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  1. SpongeWorthy
    What am I supposed to concede? That you aren't a complete idiot and they aren't completely incompetent? Okay, you aren't a complete idiot and the Bears defense occasionally makes a play. But they had a really bad day against a disturbingly mediocre offense that sucks on the road and has for multiple years and they have been a bad defense for 4 years now. What else do you want me to concede? Dammit you bastard you are sucking me back in. They gave up 353 yards on 71 plays.....4.9 yards per play. Seattles defense gave up 307 yards on 59 plays....5.20 yards per play. If the Bears gave up 4.9 yards per play thoughout the season, do you know where that would rank in the league? Tied for 9th in the NFL with Philly and Miami. That's a bad day? The defense is fine when they don't have to be on the field for 71 plays in a game. per play? You are making me rethink my first concession. They never stopped seattle which is why they allowed so many plays to happen. Yeah 4.9 yards per play. The best defenses in the league give up something like 4.3 yards per play. The worst this year around 6.5 yards per play. The Giants are at the top at 4.1 per play. I wonder why?
  2. SpongeWorthy
    Being on the field for a lot of defensive plays is a consequence of not being able to stop 3rd downs and having your offense not sustain drives. In today's case it was both...Seattle was 7/12 on 3rd downs at one point, IIRC, until they started playing keep away.
  3. SpongeWorthy
    Oh and lol at the Packers being a perennial powerhouse. A team that has two playoff wins in 13 years is a powerhouse? Compared to the Lions, yeah.
  4. SpongeWorthy
    I also wish I had some way to screenshot all the dumb [expletive] formations Martz was using. Half the time Forte or Taylor are in the game it's blindingly obvious it's going to be a pass because of where they're lined up.
  5. SpongeWorthy
    I wish we'd run some basic wildcat stuff. We're not getting anything blocking 10 vs. 11. Even 2nd and 8 is a lot better than 2nd and 10 or 11. Martz literally wants to score from any position on the field instead of setting up 3rd and reasonable.
  6. SpongeWorthy
    We all know the Bear defense is a bend but not break defense. Why would anyone get all up in arms when they give up what we all knew they would give up - lots of yards? This was the worst defensive game they had played, but good defenses are due a stinker every now and then. All I care about is how many points they give up and the Bears have been just fine at doing that this year. My concern is centered around the lack of pressure on the QB. It makes the rest of the team bad when you can't do this. It forces Marinelli to blitz and the Bears are terrible blitzers. Your perennial Pro Bowl LB was out too. They're not giving up THAT many yards though.
  7. SpongeWorthy
    They did well against GB and Detroit, dominated Carolina, and while they gave up yardage to Dallas, they afforded themselves pretty well with turnovers and stuff. Today they were average but good enough to win. Your characterization is just way, way off. Edit: Forgot the New York game...if there were ever an example of a defense holding up well to start, and then getting pushed around later on because the offense sucked the life out of them, it was that game.
  8. SpongeWorthy
    Hey jersey, have you looked at the Bears defensive rankings yet. They sort of torpedo your characterization of them as the reincarnation of the 2008 Lions. I think you'd be surprised at how well they stack up.
  9. SpongeWorthy
    I like how Billick created some hypothetical character who determined an onside might not be necessary to argue with.
  10. SpongeWorthy
    Is Billick really explaining why an onside is necessary?
  11. SpongeWorthy
    HAHAHAH that block was [expletive] sweet
  12. SpongeWorthy
    lol
  13. SpongeWorthy
    Damn GB tied it up.
  14. SpongeWorthy
    What the hell is uniformly bad have to do with anything? You dont' win games by having a few defensive stands. The defense has been bad. They'd made a handful of plays, but they've been terrible overall. The offense has been abysmal, but the defense was bad before the offense had a time to hurt them. Because having a good stretch of defensive play is better than having no good stretch of defensive play. This isn't rocket surgery. The defense has been pretty good this year, overall, btw. Just look at the stats. High in yardage allowed, high in yards per play allowed, at the top in takeaways, etc. Not great at stopping 3rd downs of course. That's a really dumb post. A couple good stretches doesn't mean you didn't have a bad day. Neither does a couple bad ones. Your posts on the Bears defense this year have been uniformly stupid, by the way. If you step back from the immediacy of the individual games, they've been one of the better units in the league.
  15. SpongeWorthy
    Why are we huddling up still?
  16. SpongeWorthy
    Are you kidding me?
  17. SpongeWorthy
    He was not that short. [expletive] line judge was duped by the Seattle DB placing the ball.
  18. SpongeWorthy
    Yes Billick, it does matter whether you stop the guy 10 yards short or an inch short as evidenced by us, once again, have ass field position.
  19. SpongeWorthy
    The Packers are losing, btw.
  20. SpongeWorthy
    What the hell is uniformly bad have to do with anything? You dont' win games by having a few defensive stands. The defense has been bad. They'd made a handful of plays, but they've been terrible overall. The offense has been abysmal, but the defense was bad before the offense had a time to hurt them. Because having a good stretch of defensive play is better than having no good stretch of defensive play. This isn't rocket surgery. The defense has been pretty good this year, overall, btw. Just look at the stats. High in yardage allowed, high in yards per play allowed, at the top in takeaways, etc. Not great at stopping 3rd downs of course.
  21. SpongeWorthy
    I don't mind pitching it around, for the most part, but it'd be nice to throw out of formations where the threat of the run exists. It's too easy to sit in coverage or send some edge rushers against these weird ass alignments Martz has our running backs in.
  22. SpongeWorthy
    I don't see the point of some of these formations. Even when there's backs in the backfield it's obvious they're not going to receive a handoff.
  23. SpongeWorthy
    The defense is fine for the most part. It's hard to keep playing well when the offenses longest drive is like 6 plays, and then after that like 4 plays. No, the defense was giving up plays left and right from the start today. They aren't good. They are occasionally opportunistic, but not good. They gave up a TD on the first drive. That's allowed to happen. Next 3 drives were 4 plays 10 yards, 3 plays, -1 yards, 3 plays 8 yards. Then the Bears started going 3 and out on every play and the D tired. I'm not saying the D played great today, but they haven't been at all the problem. The defense has been weak from the start of today's game. There's no ifs ands or buts. It's been bad for 3 years, and it's bad right now. They were pretty bad at the start and then pretty good in the middle. To say they've been uniformly bad is just not true. That was a bad drive for them but I do put some merit in the argument that the offense sucked the life out of them.
  24. SpongeWorthy
    Afraid to get creamed.
  25. SpongeWorthy
    he got sacked because they tried to run it and every time they run it they get 0 yards, meaning the outside linebackers can just fly off the edge and destroy our qb because our tackles can't block 1 guy let alone 2. Cutler doesn't know how to change protections or something. Seems like a free release off an edge blitzer is something that needs to be picked up presnap.
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