I know I will sound ridiculous to many. I play Madden religiously at the start of every season. So when I watched today’s game, I thought to myself “this is exactly how I play Madden.” I think this season when the Bears won the Super Bowl, I think I only passed about 70 times the entire season. And most of those passes were short slants when I know I needed a few yards to extend drives. It worked. Everytime.
It’s simple. Run the ball when you need just a yard. Nothing fancy. Pass when needed. We don’t need 50-yard passes down the field. And guess what? It works in real life.
Tyson Bagent was just outstanding. Yes, a bit too conservative at times with the calls. We can’t expect Luke Getsy to do a completely competent job. He extended drives on short passes and even his own feet at times. It was what I felt he could do during the preseason. The offense just seemed to have so much more energy with him than Fields. Keep this guy starting even if Fields is healthy. The running game was great. D’Onta Foreman was playing with poise. I know the “FIRE AND PASSION” is joked around these parts of the internet. But he seriously plays with it. Darrynton Evans too. WHERE WAS THIS SHIT THE FIRST FOUR GAMES OF THE YEAR?
Alright, now on to the stupidity of the day because it’s not a Bears game without it. Darnell Wright? Total bust. False starts and he’s a turnstile. Seeing him try to pass block makes my eyes bleed. Tyrique Sevenson? This guy can’t defend anyone to save his life. TURN THE FUCK AROUND YOU DIPSHIT. Davonte Adams was open most of the day and if the Raiders had a decent quarterback, it would have been much worse.
Penalties. Just horrendous. I don’t give a shit if Jaylon Johnson had two interceptions during “garbage time.” There was that pass interference in the third quarter that was so blatant. TURN THE FUCK AROUND. How ridiculous has this been the last two decades? He didn’t start doing anything worth a damn until after this call. He’s not worthy of an extension until he shows he can actually cover a receiver consistently. False starts, holding and pass interference, oh my!
As you can see kids, football isn’t rocket science. It’s a fairly simple game. Run the ball efficiently, pass when needed, cover receivers rather than wander around, you get the point. It’s too bad that this didn’t start happening until the season is nearly halfway over.
The San Diego Los Angeles Chargers are up next on Sunday Night Football. Bagentmania continues.
Fire Ryan Poles | Fire Ben Johnson 
October 22, 2023 at 3:12 pm
I loved Madden, until the increasing microtransactions and unpenalized rage quits drove me away. I’m not good at Madden, but vs online opponents I won most of the time, but didn’t get the rewards due to rage quits. Sorry I pick-6ed your QB once per quarter, but please play out your loss. Nope, gone by the end of the third. If that changes, I’ll perhaps come back to it.
Good beatdown of the Raiders though!
October 22, 2023 at 4:17 pm
You know, this might be sacrilege, but I never once played Madden. Keep in mind, I grew up in the 70’s, and turned 18 in 1981. That’s right in the heart of the Atari age, video game arcades (until they became a safe haven for fucking drug dealers) and some seriously awesome games like Galaga, Gorf, Space Invaders, Missile Command, Cycle Jump, Battlezone, and Defender. As the years wore on, and games got more sophisticated, I lost interest in them. I never strayed from all those old games, hell, I still play them. I bought a bunch of plug-n-play games years ago, and every New Years Eve, I break them out. I still enjoy them to this day. It’s sad about what happen to the arcades, though. They were so much fun!
Now, onto the business at hand. Tyson Bagent just played his way into the starters job. As far as I’m concerned, if Fields is healthy, he should ride the goddamned bench next week! Which means that when it comes to THIS half-assed football organization, Fields will start next Sunday night, and the shitshow will resume. Quite honestly, I wouldn’t be too upset if they did start Bagent and they bumped Peterwhacker to second string. As bad as Peterwhacker is, is Justin Fields much of an upgrade?
October 22, 2023 at 5:54 pm
Wow. I cannot believe this is real but it is actually ME who is the skeptic here where usually I am the enthusiast. I didn’t even bother watching the game until the fourth. With the Bears 1-5 and Fields injured, I figured what was the point? The Bears were surely about to repeat their performace from last week and lose 20-6, I figured, with an offense that couldn’t get a first down to save their lives. I admittedly was not expecting this. But guys, I do not share your faith in Bagent. In 2021, Jets backup QB Mike White threw for over 405 yards and 3 TDs, which got him a hype train, and I said to myself wait until he has a 3 interception-100 yard crapfest in a few weeks, and lo and behold whaddaya know. Bagent simply did not have enough film on him for coaches to scheme against. Well, now they’ve got film and you can be sure that he will not have the element of surprise again. If he has to start for the next few games I think it highly likely that you all will be finding yourselves clamboring for Fields again. Or Caleb Williams. I think you will find that you were taking Fields for granted.
October 22, 2023 at 5:58 pm
Mike White also did that against the Bengals, by the way, who would later go on to the Super Bowl.
October 22, 2023 at 6:24 pm
John, I’m inclined to agree with you about Bagent. However, I must respectfully disagree with you about Fields. That guy is dead to me, and there’s no coming back.
