Beat Links: Chicago Bears beat writers weigh in on the loss to the Redskins

Martz and Smith had promised a more balanced attack after the Seahawks plan (47 passes and 12 rushes) blew up in the Bears’ face the previous week.

“When I talk about balance, I’m not talking about 50-50 or anything like that,” Smith said. “I’m just talking about keeping (the defense) off balance a little bit with the run, taking what they’re giving us. We did that for the most part today.”

When it came to the running game, the Bears gained 66 yards on the 16 attempts for a 4.1-yard average. Matt Forte had 41 yards on 10 carries. Chester Taylor picked up 20 yards on three attempts (6.7 average).

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After he said this:

“That’s what we did, so we’re going to stay with that plan,” he said. “Sometimes the plan changes during the course of a game. We’re not happy with what happened, but not going to sit here now … it’s pretty easy in hindsight to say we wish we would have done this a little bit better. As I started off early on, I said we need to have balance, more balance, and that’s what we’ll do.”

Asked what he had in mind when he refers to balance, Smith said 50-50. We’ll see if they can achieve that starting Sunday when the Washington Redskins visit Soldier Field.

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Last year, they went out and got “prized free agent” Rod Marinelli, who was supposed to coach our talented D-Line to sacks. But, Angelo forgot something… the talent. Well, he didn’t forget it, as much as arrogantly thinking his draft picks were, you know, actually talented.

Marinelli couldn’t do squat with what we had, which led to a mid-season trade for Gaines Adams, and the eventual break the bank free agent signing of Julius Peppers.

This year, our management arrogantly went out and did the same idiotic thing on the other side of the ball. Angelo though Mike Tice would instantly fix our O-Line. Except, there’s one glaring problem: he doesn’t even have an O-Line to work with.

   ….." The whole shabang is pathetic"!!!!! From the top down they all gotta go my friends, nothing new, nothing we all dont know, nothing that hasn’t been or wont continue to be bandied(sp) about until my fondest dream becomes reality and the 3 stooges+3 no longer haunt Halas Hall.

We knew it wasn’t meat but we sampled the sides and they were good and it was presented nice.

Angelo, Lovie and the rest should have been sent packing before this year started. We retreaded an NFL outcast in Martz after no one wanted to come in under this regime. We suffered through until basically Lovie is running the D again and put a never called a play dline coach in as DC.

We got a shinny overpriced appetizer in Peppers, Taylor and Manu but forgot we didn’t have enough money left for any other en tree but a crap sandwich. So basically we overpaid on positions and they poorly evaluated the glaring needs in oline improvement. Seems for the price of Peppers and Manu we could have bought a pretty good oline. Peppers is good but still no pressure for some reason.

So like every year we get a flash early to make us optimistic about our sandwich selection and soon find out it still tastes the same… Like crap.

We are in a playoff spot now! I really hope Cutler (who was the one responsible for this loss) gets his act together. The line settled down, the Defense was dominant, they were getting good field position (Shanahan is really scared of Hester), the running game was not too bad, but turnoveritis got us.

“fumble” that surely would have won us the game…i don’t understand