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The thing is, I think Martz has already put together good offensive football teams without worrying about producing good run game numbers. I'm moving away from expecting a run game, or worrying about it. One of the pleasant surprises I've seen from this bunch so far has been the screens. For years upon years the lack of any sort of screen ability has frustrated me. Now it's like a light switch being turned on. They're getting big plays on various incarnations of the screen, and it serves as a surrogate for a run game since it's a high percentage play when executed well, and they're getting it done. If they can keep doing that, it really plays to our strength since we can't plow open holes, and both of our running backs have shown solid receiving skills. The one downside I see is 3rd and 4th and short yardage. They'll likely not do very well in those situations unless they can get creative.
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Tyler Colvin impaled by broken bat - Out for Season
Soul replied to Irrelevant Dude's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
I only caught this on the highlights, but sheesh. Sounded like Bob caught it right when it happened. Interesting that he was following the trajectory of the broken bat the whole way. I usually focus on the ball. -
I dunno, where's Vance when you need him? The 'Boys have a lame coach. I'm not sure why JJ seems to like him so much. When I look at the Cowboys and the Chargers, I see similar traits. Tons of talent, all the potential in the world -- and coaches that act as a training harness, keeping them from being as good a team as they could possibly be.
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That FO ranking is suddenly starting to look more solid.
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Just seeing the opening line of 3 points is pretty amazing considering where the discussion was just a couple weeks ago. In terms of this game, I still give the edge to Green Bay. They are playing as expected; dominating lowly teams like the Bills, improving their offensive sync in the early going, and showing just a few chinks in the armor on defense. The Bears will need to find a way to exploit any GB defensive weaknesses, and limit the big plays while being opportunistic on defense, if they hope to hang in this game. Even if the Bears come away with the loss, I'd have to say a 2-1 start for this club is still beyond expectations and puts the Bears in a pretty good position heading to the Giants game -- especially considering Eli & Co.'s poor showing last night in Indy. But I'm greedy. A 3-0 start would be bombastic, and having a game in hand against the division favorites would put the Bears in control of the division; something nobody expected heading into the season. Just having this kind of opportunity has me very excited for this football game.
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Oh, man. Can we just freeze that screen for all time? =D>
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that probably happens every play it definitely doesn't, but it doesn't appear that his feet moved forward, so the qb received the ball at the same spot anyway. Yes it does, Kreutz does that every snap. Lots of centers move it forward. It wasn't a cheat as the youtube diatribe suggests. This happens routinely. The refs know it and allow it, again -- routinely, as you said.
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Hahah. He said that?
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That's what I heard too and that's ridiculous if true. He also had some good plays to go along with the drops last week. They didn't bench Knox for messing up his routes or Hester for not getting open, so I don't think Aromashodu deserved to be benched. He's better than Bennett. But he's not the same player as Bennett. And Martz can be expected to gameplan and use his pieces in many different ways depending upon the opponent. The Sun Times bit I read said the Bears provided no official reason that Shodu didn't see much action on offense.
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Yeah, there isn't going to be much of a running game. It's really a passing offense with Martz. The screens and short passes ARE the running game. That actually works in our favor since this line just isn't going to blow open holes for runs up the middle consistently.
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I really hope people begin to realize how good Cutler is. For him to perform like he has under these circumstances is pretty amazing. He's got a radically different system that he's had to learn very quickly, an absolutely horrible O-Line to compensate for, and a group of receivers that isn't exactly best-in-NFL to work with. Hats off to this guy. He's an amazing talent, hands down.
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YEAH! Thinking back to the 1st quarter of this game, it's a pretty darn good job to win this ballgame. I'm pretty surprised right now.
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Just recover the damn onsides kick. Don't be lame.
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They still can't cover. The primary thing you defend against is that deep Austin route. They're letting that stuff go right past them. Peppers is being doubled, of course. But none of the other linemen are beating their single teams. It's pretty frustrating. If they put it in the end zone quickly, this thing still isn't over.
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I can't think of a better turnover-producing defender than Charles Tillman.
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Did this game ever unfold differently than I thought. Not over yet though.
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Beware the player who can't stay healthy just running down the field. Martz makes an adjustment, whaddayaknow! That'll teach em to blitz every play.
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What a joke, lol Hahahahahh.
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Toe has been showing up so far this year
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It gets tiring feeling like my team is an embarrassment in some way. Shouldn't there be at least a base level of competence at this level? It's really not to much to ask for an oline to at least not pull an ole on every damn pass play.
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Jesus just run the ball. The main goal should be getting jay cutler out of this building alive.
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Martz is going to have to just run it, otherwise Cutler's liable to become acquainted with Dallas' medical community.
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Not that I care, but red unis on a red field might provide some kind of visual advantage. Although I suppose it could be argued the same for Boise State, and I don't hear complaints about them.
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And points. and it's silly looking at points and saying that they are what counts when, in actuality, what really counts are wins. The game ended with the Bears ahead. We did have a huge yardage differential. We did make a lot of mistakes. CJ did decide not to secure that ball in both hands and he dropped it. The time on the clock did expire, and the Bears did have a point advantage. I wish people would stop trying to divorce parts of the game from the argument so they can play some kind of bizarre what if game. Scoreboard. Game over. Done.
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Sunday's almost here. Then we can talk about the Cowboys in the week 3 Bears thread :) More seriously, one thing is for sure -- the game will give me a much better idea of where the Bears are at than game 1 did. It's just a better test for the team. There are more matchups that the Bears will need to overcome, and frankly, this season was always going to be about answering questions (like most). It's harder to get answers to your questions when you're asking a moron.
