Buccaneers 27 - Bears 24

Before we get to The Bad, first The Good:






This is our best receiver. His name is Brandon Lloyd. He has a music career and a fancy website.











He is the only WR who can catch Kyle Orton passes.

















Stud














The best player on the Bears right now












The Bad...



Lovie

His Philosophy:
Grind the clock with the run game
Win the Turnover Battle
Let Defense and Special Teams take care of business.

This translates into settling for too many field goal attempts.

We won the turnover battle and won time of possession and still lost the game.

We are a run first team, supposedly, because we are a Winter team. Every team plays cold weather games, though. I've never watched the Bears in December and felt they had an advantage because it was freezing outside. If anything, the Bears always look like they're freezing their asses off - Except for Olin.

Lovie failed to call timeouts when the D was getting torched and winded in the hurry up.


He missed an earlier chance to call a timeout when Bucs 6 ft 7 " TE Jerramy Stevens shifted wide left to isolate LB Hunter Hillenmeyer (pictured left).

Isn't this what Greg Olsen is supposed to do?








Stevens is 5 yards past the endzone and the poor fella is still trying to tackle him. Very good. You tackled him. In the endzone.









Robbie Gould


He missed a 49 yard field goal. The highest paid kicker in the league is supposed to be automatic inside of 50. Why is Robbie the highest paid kicker in the Universe? Wouldn't he have been happy to be in the top 10 of highest paid kickers, or top 20, or top 32 ?







Kyle's 2nd INT

Down 6 to 7 at the end of the first half.
He attempts to fake a screen left to Forte, spins left in a complete circle, fakes no one because everyone on the Bucks is blitzing him, backpedals 10 yards and throws an INT that's run back for a Touchdown. If we are going to have Grossman-like blunders, I at least want Grossman out there doing the Good Rex stuff too.

If you didn't see Orton get spun like a dreidel on this scramble, i hope this youtube link still works.








Antics

T. Harris sounded foolish after the game defending Tillman. The point is you got outsmarted. The Bucs goaded you into stupid penalties.

Dan Hampton on the Score suggests that you get back at dirty players by shattering their windpipe on the next play.

Charles Tillman, next time a WR messes with you, karate chop his windpipe on the next play.








The Pass Rush

There's a lot of criticism out there for the Bears getting no sacks off 67 passing attempts, but the Bears did stop the run game - T. Harris was in on that. Dusty Dvoracek too, but Dusty, if you're going to be intense enough to make yourself puke before every game and wear warpaint, you might want to get a sack.








The Ghosts of Bears Past




Last time Chris Harris, this game Brian Griese















Charles Tillman




Tillman was doing his thing, winning the turnover battle, but he lost his cool.









Even though Vasher gave up the final Overtime reception and caught a heal in the nuts(pictured on left), he had an INT and didn't commit a costly OT penalty.










Edge - Vasher








And lastly, the Bears cut Mark Bradley today. Mark, you had one good half 3 or 4 years ago. You could have been the next Marcus Robinson. We hardly knew ye.