BearFan2000

We got a taste of our own medicine tonight. Our offense against a legit D and we show how bad we are. Did Tice even realize what the weather was going to be like? Say what you want about the officiating it sucked in general but I would say sucked for both teams. My hats off to the Bears D as they fought all game kept us in this game... We lost 13-6.... We couldn't manage a single friggin TD. What the hell was this chickencrap offense at the and of the game. D got us the ball back almost 3 min left, 1 timeout plus the 2 min warning and you need a TD. We throw a check down on first down that gains maybe one yard, then throw another short pass and get a holding call making it 2nd and long, we then throw another short pass, making it 3rd and long, following that we throw another check down give us 4th & 9, which we then throw another short pass.. Did anyone in that offensive huddle, and Tice realize the situation. If your going to go down in that situation go down fighting it's like we weren't even trying. We were plagued by dropped balls, and turnovers, and we looked like the team not prepared for the field conditions. The message is clear, if we are going to go anywhere it will be the Defense carrying this team the Offense can't be relied on. 1 TD drive and a made FG and we would have won this game. The texans had one good drive for a TD the FG drive started on our side of the 50 and only needed to drive a short distance to kick it. Other than that the Bears defense held the Texans offense down, and gave us many oportunities on offense to put points on the board. For the most part we had great starting field position but couldn't get out of our own way. Costly turnovers early, be it the Bush fumble, the picks. One thing to think about and something I'd like to know is as often as Cutler gets hit wouldn't you think you'd have Campbell more prepared to come in? He looked afraid to throw the ball. For most of the second half we'd run on first down for no gain, throw a short ball on 2nd down, and then either throw short of the sticks on 3rd and long or have a drop (I'm talking about you Kellen "Stone Hands" Davis) Wake me up when we have a real TE. Sad thing thus far we've struggled offensively early, but against the lesser opponents been able to catch a break (usually by a big Defensive play or two) and finally get the offense rolling. Against the better teams in this league particularly the better defenses in the league this offense can't get any traction. Now we go into SF next Monday night (yay) where we'll probably be without cutler, will likely again get our arses handed to us. Was nice being 7-1, but that fall back to reality can hurt like hell. Unless the Bears can muster some semblance of an NFL caliber offense forget even thinking Superbowl.

Well you can work with a stool of turds all you want but at the end of the day all you have is a stool of turds.... At some point you have to give Tice better talent to work with. We have a group of guys who most of which would be backups elsewhere yet we're trying to make them starters because it's the best of limited options. The real problem is we have ignored the offensive line and keep saying "we like our guys" We spent a first round pick last draft on a head scratcher of a pick when there were quality OL guys on the board.. Not making excuses for Tice as he's made his share of mistakes and hasn't seemed to live up to the OL expert billing. But you have to wonder if he had more talent to work with would we be having this conversation?

We sure seem to like us some Abilene Christian players lol

Totally agree, we deserved to get beat, we snatched a victory from the jaws of defeat against a friggin 1-4 team. That doesn't make us special... it make us lucky. We got lucky today. Smith did not have the Bears ready to play today, we came out flat, and uninspired. You cannot play like this against a good team, late game rallies work against teams like Carolina.

12 min to go. down 12, even Gould can't score... I'm calling it. time of death 12:09 4th quarter Way to have this team prepared and ready to play Lovie.

we can't tackle, can't defend, can't throw, can't catch, can't take advantage of great field position we are getting our ass handed to us and we deserve it... The Bears did not come to play at all today... very disappointing. Announcers wondering why Carolina continues to kick like they have why not we haven't shown any ability to make them pay.

We had the best return specialist in the history of the game and we have essentially ruined him.. Well done Bears

That was a total crap call there was no helmet to helmet. If anything Lefell ran into Conte... what the hell is Conte supposed to do stop momentum in mid air and somehow avoid contact??? Bears are playing like crap but there is a lot holding not getting called. The zebras giving the panthers all the breaks. We're lucky we're still in this game, cutler with two fumbles and a pick.... we've had some sucess running the ball but we keep throwing. We don't deserve to win today unless we can turn it around we'll lose a game we shouldn't have lost.

