Bears/Lions Postgame Thread

[CjayC]

Tommie Harris at this point is like a glorified rotation player. It sucks because you can look at his stats and see huge dropoffs in the last two years. Not only in the stats, but he's invisible at times. It sucks that such a talented guy has been ruined by injuries.

We definitely need some more explosive tackles. I miss the days when he actually was double-teamed and everyone was flying around all over the place

[WEFFPIM]

Roach has done nothing to lose his starting spot. He's been very, very solid.

This game was pretty much all about the special teams, put the offense in position to succeed and they did. They also put the defense in position to dominate and they, for the most part, didn't. This core of safeties and corners is borderline embarrassing with how much space they give receivers.

As far as the Forte debate, I'm still not sold he's back. Two of the runs made up pretty much all his yardage, and his first long run he looked like he was running through molasses and was caught by a safety when, last year, it would have been a touchdown. I think there's something wrong with Forte that's causing him to not get that jump he has last season. He outran Bob Sanders last season, he couldn't outrun whoever the hell plays in the Detroit secondary on Sunday.

[batman_crip14]

Roach has done nothing to lose his starting spot. He's been very, very solid.

This game was pretty much all about the special teams, put the offense in position to succeed and they did. They also put the defense in position to dominate and they, for the most part, didn't. This core of safeties and corners is borderline embarrassing with how much space they give receivers.

As far as the Forte debate, I'm still not sold he's back. Two of the runs made up pretty much all his yardage, and his first long run he looked like he was running through molasses and was caught by a safety when, last year, it would have been a touchdown. I think there's something wrong with Forte that's causing him to not get that jump he has last season. He outran Bob Sanders last season, he couldn't outrun whoever the hell plays in the Detroit secondary on Sunday.

yeah its caused by schitty grass at Soldier field... also,he out ran Bob Sanders on carpet basically.

[WEFFPIM]

Roach has done nothing to lose his starting spot. He's been very, very solid.

This game was pretty much all about the special teams, put the offense in position to succeed and they did. They also put the defense in position to dominate and they, for the most part, didn't. This core of safeties and corners is borderline embarrassing with how much space they give receivers.

As far as the Forte debate, I'm still not sold he's back. Two of the runs made up pretty much all his yardage, and his first long run he looked like he was running through molasses and was caught by a safety when, last year, it would have been a touchdown. I think there's something wrong with Forte that's causing him to not get that jump he has last season. He outran Bob Sanders last season, he couldn't outrun whoever the hell plays in the Detroit secondary on Sunday.

yeah its caused by schitty grass at Soldier field... also,he out ran Bob Sanders on carpet basically.

You can't put all the blame on the turf, he's played on this field before and done fine.

[Chewie]

Roach has done nothing to lose his starting spot. He's been very, very solid.

This game was pretty much all about the special teams, put the offense in position to succeed and they did. They also put the defense in position to dominate and they, for the most part, didn't. This core of safeties and corners is borderline embarrassing with how much space they give receivers.

As far as the Forte debate, I'm still not sold he's back. Two of the runs made up pretty much all his yardage, and his first long run he looked like he was running through molasses and was caught by a safety when, last year, it would have been a touchdown. I think there's something wrong with Forte that's causing him to not get that jump he has last season. He outran Bob Sanders last season, he couldn't outrun whoever the hell plays in the Detroit secondary on Sunday.

yeah its caused by schitty grass at Soldier field... also,he out ran Bob Sanders on carpet basically.

I'm pretty sure Detroit was running on the same crappy turf, though.

Sweetness didn't exactly have a 4th gear, either.....

[Leto]

I never post on the Bears board but what's been bugging me is ESPN keeps saying the Cutler dive was "Elway-esque". The first thing I thought of when I saw him flying through the air and flipped over, in a Bears uniform, was McMahon--not Elway.

[SportsWorld]

I actually think Cutler's play on Sunday was better than Elway's (obviously on a much lesser stage):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ja69mTbL388
vs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AK2IcJ0tH30

Can't find I clip of the McMahon flip.

[Chewie]

Sweetness didn't exactly have a 4th gear, either.....

Timely quote from the Trib's Mark Potash :

And while Forte is no Walter Payton, it's worth noting that eight of Payton's 10 rushes of 50 or more yards did not go for touchdowns, including his two longest runs, 76 and 73 yards. Payton also had an 84-yard run that did not go for a touchdown in a playoff game against the Eagles, but it was nullified by a phantom motion penalty on Brian Baschnagel. Ugh!

[NoSkyy]

To Louis Delmas' credit, the man is an athlete and probably the future of the Detriot Secondary. He barely got Matt Forte(by shoving him out) so while I fully expected him to run into the endzone, Delmas isn't like the most typical Lion pushover defenders.

[Dr Manhattan]

To Louis Delmas' credit, the man is an athlete and probably the future of the Detriot Secondary. He barely got Matt Forte(by shoving him out) so while I fully expected him to run into the endzone, Delmas isn't like the most typical Lion pushover defenders.

Co-signed. Delmas is a beast on my Madden online franchise.