UMFan83

I guess you can be excused seeing as you are in Turkey. Scattered thoughts about the game: Pass rush was non-existent almost all game Cutler was good for the most part. One int was rather bad (right to a Bengal) but could have been miscommunication. For the most part he got good protection and particularly in the second half he was able to get the ball downfield and made good decisions and sharp throws. Also did some good scrambling to extend plays. Running game was not all that great. Not a lot of holes. They were able to run the ball well enough to run out the clock in the 4th quarter but didn't really break any long runs, just a bunch of 3-4 yard runs. One of the plays of the TD winning drive was the Bears converting on 4th and inches in bengals territory which they ran a sweep to the outside on Longs side and Forte got good blocking and converted with a 4-5 yard run. Cutlers first TD pass was a great throw to M. Bennett who made a spectacular catch that no Bear TE since Greg Olsen would have been able to come up with. Defense was rather disappointing the first 3 quarters. Tillman and Jennings were getting burned regularly by Green. Their TEs were getting free and getting the ball. Tackling was bad. But Tillman did have 2 nice INTs. Jennings was pretty bad from what I saw, but did force 2 fumbles (and recovered one, the other one he didnt see it he actually kicked it out of bounds). The defense did show up for the last 20 minutes of the game and the d line started getting a little pressure. Overall a medicore at best performance. Pass blocking was solid....no sacks given up! Overall considering there are 4 new starters on the line, it was a pretty good performance.

So I managed to have Peyton manning score 65 fantasy points for me and I'm still going to lose this week.

I'm dumbfounded.

Keep it going!

Wow what a terrible play by Davis of the Bucs, might have just cost them the game.

Did you notice the longer plays to Marshall and Forte? You were awful quiet in the fourth quarter. I did. Had a guest come over, couldn't post. How dare you stop posting on here in favor of real life people

Yeah Bengals have a top 3 pass rush in the league and our revamped o-line was pretty damn good. Could have opened up some holes in the running game but that's my only complaint.

After the Bengals scored a TD to open the 2nd half, the Bears held them to 30 yards for the rest of the game (3 possessions) and the Bears held the ball for almost 13 minutes in the 4th quarter.

The pass rush did end up coming up big the last 2 Bengals possessions....I think they likely made some adjustments. Maybe they just stepped up. Either way, promising finish to head into week 2. It was a terrible game for the D-Line mostly but overall I'm not too worried about them going forward

Now I can enjoy the Red Zone channel for the end of these games yay.

That was fantastic....the Bengals were completely dominating an the Bears just completely turned it around after that Cutler INT.

Bears win!

Sorry, the best the Bengals can do as long as the Bears dont turn it over or none of their RBs run out of bounds is 30 seconds and 0 TOs

Nice!! Can get this down to like 40 seconds or so

come on get this

NICE! Gimme the ball back!

Cutler to B!

Phew, ballsy to go outside there but they get it done!

Before this play is made, I would personally kick it, but I tend to be conservative in general with this Bears line in situations like this. Seen us get stuffed too many times in goalline situations. Theres enough time left where even if the Bengals score a TD its a 1 score game for the tie. But prove me wrong guys.

Ugh, time to show that the line/offensive play calling is better

Do you go for it or kick the FG to make it a 1 point game in case the Bengals score a TD on their next drive?

Ugh 2nd holding by Marty Bennett today. Out of FG range now, not that a FG is the desired outcome here

Wow going with the deep ball on 3rd and short, nice!

Peanut Punch :: Jennings Jab

Or create a fumble and recover it. That will work too