The Bears looked great against the Lions. They didn’t make some of the mistakes that have plagued them last year, and in their 2 losses earlier this year.
These are my thought on the Chicago Bears as I have seen them under Lovie Smith. I like Lovie as a coach, but I think that he needs to work harder at reducing the Bears mistakes. Chicago commits a lot of penalties, and a lot of turnovers. When we lose, it is generally not because a team outright beats us, it is because we beat ourselves.
Over the last 3 years you can only point to three games where the Bears were beaten soundly by an opponent, and they didn’t make mistakes to beat themselves. Let’s start with 2006 the Super Bowl season. They were soundly beaten 31 – 13 by the Miami Dolphins in week 9. They then were beaten by the Packers 26 – 7 the last game of the year. This was were we sat most of our starters later in the game because we didn’t need to win. The only other games that we lost that year were to the New England 17-13, and the Super Bowl where we lost to the Colts 29-17, both where we obviously shot ourselves in the foot with costly turnovers and useless penalties.
2007 – the Bears lost a lot more, but again it was by fourth quarter collapse and unnecessary mistakes. The only game we lost by getting beat by a better team was against the Cowboys in week 3, 34 – 10. There was only one other game that we lost by double digits, and that was by 11 to San Diego in week 1, 14 -3.
This year we have lost 2 games by a total of 4 points and both have been lost in the forth quarter by blowing a double digit lead.
If Kyle Orton can reduce his mistakes, which he has looked like he can do, I think we have a good chance of being a very solid team this year, and years to come. Let’s go to Atlanta next week and play mistake free football. If we do, we will give them another “Daddy beat down”.
- Decatur Nate
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