He's back!!! I must admit, I am an out of the closet Rex Grossman fan. I was kind of happy he got a chance to play this year. Didn't you just have a sliver of hope that Grossman would miraculously become Bret Favre (the good Favre) for 2 quarters yesterday? Well he wasn't "the good Bret Favre", but he did engineer a comeback. It hurts to lose Orton now because he was playing very well. Let us hope we get the good Rexy and not the bad Grossman. Alright, on to the game thoughts.
1. You cannot, I repeat (for the 1000th time on this website) play the Cover 2 defense if you can't get pressure with your front four. The Bears can't get pressure with the D-line, yet are still playing the Cover 2. Its terrible. Babich and Lovie, get out of your love making with the Cover 2 and start attacking the Quarterback. There is absolutely no reason we should sit back in a soft zone and let Orlovsky pick us apart. Stop it. Just stop it.
2. On that note, isn't it time we call out Ogunleye, Mark Anderson and Alex Brown? Enough with the Tommie Harris bashing. He's playing fine. If you want to get real pressure on the QB, you've got to get an outside pass rush. At the very least, get enough outside pressure to make the QB step up and possibly get sacked by your interior lineman. You can't rely on your DTs to get sacks. It starts with the DE's. So far, they're not getting it done.
3. Ron Turner. I don't want to hate on you too much b/c your basically taking a below average offense and making them a pretty good offensive team (most points per game in the NFL). But, when Orton got hurt, you've got to protect your backup QB by running the rock with Forte. In the 3rd quarter you kept putting the ball in the hands of Grossman, who obviosly looked a little rusty. Give the ball to Forte. Thankfully, you came around in the 4th quarter and Forte started killing that Lions D.
4. A) Our special teams unit is not blocking anyone on kickoffs and B) Devin Hester doesn't remotely look 100% healthy. Worse, he's constantly fumbling the ball. That game isn't even close if Devin doesn't cough up that Kick Off in the 2nd Quarter.
5. Back to our defense. Its just not very good. What happened to Urlacher? He honestly hasn't made one big play this year. Not one. The Bears pay him like a HOF, but he's been playing like Larry Minter. Thankfully, Lance Briggs is playing some pretty darn good football. P.S. Steltz' pick of Orlovsky was beautiful.
Next Week: Its going to be a rough game against the Titans. They're great at taking away the run. Which means that Grossman is going to have to make some plays down the field. I actually like our chances against Tennessee, simply because we've played the run, better than the pass this year on defense. And Tennessee is going to do a whole lot of running.
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