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Bears Win Through the Air

Monday, October 20th, 2008

The Chicago Bears won against the Minnesota Vikings Sunday at Soldier field mostly throwing the ball.

It wasn’t with their stifling D, it wasn’t through their battering running game either. In fact neither of those parts of the Chicago Bears showed up. Instead it was on the arm of Neckbeard himself Kyle Orton.

Orton threw for 283 yards, and completed 65% of his passes. He also threw for 2 TDs and had a 112 passer rating. All against one of the best defenses in the league.

Orton continues to look better for Chicago and he is doing it with enthusiasm. It seems that Ron Turner is opening up the playbook with Orton like he never did with Rex, or Griese. He is more creative and he trusts Orton to put the game on his shoulders. In fact the “Get off the bus running” Bears threw almost 63% of the time against Minnesota and won the game because they were aggressive and not because they played typical ball control offense.

They knew that with their secondary decimated and with Minnesota strong in stopping the run, they were going to have to trust Neckbeard, and they did.

One of the best things to see out of Orton is the consistency he is playing with. He is starting to put together full games of good play, and when he does have a bad half, he at least plays one good half. He is starting to make Chicago have a glimmer of hope that they might have a decent QB.

- Decatur Nate

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Orton Showed Us What Grossman Didn’t

Friday, September 26th, 2008

I have and always will be a supporter of Rex Grossman. He is a great guy, and whether it is for the Chicago Bears or for another team, I hope he has success. Now that I have said that I have free reign to criticize him however I want right? Well, I am not really going to pile on him like some people have in the past, but I am going to point out one flaw in particular that has always plagued him. The propensity to let mistakes snowball out of control. When he makes an error, the crowd boos, he tries harder, over-thinks, and throws another int. We have all seen it, and it is probably his biggest knock.

So what does this have to do with Kyle? Well, in last weeks game against the Tampa Bay Bucs, the Chicago Bears and Kyle Orton had 2 turnovers. Both interceptions. One returned for a TD. So what did Kyle do when he went into the locker room at halftime. He didn’t shave his nasty neckbeard, but he did put his mistakes out of his mind.

In the second half Kyle Orton looked like a completely different quarterback. In the first half Kyle was 9 of 15 for 77 yards. He was picked twice, and sacked 3 times. In the second half he was 13 of 19 for 191 yards, 2 touchdowns, and no sacks. That is a startling difference. He also threw a lot of intermediate routes that he wasn’t throwing in the first half. I suspect someone put something in Ron Turners beverage, he passed out, and Kyle had to call all his own plays after the half. Actually, since we give Ron Turner such a hard time, we need to give him credit when he is due it. He called a great 2nd half and it was more of a defensive collapse in the second half than anything else.

One person who did not collapse though, good ole’ Neckbeard. He played a great 2nd half and it was good to see him not let the mistakes of the first half lure him into more bad decisions. He seemed only to get sharper. Let’s hope this continues, and whoever is calling the plays for Ron Turner keeps it up.

- Decatur Nate

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Preseason Game 1 – Opinions on What We Saw

Friday, August 8th, 2008

A lackluster, but not poor, performance from the QBs was one of the most exciting things we could have witnessed in the Bears first preseason game against the Chiefs. Who gives a crap that the Bears lost to the Chiefs 24 – 20, it was the first preseason game of the year.

In reality, if we have QBs (no matter who it is) that perform the way they did in their first preseason action, then we will be looking at a decent season. All we are looking for is consistency, decent passes, and the ability to move the ball — whether through long bombs, or short dump-offs. It is way too early to be able to know anything about how our season is going to go. However, we do know that if our D stays healthy, they will be one of the best in the NFL. We then will have good field position due to the Bears end zone force field that is Devin Hester. That means our average starting field position this year will be around the 35 or 40 yard line. That means we will only need to go 55 – 60 yards for a TD, and only 25 – 30 yards for a field goal. We don’t need to ask a lot from our offense, we just need to avoid the classic Rex Grossman 0.0 passer rating games, and rookie Kyle Orton turnover machine and simply maintain consistency.

It will be very intriguing to follow the instant legend of Caleb Hanie throughout the rest of the preseason. He seems to posses the qualities you want in a QB — poise with a high competitive nature. Also keep an eye on Matt Forte. He WILL be something special.

-Decatur Nate

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Chicago Bears Training Camp – Day 7

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

I keep hearing negative things about this Bears team from talking heads around Chicago. It they took the time to pay attention they would notice that we could have one of the best Bears defenses we’ve had in a long time. That of course is based on the idea that everyone stays healthy. We are really only deep on the D-line, so the linebackers and secondary HAS to stay healthy for us to have a strong defense.

Offense is another thing. If our offense can keep our D off the field, and move the ball with moderate consistency it will go a long way in keeping our D healthy. Hester (assuming he retains his role as a return man) will give us continual field position advantages, and our offense just has to get some points out of it. If we can get 17 – 20 points out of our offense, and the defense remains healthy, we will have a good year.

All in all, I am sick and tired of all the negativity that I hear spewed out of the mouths of talking heads, mostly coming FROM Chicago. I don’t know how you can be a fan of the Bears and say some of the things those morons say.

Enough talk, enjoy some highlights from Roy at Bears training camp.

