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       Re: 2025 Chicago Bears
   DIR By: Pekin
       Date: May 21, 2025, 7:58 pm
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  HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gk7Ge-Rfng
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       Re: 2025 Chicago Bears
   DIR By: Sportster
       Date: May 22, 2025, 5:15 am
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       Winning the offseason....seen it before, doesn't impress. Gotta
       make it translate to the field.....that's been the challenging
       part.
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       Re: 2025 Chicago Bears
   DIR By: JeffH
       Date: May 22, 2025, 9:57 am
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       One noticeable switch for Williams under Johnson is the
       placement of his feet. Williams’ left foot is now forward.
       “I’ve done it a number of ways in my time in the league, and
       really over the last few years, I’ve kind of gravitated towards
       that. It’s something that I feel pretty strongly about,” Johnson
       said. “He and I talked about it, the reasons why we want to do
       it. I think it helps out certainly with the quick game from the
       gun, and then helps us being a little bit better at a throwing
       posture for a lot of the other things that we’re asking him to
       do.”
       Just for fun, I looked up some highlights.
       Brady, Rodgers, Burrow - Left foot forward
       Allen and Mahomes - Right foot forward
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       Re: 2025 Chicago Bears
   DIR By: vj
       Date: May 22, 2025, 10:11 am
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       @BradBiggs
       #Bears are expected to host the #Dolphins and #Bills for joint
       practices in advance of home preseason games. Details for those
       practices TBD.
       9:04 AM · May 22, 2025
       Perhaps some limited footage of the Bears in the Bills' edition
       of Hard Knocks.
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       Re: 2025 Chicago Bears
   DIR By: davebear
       Date: May 22, 2025, 11:02 am
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       It’s a little concerning that Braxton Jones can’t participate in
       OTA’s yet.  Loveland also out recovering from his surgery and
       Burden still out from his last OTA injury.
       I’m wondering if there’s any FA . Who can start the season for
       Jones until he’s ready.
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       Re: 2025 Chicago Bears
   DIR By: vj
       Date: May 27, 2025, 1:26 pm
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       <i><a
       href="
  HTML https://www.si.com/nfl/nfl-takeaways-jim-irsay-greatest-accomplishment-colts#_p3mwbdins">From<br
       />SI.com / Albert Breer</i></a>
       Chicago Bears QB Caleb Williams has gotten a lot of attention
       for being out on the team’s old regime, but every indication
       over the past four months has been that he’s in on the new one.
       And I’d say that with this very important caveat: It’s pretty
       easy for a quarterback to buy in on a first-year coach with an
       offensive background who was hired, at least in part, to get his
       own career off the ground. No one’s lost a game. Or thrown a
       pick. Or had a plan come undone.  That said, from Day 1,
       Williams’s buy-in on Ben Johnson has been high.
       The 23-year-old was there, alongside DJ Moore and Rome Odunze,
       for the introductory press conference, which is a small, but
       notable, thing for a guy to do coming off his rookie year. That,
       in turn, gave the two their first chance to sit down and talk
       face-to-face. And it also showed that Williams had an
       understanding of the responsibility that would come with his
       place as the Bears’ franchise quarterback, which would be
       Johnson’s starting point anyway.  Williams was around the
       building a lot from that point forward, which gave Johnson,
       offensive coordinator Declan Doyle and QBs coach J.T. Barrett a
       shot to organically build their relationship. That facilitated
       some hard truths to be doled out at the start of the offseason
       program in April.
       There were two areas where the coaches wanted improvement from
       Williams. Both related to how he carried himself as the
       quarterback, based on what the 2024 season showed. One was body
       language. The other was presnap procedure.  On the former, while
       the coaches understood the beating he took, they showed film to
       emphasize how he’d been slow to pull himself up off the ground.
       It was a long year. People got fired in-season. And in adverse
       circumstances, the staff explained, having a quarterback who was
       rolling with the punches would go a long way. On the latter,
       there was a smattering of small things—like on the first play of
       one game, he turned to his left, thinking the motion was coming,
       when it was actually coming from the right—that needed to be
       cleaned up.
       To Williams’s credit, he welcomed every piece of criticism in an
       effort to get better. Which allowed the staff to move quickly to
       a lot of Lions tape, to give Williams an idea of what Johnson
       would be bringing from Detroit with him, and Matthew Stafford
       film, to bring some visuals to what they’d try to work him
       toward technique and fundamentals-wise.  Progress, thus far, has
       been steady, and Williams is working at it. The Bears adding
       Case Keenum to the quarterback room was, indeed, intentional,
       and Williams has taken advantage of it, in using Keenum almost
       as another coach after hours (to work around the CBA-mandated
       limits on what the coaches can actually do with the players at
       this point in the calendar). And, on the field, Williams has
       been good for at least one “did he really do that?” throw every
       day.
       So, at this point, it’s fair to say things are as good as they
       could be.  Which, to be sure, is better than they were five or
       six months ago.
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       Re: 2025 Chicago Bears
   DIR By: vj
       Date: May 27, 2025, 1:32 pm
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       Re: 2025 Chicago Bears
   DIR By: vj
       Date: June 5, 2025, 2:27 pm
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       @AdamHoge
       Yesterday @thecarm asked Ben Johnson for some players who have
       stood out in the offseason program. Ben asked for a day to think
       about it and then came back today with two names on offense and
       defense:
       DE Dominique Robinson
       LB Ruben Hyppolite
       TE Joel Wilson
       RB Kyle Monangai
       2:01 PM · Jun 5, 2025
       @adamjahns
       Fun final day at Bears minicamp: we saw offensive linemen
       catching passes, WRs, TEs, and RBs throwing passes and the QBs
       as receivers.
       1:45 PM · Jun 5, 2025
       <a
       href="
  HTML https://x.com/CHGO_Bears/status/1930700746275639764">Caleb<br
       />catching passes down the sideline like Jimmy</a>
       <a
       href="
  HTML https://x.com/CHGO_Bears/status/1930695976450171103">Nice<br
       />catch by Wright</a>
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       Re: 2025 Chicago Bears
   DIR By: vj
       Date: June 6, 2025, 2:08 pm
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       <a
       href="
  HTML https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45458808/nfl-caleb-williams-bears-quarterback-film-study-ben-johnson">Why<br
       />film study is key for Bears QB Caleb Williams
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       Re: 2025 Chicago Bears
   DIR By: chifaninva
       Date: June 7, 2025, 7:07 am
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       I keep seeing little tid bits of "Caleb has no excuses now". I
       really don't think he played all that bad, all things
       considered. The run game never really hit a stride, as a matter
       a fact, it took Swift several games before he started looking
       like an NFL starter. Coaching staff was horrendous, and that may
       be too generous. At times the O line was more of a sieve than a
       screen door.. Kmet for some reason wasn't utilized. Playing the
       Redskins he brought the team back only to have a coaching
       blunder (along with Stevens sh!t show) lose the game. The
       Detroit game was another game that was very winnable. Keenan
       Allen who at one time was considered one of the better receivers
       in the league (at times) couldn't catch a simple pass. That's
       just off the top of my head, I'm sure there's much more...
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