Notes, Scribbles, and Things Jotted Down: Week 15, Seahawks Edition

that tackle on Golden Tate. Peanut freed Tate from Jennings. Yet another reason why I think the Bears secondary needs some time to work on tackling fundamentals. Instead of the team moving Conte, Wright and Meriweather in their direct, it seems to have worked in reverse. The number of times I see Conte leave his feet or Meriweather and Peanut try to tackle without their arms makes me sick.

Roy Williams gets a lot of bad press. But did anyone notice that when he was the target of two poorly thrown passes by Hanie that ended up in INTs that Williams couldn’t do a damned thing to stop, it was Williams who stepped up in the locker room and said “Don’t blame my quarterback. It was on me.” when he was questioned about the first one. When they asked him about the second he said, “That was one me, too.” Roy took a very defensive posture in circling the wagons around Hanie on two plays that were so obviously Hanie’s fault.

I’m not really very happy with Roy. But if the guy impressed me as much on the field as he consistently does off of it, He’d be a Pro Bowler.

is either Kris Adams or Onrea Jones.

That doesn’t work out, can we bring back Fantuz? Haha.

There is no positive from the team anymore. Hopefully we can get everyone else through the year healthy, get a solid draft, and make a run next year.

When he hit the turf, he got no plan.

For forte is getting a nice refresher course in just how interchangeable nfl running backs are in this era. It’s insane to waste big money locking down a running back when guys like Khalil bell and Marion barber can be had for dirt cheap and can do 80-90% of the job an elite runner can. Invest in a true #1 receiver to go alongside Bennett and our speed freaks Knox/Hester and invest in the o-line and pay 3 running backs no more than a combined 6 mil and we’ll be fine.

is lack of game experience. He seems to rely too much on instinct, which allows him to make some good runs with the occasional good throw, but makes a lot of unbelievably dumb crap because he’s lacking the experience to tame the same instinct. He could become a proper serviceable backup (one that could step up when needed) if he spent some time starting regularly on a development league… something the NFL will never allow.

I don’t care about getting receivers now. Two games, purely theoretical chances of making the playoffs, and a bunch of worthless QBs mean we might as well start playing with full house formations with Barber + Bell + Clutts.

I just looked at a mock draft site and they had Michael Floyd going to us… that would be very nice.

Caleb Hanie is everything that a QB is NOT. Poor decisions, poor throws, poor fundamentals. Where Jay Cutler had 13 TDs compared to just 7 INTs in his 10 games where the Bears went 7-3, Caleb Hanie has 3 TDs compared to 9 INTs in just his 4 games this season, where we are 0-4. The Bears need a new back-up, and perhaps Martz was right all the long about his situation at QB behind Cutler.

Where I pray Johnny Knox makes a full recovery and his career remain intact, WR has been the largest issue all year. Roy Williams deserves some respect for taking the blame for his QB, but overall despite being such a small contract he is a bust in Chicago. Bennett has virtually dissapeared from the scene since Cutler got sidelined 5 weeks ago. There is no denying it, the Bears must land a talented vet from FA to man one of the starting wideout spots.

This season is over for us. All we can do now is look to next year and finding the pieces we need to improve our squad.

Thing is, the needs we have are the same they were at the end of last season;

1. A couple more beasts on the OL
2. A TRUE #1 Receiver
3. More Talent in the Secondary
4. A REAL Backup QB

We are much more fortunate than most teams in that we have some pieces in place to build with; a Franchise Caliber QB, a very good RB, and several outstanding, Pro Bowl Caliber players on defense. The rest of this season should be dedicated to seeing some play from our backups and those who need more game time experience. Threat the last 2 like the first 2, pre-season.
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Since we can’t suck for Luck, maybe they suck for Floyd.

our needs seem greater than the draft. when the management pick players that don’t seem to work!!!

And other than that I have nothing else to say because this isn’t a gamethread and I can’t be as eloquent as I would like to be…

But the fact is this. Knox was really hurting this team more then ever. This is now third year in the league and he has not shown anything regarding improvement. His fundamentals are horrid and makes only so few big plays. He will never be a complete WR, so how many more chance are we gunna give him? Also, who say that he’ll be the same player after this injury?

I want Knox to play again and walk again, but not in Halas Hall. The Bears should release him.

Pray that Tim Ruskell (one of your GM’s underlings) doesn’t get the GM job.