The Bears' Three Keys Against The Lions: Defense

I am hoping that our D-Line shows up, like you said, it’s been missing for the past 3 games. If Staford gets enough time to throw, not a lot of good things can happen for us , out there.

I don’t really care how it happens. If they want to run a six man offensive line that looks like this (L to R)

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Where Frank Omiyale declares eligible on every play, and they only throw it to him, that’s fine. Whatever you have to do to win this game, you win this game.

Bah. I think this is a letdown game for Detroit. They are on cloud 9 rightfully so but sometimes on the big stage..especially hosting it for the first time in over a decade, the NFL has a way of living up to the any given Sunday moniker. That being said, the game won’t be handed to us. If I was Martz, my game plan would consist of 3 step drop quick routes and outside runs heavily utilizing the screen. Let’s stay away from the middle and make those linebackers earn their paychecks Monday Night.

Bear Down!

I thought all along our best lineup would include Hitman and Merriweather. Hopefully, Harris’ experience and communication will balance the rash, aggressive play of Merriweather and we can meet somewhere in the middle.

Re: D-Line…Peppers is getting doubled and chipped every play now and I don’t see it stopping. That means Melton and whomever is lined up at the opposite DE spot needs to make plays. Also, I think this would be a good game to bring Moore from his Nickel spot to generate some pressure…Stafford doesn’t possess Aaron Rodgers-level scrambling ability and we could definitely rattle his cage with a few blitzes.

according to raiders website.

before I believe the hype. Noone breaks their momentum like the Bears.

Chris Harris’s return does not guarantee the end to Meriweather “freelancing”; however, Brandon Meriweather has kept said “freelancing” to a minimum thus far into the season.

He has made just 1 major mistake, yet gets viewed more harshly than Major Wright and the other safeties in general? I can see why he would want to “freelance” as he may have felt it was up to him to make plays for other plays such as Major Wright and Craig Steltz blowing their respective assignments.

Afterall, the deep compleation to Steve Smith was a horrific mistake on Meriweather’s behalf, but, he made the tackle before Smith got into the endzone. And, he has made some rather good plays in general.

Btw for the inquiring mind as to just how much the Pats’ D misses Meriweather; they are ranked dead last on defense, especially against the pass.

So, cut him some slack, and lets see what happens now that the master of our secondary has finally returned. I personally have been looking forward to this moment for a while now.

1) Does the return of Chris Harris put a stop to Brandon Meriweather’s freelancing?

> The man can surely tackle, but is he any good in coverage? I’ve never seen it in his play

2) How the flip do the Bears stop Calvin Johnson?

> Was it two years ago that Lovie made a half-time adjustment and played single high safety and putting Peanut manning up on CJ ? Probably the last time we made an adjustment ….
> We could murder Stafford, and then his backup, and then maybe we have a chance.
> Start 6’1 Bowman over smurf Jennings who can’t cover his mouth anyway.

3) We were promised a penetrating defensive line! When does the delivery truck come?!

> Answers on a postcard please. Waiting on $91M worth of DE please. Also waiting on 2 first round picks, a 3rd rounder and a Kyle Orton’s worth of play at the QB position please.

Hitman’ll help, but how much? not sure if one safety can make this D THAT much better

The problem is that the Bears don’t really have a secondary that can win a jump ball against a Johnson-type receiver – remember, it’s basically the Smurfs and Peanut Tillman.

Well, maybe they can smurf the eversmurfing smurf out of him. Just smurfin’.