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Re: Today's Game 2020
By: davebear Date: September 13, 2020, 3:19 pm
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Wow
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Re: Today's Game 2020
By: octagon Date: September 13, 2020, 3:20 pm
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What a win! Props to the guy dropping the easy td pass on the
second to last play.
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Re: Today's Game 2020
By: hibernationsuxs Date: September 13, 2020, 4:28 pm
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That WR for Lions was a rookie I believe. Feel sorry for him.
But damn that was a good game! We played like dog shite the
first 3 Q but came alive in the 4th. Sure beat last years
opener!!
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Re: Today's Game 2020
By: WshflThinking Date: September 13, 2020, 4:29 pm
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The trouble, that should have been a TD and Bear loss. Somehow
we woke up. Looked like we were playing a preseason game. I
thought we were dead meat after the first half.
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Re: Today's Game 2020
By: Pekin Date: September 13, 2020, 6:33 pm
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Got out with a win and as far as I could tell no injuries.
Lions fans have to be crushed. Not only do they choke another
one away at the end after a big lead they had a ton of injuries.
Oh and that dropped pass in the end zone. Ouch!
Graham looked like he had two left hands for three quarters but
he turned it around in the 4th quarter along with the rest of
the offense.
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Re: Today's Game 2020
By: dallasbear2 Date: September 13, 2020, 6:58 pm
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Jimmy Graham 2 poorly timed jumps that were very costly. the
guy has a caught a ball before right? Anthony Miller 2
questionable routes and 2 drops. Mack once again, single teamed
and gets close but cant close the deal. And surprisingly Mingo
filling in for the injured mighty Quinn. Not sure what Quinn
brings to the party, but the D looks gassed. Montgomery looks
good, keep feeding him the ball. And Mooney, please target him,
a lot more.
Mack was committed over the off season to improve on last
season. He's still a factor on every play - but no sacks
against a backup right tackle...on turf?
Mingo...Vaughters are not the answer at ROLB. Bears desperately
need a healthy Quinn. Hicks had a sack but looked like he isn't
himself yet.
Skrine and the 2 ILBs seemed to be targeted on numerous pass
plays but I thought our corners held up well,,,especially the
rookie.
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Re: Today's Game 2020
By: davebear Date: September 14, 2020, 12:32 am
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Here's my take on the game.
This was one of those wins that feels like a loss based on the
play of the Bears. It rested on a dropped winning TD by the
Lions late in the game.
The Lions were severely undermanned with their starting corner
Okuda out and later the other corner Trufant left the game.
Their best RB didn't play except to drop the TD pass
and their OL had a rookie RG and second string RT.
But anyway, the Bears still had a job to do which they largely
left on the table.
here's my opinion:
Trubisky.
The first half looked like a continuation of last year.
Nauseatingly like last year. Did all the changes and hard work
and talk produce nothing?
Tru still had that scared and confused look we find all to
often. He still overthrew receivers and showed inacuracy. He
didn't throw picks which is probably the only reason they were
still even in the game.
The only ray of hope I saw was that he wasn't missing by much.
Could it be the lack of normal training camp? Can that be
improved?
He had a nice first half TD pass to Robinson but Robinson only
had his left hand on the ball. The defender was holding his
right arm straight up but no PI call.
Then the fourth quarter came.....do or die.... and Mitch has 3
TD passes in 3 drives. Whhhaaattt????
Did a coach yell at him? Did he turn off his headset?
AS we've seen several times, he seems to play his best game on
the comeback. When it's "you have to go out and win the game
now" he makes the plays.
Maybe "you be you" is replaced with a kick in the arse. I don't
know.
Ben Roethlisburger and Phillip Rivers have made a career out of
this type of game, but Mitch doesn't have the steps of success
to really celebrate a game like this.
Coaching:
The Bears look to me like a pretty talented offense that just
can't get over the top of the hill. They look ready to break
out but just can't do it.
Juan Castillo pleasantly surprised by teaching the OL how to run
block with success between the tackles. Still it seemed like
they had no real offensive game plan.
Why didn't they attack the backup corner. Why didn't they have
the new tight ends out for more short passes to move the chains?
Antonio Gates played the last 5 years of his career going out
7-10 yards and standing there Where Phillip River could simply
throw it high where only Gates could get it.
Defense:
The front seven that was supposed to be the strength of the team
looked old and relatively ineffective. This is alarming.
Mack did a "nice" job rushing the passer but just came close and
had no sacks against a second string tackle. Not particularly
disruptive.
The last couple of weeks it was reported he had a bad knee, so
maybe that's part of it, or maybe he just hit the wall and will
never be the player he was 2 years ago.
The rest of the line was not good. No one could get a pass
rush. Hicks was a non factor against a rookie guard except 1
sack play. No penetration otherwise.
It was disappointing to see the Lions run on the defense like
that. So much for Nichols and Robertson Harris having great
camps.
Trevathan looks like he lost a step, we'll see. I couldn't say
how Smith played. He was out there but I don't know.
The corners played well. Fuller is a pro bowl quality guy.
Johnson had some rookie issues with speed and toughness of NFL
receivers but recovered well.
The safeties? meh. Amendola with no speed was sure open in the
middle of the field on a few third and long plays.
Maybe this team will shake off some rust the next few weeks.
They didn't seem to have the sense of urgency I saw from other
teams this week.
This is a time for good coaching to put this puzzle together.
If they can't do it....
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Re: Today's Game 2020
By: Pekin Date: September 14, 2020, 1:08 am
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The lack of pass rush was the most concerning to me. Once the
Lions realized the pass rush wasn't there they started hurting
us with the mid to deep routes. The blitzing is what did them
in late in the game. Better teams will make them pay for
blitzing. Rodgers will own this defense if they can't get a
better pass rush.
We need Quinn to get healthy and on the field. Mack was being
handled one on one by a rookie. That does not bode well for the
future.
I expected the Offense to be rusty. Defense is normally ahead
of the offense early in the year and more so this year with no
pre-season games and half azzed training camps.
If the defense is not top ten this year the Bears will be lucky
to get to 500. Hopefully the offense will improve week to week.
The defense looked uninspired coming out of the half. Mack did
rally the troops though which is a good thing. They showed him
on the sidelines firing them up.
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Re: Today's Game 2020
By: hibernationsuxs Date: September 14, 2020, 5:08 am
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On one of the highlight shows they talked about league wide lack
of pass rush. They said since there was no crowd noise that the
OL could hear the snap count well giving the defense a huge
disadvantage. Something like 10 QB's throw over 70% completion
due to the amount of time they had.
I think that was part of the problem.
I really, really do not like our offensive play calling....and
that is Nagy. He needs to let the OC have a try. Nagy gets to
cute. We were running it up the middle for 5-8 yards early in
game, we needed to do that more but went away from it even
before the score dictated it.
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Re: Today's Game 2020
By: Bears4Ever Date: September 14, 2020, 6:09 am
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Haven't had the ability to see the whole game yet, only glimpses
during RedZone and some highlights here and there. My first
impression was when they switched to the Bears early for one of
the redzone plays and it was the "Cohen up the middle" drive
killer play Nagy just will not get rid of. It seems whenever
they run that play, the drive always stalls.
Anyway, the comeback was sweet but somehow feels a little
undeserved. Lions did choke big time but at least the Bears
didn't choke by losing (although that WR that dropped the game
winner is going to have nightmares about that one)....
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