The Quotable Bears - Week Three

“Of course he did because they won. But I was open all game. They (Wallace) just didn’t throw me the ball.”

Way to call out your QB, who (for a backup) had a really good game. What a tool! This makes me even more glad that JA didn’t sign him and his overpriced ego.

…if the O-Lone doesn’t get it together and quick, these late wins will become…well, I’m sure you get it. Chris Williams gets burned ALOT! Pace can hold his own against decent pass rushers, but truly premier speed guys run around him. I think Forte is suffering from a severe lack of effective blocking. Please don’t get me wrong; the lanes open up; sporadically. So Forte gets stopped as much by the good guys (us) as by the bad guys. Because the line sporadically opens lanes, we end up running on 3rd and this, or 3rd and that. The result is often a punt. And with a less confident and mobile QB, the protection would look worse than it does.
Of all of the concerns we had coming into 2009 (Wrs, DBs), and even with the decimation of our LBing corp, I honestly think the line is a bigger concern.

AP came in later in the game, which helped his cause. I watched Wolfe get stacked up for a loss, and before I could really finish the fit I was throwing at what a ridiculous call it was having him run up the middle, he ran for 11 yards on an identical play. I honestly feel like we lack consistency in the blocking.

Knox deserves an honorable mention. The dude will be an elite WR by the time it’s all said and done!

They running the same run plays from last year, the difference is just personel. You have two new Tackles that’s known as Pass Blockers in Williams and Pace. Graza has never been known to be the toughest run blocker in years past. Then you have a Tackle trying to play LG who lacks the fundamentals and technique to play the position. Our best run blocking Lineman is on the bench in Beekman, and I just don’t get how the coaches can just give Omiyale his job based off his contract.

Granted, the o-line sucks, but he does look tentative and he’s doing a lot of “skipping” into the hole. I’m still of the opinion that our blocking schemes aren’t very good because they don’t cause any spacing and bunch everyone up at the hole so the backs don’t really have choices. Jiggetts made a comment on the Comcast postgame show that our pulling guards run flat to the line of scrimmage where they should be getting more depth and coming up to hit the defenders. He mentioned that when you’re running parallel to the line, you can’t get leverage so everyone just piles up and the back has no options.

He also said that our linemen seem to do more “catch blocking” on running plays, rather than getting low and under the pads of the D-linemen to drive them off the ball. Interesting points from a former offensive lineman.

If not, here’s a LINK (#4) for you.

Forte caught some crucial passes. Our line seemed to run backwards. ALOT! No screens. The O-Line needs to be on a wooden stick with the RBs. Again, IMO.

to do that, the Tackles need to hold up. Otherwise, it ends up being a tackle for loss. Chris Williams is struggling hard! Pace is strong, but slow.

Devin Hester, more then he ever has, actually looks and plays like a wide receiver, even a number 1 wide receiver. He has had some serious productive plays when he has had the oppurtunity. The nice catch over the shoulders in Lambeau, the stiff arm to charles woodson for 12 yards lol. The clutch 3rd down catch in the Steelers game. The go ahead T.D on the slant yesterday. The nice reverse..before it got called back lol.

Call me crazy but ladies and gents, Devin Hester has finally arrived. He is our #1 receiver and you can tell how confident he is now.

also, the play that Hester made earlier where he stretched for the first down was huge. It’s getting lost in the game winning TD, but it showed his maturation as a WR and an offensive player by knowing exactly where the markers were and not being denied in getting there.

This might actually get rid of the “*&^ing Hester Hater” tag that I was stuck with last week.

It is exactly the type of catches that Hester is making, that are going to get him to #1 status. The expectations for Hester were that he was going to out run all opposing DB’s down the sideline and be our burner.

All off-season us fans on this site stressed about what we were going to do about a possession receiver. Apparently we had him all along and didn’t even know it. Hester’s clutch catches this year have sealed his #1 status, as far as I’m concerned.

Hester and our burner Knox have been the biggest bright side of the season so far.

I think he should be put back to a PR full-time. J/K! I’m so tired of hearing people say he’s more valuable there than WR; there’s nothing more valuable than having a game-winning TD catch.

I understand that there are three new players on this line and it takes a while for an O-line to gel. Despite Omiyale’s size advantage, Beekman really grew on me last year.

The fact that Omiyale’s contract is bigger could certainly be a reason that he is in there over Beekman, as sad as that is. I wonder though if: Omiyale could be in there learning to play guard because, coaches know that Beekman likely will be our starting center soon and hopefully Omiyale will have learned the guard position by then and fully gelled with the rest of the line?

In a year, two at the most, it is likely that Beekman and Omiyale will be on the line together.

What I saw were good returns by Seattle all day. He actually badly missed the returner on one kickoff, allowing a substantial gain. I think he needs to be cut so Aroma can get some playing time. Toub needs to get the STS in order, because they’re a shell of what they used to be.

It was CW’s missed block that caused Jay to fumble the ball!

But at least he made the best out of a bad situation.

How’d that work out?