Bears game 15: December 26 vs JETS on CBS

[SouthSideRyan]

Bears-Packers moved to 3:15 next week

 

Then we'll know if we need to try or not by gametime.

[NCCubFan]

Something interesting I just saw: Matt Forte is the first 100-yard rusher allowed by the Jets in 22 games.

Correct. Rashard Mendenhall of Pittsburgh was originally credited with exactly 100 yards against the Jets last week, but that was due to a scoring error where he was credited with 10 yards on what was actually a 9-yard run. The error was corrected and Mendenhall is now officially credited with 99 yards.

[chuckywang]

Something interesting I just saw: Matt Forte is the first 100-yard rusher allowed by the Jets in 22 games.

Correct. Rashard Mendenhall of Pittsburgh was originally credited with exactly 100 yards against the Jets last week, but that was due to a scoring error where he was credited with 10 yards on what was actually a 9-yard run. The error was corrected and Mendenhall is now officially credited with 99 yards.

 

1 yard is important in Fantasy Football. My greatest fantasy football moment came in 2004, when I had Daunte Culpepper and I lost the week by .04 points total. Now this league scored 20 rushing yards as 1 point, and the next day Culpepper was credited with one more yard rushing. I ended up winning the week by .01 points. :D

[JonJayCutler]

Forte has kind of been an unsung hero this year. After today, he is up to 4.4 ypc on the season, which correct me if I'm wrong, would be the highest for a Bears RB over a full season since Neal Anderson in 1989, should he maintain it through next week.

 

Considering he's running behind a pretty bad line and his backup loses 3 yards on every carry, he's having a pretty good season.

[Banedon]

Also, in the "meaningless to everyone but me" stats, if the Bears win next week, while the Dolphins and Steelers lose, the Bears will finish the season with the single best road record in the NFL.

 

The Bears are a dome team stuck playing outdoors. That's the best thing about the last 3 weeks though. I think they've learned how to play in the snow.

[bukie]

Also, in the "meaningless to everyone but me" stats, if the Bears win next week, while the Dolphins and Steelers lose, the Bears will finish the season with the single best road record in the NFL.

 

The Bears are a dome team stuck playing outdoors. That's the best thing about the last 3 weeks though. I think they've learned how to play in the snow.

I was just going to go with "ridiculously easy road schedule".

 

Road wins: Dallas, Carolina, Buffalo, Miami, Detroit, Minnesota. Not exactly murderer's row, there.

[Old Style]

Bears-Packers moved to 3:15 next week

 

Then we'll know if we need to try or not by gametime.

I believe the Cowboys-Eagles game has been move to 3:15 as well.

[jersey cubs fan]

This win would have been more enjoyable if the Jets fans could have gotten to my house yesterday, or shown up to work today.

[SouthSideRyan]

Bears-Packers moved to 3:15 next week

 

Then we'll know if we need to try or not by gametime.

I believe the Cowboys-Eagles game has been move to 3:15 as well.

 

Well [expletive]. Go Vikings

[Banedon]

According to this article, the Jets lined up with 10 men on the field for the play where Hester caught the TD pass...

 

http://sports.espn.go.com/new-york/nfl/columns/story?columnist=cimini_rich&id=5958105

[Soul]

This win would have been more enjoyable if the Jets fans could have gotten to my house yesterday, or shown up to work today.

 

Oh so that's how they play it. Wimps.

 

Midwesterners don't get the same luxury because when NY wins it gets shoved down our throats for 7 days by the NY controlled national media.

[rawaction]

I really don't want to have to care about next week's game. I think there's a huge difference between the #2 and #3 seed. I think it could mean the difference between Superbowl or not.

 

Obviously, having to win 2 games instead of 3 to get to Dallas is huge. But also, the Bears as a 2-seed would mean either a rematch at home vs. a Philly team that they already beat or getting a dome Saints team to come out in the Chicago cold.

[Old Style]

Bears-Packers moved to 3:15 next week

 

Then we'll know if we need to try or not by gametime.

I believe the Cowboys-Eagles game has been move to 3:15 as well.

 

Well [expletive]. Go Vikings

http://espn.go.com/blog/dallas/cowboys/post/_/id/4676467/cowboys-eagles-kickoff-moved-to-315

[bukie]

FO's comments on Jets-Bears:

 

New York Jets 34 at Chicago Bears 38

 

Vince Verhei: Jets fumble, but their ridiculous fumble luck continues and they recover. So they fumble again on the next play, and this time they finally lose it. Matt Forte follows with a long touchdown run and the Bears are up 10-0.

 

LaDainian Tomlinson runs it in to pull the Jets within three, 10-7. Bears are playing a soft zone, and Mark Sanchez is picking them apart -- he's completed his first seven passes and converted a few big third downs.