The announcers correct, Jay needs to have that clock in his head, when that play broke down he either needed to just eat it, take the sack and live to fight another down, or throw the ball away and come back on the next down. He has shown a tendency to hold onto the ball.

can't dissagree one bit. Some good offensive linemen on the board and we take Shea to be a situational passrushing DE who's undersized for DE. He's a LB playing DE part time. Wasted pick. The OL was atrocious and that has lead to Cutler never being able to feel comfortable. But why did we not go to max protect? We made no adjustments at all to protect Jay. Supposedly that is priority one.... could have fooled me. Insult to injury... did they call a single penalty on GB? Jay took several late hits, our players were getting hit out of bounds like that one on Hester, no flag, the play where I think it was Bush was tackled by the head nearly taking his helmet off and no call. But every friggin close call goes GB's way the 12 man call when the guy was off the field when the ball was snapped. The men in stripes didn't help but didn't cost the bears a win. Chicago beat itself. As it's been said before this team will go as far as the offensive line will take it and if tonight is an indication the Line will take us down into the sewer with them. A set of turnstiles would hold up better than our offensive line, at least they'd provide some resistance....

good thing we addressed the offensive line in the offseason... oh that's right we were happy with who we have.

he's playing downright Grossmanesque

well, game over gents. What a pitiful display tonight

ugly ugly ugly first half. No blocking at all on the line giving cutler no time. We are fortunate to only be down by 13. We need to go to max protect in the second half till we get a handle on protection and blocking Cutler will be eaten alive. There have been plays left out on the field. that fake FG I could have score on that it was embarrassing. If Briggs makes that pick (should have) we go into half time down by 10. The D has only given up 6 points I think they are doing all they can to keep the packers offense in check but our own offense needs to get it's head out of it's arse and get it in gear.

About had a heart attack I've got Nelson on my fantasy team.... I already lost Fred Jackson lol don't scare me like that. I will admit it feels dirty to have packers on my fantasy team...

A lot of yards were racked up by the Colts when we went into prevent at the end of the first half and when we put it in neutral in the second half. Which is why I wish we'd toss out that prevent D as all it does is let teams do whatever they want on us

You know what they say .... silent but deadly. lol

Agree, I was saying the same thing this morning at work. all's right in the football world, the Irish win, Bears win, Packers lose (and are in last place in the division to boot), and my fantasy team won this week despite only getting a just over a point our of Fred Jackson who got hurt (next week I'm concerned as my RB's were a weak spot after the draft).

just read the article and the whole thing is fabricated around a few quotes by Forte. “It’s been happening my whole career here, so I don’t know,’’ Forte said when asked about not finishing drives. “That’s the coordinator’s call.’’ He's simply stating a fact when answering a question. Forte said, “I don’t pay attention to the carries, stuff like that. [Running backs coach Tim Spencer] lets us go a couple of series, then he’ll put Mike in there for a little bit. Just to keep us fresh for the third and fourth quarter, so when it comes down to the running game running out the clock, we can be fresh for that.’’ Oddly this quote seems to more contradict the theme of the article rather than support it. It shows Forte knows and understands the benefit of both getting carries. “Mike can do it all, as well,’’ Forte said. “He can catch the ball on third downs, so there are no limitations when I come out of the game. It’s not like if I come out on third down, he can’t do the same thing.’’ This comment is more of a compliment to Bush and how the offense doesn't change when he's in there vs when Bush is and that they are both capable of doing everything. All in all just a nothing article with an writer implying drama/conflict when there isn't any. This is really a non-issu IMHO, I think Forte's smart enough to know that they are going to need both of them and doing this keeps them both fresher. Forte has been a team first guy his whole time here, he may have gotten a little me first in the contract talks but I believe that had he not gotten the extension he would have signed his tender and shown up and played ball 100% as he always has. There will always be articles like this to try and stir up trouble when there isn't. It's written to get a reaction from fans and it did.

