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  1. minnesotacubsfan
    that's my sulley-like effort to talk myself through upcoming disappointment. i like to get in front of it before it happens. you guys fight like girls, take it to fight club fight fight fight fight fight fight
  2. minnesotacubsfan
    Is Cade McNown some sort of respected alum? for UCLA? yes.
  3. minnesotacubsfan
    Obviously it wasn't low risk. It was a misdirection screen in tight with a careless QB rolling out to the right, with his back to the play and throwing blindly off his back foot. It's a stupid play and it makes no sense to pretend otherwise. Ah, the 'ol "it's stupid that you disagree with me" shot by you. And obviously it wasn't low risk on this occassion, hence the word TYPICALLY in my post. Seems to me that the play wouldn't be so stupid had it worked, as it would have in the Atlanta game had Cutler made a good throw. And it wasn't really "in tight" other than the sense that every play in the redzone is in tight. Granted there were only 25 yards or so to work with between the dropback and the back of the endzone, but there were only 5 out of 22 players on that side of the field and 3 of them had on Bears jerseys. If anything, the play was "less tight" than 99% of other plays run in the redzone. they snapped it from the freakin 6, it really couldn't get a whole lot "tighter". And why all the trickery? Just ram the ball in, or pass it to a safe place, corner, middle back of the endzone. And I don't agree with jersey, I think that play's design is garbage no matter where you try it.
  4. minnesotacubsfan
    1. I don't live in the Central Time Zone. 2. I took the time from NFL's website, they list everything on east coast time. 3. who cares about noon games? that's like 10 am for me, I'm barely lucid at that point in the day.
  5. minnesotacubsfan
    Sampsons flop was incredible. it looks like he is on a wire and gets pulled away.
  6. minnesotacubsfan
    awesome. http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/breaking/chi-former-vikings-qb-kapp-punches-rival-at-luncheon-20111128,0,7523380.story
  7. minnesotacubsfan
    I don't think I even care who starts for them. Palko is bad, Orton doesn't know the playbook and Stanzi is a rookie. Okoye has to channel his inner SUH and destroy them all. I mean comon this is like pee-wee level QB play here
  8. minnesotacubsfan
    "Tyler Palko is our quarterback"
  9. minnesotacubsfan
    Minnesota? What's that? a great place for walleye fishing
  10. minnesotacubsfan
    Minnesota?
  11. minnesotacubsfan
    also a 40 yrd ++ throw to Knox. who cares, they piled the yards up they just made dumb mistakes.
  12. minnesotacubsfan
    the Prodigal Son returns
  13. minnesotacubsfan
    so, the Sun Times "10 Observations" has this: thats interesting. also:
  14. minnesotacubsfan
    so what, they blew nearly 20 seconds returning the int and still got 2 plays in before the fg. there was time to run at least 1 run play, possibly 2 and call a to to kick the fg.
  15. minnesotacubsfan
    IM PISSED lol. God we have to beat KC.
  16. minnesotacubsfan
    watch the play again, it shifts EVERYONE to the right with Davis to the left, and Hanie hast to run back to his right 8 yards, turn and throw it across the field to Davis. That pay has no [expletive] business in any playbook where defense players can run faster then 5.5 40 yrd. Add to it Hanie threw it off his back foot off balance and across his body. jesus christ I wouldn't even call that play with Cutler in at QB AND we were at the 50 trd line. THE WHOLE OFFENSE except maybe 2 guys are on the WRONG side of the field headed the WRONG way, so if it does get picked, its going the other way in a BIG hurry, and very little chance to stop them. Louis made the play of the game running him down. hell, I wouldnt call the play with AARON RODGERS. its stupid. and Hanie botched the execution.
  17. minnesotacubsfan
    A run, or preferably a safer pass over the middle and/or in a only we can catch it spot. Basically nothing risky. You settle for the FG at that point and go into the half ecstatic. It was an idiotic play call and it's really stupid to pretend that it monday morning quarterbacking. It was exactly the type of thing I didn't want them doing at the time of the play, not the next day. Also, according to the video of this play the Bears had a timeout available. There was no need to spike it. But if they end up 1st and goal from the 4 there's still plenty of time to try and throw 2 relatively safe pass plays and then kick. You have to save the timeout for the absolute last seconds to ensure you can stop the clock to kick a field goal. They run the ball and call a timeout then get sacked trying to score, then no FG. what the hell are you talking about? Hanie threw an INT and Oakland still had time for 2 plays and a FG try. there was PLENTY of time for a run play, possibly 2.
  18. minnesotacubsfan
    I'll admit, I absolutely hate short pass plays in the flats. they go for way too many pic-6's then they ever seem worth. I just would have much rather just kept pounding Barber, and if we had to settle for a FG, so be it. the momentum of the game was swinging our way at that point.
  19. minnesotacubsfan
    especially when the opposing D had been completely keyed on the screen plays all day.
  20. minnesotacubsfan
    anything in the flat with a compressed defense and *essentially* a rookie QB is not a good play call.
  21. minnesotacubsfan
    If the throws it on a line it's a tackle for a loss. he lobs it and its a pick -6 save a great play by the starting tackle
  22. minnesotacubsfan
    Martz called for 40 passes and 23 rushes. Hanie was off on a few throws, but Cutler has thrown his share of bad passes as well. Also, in this offense, when we get a big run from Forte early and Martz doesn't sell out, we win. Yesterdays game almost directly mirrored earlier games from this season, it was simply amplified by the fact we had Hanie and not Cutler. If Hanie can corral his risk-taking and make better decisions, he'll be fine. I really expected him to go out and gun sling yesterday as it seemed he was primed for that. And actually, he did better then I expected. Hopefully, yesterday taught him a few things, namely, clam the [expletive] down and process your progressions. But Martz has to do a better job with play calling. I realize he doesn't want to dumb down anything because he doesn't want to hurt anyone's feelings, but he has to also realize that there are correct play calls and [expletive] ones, regardless of anyone's feelings.
  23. minnesotacubsfan
    I'm not as down on Hanie as you appear to be. He had 3 ints, 2 of which were really bad decisions. The third was a bad play call following a misread on Hanie's part (he should have seen the 2 defenders). Out of all that, Oakland got 6 points. That's it. Hanie can make the throws, his deep pass to Knox showed his arm, and he can scramble. He's just so [expletive] raw. The defense really needs to do better this game, and especially the special teams. Leckler (or whatever the hell his name is ) killed us. We just didn't match up to them well enough.
  24. minnesotacubsfan
    Apparently, Orton knew http://chicago.sbnation.com/chicago-bears/2011/11/28/2591450/caleb-hanie-chicago-bears-2011-jay-cutler-kyle-orton
  25. minnesotacubsfan
    Orton wasn't all that great earlier in the season, in fact he was probably below average. the real question is whether or not our D will show up. They played "Lets give up FG's" yesterday, but Oakland basically went down the field at will.
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