Chicago Bears Sackwatch 2024: Week 6 vs Jacksonville Jaguars

The Chicago Bears gave up three sacks against the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday, but they only lost five yards on the plays. All things considered, that's not too bad. Plus, the Bears' pass protection has improved in the last few weeks, which has coincided with Caleb Williams playing some very good football.

Here's how I saw the sacks this week.

Sack 18 - 1st Quarter 13:45 - Roy Robertson-Harris This was a third and five, and it looks like Caleb is reading things left to right, with Keenan Allen his first read after he runs the return route. But the Jags corner seemed to be sitting on the route, and he had Allen bottled up. DJ Moore, who went in motion, looked like read two on the over route, but the pressure got to Williams before he cleared the middle linebacker.

Running back Roschon Johnson was the outlet here, and he was wide open, but Williams couldn't get back to him. Right tackle Darnell Wright gave up an inside path to Travon Walker (#44), and right guard Matt Pryor was beaten with a swim move to his inside by Arik Armstead (#91). Pryor was able to stay with Armstead enough to push him by, but Wright's mistake muddied up the pocket. I don't know how Williams powered out of Walker's grasp, but he fought out of it and ran forward into Roy Robertson-Harris' arms.

I'll give this one to Wright for giving up the inside path. Had he forced Walker to the outside, Caleb could have slipped up and hit Johnson.

Sack 19 - 3rd Quarter 4:13 - Josh Hines-Allen and Esezi Otomewo Williams fakes it to D'Andre Swift, sets to throw, works up the pocket, pumps, then feels the pressure from his blind side. Much like the right tackle on the previous sack, here left tackle Braxton Jones allows some inside leverage, although this time Jones was in position with his hands on defensive end Josh Hines-Allen. It wasn't until Williams stepped up into the pocket that Jones lost his leverage.

Even though Jones was still between Hines-Allen and where he thought his quarterback would be, he still got walked backward a bit too quickly on this play. A fraction of a second longer and Caleb could have fired it to the deep cross to the right, or come back to Swift on the checkdown.

I'll give this one to Jones, although I'm not entirely happy about it.

Sack 20 - 3rd Quarter 1:57 - Maason Smith The Jags had pretty good coverage here, and Caleb had time to work through at least three progressions before tucking it to run. He made it back to the line of scrimmage, but that's considered a sack in the NFL.

He probably could have fired a pass on the out route to his right if he had a tick longer, but he felt the pocket tightening up and saw a lane in front of him.

Defensive tackle Maason Smth slipped the block and made the tackle, but I can't fault Pryor for the sack allowed. He was not only part of a nice DT-twist pickup along with center Coleman Shelton and left guard Teven Jenkins, but he also kept his body between his man and the pocket. Once the QB starts to scramble, he loses leverage, but that's not something he can account for.

Good coverage by the defense, plus the 0-yard sack, makes this feel like sacks happen.

Here's the individual Sackwatch tally after six games:

Caleb Williams - 3.5 Sacks Happen - 3 Nate Davis - 2.5 Darnell Wright - 2.5 Coleman Shelton - 2 Matt Pryor - 2 Braxton Jones - 1.5 Teven Jenkins - 1 Cole Kmet - 1 Marcedes Lewis - 1

As I've often said, the breakdowns are based on my best guesses about each play. Only the Bears know the specifics and where the blame lies for each sack allowed.

And here are the total Bears' sacks allowed through Week 6 in the Sackwatch era: