During two games, the Chicago Bears are tied in the third place in the league in the total of the games with “12 staff” on the field.
According to Trumedia, the Bears had two ends tight on the field out of 57 of the 127 snaps this season. The rate of 44.9% ranks fourth. Most often, it was Cole Kmet and Colston Loveland.
However, Kmet, the higher seventh, the highest well paid by the average salary, and Loveland, the choice n ° 10 of this year’s draft, combined for 72 yards and five catches.
Two of these receptions came to the Tyson Bagent rescue quarter during the week 2 Dubbing in Detroit.
Coach Ben Johnson is a great supporter of using multiple tight ends. It is obvious in the packages of the Bears staff. So why don’t they get football?
“The fact that the tight ends are not more involved is a reflection of me more than anyone,” said Johnson on Wednesday. “So I’m on it.”
We know that Johnson is more than capable of completing the tight ends. He did it in Detroit. As a recruit, Sam Laporta was targeted 11 times in his first two games. Meanwhile, the choice n ° 14 Tyler Warren has 16 targets in his first two NFL games with the colts.
Loveland has three.
“In the end, we are asked to do everything we do to win the match, and that’s what we are going to do,” said Loveland on Wednesday, “whether by blocking 50 snaps per game or in execution 50 snaps per day, anything, we have to win and run and at the end of the day, win a victory.”
Unfortunately for Kmet, it is not a new territory. During his first match in Matt Nagy’s offensive, he obtained a target. His first match in the Luke Getsy offensive? A target. The first Shane Waldron experience game? A target for Kmet. At least with Johnson composing it, Kmet obtained four targets in the opening, but only one before the fourth quarter against the Lions.
During week 1, Johnson said that the lack of tight final objectives was partly by design. This week’s match plan asked the ends tight to spend more time blocking, whether for the race game or the protection against the defense of Brian Flores. Week 2? It was supposed to be the game.
“I knew in a way this first match that the tight end position was not going to be featured as much,” said Johnson on Monday. “This match, I thought we were going to bounce back more with Cole and Colston.”
Missed opportunities in Detroit?
On Sunday for almost 57 minutes, Kmet and Loveland combined for a target. Then Bodent threw them with consecutive games with three minutes to do.
Regrading the game with the angle of the all-22 camera, several pieces are distinguished where Loveland and / or Kmet seem open. We do not know the design of the room or where the progression of the quarter Caleb Williams will take us. We do not know which parts he did the right reading or how really the tight ends were “open”.
Bringing the ball to the tight ends can also be on the quarter. But he also needs to have time to throw.
“As Ben said, it’s him, but it’s also me when I’m there on the field to be able to see the cover and perhaps pass the ball to one of these guys, even when it is one of those situations where we try to retaliate, to return to the game,” said Williams. “It’s still just a game at a time, and the way you come back in games makes it a game at a time.”
On the second journey of the Bears, Loveland traveled on the ground from right to left, and he had a step on the defender. Williams threw him to the Kyle Monangai ball carrier in the apartment.
Loveland was about to exceed the secondary when Williams threw in Monangai. If Williams had thrown him to his left at the end of the recruit, it would probably have been a piece. Protection seemed healthy. The assistant may have prevented Williams from going in the direction of Loveland.
At the end of the first quarter, Williams launched Andre Swift’s ball carrier in the left apartment. He also had Loveland available in the middle, a frequent place that we saw Williams throw on the backs and receivers.
At the start of the second quarter, the successful game of the Bears managed to end before the match was uncontrollable. Putting the room here, it shows Williams’ confidence in Kmet. The tight veteran was covered but about to bring his route to the ball. Williams threw a place and hit Kmet for a first descent.
“I think he thinks that (chemistry) with the tight end group too, even if we have to make it happen a little more in the games,” said Johnson. “We saw this in practice a little.”
Williams’ interception arrived in the second and 32. Before this piece was developing and Williams rushes and throws it down, he had opened Loveland in the left apartment.
Wednesday, Williams said that some of these long-term and distance situations “come to my mind” when you think about the means to put more involved.
“Let them catch, come in, a knife and perhaps get 12 (yards), perhaps more, if they bounce on a few plated, that is part of the reading of QB, part of the game,” he said.
In the third quarter, Williams made a 15 yards launch at the Large DJ Moore receiver. Nobody will chicane with that. At the back of the part, Kmet is an option. If anything, this ventilation is a good example of Kmet showing the possibility of opening and the diagram putting the extremities tight in good position.
During the next game, Williams was dismissed. He had Loveland earlier in the room, and it was possible that he felt the rear pressure, which may have prevented him from returning this way to throw the recruit.
At the beginning of the fourth quarter, we are definitely in the time of the garbage, but it is another bag where a tight end found space in the apartment.
The following game was the interception of Williams which was canceled by a Brouilante penalty. It is difficult to put a complete criticism on the games in this part of the game, but he was in the right apartment.
A common coaching refrain is “every 11”, which means that the 11 players must work in unison for a team to be the most effective. This is reflected here because there are a myriad of reasons why the tight ends have not obtained the ball in the situations above. Sometimes the quarter-Arrière was missing. Sometimes the quarter-rear had undergone pressure and had to go to a different reading. And we do not know where even in the progress of the tight ends.
Whatever reason, this is not sufficient production for the massive investment of the Bears in the position.
What is the next step against Dallas?
During week 1, the winger tight Dallas Goedert led the Eagles with seven taken against cowboys. Last Sunday, the tight side of the Giants Theo Johnson had four catches for 34 yards on five targets.
Given some of the Dallas defense leaks – Cowboys grant 9.4 yards by attempt, a completion rate of 78.8% and a scaper note of 114.2 – there should be openings for Kmet and Loveland to start.
“Lots of games of pieces,” said Loveland. “The stick routes, the OTBs (roads on the ball), the middle of the field are quite open. They are a well -trained defense, you can say. Running in the ball, ending. They will be a good test for sure.”
This report that we have seen between Williams and its tight ends in the training camp and the pre-season should give confidence that it can be a two-game Blip.
“We had a few passes today where it was just a little on the same wavelength with these guys,” said Williams. “I feel that. I think they feel that, and (we just need) to go out and perform games and deliver the ball and let them go to work.
“I know the first game, I missed one to Colston through the middle. But I think that in time, OTA, the training camp and now, our connection has increased. I think we are on the same wavelength and have the same idea where I think they should be and where they will be. ”
(Top Photo of Cole Kmet: David Banks / Imagn Images)
