Bears Roll Over Lions
Four wins in a row. The Bears are who I thought they were.
This was as good a defensive performance as you will ever see in the NFL. The Bears dominated the Lions. They had constant pressure on Stafford, they stripped balls away and they got four interceptions including two pick-6 returns. The Lions had a lot of garbage time yards in the second half, but they were meaningless yards and as the Bears tightened up their D near the goal line the Lions just couldn't do much. If anything, I thought the Bears should have had 2 more interceptions. D.J. Moore dropped an easy one in the end zone and Chris Conte had a deflected pass go through his hands.
Devin Hester is ridiculous. No one should ever kick to him, but his 82 yard return made it 20-0 and pretty much ended the game in the first half. He had another 29 yard return that led to a short field drive for a field goal. Gould hit a couple of field goals (he did miss one from 45 yards that looked like the wind hit it) and pretty much all of his many kickoffs were touchbacks. Needless to say, special teams did their part.
Offensively the team was efficient, but nothing special. The first three drives were TD, FG, FG. Then, the fourth drive was a Cutler fumble inside the Bears 20 where he just lost the ball on his way to giving a Forte handoff. It could have allowed the Lions to claw back in but the D held them to a field goal. The Bears closed out the first half with a nice drive but they missed the field goal. I think part of the problem for the offense was that they had long stretches where they weren't on the field (Hester TD, 2 pick-6's).
There was a pretty serious injury for the Bears. Chris Williams hurt his wrist and had to have emergency surgery last night. He is probably done for the season, which sucks because he was playing well. Edwin Williams looks like he is going to start, but I expect that we will see Carimi back at RT soon and Lance Louis moving over to the guard position. It may have some impact, but you got to just roll with injuries.
The Bears now play four straight against the AFC West. San Diego comes to town next week. The Bears should take that one.
posted by Rob @ 11/14/2011 09:04:00 AM
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Didn't watch the game but saw some highlights and some stats and it seemed like the D dominated.
Right now, outside of the Packers, the Pears have to be considered just as good as anyone in the NFC.
Congrats!
Thanks. There is an interesting thing that has happened the last couple of weeks for the Bears. Obviously offensively things on the O-line have been pretty good - sucks about Chris Williams but it happens.
The big thing is that their two young safeties - Major Wright (second year) and Chris Conte (rookie) are playing great. Both have been great and there is a marked difference in their speed relative to Chris Harris (cut) and Brandon Meriweather (benched).
The other thing is the Bears are moving more into an attacking mode and playing a lot more man coverage with single high (Cover 1) and some Cover 3 mixed in, rather than their standard Tampa 2. I am sure it is an effort to prepare to play the Pack.
Rodgers sits back and picks apart the Bears Tampa 2, but the last two weeks the Bears shut down the Eagles receivers and largely controlled the Lions receivers with their press man coverage. They need to do that well if they are going to beat the Packers.
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