like to give grossman a nod, i thought he would shit the bed, he got nailed a few times and held on to the ball. not a bad job.

3rd and 2?  run up the gut.
4rth and 2?  John Shoop gets his revenge.  

The Bears D played well all day, really.  Only giving up 14 points, 6 of them on a sort-of trick play, and dominating the first half.  Would have dominated the 2nd had the offense given them a breather.

Turnovers sucked.  Hester's fair catches were indeed annoying as well.  We're going to have to get some mojo going on offense next week - but I think the defense is looking good, unless Brown is hurt and out for more than just the 2nd half of this first game.  That would not be good.

about Hester today. I was thinking the same thing all game long, he seemed like he made up his mind in the pregame that he was going to fair catch everything today. With our lack of potent offense, we need more than that from him. The offense was bad, but the turnovers are what killed us. The defense was strong, just need the offense to score some points and keep them off the field once in awhile. I'm not worried, San Diego is possibly the best team in the league and should be expected to win this game. I disagree about Grossman; he wasn't horrible, but he wasn't good either. That fumble of his started giving me visions of bad Rex from last season.

I don't agree at all on the Hester fair catch.  

Hester seemed to be a little cautious, but not overly so.  I was impressed that he made smart decisions instead of trying to force things.  

I don't recall any fair catches that were obvious that he should have tried to return them.

... the play calling was terrible.

I though it may have been Shoop calling the plays.  Very, very conservative.  

Only one ball thrown deep all game?  Rex's biggest strength is throwing the deep ball, and Berrian's (and Bradley's - did he even see the field?) biggest strength is catching the deep ball.

At least try it.

And the offensive line, especially on the run, was pretty awful.  You can't expect much from Benson when he continually gets hit behind the line of scrimmage.  

I hope that the knee injuries to Mike Brown and Dusty Dvoracek aren't of the season ending variety. The Dusty injury would be of the Greg Olsen "why the hell was he playing" type too. The play-by-play guys on WBBM made the observation that Dusty shouldn't have been in on the kickoff return where he got hurt, but rather one of the back-up offensive linemen instead since the defense had been in for a large part of the second half and the risk of a fatigue injury was much greater.

MIKE BROWN OUT FOR THE YEAR, AGAIN?

Officially, Bears safety Mike Brown has a knee sprain.  Unofficially, it might be worse than that.

After Sunday's loss to the Chargers, Brown broke down while talking to reporters about the injury.

"It's another sad day in the chapter of my football-playing career," Brown said. "I don't know what else to tell you guys."

As the Chicago Tribune points out, the Bears called quarterback Rex Grossman's 2004 ACL tear a knee sprain, too.

Brown previously suffered season-ending injuries in 2004 and 2006.

UPDATE:  We're hearing rumblings that Brown has a torn ACL.  We're also hearing that Bears defensive tackle Dusty Dvoracek has suffered a knee injury.

sonofabitch.

let the MRI's commence.

Running game was pretty awful the first couple of games last year too, so hopefully we can pick it up again this year because obviously this offense needs to be able to run.  And I think they will.  

I wouldn't want to be the Chiefs next week...