UMFan83

41-6 after a 97 yard TD run. PS that dude is fast

God, our red zone offense has been horrible all night. We have like 5 solid drives and 6 points to show for it.

The Packers will be really good but I think people are overrating Green Bay just a little. They act like the 2011 NFC North title has already been awarded to the Packers. I know they beat our 3rd string QB on our home field in the NFC Title game but...eh whatever, I don't know where I'm going with this.

Gotta love our leading receiver from last year playing late in the 4th quarter of a preseason game.

That's 16 base runners and 0 runs. 9 hits and 7 walks.

Probably showing him off so people think they had a good offseason. I wonder how he feels about running the ball up the gut in the 4th quarter of a preseason game? Heh. He's "fighting for a job" lol

Horrible AB for Pena as the tying run with 0 outs in the 9th. Venters just walked 2 batters in a row and was having a ton of difficulty throwing strikes. So Pena takes one strike and then starts swinging at garbage. He threw 4 pitches, 3 balls and one extremely borderline strike.

I think that's a needed dose of reality for a lot of Cubs fans. HA. HA-HA-HA. The next Pujols. GFY Pujols's grow on trees. They are a dime a dozen.

Probably showing him off so people think they had a good offseason.

14 Cubs baserunners and 0 runs? Wow Cubs have had at least 2 batters reach in 6 of their 8 offensive innings so far, and 0 runs to show for it. Cubs are 1-10 with RISP tonight. Of course the 1 hit was a weak single that couldnt score the run.

May I remind you the Bears went 0-4 last preseason and were outscored 46-84. In the 3rd preseason game, the one where the starters play into the 2nd half, the offense produced 0 points. Against the Raiders, the Bears gave up 32 points. They looked really bad. And the started 3-0 in the regular season.

Grades so far: Cutler: B+ (Pretty solid game all around) RBs: B (missed some blocks that I can recall but great play on the screen pass by Forte. Good job getting extra yards by Barber. Taylor was actually decent too) WRs: C- (not very impressed. Roy Williams no catches, only 2 targets. Hester had some nice plays but tripped in the end zone and ran backwards on a screen. Just didn't seem to make much of an impact.) Run blocking: C+ (not a ton of holes created, but did pretty good setting up screens a couple of times. Could be worse, could be better) Pass blocking: B+ (only reason its not an A is Webb, who looked really bad out there. Also a couple of false starts. Carimi held his own, and the less I hear from Williams, Garza and Louis the better) TE: C (didn't really observe them enough. Kellen Davis had a hold called on him. Spaeth caught a pass but that's not what he's here for) DLine: B (pretty good pressure on Manning early on, but later on didn't get nearly as much. Missed tackles on running plays hurt) Linebackers: C+ (again started the game really well, but a ton of missed tackles on running plays is not acceptable. Still Urlacher was all over the place and Iwuh had nice zone coverage on a pass to the end zone) Secondary: C (got beat quite a few times, way too many 3rd down conversions) Special teams: C+ (had good coverage on punt returns, bad coverage on kickoff returns, Knox had 1 good kickoff return and a couple of bad ones. Punters were solid and Gould was 2-2 on FGs. Blocked punt led to a quick Giants TD was obviously a bad play) Overall, it wasn't as bad as the score. Offense had a couple of decent drives, defense had a couple of decent stops but had a couple of bad drives as well). Overall I'd say C+

Man, J'Marcus Webb is so awful. Talk about holding on every play. He gets beat often and every single time he is beat he holds the guy.

Yeah we should probably target a legit WR in the offseason. It's too bad we didn't have the cap space to sign anyone good this year because there were quite a few good WRs out there. But, but, but Roy Williams was a Pro Bowler under Martz in Detroit and his college coach is on the Bears staff. That means he will lead the league in receiving, right? Yeah with the tiny bit of money the Bears had to spend on a WR, obviously they had to go after a question mark with a high upside. They simply couldn't afford a legit receiver.

Should probably run forward when you catch a screen Devin.

Well the first team offense produced 2 scoring drives tonight even if they were both FGs.

Credit where credit is due, the pass blocking has been pretty good tonight. I needed to see this. How concerned should I be if Roy Williams goes the first 2 games without a catch and a drop.

I'm really happy we signed Marion Barber so far.

Amazing that they are able to spot that infraction but somehow miss the blatant holds right in front of them.

Make some tackles guys geez. Run defense looks awful tonight.

Yeah we should probably target a legit WR in the offseason. It's too bad we didn't have the cap space to sign anyone good this year because there were quite a few good WRs out there.

OK well that drive was rather piss poor by the D.

Probably because its preseason and it's ultimately not that big of a deal.

Sweet...announcers are really praising Cutler's footwork.

Great play but Cutler. He does actually look different. On that bomb to Hester, he looked like he was going to wing one of his back foot but too a spilt second to adjust himself and threw a beauty with perfect footwork.