NFL 2025-26 Season

[SparzWizard]

That's an RTP call all day long by Pace Jr

[Goldstar88]

JJ looked pretty good..

[Moranis]

JJ looked pretty good..

poor first half, but yeah the 2nd half he looked sharp

[Donoghus]

Caleb is a real rollercoaster ride.  If he can't break thru this season with Johnson at the helm, I'd start to get real worried about his long-term future.  Everything is tee'd up for him to succeed.  He has his moments but he also makes you smash your head against the wall.   

[Roy H.]

Caleb is a real rollercoaster ride.  If he can't break thru this season with Johnson at the helm, I'd start to get real worried about his long-term future.  Everything is tee'd up for him to succeed.  He has his moments but he also makes you smash your head against the wall.

Same.  I think he must be getting inside of his own head, because he started that game poised and confident, and he finished it looking like a bad backup QB.

[Vermont Green]

Caleb Williams looks really young.  He is 23, turns 24 in November.  Daniels will be 25 in December.  Maye just turned 23 in August.

I agree on Williams, moments of brilliance both throwing and general athletic ability, and other really flat moments.  The same can be said of Maye based on Season 2, Game 1, although the highs not quite so high and the lows not quite so low.  Daniels was solid in S2/G1, continuing to just be good.

[Roy H.]

Dons, as our Chicago resident, what are your thoughts on moving the team to Arlington Heights?  (Assuming they're actually serious this time)?

[Donoghus]

Dons, as our Chicago resident, what are your thoughts on moving the team to Arlington Heights?  (Assuming they're actually serious this time)?

Honestly, I'm fine with it.  Soldier Field is an absolute pain in the butt to navigate.   Getting to and from the stadium isn't easy. It's only accessible by Lake Shore Drive. (Think Rte 1 in Foxboro but you're in major city and you have a gigantic lake cutting off one side) so major bottlenecks.  If you're walking, it's a decent hike from either South Loop or the Loop itself.   The stadium itself is awful.  The concourses are super cramped and terrible to navigate before, halftime, & after the game.   The '02 renovation created  these upper decks that are incredibly steep (because they built inside the shell of the old Soldier Field and had to go up) so going up the stairs is like climbing Mt. Everest and climbing down the stairs is "hold onto your life".   I will say that I'll miss the tailgating scene, though.  Btw South Lot, the early season Burnham Harbor tailgates and the lots by the Field Museum, the tailgating is top notch.

My biggest issue is that this new stadium is going to be either dome or retractable roof.  Chicago Bear football should be played in the elements.  I will miss the snow & wind whipping off the lakefront and impacting the games.   Arlington Heights is a nice area.  It'll be a little Green Bay/Foxboro-esque.  The road infrastructure is already there.  You already have the Metra stop right at where the stadium is going to be (used to be an incredible horse racetrack) so you'll just need to increase the number of trains on race day.  I also have friends who live about 3 blocks from where the new stadium will be so, personally, that will be an added bonus for me.