Timing is everything
Imagine with me, if you will, you are watching The Matrix. It is near the end of the movie, and Neo(Keanu Reeves) is stuck in the matrix. The robots are coming soon and Neo’s shipmates are waiting for him to get out before they pull his lifeline out of his head. Clearly this image will not work if you haven’t seen the Matrix. Just before Neo gets out of the Matrix they pull the plug on him so that they can shoot their EM pulse, trapping him there forever. Movie over.
Why do I say this? Well, because timing is everything sometimes. Why talk about timing…because the Bears offense has none. If you watched the game on Sunday against the Seahawks you know exactly what I am talking about.
Need some examples? How about the fact that Ron Turner goes right up the gut on 4th and 1 when the Seahawks D(and anyone watching this game) knew with absolute certainty that is what he would call. Need more? Devin Hester’s only touch on offense is the first play he comes into the game when he runs an end around for about a 7 yard loss.
Ron Turner is the most unoriginal coach in the NFL today. You might be saying to yourself, how does he know that? Does he know EVERY coach or coordinator in the NFL? No, but I don’t need to. I see Bears games, and I know who Ron Turner is. Let me ask you this, when is the last time you have seen any of these plays run by the Bears: a double reverse, a flea flicker, a halfback pass, a toss sweep with a reverse pass back to the quarterback, a screen pass that actually worked. I would submit to you that NONE of those plays have ever been called under Ron Turner. Especially if your offense has not been working efficiently, you must keep the other team off balance, and make them stay at home. If not, then other teams are able to cheat up to the line of scrimmage when the down and distance dictate a running play, break hard on a comeback route, or not bite on the play action pass.
As it stands right not it doesn’t even appear as if the Bears run more than about 10 plays on offense the entire season. Every run goes right behind the guards for 0 or negative yards, and the receivers never get to run anything but comeback routes.
It is something that I do not at all understand. Why? For a couple of reasons. One reason that I do not understand this lack of timing or originality is that the Bears are not scoring points. The Bears are 25th in the NFL in yards per game, and 22nd in points per game. This would not be an issue if the plays being run were working, or the Bears were scoring 30 points per game, but no one would argue that either is true. The second reason, everyone around Chicago with a brain is calling for the firing of Turner at least by the end of the season. I would at least think that he would try to mix it up out of a yearning for self preservation, or a thought of, well, I’m already going to get fired, so I might as well let it all hang out!
No matter how you draw it up it just doesn’t make sense to me why he wouldn’t try to get creative to make this offense work. The defense clearly(and obviously to all Bears fans) cannot win us games at this point. The offense might be able to, but it is a moot point when they are not given a gameplan that gives them an opportunity to win games either.
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