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Grading The Bears

For the most part everybody played great, but there were some places that could have stood some improvement.

Quarterback: A

Kyle Orton had a career game, but not a defining one. His 121.4 rating is lower than the average allowed by the Lions' NFL-worst defense (122.1).

 

Running backs: C

Matt Forte's rushing yards (36 on 15 carries) declined for the fourth straight week -- against a team allowing an NFL-worst 5.6 yards per rush.

 

Receivers: A

For the first time, Devin Hester looked like a receiver who also returns kicks. Marty Booker had the play of the day with a one-handed catch for 30 yards.

 

Star-divide

Other News and Notes:

Early preview of next week's match up with Atlanta.

Bears corner Lions wideouts.  (I'd have to do some checking, but hasn't everytime Roy Williams opened his mouth before a game the Lions lost and he had something to do with it?)

Booker beats the Lions one-handed.

Receivers pick up the slack for Lloyd.

Mike Brown enjoys full day of work.

Kyle's Bears fly first class.

Angelo believes Harris will return strong.

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I'm actually fine w/ the low ypc of Forte.

I just love the 15 carries and the 10 by Jones. Forte is a good RB and will continue to be so. Get a better line, and he’ll be fine. Just don’t get him hurt and wear his body down.

by tyger1147 on Oct 6, 2008 10:11 AM CDT reply actions   0 recs

Exactly

The Lions keyed up on stopping the run. They were successful in doing so, which was the only positive for them yesterday. When Kyle Orton torches you for 334 yards and a pair of TD’s, that’s when you start banging your head into a brick wall. And that’s coming from an Orton supporter.

I'M A MAN! I'M 22!

by ChiFan13 on Oct 6, 2008 11:20 AM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

I think we still should have ran the ball better though. Everyone is stacking the line against us and we still ran it better than this weekend. I think because we got up so large and so fast it took a little bit of tenacity away from the Oline. They were the freaking lions and we should have been able to chew up more yards on the ground. If we are to win this division we have to run the ball better. On the other side I think we had a pretty conservative gameplan with running the ball. Didn’t mix it up with alot of traps, cutbacks etc, which would have helped opened things up. Just ran either right up the gut or the toss which made it easier to defend.

by tfrabotta on Oct 7, 2008 10:14 AM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

I think

the passing game finally coming around is also contributing to the decline in Forte’s production in the running game but he is still a threat and is doing well as a receiver he has far exceeded my expectiations from him and I believe with the emergence of the passing game that the run game will open up again and Forte will have a big game soon.

If things came easy, then everybody would be great at what they did, let's face it.
Mike Ditka

by Ditkavsworld on Oct 7, 2008 7:27 AM CDT reply actions   0 recs

it was

one sentence. Impressive I know.

If things came easy, then everybody would be great at what they did, let's face it.
Mike Ditka

by Ditkavsworld on Oct 7, 2008 10:38 AM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

impressive...

… wasn’t the word that i was thinking.

by big_lowitzki on Oct 7, 2008 3:39 PM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

I'll try

my best from now on to create quality gramatical posts that you will enjoy reading. Thank you for bringing this to my attention, I had no idea that I had to worry about punctuation. I will focus more on that than the substance of my post. Humbly submitted for your approval.

If things came easy, then everybody would be great at what they did, let's face it.
Mike Ditka

by Ditkavsworld on Oct 8, 2008 7:08 AM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

Yep

WCG should figure something out with you so all posts have to get your approval in case of grammar/punctuation/spelling errors.

I'M A MAN! I'M 22!

by ChiFan13 on Oct 7, 2008 11:26 AM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

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