Bears 48 - Vikings 41

If you're in a pinch and need some Bears talk in the morning, you're going to have to chose between Hampton and Holmes on 670 and Waddle and Silverman on 1000.

I don't recommend listening to either, but I'm giving the edge to Dan Hampton over Tom Waddle.



Waddle does a Craig Kilbourn thing without being funny and he's got Silverman doing it now too and it's getting very creepy.
Avoid this show unless Jeff Dickerson is giving a Bears report.






Kilbourn today.





















I think the bi-week is a good time to admire Marty Booker's buttocks. It's what Jews call a tushie.










It powered this 51 yard TD receptions.












Josh and Alfredo's homeboy Craig Steltz blocked a Vikings punt that Garrett Wolfe brought in for a TD.






Steltz literally has a red neck and face and he speaks Waterboy-style Louisiana.
I literally shit my pants. No you don't understand, I literally...






I noticed a shift in attitude as Lovie decided to NOT let the clock run out at the end of the 1st half. The Bears added 3 after a 19 yard pass to Olsen and a 48 yard FG by Hyman Roth.


The Bears play the Lions tomorrow at noon.

Falcons 22 - Bears 20

We have a fresh set of inexplicable coaching decisions to ponder.






What The Squib?!

1.) Robbie Gould finally has the strength to kick to the goal line. Don't take that away from Robbie. Don't ask Robbie to not be Robbie.
34 yard kick + 10 yard return = better off kicking out of bounds!

2) The decision shows your Special Teams you have no faith in them. We know S.T.'s has injuries, but you give up on them after a few long returns?

3) All of a sudden you're scared of Jerious Norwood like he's Devin Hester?
If you are squibing to a man not named Devin Hester with 11 seconds left, you are thinking too much.

Not even Devin Hester is Devin Hester right now. He's looking good as a WR, but he's pensive on returns. With 6 minutes left in the game, Hester fair caught a ball at the Chicago 46 with no one around him.





Is the Cover 2 working?




Lovie's coaching philosophy is being called into question in the press by the Tribune's David Haugh.

Haugh's frightening stat:

Atalanta's Matt Ryan: 30 throws 0 sacks
Tampa's Brian Griese: 67 throws 0 sacks




"Cover 2" is a zone defense. The more time receivers and quarterbacks have, the easier it is to find gaps between defenders. 0 pressure = 0 sacks.

We are doing a great job of shutting down the run - and that's important considering who's coming to town. But teams wont need a run game if they can torch us in the air.


Matt Ryan on 3rd and long for 1st down (tackled by):

3-16 : 22 yards (C.Tillman)
3-5 : 9 yards (M.Brown
3-8 :15 yards (D.Manning)
3-9 : 47 yards (K.Payne)
3-11 : 13 yards (M.Brown)





Compounding the lack of pressure from our D line are injuries in the secondary.


Nathan Vasher - Wrist
Charles Tillman - Shoulder
FS Danieal Manning - Hamstring
CB Trumaine McBride - Shoulder
CB Marcus Hamilton - Heel




Lovie defending his play calling after the squib "That's the coverage we like to run in that situation. We didn't execute it the way we need to but you don't all of a sudden start changing things you believe in."

Who knows how smart Lovie is. Does it seem like he makes half time adjustments? Does he have a plan to stop the slant pass? Can he get the offense and defense working in the same game?




Are the failures in play calling his or Defensive Coordinator Bob Babich?


Are we going to care if the Bears are below .500?









Notes...


The handoff to Fullback Jason McKie for the 1 yard TD or first down is a failed experiment.







Roy Williams was traded to the Cowboys this week and the Lions had to scramble to change a website centered entirely on Roy. What am I going to do without "Rapping with Roy"?






You think you're above the law?

I was watching Above the Law this weekend and besides it being the 2nd best Steven Seagal movie next to the one with the Rastafarians, it was filmed in Bucktown at St. Mary's on Hermitage & Cortland.

Bears 34 - Lions 7

If the Bears continue to play like this, I will have to put the blog out of commission. They play a great game, win, and we all pleasantly go about our week.



I don't have to tell you who's playing great.








Fortunately, I have found a new player to hate. His name is Roy Williams and he is a big baby. On this play, the ball bounced off his open hands and into the arms of Charles Tillman.

He had 4 drops in the game. The worse he played, the more he blamed his QB's.






"You threw the ball right at my head! I had to lift my arms up this high! How am I supposed to catch a ball thrown right here?!"








This is the only guy he could find who would listen to his hissy fits.






The Lions have based their whole website around this douche. He is featured on the home page and has TWO special sections, "Rapping with Roy" and "First Down with Roy Williams".






 

As a tribute to his trademark "first down" celebration, Detroitlions.com will post 'First Down with Roy Williams' each week prior to Sunday's regular season game. Williams will offer his take on everything from Detroit's upcoming match-up to how he is fairing in fantasy football"

In other words, he is known not for scoring touchdowns or winning games, but for exciting the Detroit faithful with the occasional first down.




And as the devil horns in this college photo clearly show, Roy Williams is a devil worshipper.

Bears 24 - Eagles 20

Good Kyle Bad Kyle?

First Half : 15 of 24 for174 yards 3 TD's and 0 INT's

Second Half : 3 of 10 for 25 yards 0TD's and 1 INT

The real story here is that Kyle has a bowl cut. No millionaire should have a bowl cut unless it's Jim Carrey.

I saw this interview (on left) last Sunday morning as I began my ritual of watching pre-game hype for 4 hours, and I had to grab my cell phone to take a picture. First the neck beard, and now this.

Orton looked good here

And here

And here








From Larry Mayer, of Chicago Bears.com's Chalk Talk

"Over the last two weeks, Orton’s five TD passes are second in the NFL only to the Jets’ Brett Favre, who has nine."







Now stop sucking in the 2nd half and get a proper haircut. Please.






I re-learned a valuable lesson this week. Always ask 2 people to record a game for you in case something goes wrong.



Especially if this is the first guy you ask.

I eventually found tenyardtorrents.com, a bit torrent site with tons of games current and historic. You can go there now and watch the '86 Superbowl game.






It looks like Special Teams are going to be tops in the league again this year.

Brad Maynard already has 11 punts inside the 20 - 3rd best in the league.

In the past I've been critical of Robbie's leg on kickoffs, but he has 4 touchbacks this season. He had 3 total touchbacks last season.




And we know it's only a matter of time before Hester goes off.







I loved A. Brown's stuff on 4th and goal, but there was another crucial play that soon followed. The Bears were on the 1 yard line after mustering only 2 first downs the entire second half. On third and 4 with 2:43 left on the clock, at least one first down was needed. Matt Forte responded with a tough 10 yards, breaking a few arm tackles on the way. We finally have a RB who can consistently move the chains on 3rd and short.




Doug Buffone of The Score always talk about most teams being stuck in "The Muck", the middle of the pack - the 500 teams. It won't be a fun season if the Bears are struggling to stay above 500. We've been lucky so far in facing a hobbled Peyton Manning, avoiding Steve Smith and not having to face Eagle RB Brian Westbrook. With games against The Lions and The Falcons up next, The Bears have a great opportunity to separate themselves from the muck.

What is going on with Tommie Harris? It was just reported that he has been suspended a game for misconduct. Brad Biggs of The Sun-Times speculates that it could be due to chronic tardiness. Tommie is the fan favorite - watching the kids reaction to him at training camp leaves no doubt. But after somehow receiving a 4 year contract extension worth 40 million dollars while rehabbing a (perhaps) permanently messed up knee, Tommie is off to a very slow start. And now we hear he might have an attitude problem...

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, when 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.