Tampa Bo: I wish our fans were as crazy as soccer fans. Ron Turner would have been killed by now.

Noam: 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.

Rule 5 Draftee: 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).

Ethan: 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.

Matt Clapp: 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 pass 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.

Bitternutz: We need to abandon the Cover 2. Our personal does not currently mesh with the system.