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Chicago Bears Training Camp – Day 6

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
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Chicago Bears Training Camp – Day 5

Monday, July 28th, 2008

Chicago Bears Training camp day 5. Peanut refining his outstanding quarterback skills. Some good some bad. It really looks like Rex is outplaying Kyle in camp. This is no surprise to me, because Rex has always been a great practice player. He just needs to relax and play his game once the season starts. The interesting things to watch here is the WR battles that are going on. Not only are Brandon Lloyd, Devin Hester, Rashied Davis, and Marty Booker battling it out, but Mike Haas has been looking good. As Roy from SportsFansNetwork points out, Rex and Haas seem to have something going. He is a Tom Waddle type receiver who just seems to hang around, and won’t quit.

To sum up, I think Rex is going to have the starting job going into the preseason, but the real battle is at the WR position.

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Chicago Bears Training Camp Video

Thursday, July 24th, 2008

Found a pretty good video of Bears training camp on Youtube. It includes some great throws from both QBs, but that doesn’t really matter because there isn’t any hitting going on. The real test will be when they put pads on and hit. It does show us some real speed from Forte, and some great catches by Marty Booker, Early Bennett, Kellen Davis, and others. I can’t wait to see Matt Forte in a game, he is going to be good, trust me.

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Seriously, I Wasn’t Disappointed

Thursday, December 20th, 2007

Why do I say that, well because I wasn’t expecting much. Sure, I listened to the hype and the talk about Kyle Orton being a more mature, quicker decision making quarterback. But I knew. I knew he was just the same old Neckbeard. He will be this Sunday as well. Against the Packers he will probably go another 34-124 for 22 yards, 1 INT and no TDs. Adrian peterson will have 31 of the 34 catches for a total of 18 yards. That is the way the offense works with Neckbeard in there and Ron Turner calling the plays.

Ron Turner said before the game against the Vikings that the playbook would be wide open for Neckbeard. Yeah right. The “Coaching Youth Football” playbook. Seriously, who was he fooling. The only time we went deep was in desperation time (have we seen that before… last Vikings game, Eagles, Dallas, San Diego, well every game except KC where we packed it up and went home at half time). This is not the real story though. I knew that was coming.

The defense played like they have not played all year. They did collapse in the end when Danielle Manning decided to play his patented patty cake tackle game and let Sidney Rice get the biggest gain of the game when our D was previously stifling the Vikings. Manning had to screw it up again. In practice yesterday Manning actually got knocked down repeatedly by the tacking dummy. To his credit that thing is pretty tough. It is stuffed with foam and sand. Other than that play, I was happy with how our defense played. It really shows how much we need Nate Vasher in the secondary. In his first game back in 10 weeks he had a pass break up that resulted in an INT, and an INT himself. Brian Urlacher also played his best game all year, getting the INT Vasher batted to him, 2 sacks, and a fumble recovery. It really did look like we were swarming the ball more, and we got the usual consistent play out of Charles Tillman. One thing that we need to watch in the next couple of games is a guy named Matt Toeaina. He had a couple of big plays while only being in the game on a handful of snaps. If he can come through as a reliable tackle that would be a huge encouragement going into the long offseason, and something for fans to be excited about.

Overall I wasn’t disappointed because I thought we would get run all over, and Neckbeard would struggle. However we didn’t get run all over (we held the best running back in the NFL right now to 78 yards), but Neckbeard did struggle. Even though we lost, which I never enjoy, I was encouraged, and you should be too, by the way our defense played.

DaBearCast

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Kyle Orton

Friday, December 14th, 2007

Monday night we get to see round two of Neckbeard. Neckbeard is possibly the NFL’s version of Sam Cassell. That being said, no-one in the NFL looks too bad with their helmet on. Regardless of what Neckbeard looks like, he is said to have a very strong arm, and that he makes decisions quicker and more accurately than he did the last time we saw him.

According to Charles Tillman, who will sometimes run drills with the QBs, Neckbeard has improved on his mechanics, decision making, and maturity level. These are all things that we should be excited about as a bears fan. But why am I not? Because like Bears Addict pointed out in the podcast (Episode 16) he is almost set up to fail. Why? There are too many reasons to be comfortable with.

1. Ron Turner is calling the plays
2. The Bears O-line is not good right now
3. Ron Turner has a headset
4. Fred Miller
5. Ron Turner works for the Bears

As you can see these are 5 things that do not bode well for Neckbeard. I hope that he Captain Ron, Neckbeard, and the O-line crew can prove me wrong.

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Grossman’s injury, Not As Serious As Feared

Friday, December 7th, 2007

Rex Grossman’s injury Thursday night against the Redskins looked to be a torn ACL judging by past instances of NFL QBs having their knees buckled by 300 pound D-linemen. Luckily it is not a torn ACL or MCL but it is just a sprained MCL, the Chicago Tribune is reporting. This is a good thing because Brian Griese is terrible and Rex was playing with a resurgence that was likely to earn him an extension. If he had torn anything he would most likely have not been resigned by the Bears, but now there is something more for Bears fans to argue about. Do the Bears resign him or not?

I say the Bears should definitely resign him. It is painfully obvious that the problem with this team is the O-line. We need to keep Rex, who has shown not only improvement and promise, but actual poise. It would be wise if we beefed up our O-line both through the draft (we are doing our best to get a great draft pick) and through free agency (cutting Griese should allow us some cap room after resigning Berrian, and Briggs). If we decide to do nothing about our O-line and try to get a QB early in the draft we can expect a repeat of this year because NO-ONE can do anything behind this geriatric unit of an offensive line.   

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