This morning on Mike and Mike, Chris Carter made a great comment, "You can't teach heart, and you can't coach stupidity". At some point, there's only so much you can teach the Eddy Currys of this world (i.e. people without heart), and the Rex Grossman's of the world (players who consistently make stupid plays). Unfortunately, for the Bears, they have coaches who call stupid plays AND players who make stupid plays. On to the digestion of this terrible game.
1. Lets get this out of the way first. -Why the f' would you give the ball to Jason McKie on 3rd and 1, instead of Matt Forte. Forte is our entire offense. Kyle Orton and the passing game can't make plays until Forte bruises up the defense and sucks them into the running game. Give the kid the f'n rock. -The squib kick. The mother f'n, shitty, stupid squib kick. From now on, whenever one of your friends chokes or does something foolish the correct teasing comment should be, " Dude, you just squib kicked that one". If the Bears had just kicked the ball normally and Atlanta had still gotten the ball to the 40 yard line on the return, there wouldn't be enough time for them to complete the last pass. If Gould kicks it to say their 5 yard line and they return it to the 40, thats at least 6-7 seconds off the clock. Thus, instead of having the ball at the 40 with 6 seconds left, they only have 4 seconds left. Which you guessed, would have ended the game on the last pass. Finally, that f'n cover 2 shit comes back to haunt us. We gave them the one route that they needed by going into it. You can't leave your safety all alone to cover that play. Where was the corner? The Bears should have all stepped back and given them the short play. I still can't get over that.
2. With all that frustration being said. You can't totally blame the coaches last night for the play calling. First, sometimes that fullback hand off works. Secondly, Robbie stupid f'n gold didn't squib kick it. He lofted the ball 30 yards to the opposing team. A squib kick should be kicked low to the ground, bouncing and still make it to the opponents 5 yard line, not their 30 yard line. Lastly, on the last play, the corner shouldn't have left the space behind him. He should have dropped back and given up the short yardage play.
3. The worst thing about yesterday's game wasn't even the final series of events. Where were we for the entire 1st half? The Bears defense was atrocious. They made Matt Ryan look like Tom Brady. No pressure at all. Not even when they came with the blitz. Worse our corners were god awful. Tillman repeatedly allowed White 10 yard slant in or comeback plays in the first half. We failed to adjust and Mat Ryan beat us.
4. You can't play the Cover 2 defense if you can't get pressure on the QB with your 4 rushers. We couldn't get pressure, so we should have stopped playing the Cover 2. Either bring the house or rush three and pull everyone else into man on man with safety help over the top. I believe the later defense would have ended a lot of their 3rd and long plays they made in the first half.
5. The Bears offense was equally terrible the first half. Atlanta, just like every other defense you've played this year, was committed on stopping the run. We had to open it up a little more in the 1st half.
6. I give a lot of credit to Kyle Orton, especially in the 2nd half. Honestly, I never felt he had the ability to lead a team to a come from behind win. But, he did just that (except the win thing). With less then 3 minutes to go and one time out, he drove the team to a scoring drive, a drive that should have won the game. I'm starting to realize that Orton's best trait is his brain. He's just a smart football player. He was calm running the two minute offense. He normally knows where to throw the ball. Plus, he's great at calling audibles. This is likely what separates Grossman from being an elite QB. Grossman never put together the kind of poise and smarts you need to lead a team. I just wish Orton also had Grossman's arm and quick release.
7. Where's Brian Urlacher. Calling Brian Urlacher! Urlacher, Urlacher (think Beuler, Beuler). Seriously, where is our "franchise" middle linebacker. They gave you your money, now do something. I admit you've been solid. But, we already have Mr. Sold in Hunter Hillenmeyer. We need greatness. We need Singletary and Butkus, not Larry Minter. Urlacher's just not doing anything special. I hate to say it because I'm a huge fan of Urlacher, but he looks like an old man out there.
8. Who on god's green earth is Hamilton? Where did we get this corner-back? When Tillman went down they replaced him with some guy in the stands. Not sure, but this may have been the reason the BEars were reluctant to blitz and leave Graham and Hamilton one on one. As I-Truth said last night, " It sure would have been nice if we had an experienced corner who could step in and play well. You know someone like Ricky Manning". No, wait we cut him in the pre-season.
9. That's another thing that annoys me about the Bears, how come whenever one of our corners or safety's get hurt, the guy filling in can't get the job done? It seems that every other team has a guy who could step in and make plays. Not us.
10. I still love Matt Forte or Ascento as I like to call him. Imagine if he had holes to run through!
Finally, I -truth woke me up last night to share that the clock failed to start on the last kick off return for the Falcons and the last play of the game (the clock stuck at 6 seconds for about 2 seconds on the final play). I don't know if its true, but that would be B.S.
Lastly, (sorry a lot of venting this morning). Did anyone else realize that the officials, after reviewing the Tommie Harris fumble for about 10 minutes, gave the ball to the Falcons on the 12 yard line, when they actually recovered the fumble on their own 23 yard line? Now that was some B.S.
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