Bears/Seahawks Postgame

[DanTown8587]

Whoever was in the both today was awful along side Dick Stockton. At one point they were talking about the Seahawks RedZone D and said "yeah they have given up 2 TD but they will argue about the Forte fumble being only one". Why would they argue that? You mean because it WASN'T a fumble and was called incorrectly? God was he awful. Anyway, the game.

Good
Cutler
Receivers

Bad
Offensive Line
Secondary

Scary Thought
Calvin Johnson in Solider Field next weekend

[CjayC]

I thought the Secondary did pretty well.

Sans that one prayer pass that was caught by TJ Houshmandzadeh and that one play by Tillman where he should have just tackled but went for a strip and ended up getting burned.

Danieal Manning made some nice plays run stopping
Afalava's deflection
Tillman played well except that one play. Made TJ Housh fumble the ball, and put that fool in his place for most of the day

Bowman almost had an interception.

The guys were out there making plays on the ball.

Maybe an average game, but if that was a bad game, by what I and most other people consider a weak secondary, I'll take some more of those type of performances from our secondary.

The Bears suck at blitzing. Any secondary would be slaughtered with all the blitzes that are picked up by the teams we face.

I think the front 7 is more at fault than the other 4 guys. Our Front 7 is inconsistent at creating pressure, and when we do pressure the QB we suck at closing in on him. That might not really be a widespread problem so much as that Seneca Wallace is mobile, so it doesn't take much for him to run away from a DE or a LB. All he has to do is buy some time and then eventually the receivers will come back to the ball. Difficult for a CB to stop unless Seneca is pretty much throwing with a man in his face and bearing down on him.

Seneca Wallace failed at going deep. He had the guys deep a few times but couldn't connect on the pass. Most of Seattle's offense was dink and dunk crap, and of course Julius Jones. The front 7 and safeties failed to stop Jones consistently, and they didn't close in fast enough on Seattle's dink and dunk offense. That dink and dunk underneath stuff leads to a ton of YAC if you aren't closing in, or your blitzes are being picked up(Which in turn leads to either a LB that's out of the picture, a CB, or a safety trying to make the tackle).

The Seahawks did get a ton of easy short passes and a lot of YAC, but the Bears obviously stopped that short passing crap and Julius Jones when it counted. All that matters is the TD, and we held them to only one TD and four field goals. I'll take that every game. You can say that their receivers were dropping a bunch of passes which is the only reason our secondary didn't look worse, but every week there are a bunch of what-ifs in every game. Football is a game made up of what-ifs(What if Lovie didn't squib kick the ball against Atlanta )

I do think the Front 7 came on at the end. Briggs and Nick Roach were looking awesome out there together.

Been celebrating the Bears win tonight. Sorry for the long post because all I'm thinking about is this win lol. Go Bears.

[blumeany]

The problem with the Bears' D is that it is a bend, don't break system that doesn't care about giving up yards, only points. So even on a good day, it's going to look like the offensive is kicking them up and down the field. But yeah, the pressure isn't good enough for how the system works. Wallace did make it difficult for them though. Their plan was clearly to blitz the hell out of Wallace until he made some mistake throws - and he made plenty. The problem was that either his receivers made some great catches or our secondary was horribly out of position.

Overall, I'm more concerned with Forte's sophomore year production than anything. Although I have to say that he had the play of the day in running over his own lineman (Willams) and continuing to run.

To the defense's credit, they made some great plays and the O Line didn't capitalize - the Briggs INT being the biggest example.

[tclg]

I think it was a sloppy game but we won. I am happy about it. I feel way better finding a way to win than finding a way to lose

[Cliff Levingston]

Hopefully we're not actually that bad. Cliff Levingston thinks the guys thought they could cruise to victory against a team without many of it's starters. Good thing we ended up winning or that would've looked pretty bad.

[transplant]

No such thing as a bad road win in my book. Good teams get about 4 of 'em in a season.

[mattbulls]

That TD pass to Olsen was amazing, I don't think Orton or Rex gets that throw off.

[Chewie]

I couldn't help but think that we were going to win that game even when we were down as all of the Seahawks good plays seemed to be of the flukey variety - Hillenmeyer picks off the guy tackling Julius Jones, Knox tips a ball for an interception, etc.

I don't take for granted for one second that we now have a QB that can get the job done in the 4Q. We saw it last week and now again this week and it's a beautiful thing.

As others have already said, our o-line is complete crap. Forte needs more running room and Cutler needs more time. Chris Williams, for one, was getting abused between the stupid penalties and giving Kerney the turnstile treatment.

I'm still hating that Turner call of giving Wolfe the ball on 3rd and 1 for negative 1 yard. THAT'S the guy you want pounding the ball with 1 yard to go ?!? Waive this guy so he can take his rightful spot on the lollipop guild.

Lastly, good job backing up your talk, Housh. Hope you enjoyed Briggs knocking his helmet against your hand. I love it when trash talkers get theirs. Housh : "I was open all game. They just didn't throw me the ball."

[kozelkid]

Few problems with this team.
One, Turner is a moron, but that's common knowledge.
Two, Omiyale should not be starting anymore. He is a terrible LG, Beekman should be in instead. He played very well last year which was a large reason why Forte was so good.
Three, damn we are in a DESPERATE need for a ballhawking free safety. Fortunately this next draft is full of them. I really like Afalava though.

[SportsWorld]

http://blogs.suntimes.com/bears/2009/09 ... enmey.html

All indications are that Hunter Hillenmeyer did not suffered a fractured rib in Sundays victory over the Seattle Seahawks.

Hillenmeyer was originally injured on a run play in the second quarter, and then he tried to continue playing before taking two more hits in the same area on his torso.

He was examined at Qwest Field, and in cases like this the team always gives the player an X-ray. Following the game, a source said the injury was not that serious, and coach Lovie Smith backed that up today at his press conference.

"We'll see how that plays out the rest of the week, hopefully he'll be able to go [Sunday vs. Detroit],'' Smith said. ``It isn't as serious as [tight end Desmond Clark's] injury, so hopefully we'll get good news on that front.''

[SportsWorld]

Bears' wide receivers making Jay Cutler look good
http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/fo ... 002.column

SEATTLE -- If Jerry Angelo is writing that thesis on his belief that the quarterback makes the wide receiver in the NFL, a theory Angelo brought Jay Cutler to Chicago to prove, then some minor edits are recommended.

Everybody expected Cutler to make the Bears' wide receivers better. But a week after Johnny Knox provided the fourth-quarter heroics, a second straight victory resulted from a Bears wide receiver making Cutler look pretty good.

Next thing you know, the TV show "MythBusters" will start staffing Bears games.

This time it was Devin Hester leaping high to catch a quick slant from Cutler and running away from two Seahawks defensive backs for a 36-yard touchdown late in the fourth quarter that clinched the Bears' 25-19 win at Qwest Field.