Fixing The Chicago Bears
I don't know after yesterday's piss poor performance by the Chicago Bears if there is a fix. I only know what I saw which was a mediocre Packers team killing the Bears in all phases of the game yesterday. Here are some thoughts:
- End the Devin Hester experiment. Tell him he's a kick returner and not a wide out, that his wide out days are over. Let's face it, Hester as a wide out is about as effective as Stevie Wonder piloting a jet.
- Bench Tommie Harris. He whined the media was too tough on the Bears. Either sit his sorry ass down or buy him a mirror so he can look in it.
- Return Hunter Hillenmeyer to the starting lineup. Even with one hand, he's head and shoulders better than Nick Roach.
- Fire Bob Babich. It's nice Lovie hires his malleable buddies to do his evil bidding, but let's face it: The defense hasn't been the same since he took over and Ron Rivera should have never been fired, You want proof? Look how well the Chargers defense has been playing since Rivera took over for the fired Ted Cotrell in San Diego.
- Dump the Tampa 2. It's working as well as G.W.'s economic policy. At least, don't be so enamored with it you lose perspective and let it doom your football team to abysmal failure.
- Let Kyle Orton heal. If he's not ready to be in a game, then sit him and take your chances with Rex Grossman. Maybe that will teach you not to have a experienced backup available.
- Play Chris Williams. Why not? The worse that could happen is that he gets hurt. The best is is that he gets game experience for next year.
- Change the offensive game plan. Realize that there are people on the team besides Matt Forte and Greg Olsen who are supposed to be catching the ball for a living. Involve them, or if they suck too bad to involve, find some guys that you can involve.
Let's focus on the coming game.
Defensively the Bears have got to get back to stopping the run, which they did very successfully throughout the first 10 weeks before a major slip-up against the Packers last week. But they also have to generate a pass rush, preferably with the front four, which has just 11.5 sacks for the season. The pass rush has been almost nonexistent for much of the season. The Bears have just five sacks in the past five games, including just one in the last 116 drop-backs by their opponents, and no one on the team has more than three sacks all season.
Offensively the Bears need to stay close enough to stick with rookie RB Matt Forte, which didn't happen last week when they were blown out by the Packers. Offensive coordinator Ron Turner would also like QB Kyle Orton to get the wide receivers more involved than they have been in the past two weeks, when they have a total of just nine catches. /BTW, saw some cool widgets at statbeast.com. Take a look!
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Let's focus on the coming game.
Defensively the Bears have got to get back to stopping the run, which they did very successfully throughout the first 10 weeks before a major slip-up against the Packers last week. But they also have to generate a pass rush, preferably with the front four, which has just 11.5 sacks for the season. The pass rush has been almost nonexistent for much of the season. The Bears have just five sacks in the past five games, including just one in the last 116 drop-backs by their opponents, and no one on the team has more than three sacks all season.
Offensively the Bears need to stay close enough to stick with rookie RB Matt Forte, which didn't happen last week when they were blown out by the Packers. Offensive coordinator Ron Turner would also like QB Kyle Orton to get the wide receivers more involved than they have been in the past two weeks, when they have a total of just nine catches./ BTW, saw some cool widgets at statbeast. Take a look!
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