And if the Bears offense continues to keep this up, why would you not want a piece of the action. This could be a special season (hopefully the first of many)

another way of looking at the slow start, and I was thinking like many of us what the heck is going on here, we looked totally out of sync, no protection, poor discipline poor throws by Jay, and the pick six... still not sure what the hell he was looking at. I was getting worried. The issues that showed up in the preseason game against the Giants were showing up again today. But all that said It was about as bad of a start as you could imagine. Jay was 1 for 10, with one TD pass (only it was to a Colt DB). I got to give this team and particularly the offense and Jay Cutler for putting it behind them and turning things around. A start like that could throw a team into a funk for the whole game and we've seen that happen here. Not today, they pulled their crap together and started making plays, and got some rhythm going and then turned on the gas. I liked that we settled down as an offense and you could see the confidence growing. I loved that for once we were dictating to the their D and pushing the ball down the field. We finally have the weapons in the passing game and run game to do that.

totally agree both offensively and defensively. We finally have big targets in the passing game guys who can go up and get the ball, guys who can use their body to create space. Another thing that I like about Marshall and its not something that's always noticed is that he has the presence of mind that if he can't make that catch he will make sure no one can. I've seen it in preseason and I saw it today where a ball that could have been picked he bats it down to make sure it's an incomplete and not an INT. I loved watching him and cutler work and just when you focus on Marshall, he hits Hester, Bennet, Jeffery or Forte. I think Jay hit like 8 different guys today. That pass to Jeffery for the TD was absolutely beautiful. Give Jay time to throw and he will make plays that make your jaw drop. That pass alone, was right on the money, it hit Jeffery in the hands on stride and over the DB's. This I think is the year the Leage finds out just how good Cutler can be. I liked our balance today we used the run effectively and what a difference this passing attack will have on the run game teams won't be stacking the box daring us to throw on them. I liked how we used both Forte and Bush Defensively, this was by far Jennings best day and I hope Tillman's injury isn't too severe and that it was more precautionary that he didn't return. When you say the slants that is one of GB's bread and butter plays and one that has been this teams achilles heel, teams that have had success against us have often slanted and screened us to death. Next week we are going to need to continue to improve our pressure from the middle but it will be critical to play smart on the edge and keep contain. I think we can get pressure on Rodgers. And we saw today what happens when you keep pressure on. GB's line is not that great, and their run game is non existent (has been for years). If we can get pressure with our front four I think we can hold GB's offense down. They'll make plays and they'll score but I think we hold them in check and we now have an offense that will give our D a rest, and the weight of keeping the team in the game will not rest fully on the D as it has in years past. It's a whole new ball game and we have the makings of a very potent offense that teams will have to contend with.

That's right the Packers are in last place in the NFC North after week 1. LOL Gotta enjoy that while it lasts, SF is a tough team though. Who'da thunk the Bears, Lions, and Vikings all are 1-0 and the Packers are 0-1. If we can take one from GB that will be huge and give us a virtual 3 game lead on the media darling Packers. Big game coming up for the Bears and nothing would make me happier than to see the the Bears stomp all over the Packers in their house and give them an 0-2 start and give them their second straight home loss this year!.

I agree with the sentiment about not keeping the gas down. With us going into that prevent (you from winning) defense giving the colts easy drives, one of which came up empty with the missed chip shot FG. They score a TD on that drive it's a closer game with momentum coming out at the second half. You cannot shut it down and go into autopilot in the 3rd Quarter unless you are up by an insurmountable amount. You run a huge risk because if you do this that early and let them back in the game you have gear it up again and you've played yourself out of that rhythm you had to build that lead. up 20+ half way through the 4th maybe but against good teams this year this kinda philosophy could lose us games we had in the bag. When you are up on someone stomp on them and make sure when you put it in auto pilot you better be sure you have it in the bag baring a miracle comeback. I absolutely hate the prevent... do what you did to put the opponent in the hole.

what's the status on Podlesh? I don't see us letting Quigley go till Podlesh is back