Notes, Scribbles, and Things Jotted Down: Panthers Edition

• As much as I like him, Tillman’s very close to being done, if he’s not already.
• As much as I can’t stand him, Josh Bullocks made a beast ST’s tackle that probably saved a TD.
• Corey Wootton made a really nice play, on his first ever NFL snap.
• People were praising Carolina’s kicking game, but line drives to both Hester and Knox?
• Why do players celebrate tackles and first downs when their team is losing, mightily.
• A month for Breast Cancer Awarness, and NFL players wearing pink? It’s not the 70’s anymore, people are pretty aware.

• Izzy finally stepped up and delivered what we needed on the line – someone to take the sacks from the pressure that Peppers was delivering.

• Nice work on the INTs by Urlacher and Peppers, but come on guys, you got shown up by an Illini D-Lineman on Saturday. At least run it back for a TD or something. Yes, I’m being facetious.

• Forte finally had an “Eff you, I’m making this my play” type of play. He finally looked really really good with a little space.

• Bench Collins last Saturday. That is all.

• Clausen looked mildly overwhelmed. And you know what you have in Moore, at this point it couldn’t hurt them to put their other rook Pike in at QB for a game or two.

• But Pike would’ve been drilled by Izzy too.

• Briggs going down is scary, but hopefully he’s back next week.

• So much for all that NFC North QB depth? Stafford, shoulder, Cutler, concussion, Rodgers, concussion, Favre, shame and overcompensation suspension pending. And we go to Hill, Flynn, Quinn Collins, and T-Jack. Mother of Ditka.

when Martz’, who I’ve been critical of in the past, started passing the game was never really in doubt. Obviously, I had a real problem with the way Collins played and he should have never started the 2nd half, but they are still trying to find a decent O-line combination and you have to see how they can pass block. A game like this where we could run when we needed to was the perfect situation to test those guys in the trenches. No one could have possibly thought Collins would be as bad as he was but I think the strategy was sound.

Bears coach Lovie Smith said quarterback Todd Collins ‘’did some good things.’’

What flipping game was he watching!!??!! He needs to shut up after the game. Better to have people think you are a quiet idiot than open your mouth and prove them right.

was cracking me up, I know he’s a little chubby, but that shirt made him look like Homer in the moomoo.

is a warrior, he doesn’t care who he texts or how many photo messages he slings all over the field, this guy just loves the “game” -Jon Gruden on the recent Favre rumors.

I had to search the roster for this kid. I thought he did a very serviceable job at guard.

He certainly looked better than Frank the stank.

“Lovie is our Head Coach”

“Lovie gets off the bus humming”

Izzy benefits greatly from the Freak that is Julius Peppers.

Todd Collins doesn’t suck, if he sucked he might be useful, if he blows he still could be used on the leaves. If we filled the #10 uniform full of excrement, stood it in the backfield and used a stick to attach the ball to hand it off to the backs – that would approximate his ability.

My 21 year old daughter has greater arm strength than Collins and can throw a tighter spiral.

We have our win and our first place. Well done.

But, can someone wake up Mr. Angelo – I believe he’s asleep at the wheel, again.

Could we call Jeff Garcia?

WTF? I had to ask the questions:

• Where the hell was Hanie after interception #3 (or 2 or even 1)?
• Wouldn’t LeFevour have been an upgrade?
• Didn’t I see this patch on Todd Collins uni?
  

-Collins was epically bad. He overthrew wide open receivers on back-to-back plays. Wow.
-The Panthers are really bad too. Their rush defense is also really bad. But before I give that all the credit for yesterdays run performance by us, I’ll say that perhaps this will give the team confidence running the ball going forward.
-Is it possible that we have two defensive player of the year candidates in Peppers and Urlacher?
-I’m still not sold on the Bears: Winning with your backup is great, but we suck on 3rd down and still can’t get 1 yard when that’s all we need. A good team would have beat us yesterday we just got lucky that we played one of the worst teams in the league.

Matt Forte turned it on early. Imagine this-getting the ball outside to him quickly on the little flips and tosses works. Running him up the middle doesn’t.

Wonder if we might see more of those types of plays.

Probably not :(

I was at the game yesterday.

Bears fans took up approximately 30 percent of the stadium and were very vocal.
Peppers booed every time his name was announced.
A Bears fan in front of me sang “Bear Down,” loudly after the first TD
Peppers putting his finger to his lips and shh’ing the crowd was hilarious
Saw several Bears fans in the end zone seats including a Ditka look a like
Panthers fans were more excited about the halftime regional mascot game then the actual game. Big props to my alma mater, the Elon Phoenix, for representing.
Collins was awful
Briggs gave the thumbs up when walking off the field, seemed ok.
My buddy asked if Urlacher still played for the Bears…he then destroyed DeAngelo Williams on a run.

It was hot and there were a lot of empty seats after halftime, terrible fan base.

Go Bears!

considering how he played against us as a Redskin.

He was out and we pulled him back in, just in time for the final preseason game. He looked good playing against 3rd stringers most of whom got cut. He has had very limited reps with the first team.

I wonder why they are so reluctant to put Hanie in. What do they know that we don’t?

There is some pretty funny stuff in there..“Judas Peppers”