 

Mike Tanier: Ahhhh...the Jay Cutler pick-6. Phil Simms said it was a curveball. Is that possible on planet earth?

 

Doug Farrar: Once again, Phil fails the laws of physics. His contention that if Cutler had thrown the ball outside … well, there were two Jets with inside position, and even though one of them was falling down, how far outside was Cutler supposed to throw it for the receiver to back out of coverage? Section 32?

 

Bill Barnwell: Apparently Dwight Lowery knows Jay Cutler's hot reads.

 

Vince Verhei: Pressure had nothing to do with it -- a throw into double coverage that wouldn't be complete in 100 tries. It's amazing how bad he looks sometimes.

 

Next third down, Sanchez finds an open receiver, but throws a yard behind him for yet another dropped interception.

 

Mike Tanier: Cutler throws a perfect pass on a corner route to Forte, then shows great awareness on a play-fake near the goal line, seeing the entire right side of the end zone undefended and taking off. He is both a great and a terrible quarterback, and he is never anything in between.

 

Doug Farrar: On the same drive, he overthrew a wide-open Earl Bennett on a post. As you were saying…

 

Bill Barnwell: Phil Simms notes that Santonio Holmes is "fast and quick".

 

Aaron Schatz: Actually, that's legit. There's a difference. "Fast" is a description of breakaway speed, "quick" is more about twitch speed.

 

Mike Tanier: Speaking of fast and quick, am now in the habit of telling my kids to "be quick but don't hurry" all the time. I say it during fire drills at school, and I tell my own children it all the time when getting on trains and whatnot.

 

Tom Gower: I hate defending Phil Simms, but that is a legitimate distinction, and there are guys who are fast (have good deep speed) but are not quick (Matt Jones comes to mind here) and guys who are quick but not fast (Knowshon Moreno, maybe, or another RB with good quickness and a lousy 40 time).

 

Bill Barnwell: OK. I concede. I wish he'd mentioned that, though!

 

Vince Verhei: Cutler opens the second half with a touchdown strike from midfield, an effortless flick through wind and snow into the end zone. Johnny Knox had to fight off a DB to make the catch, a one-on-one matchup where the worst case scenario is probably an interception and touchback.

 

Sanchez continues to shine, even on his bad plays -- on a third- and-10, he dropped back and had nobody open. As the rush closed in, he kept his wits about him and scrambled to the outside to throw the ball away rather than risk a sack or interception.

 

Jets lose when Sanchez, needing a touchdown with not timeouts, underthrows a deep route and is picked off. I actually feel bad for him -- that was almost definitely the best game of his career, and they lose when he makes one mistake in a very bad situation. It's not his fault Jay Cutler caught fire.

 

Aaron Schatz: OK, I just saw a highlight of the Jets-Bears game and the Jets' attempted fake punt. Um, when your starting quarterback shows up in the punt formation, isn't that a little bit of a hint that it is a fake?

[jersey cubs fan]

What didn't Peter King like on Sunday?

 

f. Throw it away, Jay Cutler! Come on.

 

Seriously Peter? You're going to give Jay Cutler crap for that game yesterday, and really only refer to the fake punt?

[rawaction]

Knox is fast, but not quick. He just has straight line speed and no juke.

Hester is fast, but is more quick than fast. Can juke at full speed, which is why he is a great returner.

[jersey cubs fan]

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/football/bears/ct-spt-1228-pompei-film-session--20101227,0,6890293.column

 

Dan Pompei hands out his grades, and throws a half hearted defense of the cover 2 defense. He states that on 54% of the snaps the Bears played something other than cover 2. He also noted that they played the least amount of cover 2 in the fourth quarter. That's a pretty poor way of defending the cover 2, since the fourth quarter was when NY only scored 3 points. It was the first and second when NY was moving down the field at will and scoring points. And that is presumably when they were playing mostly cover 2, going on his numbers.

[Sammy Sofa]

Yeah, the Jets scored a ton of points in the first quarter.

[jersey cubs fan]

Yeah, the Jets scored a ton of points in the first quarter.

 

The big drive that created their first score began in the first quarter. It was like the last 5 minutes of the quarter. I didn't think that would be that hard to understand.

[Sammy Sofa]

Probably would have helped in that regard if you had gone with a statement based in reality.

[jersey cubs fan]

Probably would have helped in that regard if you had gone with a statement based in reality.

 

What I said was correct. It was the first, when the scoring drive began and mostly took place, and second when they were moving the ball and scoring at will.

[Sammy Sofa]

Nah, it was a poor choice of words, but it's cool, bro. We all make mistakes.

[jersey cubs fan]

Nah, it was a poor choice of words, but it's cool, bro. We all make mistakes.

 

It was correct and you aren't very bright.

[Sammy Sofa]

You'll overcome this, man.

[jersey cubs fan]

You'll overcome this, man.

 

Clearly I already have overcome your ignorance.