Thoughts on the Bears:
Forte looked very good out of the backfield, ran great routes and (obviously) made a couple of nice catches.
Urlacher played his best game in years, he was everywhere and got there under control, which should be a pleasant development for y'all.
I like how the defense smelled blood and attacked once Stafford was out. I think the Lions coaching staff helped in that regard by going into a shell, but credit to the Bears for flipping that turtle over and over again.
I thought Cutler looked a lot like Jon Kitna in his days running this offense in Detroit. I thought he did a nice job in identifying the coverage mismatch and throwing at it.
Peppers just dominated Jeff Backus. I like how Pep set up his moves and played off the interior guys. One of the knocks in CAR was that he did his own thing too much and didn't react off the DTs' actions, but he did a nice job of that here. Mark Anderson played more physical and pulled off a good inside swim move a couple of times, haven't seen that from him before.
The OL was dominated, but what surprised me about it was that the pass protection was better than the run blocking. Olin Kreutz was absolutely manhandled by Corey Williams and Sammie Hill, and the guards couldn't help because they were assigned to work on the DEs and LBs.
I don't remember if any got flagged (one did IIRC) but the kickoff return unit's blocking was complete and utter holding across the board. Twice I saw they horse-collared a Lions coverage man--once out of bounds for good measure. That needs to get cleaned up ASAP.
I'm a Lions fan and I'm not going to come here and whine about the Johnson TD, but watch the replay of the very next play: Johnson got hit in the head by a DB before the ball got there, no flag. It's nice to open at home
