Playoffs: Seattle at Deribears

[Sweezo]

And now we are about to go down three scores...

[Sweezo]

Why does that worthless fat ass Tony Siragusa have a job?

[Sweezo]

Babineaux is having a **** game. Two bad plays he made lead to 14 points.

[Bulltalk]

It's such a drag that we had to look like that 7-9 team in the first half, rather than the team of the last few weeks. I hoped that our house of cards wouldn't come tumbling down like that, that we wouldn't look like that team that lost SO badly as we did in those games this year.

[Bulltalk]

The announcer is right. Hasselbeck is giving our receivers a chance to make plays. They just aren't making them. It's really not his fault.

[Bulltalk]

F*ck! It's about to turn into a joke. I just didn't want to be a joke today.

[Sweezo]

"the bears defenders are fighting every pass"= they're hand fighting every time one of our guys tries to catch a pass. Every time.

[Bulltalk]

"the bears defenders are fighting every pass"= they're hand fighting every time one of our guys tries to catch a pass. Every time.

We're just getting beat in every facet of the game. Period. It would have helped if we could have held onto the ball when the opportunity was there for the plucking; but other than that, they're just kicking our butts 360 degrees.

I know this, however. It's not on Hasselbeck.

[Sweezo]

"the bears defenders are fighting every pass"= they're hand fighting every time one of our guys tries to catch a pass. Every time.

We're just getting beat in every facet of the game. Period. It would have helped if we could have held onto the ball when the opportunity was there for the plucking; but other than that, they're just kicking our butts 360 degrees.

I know this, however. It's not on Hasselbeck.

They're basically giving us a game that pisses away all the goodwill they earned last week. Nice block there by Locklear...not sure if he even touched the guy.

[Bulltalk]

"the bears defenders are fighting every pass"= they're hand fighting every time one of our guys tries to catch a pass. Every time.

We're just getting beat in every facet of the game. Period. It would have helped if we could have held onto the ball when the opportunity was there for the plucking; but other than that, they're just kicking our butts 360 degrees.

I know this, however. It's not on Hasselbeck.

They're basically giving us a game that pisses away all the goodwill they earned last week.

I know. That hurts.

But here's where PC the motivator, Mr. Positive, the enthusiast can come into play in the locker room. Maybe he can get these guys' minds right enough to go out there and at least go down swinging.

Do we have it in us to put one scare, one more real moment of doubt about the outcome of this game into our opponents' and their fans' minds?

[Bulltalk]

I'm fine with the FG instead of going for it. I didn't want to be shutout.

[Bulltalk]

I don't care about his TD catch. I thought MIke Williams played like a p*ssy today.

On the other hand, I love Stokely. I don't care how old he is. I want him back next year.

[Bulltalk]

Not that it matters, but how did they not get that onside kick?

[Sweezo]

I stopped watching when it was 28-0.

Wow...TD to Stokely.

[Bulltalk]

I stopped watching when it was 28-0.

Wow...TD to Stokely.

Hey...we may not have put the game back in doubt, but at least we went down swinging. We outscored them in the 2nd half 24-14. That made me feel good. That showed and recaptured some Seahawk pride.

[Danny Darko]

yeah, a little face was saved.

That being said, i really didn't like the lack of blitzes. I thought we learned that lesson in Denver. I would look strongly at what D coordinators are out there, or maybe consider what Norton has to offer. I'm not down with prevent secondary on every play or not blitzing to a fault.

That's not a tweek that's a broken philosophy, which equals coordinator change for my taste.

[TTown]

I watched most of this game in a loud hotel lobby and the rest on a tiny hotel TV with poor reception, but it was tough to tell if Chicago learned its lesson from our first meeting, or if we 'out-thought' ourselves and tried to go with something different defensively. We really gave Cutler hell in week 6, but he certainly turned the tables yesterday.

Re: our WRs. Are we going into next season with Williams/Tate/Butler/Obu, potentially bringing Stokley back?

Tough way to end a tough year... but Week 17 and the wild-card round really went a long way in salvaging this thing for me (for most everyone, I imagine). I skimmed a preseason magazine back in August that called for us to go 2-14.

[Sweezo]

That being said, i really didn't like the lack of blitzes. I thought we learned that lesson in Denver. I would look strongly at what D coordinators are out there, or maybe consider what Norton has to offer. I'm not down with prevent secondary on every play or not blitzing to a fault.

That's not a tweek that's a broken philosophy, which equals coordinator change for my taste.

Well, maybe it will happen on its own. In the last couple weeks, we've lost Dan Quinn [DL], Jed Fisch [QBs], and now Jerry Gray [DBs] to the collegiate ranks. The rate at which assistant coaches are leaving for college jobs concerns me, and it's going to be tough as hell to build this team if everyone's scared of lockout.

Should Bradley get his chance to show what his defense can do after upgrading the personnel at bit? I don't know. Going into the season I think many of us questioned how strong the DL was, and yet in spite of injuries they performed pretty well of the course of the season IMO. But our pass coverage flat out sucked.

Whether it was a TE that wasn't covered by a LB, the QB finding the ever present hole in the middle of our zone, or Jennings failing miserably...our pass coverage was awful.

I don't know if upgrading our DBs is our biggest priority in the offseason on a team with so many needs, but it might be. Trufant and Milloy are showing their age, Jennings has never been good, and for even highlight reel play Babineaux makes he makes a huge mistake on another five.

I watched most of this game in a loud hotel lobby and the rest on a tiny hotel TV with poor reception, but it was tough to tell if Chicago learned its lesson from our first meeting, or if we 'out-thought' ourselves and tried to go with something different defensively. We really gave Cutler hell in week 6, but he certainly turned the tables yesterday.

In our first meeting against the Bears, Bears' TEs had 1 catch for 5 yards. In the second meeting, Bears' TEs had 5 catches 155 yards [and two TDs]. Martz' typically ignores his TEs, and this Sunday the TEs were involved early. Olsen streaking past Milloy for an early TD kind of said it all.

I thought our offensive game plan looked OK, but our WR weren't doing a great job of catching the ball. None of our WR are great at creating separation, and without that separation the Bears' DBs challenged our WR all through the first half.

In other words, I think Chicago definitely learned its lesson, and we seemed unprepared as a result.