October 22, 2023 at 8:43 pm
Chuckster!
I have to ask how annoyed you are that WGN Radio has been known for having nothing but commercials during shows. I swear, nothing has changed since I was a kid. And it seems even worse when the postgame show is on.
News, break, weather, break, two minutes on air, break, news, weather, break, etc. Before I know it, one hour has gone by with Hamp and O.B. only talking for ten minutes total. It’s fucking brutal.
October 22, 2023 at 9:33 pm
Oh, it’s annoying as hell, but want to know what really pissed me this afternoon? The Cleveland Brown vs. the Indianapolis Colts running about 45 minutes long today because both defenses decided to go home after the third quarter. Now why does that piss me off, you ask?
BECAUSE WG-FUCKING-N WAS BROADCASTING THE MOTHERFUCKING GAME, THAT’S WHY!!!!!!!!! FOR FUCKS SAKE, IT EVEN PISSED OFF HAMPTON AND O’BRADOVICH!!!!!!! AND IT EVEN PISSED OFF A CALLER TOO!!!!!!!! IT EVEN SHORTCHANGED THE TIME THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO GIVE TO IT. GODDAMNED MOTHERFUCKERS!!!!!!!!!!!!
I fucking swear, that goddamned radio station is just as bad as their worthless television station sometimes.
October 22, 2023 at 9:41 pm
With all of the changes they made in terms of ownership over the years, you would think someone would have tried to make it better. Instead, it has become worse. Again, talk for two minutes and a take a call before Andy Masur says “we have one more call before we have to take a break.” I’m like, you motherfuckers just had seven minutes of commercials a few minutes back. What’s the point of even having a postgame?
I miss the days of listening to it when I was a kid growing up in the 90’s. And as we have talked about recently, same with The Score from the mid-2000’s. The only change for the better was bringing back Grobber for overnights. While I wasn’t always up that late, it was nice to listen to when driving back home from a road trip and hearing him. I miss that guy.
October 22, 2023 at 10:40 pm
Here is why I like Bagent, we didn’t overpay for him. I know it’s a low bar, but the Bears always commit the double sin of overpaying and getting a mediocre to bad quarterback for that overpay. I will take underpaying for a mediocre quarterback for once. A serviceable starter who we didn’t have to give up draft picks for? I’ll take it for now.
October 23, 2023 at 12:13 am
If Fields is not ready to go by next week, Bagent may potentially have a big test under the bright lights of prime time when the Bears go to Los Angeles to play the Chargers. Granted, the Chargers are as big of a dumpster fire as the Bears are, but this game is a must-win game for them and Brandon Staley’s career. I don’t know if Bagent will get the opportunity, but if he does I would be very interested in seeing what he can do. But then again, remember, you might see him reach his limits, and they might not be enough to produce desirable play.
Then again . . . hope springs eternal. (What if he’s some Brock Purdy/Dak Prescott camoflauge prodigy???)
They’re calling him Agent Bagent.
October 23, 2023 at 9:33 am
Well, when I saw them winning I already knew what the Meatball callers were going to deliver to the post game show and Chicago sports radio for the next week. “Peter Tom Willis 2.0” If anyone remembers back in the Wannsteadt era the Bears were losing 45-0 to the lowly Lions in the late fourth quarter. Then in garbage time the Bears put in their 3rd string QB Peter Tom Willis who drove down the field for a worthless touchdown. All the Meatballs just exploded with exuberance and exhilaration! We found the next Joe Montana, Dan Marino, and John Elway all rolled into one! Peter Tom Willis was gonna take us to da Superbowl! For an entire week these people bombarded all the talk radio call in shows. Sure enough, I was listening to OB and Hampton and a Meatball called in talking about 12-5 and going to the playoffs!
October 23, 2023 at 10:44 am
Hey Sebastian, you got me thinking about something. Peter Tom Willis was not the only quarterback that meatball fans went apeshit over. Here is my brief list of horribly overrated Bears second and third string QB’s.
1) Doug Flutie: I remember all the hype when he was brought in. Turns out he was too short to play in the league and bounced around a lot of teams.
2) Cade McNown: Remember him? One dork Bears fans that I used to know would exclaim “We got McNown!”. Asshole was a bust even before the son of a bitch hit rookie camp!
3) Kordell Stewart: Bad. Just bad. Next!
4) Chris Chandler: Old. Bad. Next!
We now arrive at the year 2004, a year of incredible overhyped, overrated Bears QB’s.
5) Craig Krenzel, Chad Hutchinson, Jonathan Quinn, Rex Grossman. Bad. Bad. Bad. And seriously BAD. And injured. We all remember the drone “Rex is our quarterback” by he whose name is too vile to acknowledge here. I also remember one Mr. John Shoop, the originator of the non-scoring offense, said this when he was actually shown the goddamn door: “Yes, I would really love to get my hands on Rex and help him.” If that were to happen, Grossman, in my opinion, would have completely flamed out the very next season.
There are others. I could keep going, but I think you get the point. Overhyping shitty quarterbacks seems to be an institution in Chicago.