Family Tragedy Saves Me From Bears Tragedy [Please Help Me Understand Edition]
So due to a family tragedy, I was unable to watch the Bears completely meltdown yesterday. And I mean meltdown. I’m hoping most of you turned the game off at halftime with the Bears already down 31-3. I can only look at the statistics and wonder what went wrong. Here’s the things that jumped out at me and the questions they left behind:
Jay Cutler: 26/37; 256 yards; 1 TD; 3 INTs. What happened here? Thats a pretty good completion percentage and it looks like two of the picks were in the 2nd half when they were coming from behind. Fumbles? 3 and outs? What happened here?
Matt Forte: 6 carries; 24 yards. My gut reaction is, of course, to blame the offensive line. But what went on here with the playcalling? They must have abandoned the run really early to have only 12 rushes against 37 passes. And is this the story with Forte (the story being he sucks)?
Cedric Benson: 37 carries; 189 yards; 1 TD. I don’t care how good Benson is now, the run defense is awful. Can we just admit that even though Tommie Harris isn’t what he once was, he’s still the anchor of that run defense? What the f#$% happened?
Carson Palmer: 20/24; 233 yards; 5 TDs; 0 INTs. Chicago Bears Defense: 0 Sacks. The pass rush was obviously non-existent, but where was the secondary? Did they do the best they could and just couldn’t cover Ochocinco for 20 seconds per play?
Those are the questions that arise, though I’m sure there are many more. Since I was unable to see the game, I am asking you, the readers, to please try to answer my questions and explain to me what the hell went wrong. Please leave a 1-2 short paragraph comment on this story, and I will print all the good comments tomorrow as part of a Bears recap post. Help me understand how this could have happened!
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Comment from Ethan
Time October 26, 2009 at 10:16 am
Tommie Harris didn’t play b/c of his knee that has been injured for about 3 years. The team sucked because of the horrendous play by both the o-line and d-line. Palmer had all the time in the world to wait for his receivers to get open because bears put zero pressure on him all day. Cutler had no time b/c the o-line is horrible (also why forte can’t run), and was hit waaaaaay too much yesterday.
Comment from Tampa Bo
Time October 26, 2009 at 11:24 am
I wish our fans were as crazy as soccer fans. Ron Turner would have been killed by now.
Comment from bitternutz
Time October 26, 2009 at 11:32 am
We need to abandon the Cover 2. Our personal does not currently mesh with the system.
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Time October 26, 2009 at 3:20 pm
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Comment from benson sucks
Time October 26, 2009 at 10:10 pm
that game was just miserable to watch and I don’t think anyone expected the game to end up like that
Comment from Noam
Time October 26, 2009 at 10:23 pm
This Cedric Benson business is joke, how can the national media be blaming the Bears organization for “giving up” on this bum. Here was his career before this year in a nutshell: Holds out, speaks out publicly against the organization, alienates team mates, under performs on the field for ever year of his career and then has multiple off the field incidents related to alcohol and police enforcement.
Now he has put together 6 decent games and all the sudden he is the second coming of Emmit Smith. Its being treated as if the Bears organization has made the biggest blunder of the Decade and Benson has gotten revenge for being wronged in some way.
What a joke.
Comment from Matt Clapp
Time October 26, 2009 at 10:33 pm
Everything went wrong. Everything.
To answer your questions though…
Cutler: He had one bad interception, two of them I thought nothing of. One he tried to squeeze through about 10-15 yards out(and he usually does). Hit the hands of a Bengals guy, bounced way up in the air and then you knew it would be picked. The second one was on a fourth down at like their 40 something. It looked like a screen was called, play was busted up as their entire d-line was in Cutler’s grill immediately. Instead of just taking the sack(remember, it’s 4th down and the Bengals would be getting the ball at about midfield then), he threw it up in the air downfield, picked. Bennett did a terrible job of trying to make a tackle there… otherwise it’s a pretty good punt basically at around the 10 yard line. I’d rather see Cutler just throw the ball up for grabs like he did there than take the sack or throw it away, especially since they were already down like 21 at that point. Take a chance. He wasn’t very good, but he wasn’t nearly as bad as people will make it out to be.
Forte… He got like 10 yards on his first couple of carries between the tackles, looked pretty good I thought. But the game was getting out of hand… Turner was basically forced to call run plays. It was 21-0 very, very quickly. Couldn’t afford to just hand the ball off to comeback with how bad our defense was, and remember the Bengals’ pass defense allowed over 390 passing yards from Matt Schaub the week before. Passing was the way to go.
Benson… Benson ran hard and had some nice runs, but so many missed tackles, and Lovie did a bad job with the playcalling. In his defense, the pass defense was so brutal that he was forced to keep a safety back for example. But then they’d creep one up, and then Carson would throw with ease. Give Cedric some props, but he wasn’t as good as the numbers say. And he wouldn’t be averaging 4 yards per carry with our o-line.
Palmer/Bears d: Palmer was terrific without question. Schefter pointed out(and correctly so) on Twitter that there wasn’t a quarterback throwing the ball better than he was yesterday. A lot of that surely had to do with absolutely no pass rush like you said though, and their receivers were -always- open.
Brad Biggs keeps saying it’s the most pathetic Bears game he’s seen in his nine seasons covering the team. It’s the worst I can remember watching. Just awful in every way. The only bright spot was Hester, and he even had a crucial fumble lost to kill what was a pretty good drive going.
Comment from Matt Clapp
Time October 26, 2009 at 10:36 pm
“Turner was basically forced to call run plays.” Meant pass plays of course.
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Time October 27, 2009 at 9:03 am
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Comment from Cherry
Time October 27, 2009 at 9:21 am
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Comment from Rule 5 Draftee
Time October 26, 2009 at 7:37 am
I do not believe Tommie Harris played. He said it had nothing to do with his health, Jerry Angelo said it had nothing to do with his health, Lovie Smith said it had everything to do with his health. Among the players, coaching staff, and front-end office, nobody is on the same page. Nobody is giving uniform information. The entire organization is a disorganized mess and they had better get their act together if they expect to salvage this season. At least the schedule should look favorable for the bears, and more difficult for the 2 teams they’re now looking up to in the standings (and this is coming from a Packers fan).