Pleased To Meet You: Week 13, Denver Broncos

Tebow will break loose and the Broncos D will prove too much for the Bears offense, yet again.

Broncos 17, Bears 6

But seriously, we still can win. Not sayin’ it’ll be pretty but there’s still a chance. I like our d against that o. Plus, we can’t get smited (smoted? Smitten?) Three straight weeks.

The Bears have to maintain gap control, and not get caught out of position.

But if our offense can’t produce any better than last week, there’s still no way we can win. Simply can’t win with no points (stating the obvious LOL). Maybe if our defense can force a few more turnovers… But even then, turnovers are worthless if they don’t result in points, which judging from last game, our offense is hellbent on NOT giving us. Sacks, drops, missed routes, ball bobbles… many a good field position simply left hanging. Many POINTS left hanging because of poor play. Just sad, sad, sad. If our offense doesn’t shape up this week, best we can hope for is lights out from the defense and D giving us a pick 6 or forcing turnovers in Field Goal range for Gould to come in and do his thing. Otherwise, I’m expecting another loss.

I would love to be the team that ends this Tebow love-fest. I would love to take a little control and show that we’re not going to just lie down and pass on this season.

But really, I haven’t seen anything aside from the defense these last two weeks that shows we’re capable. So I’ll be there on the couch this weekend, watching from start to finish, hoping to be proven wrong.

however, I’m not seeing much on turnovers, but forcing out three-and-outs. They’ll manage between 9 and 17 points, the question is if the offense can put more that 3 points. Most of Tebows’ miracles come from the defense hanging the game close enough to be still within 7 or 10 points with 10 minutes left on the clock. With Cutty, I’m sure we could score a few while the D holds them at a distance, giving a good enough cushion for the fabled Tebow Time. With Hanie I can’t see more than punt, punt, punt, punt, int, punt, FG.

I’m not trying to make excuses or to make our secondary look amazing (Andre Goodman is not a very good CB2). Just saying that the TD total and average yardage is slightly misleading. Before Percy Harvin made Ponder look like Aaron Rodgers against us this last week, we held Rivers under 200 yards the week before and held Sanchez to 250 the week before and held Cassel to under 100 the week before that.

Harvin’s after-the-catch running is what made Ponder look like Rodgers. His three TDs in that game, plus 3 for Stafford and 4 for Rodgers are the three horrible defensive performances that are askewing the pass stats, IMO.

An additional point on the pass defense here is the overall upward trend. Elvis Dumervil’s sacks, for instance, came in the last five weeks. That’s 6.5 sacks on the season; 6.5 sacks in the last five games. With him and Von Miller (who was out against Harvin and Ponder last week) now in full stride, it’s arguably the top pass-rush in the league. Last time Batman and Robin took the field together, it got so bad against the Chargers that they actually had Rivers stop throwing the ball late so that he wouldn’t get injured. And MIller did end Cassel’s season. And Dumervil left Ponder limping last week (and the HC even admitted at half time that Ponder was incredibly sore). These guys are quarterback killers over the last seven games.

With five 4th quarter comebacks in just ten starts, Tim generally wins when down by 15 or less in the 4th. I just don’t see the banged up Bears putting us in that situation.

not Teblow. The Denver defense is good and getting better and I do not see the Bears offense managing more than a FG or 2. For the Bears to have any chance in this game, they will have to score on ST AND defense. This will be a close game and I see the Bears losing 17-13. Hanie and co. will continue to disappoint and the defense will surrender the go ahead touchdown late after holding Tebow in check for most of the game. Hanie will throw 3 more INTs and I also see a fumble from the offense.

i might not be the best judge of this since i am a broncos fan but u best hope is to get 21 points and hold on for dear life if u do not get at least 2 Turnovers i do not see how u can win denver loves low scoreing games i feel hanle will get sacked at least 5 times u only hope is to get the ball first score then get a 13-3 16-6 lead in the 4th i say 14-10 Den

loveing it your D is top 5 and u have a better roster top to bottom but we are playing with so much confeidce right now this is a magic run right now for denver u can win but the last 5 weeks esp the last 2 i can see their confeidce just growing and growing minn took away the run last week and tebow showed he coluild make some plays with his arm 88 D Thomas couild be a matchup ploem for u guys he is a poor man calvn johnson with inj plomemles

For two weeks in a row, I have predicted a Bears win, albeit after Martz has me pounding my head on the coffee table (my wife is getting really tired of that) with his play calling, but a win nonetheless.

SO, my new prediction is simple:

Teblow dominates us, confusing the cover-2 to the level that makes Lovie suck is thumb on the sideline. Our offense can’t get out of its own way. Hanie will be out to prove that the 3 picks the last two games was a fluke. In response, he will throw 4 picks. In a moment of pure genius, Martz will try the “wildcat triple-reverse flea-flicker” to the tune of a 29 yard loss (Poor execution). Barber will have a solid game, and will score a TD, but it will be waived off for a illegal motion because he starts before everyone else on the offense. Gould will line up for a chip-shot field goal. After the announcer says Gould is “money” from this range, he will boink it off the upright. Just for fun, I will predict gate-68 gets in the game and performs beautifully, only giving up 3 sacks in 9 plays, with 2 false starts.

give him some space and an open receiver and he can still gash a defense.

You could say that about any NFL QB. The Vikes secondary is decimated and looked like a college team on Sunday. Tebow’s wobbling passes would’ve been picked by most defenses.

"the chicago bears, unable to stay home and play ‘dance, dance revolution’ on their xbox, traveled to denver and in a shocking upset, beat the tebows 28 – 20. ‘we prayed on it’ said bears middle linebacker brian uralacher, ‘then we decided to open a can of ass whoop instead’. the bears made nfl history by scoring all of their points on defense and special teams."