UMFan83

Bears point differential for the season is now +1

I agree it's fishy, and that was my first thought until I learned about the concussion. I'd imagine that the brain isn't running too quickly when your concussed like that. He shouldnt have been in there. Blah.

CSN broke down the 9 first half sacks to determine who was the blocker that allowed each sack. Manumaleuna - 2 Garza - 1 Olsen - 1 Omiyale - 1 Louis - 1 Shaffer - 1 Kreutz - 1 Cutler running out of bounds - 1

Doesn't make sense for these reasons: 1) By all accounts Cutler is a fierce competitor who wants to win above all else. I doubt he purposely plays bad in a completely winnable game 2) Cutler is smart enough to know that the O-line is not going to get better in season barring a miraculous trade for a quality guy. There's really no point to prove that can be fixed this season. He just has to roll with it I guess. 3) It's very possible that he was concussed earlier in the half and tried to play through it. I'm thinking the concussion was somewhat minor because if it was a decent concussion, he's not staying in the game.

I don't know we'll see. I agree that him going home with the team is a good sign, but as you know the NFL is so much more serious about concussions than they were even 2-3 years ago. There's not a ton of precident to know what the likely result of this one will be.

Well I think giving up 10 sacks is just one of those games. They won't play that bad again. But the line is still probably the worst in football and you just can't gloss over that. But remember the stat NBC showed early in the game. Martz will bring more offense to a team. But his offenses, at least in their first year, always lead the league in sacks due to Martz's play calling. And that was with a good to decent line in St Louis wasn't it? Sacks are something you have to live with, just not 10 of them. Don't forget that the Bears have two of the most unintelligent receivers in the league (Bennett and Hester). I am not sure that they can find the hot reads and exploit them to get the underneath stuff. To me 'one of those days' means we just had a bad game, and it happens occasionally. But based on statistics, the Bears o-line was one of the worst 7-8 in the league coming into today. The o-line is really really bad, it was even worse today. This wasn't just a bad game you have occasionally, it was threatening to break NFL historical records for futility. And the 10 sacks or whatever doesn't tell the whole story. It doesn't account for all the plays where the QBs had to throw an awful pass because of immediate pressure. Blah theres really nothing we can do but wait until next week and see if anything is different. At least the Hawks start this week and the Bulls preseason starts, even if half the luster of that is gone due to Boozer's freak injury. Great day in Chicago sports.

Lovie is saying that he's chalking up the o-line play as "one of those games" and will be better next week. I would pick this statement completely apart but I know even he doesn't believe that.

Yup, I expect Lovie's PC to be typical where you cannot tell if the Bears won or lost by listening to it.

Yep. Jay didn't bother to check down the entire first half. It doesn't appear like Martz believes in checking down. I rarely see a check down option and I know SpongeWorthy has pointed this out a few times. It's why his offenses have always taken an incredible amount of sacks, especially away from the super-talented Rams team. Lots of 7 step drops with lots of deep routes that take a long time to develop. He doesn't use the TE's traditionally and if you have to keep your RB in to help protect, there aren't going to be many check downs at all. Once again, a completely perplexing hire for the Bears to make seeing as the only piece that could be a good piece for a Martz offense was Cutler. Everything else suggests an offense that should do everything possible to limit sacks because their offensive line is beyond horrible, a offense that uses the TE and checkdowns a lot because the WRs are inexperienced and again the Oline is bad.

I don't know if he was just saying this or he heard something, but Jim Miller just said he thinks Cutler suffered the concussion on the 1st play of the 2nd quarter.

Can't stay off the field when the offense is going 3 and out almost every drive, you are going to break down eventually.

hopefully he won't have the chance. He's already pissed away 3-4 seasons by not addressing the O-line why start now.

Oh yeah, I forgot we had Knox.

After today's performance? I'm not buying it. There's one good team in the NFL. The blob has never been as big as it is this season. Who is the one good team? Gonna guess maybe Pittsburgh?

Someone just lost a spot on the roster. Bears are gonna have to pick up a QB this week. Stupid Bengals claiming LeFevour.

Hanie time!

Oh well. This was just an awful game. I have absolutely no idea where we go from here. Absolutely nothing on offense went right today. We probably had the worst offensive game in the history of the franchise. The only game I remember seeing as bad as this is the Thanksgiving game against the Cowboys in 2004 but I think that was slightly better. Obviously if Cutler can play soon that's some bit of optimism, but it's obvious the offense is not going to ever operate properly with this oline. We cannot ever run the ball. It's not like we are just bad and get 3 YPC, we get completely stuffed at the line 8 out of every 10 running plays. We can barely ever pass the ball. Everytime we drop back for more than 3 steps there is someone in their face. It's just unbelievably bad. This is a defining point of the season for the Bears. We could either play better next week and consider this a semi-fluke game or we could completely collapse like last years team did after starting 3-1. What will we do?

Pass interference call on a badly underthrown Collins ball. That won't do it either because they still have to make a play to get it in the end zone.

lol @ Bradshaws face: "I'm gonna score! Look at me on the scoreboard" *ball is stripped* "holy [expletive] where did he come from"

The only way the Bears score a TD is if one of their receivers or backs makes some huge plays after a screen pass or a slant or something. It's not going to be from a long drive or anything like that.

90% chance of a safety here. Can you really see the Bears doing anything at all with this drive? I mean I'll take it to keep the small chance of getting back in this game but I don't know how we don't end up tackled in our end zone here.

Bowman wow.

Disagree. I think it's 90% run blocking that is responsible for his lack of success. When's the last time Forte has turned nothing into something? Bradshaw's done it a few times tonight. First of all I think you are selling Bradshaw's abilities short. But half of Forte's runs he gets the ball and is immediately being hit by multiple defenders. He doesn't have time to make anything happen.

omg he's soooooooooooooooo bad. Probably should have brought in a better backup QB with this O-line and the type of offensive system that leads to heavy pressure.

Disagree. I think it's 90% run blocking that is responsible for his lack of success.