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Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Monday, September 14, 2009
Bears breakdown - Week 1
OK, here it is: from Flambeau Field.
Bears Pass Offense: Cutler did not make very good decisions throwing the ball. There were times that he threw on the run where he definitely should have stopped, set his feet and thrown. For those Cubs fans, he reminded me of Carlos Zambrano after giving up a home run. He looked like he lost his focus and could not concentrate on the current play, he was so lost in the fact that he threw the interceptions that he couldn’t move forward… Also, Ron Turner did not throw the ball to the tailback at all, those plays tend to be very low risk, high reward plays that were lacking in their gameplan. Devin Hester and Johnnie Knox caught two nice passes, Earl Bennett also caught the ball well. Green Bay made a point of taking Greg Olsen out of the Bears offense and it showed. It was like the Pack had the Bears playbook and knew where they were going with the ball most times.
Bears Run Offense: It looked to me like Matt Forte was handed the ball and was told to run in a certain hole in the offensive line and no matter what was happening around him, he ran through that hole without regard to people actually being in that hole waiting to tackle him or not. There were times were daylight was seen on the left or right of where the play was supposed to go and Matt Forte did not have the vision to look around and see what else was available. For what it is worth, the offensive line did not do him any favors either, it did not seem like there was very much room for Forte to run at all.
Bears Run Defense: Seemed that they were pretty solid, Tommie Harris played all game and was his usual disruptive self. Hopefully Urlacher does not miss much time after dislocating his wrist during the game.
Bears Pass Defense: The DLine actually got to the Quarterback. Adewale O played an excellent game and really had the number of the O Tackle that he was playing against. That being said… Their secondary did not look good at all. Nathan Vasher is a shell of his former self, Charles Tillman will get better. Daniel Manning looked lost out there, many of GB’s pass plays were definitely directly to take advantage of him while he was on the field.
Special Teams: There was an obvious gaffe on the fake punt and there will be much made out of that play in the media this week. Don’t get as good as solid Gould – he was very good including a special teams tackle. Their return game was good and Rashied Davis made some nice special teams plays.
All in all, some good but most bad. They sustained some injuries that are definitely going to hurt them and if they don’t get their running game going, this will be a very looooong season.
Go Bears.
Bears Pass Offense: Cutler did not make very good decisions throwing the ball. There were times that he threw on the run where he definitely should have stopped, set his feet and thrown. For those Cubs fans, he reminded me of Carlos Zambrano after giving up a home run. He looked like he lost his focus and could not concentrate on the current play, he was so lost in the fact that he threw the interceptions that he couldn’t move forward… Also, Ron Turner did not throw the ball to the tailback at all, those plays tend to be very low risk, high reward plays that were lacking in their gameplan. Devin Hester and Johnnie Knox caught two nice passes, Earl Bennett also caught the ball well. Green Bay made a point of taking Greg Olsen out of the Bears offense and it showed. It was like the Pack had the Bears playbook and knew where they were going with the ball most times.
Bears Run Offense: It looked to me like Matt Forte was handed the ball and was told to run in a certain hole in the offensive line and no matter what was happening around him, he ran through that hole without regard to people actually being in that hole waiting to tackle him or not. There were times were daylight was seen on the left or right of where the play was supposed to go and Matt Forte did not have the vision to look around and see what else was available. For what it is worth, the offensive line did not do him any favors either, it did not seem like there was very much room for Forte to run at all.
Bears Run Defense: Seemed that they were pretty solid, Tommie Harris played all game and was his usual disruptive self. Hopefully Urlacher does not miss much time after dislocating his wrist during the game.
Bears Pass Defense: The DLine actually got to the Quarterback. Adewale O played an excellent game and really had the number of the O Tackle that he was playing against. That being said… Their secondary did not look good at all. Nathan Vasher is a shell of his former self, Charles Tillman will get better. Daniel Manning looked lost out there, many of GB’s pass plays were definitely directly to take advantage of him while he was on the field.
Special Teams: There was an obvious gaffe on the fake punt and there will be much made out of that play in the media this week. Don’t get as good as solid Gould – he was very good including a special teams tackle. Their return game was good and Rashied Davis made some nice special teams plays.
All in all, some good but most bad. They sustained some injuries that are definitely going to hurt them and if they don’t get their running game going, this will be a very looooong season.
Go Bears.
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