The Rex of the Lovie Smithgerald

Yeah, yeah, yeah.  The Bears won yesterday.  Whoo-hoo.  But buried beneath that headline were a multitude of issues that need to be resolved quickly before they head to Seattle to engage the Walrus and the Seahawks on Sunday night afternoon.

Here, in no particular order are some thoughts on yesterday's brain numbing contest against the Raiders:
  • With Brian Griese down with an unknown injury to his non-throwing shoulder, it appears that the conspiracy will begin to start Rex Grossman.  Griese will most likely be held out a week "as a precautionary measure."  The precaution is that Rex got his teammates fired up yesterday and helped them to a win with a critical fourth quarter 59 yard hook and ladder to Bernard Barrien.  Rex also avoided doing anything stupid, which against Oakland is easy because they'd rather shoot themselves in the foot. Of course, Rex did fumble his first snap.
  • Cedric Benson couldn't crack 100 yards against the worst run defense in the NFL.  Pathetic.  I know he had catches and blocks and contributed, but please don't defend him.  He has the vision of Stevie Wonder when it comes to finding creases in the opponent's defense.  Opponents are more apt to worry about defending the pass than worrying about how to stop Benson.
  • Oh my goodness!  It's Adewale Ogunleye.  Wonder where he's been all season?
  • The defense played a terrific game.  Trumaine McBride is a player.  Lance Briggs came up big on several occasions defensively as well.
  • How many center snaps will Bears quarterbacks continue to drop?  According to John Madden, this should never happen.
  • Until late in the fourth quarter, this was a boring, uninspired, take a long nap kind of a game.  If the Bears are serious about trying to get back into the playoff hunt and all this jazz about "every game is a playoff game" is true, then why in the hell don't you play like it?
  • Devon Hester appears to have been reading his own headlines.  Some of his attempted returns bordered on ludicrous yesterday.  The big one he had got called back.
  • Was Greg Olsen in uniform yesterday?  I don't recall hearing his name.  Or is it just more magic from Ron Turner.
  • Turner supposedly went off on the offense at half time.  He told the players they needed to play the way they were coached.  In the first half, it looked like they were.
Lightning Round

Posted by Chip Ramsey at 11/12/2007 10:41 AM
Categories: Sports
 

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