2009 Chicago Bears Preseason Thread - A new era begins

[Keener98]

More piss poor tackling. This has been a constant of the Lovie Smith era.

 

it's because every single time they go for the ball, that's what smith teaches and he's been successful thus far.

 

Going for the ball once you have the guy wrapped up is 1 thing, but they have consistently bounced off guys by going high in the Lovie era.

[Keener98]

Nice catch and run by Clark

[Magnetic Curses]

More piss poor tackling. This has been a constant of the Lovie Smith era.

 

it's because every single time they go for the ball, that's what smith teaches and he's been successful thus far.

 

Going for the ball once you have the guy wrapped up is 1 thing, but they have consistently bounced off guys by going high in the Lovie era.

 

well, the bears have done fairly well in terms of causing turnovers by taking risks like that, i don't see why they should stop doing what they do well.

[Butterscup1679666578]

what the [expletive] kind of pass was that.

 

line is miserable tonight.

[Magnetic Curses]

cutler has no chance because we have no idea how to block a gimmicky 3-4 scheme

[SpongeWorthy]

Guns is allowed to ref in Denver again?

[SpongeWorthy]

The 3-4 is about as gimmicky as the forward pass and facemasks.

[Magnetic Curses]

you're right, my bad

[EricG]

what's the deal with the unpainted enzones?

[Magnetic Curses]

mark anderson sniffs a quarterback!

[SpongeWorthy]

Hello Devin!

[Butterscup1679666578]

i want to see that a lot this year devin.

[Mark Priors Calves]

what's the deal with the unpainted enzones?

pretty standard for pre-season. bears don't paint their own either.

[Careless]

That was pretty nice

[Jon]

This is old school Hester. A stupid fair catch inside the 5 followed by a great return.

[Butterscup1679666578]

great great great blocking by graham on that return

[Magnetic Curses]

he's back.

[Butterscup1679666578]

broncos are talking a lot tonight

[Magnetic Curses]

i'd still like to see pace and williams block somebody.

[Keener98]

More piss poor tackling. This has been a constant of the Lovie Smith era.

 

it's because every single time they go for the ball, that's what smith teaches and he's been successful thus far.

 

Going for the ball once you have the guy wrapped up is 1 thing, but they have consistently bounced off guys by going high in the Lovie era.

 

well, the bears have done fairly well in terms of causing turnovers by taking risks like that, i don't see why they should stop doing what they do well.

 

Takeaways are nice yes, but so is tackling. The 1st guy there is taught to wrap up, and then let the others come in and strip the ball. They arent taught to jump and leave their feet to make a damn tackle which is what happened on the play in question. You can be a good team that causes turnovers, as well at least being an average tackling team. Lovies teams have been terrible tacklers since he got here, and who knows how much of that is because they do zero tackling in camp.

[Keener98]

Another piss poor tackle on the kickoff.

[Magnetic Curses]

i told you twice already and they've been pretty consistently excellent when healthy.

[SpongeWorthy]

Damnit Payne, I want to like you.

[chuckywang]

Guns is allowed to ref in Denver again?

 

He screwed the Chargers, not the Broncos.

[Magnetic Curses]

what an asinine call.