. And he looks good. And he looks like he's back to form. And you know what he looked like? He looked like a dude that took a long time off of football and came back fully healthy. You better look like that with the amount of time that he took off. So, hopefully, this all goes towards Bears-Dubs in the future. Very good to have Kyler Gordon back on the field. We appreciate you guys for tuning in and showing love as well. Hit that like button. Subscribe to the page. Leave a five-star review. Y'all know what to do. For Mr. Media himself, Jordan J.C., and Mr. Do Better, if you knew better, do better. Say who better? Nobody, bro. I had a little stroke there in the middle of that. It's okay. It's your boy, Pat the Designer, back at it again. Y'all stay safe out there, Chicago. Bear down. One love. No clapping of Ben Johnson, please. Peace. That was crazy. Time to have a victory steak. Yeah.