Like that title? LOL...
Anyways, I love this time of the year. Football ladies and gents, football. Greatest sport to watch, greatest fantasy sport to play, and of course the greatest video game of all time, Madden.
As you all know, or if you don't already, I am a die hard Bears fan. I'm pretty pessimistic when it comes to sports though because I am from Chicago and not much good has happened in the world of Chicago sports, especially during my lifetime.
Yeah there was Jordan, which was amazing, but I was young when he was around. Walter Payton was before my time, though I was born the year the Bears started their epic Super Bowl season (1985 bitches). I have seen the White Sox win the 2005 World Series and the Blackhawks won this year, but aside from that there's been a few great seasons from Chicago athletes and a few playoff appearances here or there, but that's all, so that's my reasoning for being so pessimistic. I love Chicago sports, but I'm so used to disappointment it brings out the negativity in me.
Anyways, back to football. I want to talk about the Bears.
I'm sure most of you saw their Sunday night destruction against the Giants on national television. 10 sacks in one half. This is unacceptable. And of course all the Jay Cutler haters jump all over the opportunity to blame him. People, listen to me. It's not Jay's fault at all. Sure, he could have tried to run out of the pocket on a couple of them sacks, or he could have tried to throw a pass quicker rather than getting a sack. But are you forgetting the man threw 26 picks last year or whatever and A LOT of them came because he was under pressure and he tried to force plays and everyone said he needs to be more patient or just take a sack sometimes. What do you want from the guy? His line is absolute shit, the whole line needs to be replaced. If you don't believe me, if you think it's still Jay's fault lets take a look at the Bears rushing production this year. Oh wait, there hasn't been any because the fucking line can't run block either. Still don't believe me? Lets check Kyle Orton's stats. Look 'em up and you'll see his yardage and TDs have increased significantly since being traded to the Broncos in the Jay Cutler trade. His INTs have also decreased, still high, but fewer than before. Hmmm Kyle Orton looks like he's been out performing Jay Cutler, well it's because of the god damn offensive line. I still endorse Jay Cutler and will take him over ANY former Bear QB, EVER. Jim McMahon...You give Cutler the 85 Bears line and he wins a super bowl too.
Enough about Cutler though. Lets talk about the WRs. I like them all, I really do. Their inexperience however is not really helping the Bears' situation. Personally though I would lean heavy on Knox, Olsen and Bennett. Hester should be a situational WR and used on PR and KR. Why take him out of KR? Dumbest move they ever made. Forte is an excellent target for Cutler as well. I was a big fan of Aromashadu too, but I guess he's scared to go over the middle and well, I'm not a fan of that. Bennett on the other hand is like a vacuum and sucks up anything near him and he'll take a hit and not give a shit. He's the possession WR for sure. I just wish he was a little faster, but still love 'em. Knox reminds me of Steve Smith (Panthers), just a little less of an asshole. He's fast as hell, can catch, doesn't have the agility of Smith, but he doesn't want to go down. He's feisty. His time will come. Olsen I love as well, as a WR, as a blocker he is shit. He has coughed up a few fumbles in key moments, but most LBs can't match up with him and if he gets 1 on 1 coverage he has huge plays.
The D. The D is back baby. Peppers is an animal. Urlacher is healthy. Briggs is playin' great ball. Tillman is always solid. T Harris is having issues, I hope he comes around, but honestly I wouldn't be surprised if he was gone after this year. Jennings is stepping up. DJ Moore has been stepping up. The only problems I see on the D right now are Manning and LE. Manning is terrible. Chris Harris I'm just a huge fan of, but we could use two new safeties, though Chris Harris is OK for now. I hope they get Major Wright some more playing time at safety cause he's going to be huge for us in the future I think. The Bears rely heavily on the D and they're back to punching the ball out for fumbles. Missed that most of last year, but they've been doing it a lot this year.
The running situation. It's like I said before, there isn't one because of the O-Line. The bears whole season rests on correcting the problems at O-Line. Either the whole O-Line somehow learns to block RIGHT NOW or Cutler will continue to get hit and Forte will continue to get stuffed at the line.
Another thing that would help is if they would adapt to what's going on in the game. The only game I saw them do that in so far this year was Dallas. It looked a lot like the Giants game early on. For the first few possessions the Bears couldn't move the ball because of the pressure that was coming in at Cutler. He was hurried some ridiculous number like 20 times early on and sacked 4 or 5 of those time and hit like 9 times or something. So what did they do? They started throwing quick passes and from that opening they scored and produced yards and moved the ball around and ended up with a win. Why they didn't try something like that against the Giants I do not know, but with the O-Line they have they're going to have to start firing off some passes quicker. ADAPT to the game like they did in Dallas and they should be OK with the situation they have. But the bottom line is that the O-Line needs a MAJOR overhaul. Free Agents, draft picks, trades...I don't care how they do it, but it needs to be done soon.
That is all I have for now.
1 comment:
that is exactly why I was confused about them releasing Mark Anderson and picking up Grant. Sure, maybe he is an improvement... but they have bigger problems!
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