Posts Tagged ‘Kyle Orton’

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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If We Stop Beating Ourselves

Wednesday, October 8th, 2008

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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Chicago Bears fantasy football in week 4

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

Well, I couldn’t think of a better title for this installment, but it was pretty much real life fantasy in week 4 for the Chicago Bears. Nearly everything that they needed to happen for the ideal scenario to set up the rest of the season did. Green Bay lost, Minnesota lost, and Chicago got a HUGE win against Philly to vault the Bears back into contention for first place in the division. It was a return to the W column the Bears desperately needed, and one that puts them back on track to making all the “experts” out there that gave the Bears no chance to win the NFC North. I’ve never understood why the media hates the city of Chicago in general by the way(as far as sports are concerned).

There is much reason for excitement and anticipation as well. The defense didn’t get much pressure on McNabb, but did hold the vaunted Eagles offense in check nearly the entire game. How much more can you say about the D’s performance on Sunday?

The offense, well, much more can be said about them. The Bears still desperately need some consistency on the offensive side of the ball. However, this unit is starting to come into its own. Greg Olsen went a long way to redeeming himself with a really solid TD catch early in the game. The receivers all got into the act. No one receiver flashed too much brilliance, but they collectively played well, with TD catches by Hester, Booker, and of course Olsen. Hopefully the injury to Brandon Lloyd isn’t too big of a deal. Matt Forte was…well, once again Matt Forte. And let’s hand it to Ron Turner, he adjusted the gameplan when things weren’t working, dialed up reverses, and even a pass play for Marty Booker(although he ended up not throwing it). I was pleased with how Turner called this game.

If this team plays a game, an entire game that is, with the offense, defense, and coaching staff playing near the top of their potential, this Bears team can beat anyone. Yes, I said it, they have all the potential to take on any other team in the NFL. We just have to see it done, and as of yet we haven’t. That doesn’t mean I don’t think we could eventually get there though this season.

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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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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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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.

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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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