Ask Canal Street Chronicles: Is It Sunday Yet? Edition

Most people who particpate in these are good people. So you shouldn’t have a problem with anybody.

A lot of my worries about the Packers game I’m very unsure about. Was our O-line just that crappy, or was BJ Raji just that beasty? Possibly a mix of both, but the “best guard tandem in the league” sucked massively on the line and they need to step up during the Bears game. Especially considering how much Matt Ryan was disrupted.

Secondary looked like they were blowing assignments. As the commentators pointed out, they were playing off coverage on a fake blitz…on third down. There were some guys in man, others in zone. Guys were covering the turf when they were supposed to be covering Greg Jennings. It was just poor effort all around. So I’m going to say that it’s a coaching problem, and will be better by the time you guys show up. Hopefully.

I think Moore will likely be back. He not playing was a shocker, and was very unexpected. So to not play two weeks in a row means that the injury is likely worse than the coaches are letting on.

However, if the Saints WR problem do get that bad, I’d expect a lot more 2 TE sets and 2 backs who can catch the ball.

He actually practiced some the week before the game but they didn’t want any set backs before he was 100%. Expect Arrington and Roby to pick up some of the slack from the Colston lose and Sean may activate Joique Bell at RB. We are pretty deep right now a RBs who can also receive.

Possibly Roman Harper, if he isn’t asked to cover a TE or cover anything for that matter.

Alex Brown sucked. He rarely showed up on any stat sheet, got little pressure, and was only useful on running downs. Cameron Jordan has taken over his job seamlessly (and by seamlessly, I mean we aren’t sure if he’s even playing out there).

So I hope GW makes some other adjustment other than Roman Harper to cover him. Wasn’t real impressed with our D in general, but we are missing Will Smith for this game also, and we have a lot of new pieces that have to find their place. Our supposed good secondary was exposed last week,abet against a very good GB. Hopefully Tracy Porter will be back at his normal spot rather than P Rob. That said they all need to learn how to wrap up for the tackle. Malcom Jenkins is our best secondary player at the safety position right now, but some pressure on the QB would help all of the secondary.

I need them to force my membership active, first.

We are primarily 4-3 with some 3-4 thrown in and a whole lot of Blitz. Sometimes too much blitz. We still need to be able to harass the QB without depending solely on the Blitz. Especially against QB’s that get rid of the ball quickly and can make you pay if you can’t cover. I have a counter question. Was Cutler’s ability to get rid of the ball quickly last week a result of his increased grasp of the Martz O-Scheme, or because of Atlanta’s weaknesses? Hears hoping the latter!

It will deffinitly impact the game for us. It looks like Moore will be able to play this weekend so that will help us out. Moore is Brees safety blanket.

Yes!

It really doesn’t matter.

It’s a contract year so I’m sure he is going to play B@lls-out. He was a big disappointment last year IMO.

Be advised that quite a few are angered by the image of the fan posted here by BCS. I’ve spoken out more than once saying that this does not represent all Bears fans. A few Bad apples always ruins the experience for everyone.

I feel fairly confident in Strief. Bushrod always worries me. Against Peppers they will probably have some blocking support for Bushrod with either a TE or RB.

That’s low…

who put a McNair jersey on a skeleton this weekend.

I only heard of this after the game (I was there) and was embarassed to be a Bears fan. Unfortunately, some people have zero class and/or tact.

bad enough to have a thought like that, to put it on a frickin poster? what an ass.

WHY IS THE BALL NOT IN DREW BREES’ HANDS AT THE END OF THE GAME?

Millions of people are asking that same question. Bad call by Sean Payton. And to put it on the line like that on your rookie RB? It was a heck of a game though.

Payton made 2 bad calls at crucial moments. It happens. Nothing we can really do about it now except hope he learned his lesson.

Yeah, it’s worked out like that.

Non-football question

That’s usually my department. Unfortunately I don’t have HBO. Maybe someone else can answer your question.

I think your screen name sums it up.

The Dbag deserves all the critics in the world. I’m not a big fan of ex-players being “analysts,” cause they always have their hard wired biases. Same goes for Bruschi.

A lot of us were really upset about that game for a long time. Now that we have won a Super Bowl since that time, it’s not so bad.

However, a certain offense is better than a certain offense from 2006. As is a certain defense, and a certain coach. As well, the playing conditions are the polar opposite. In the Southern heat of the Louisiana Superdome instead of the Brutal winter of Chicago.