Good points Misfit, but Forte ypc are pathetic......last year and this year thus far. He is a good receiving back, same as Taylor...they need a good RB to hit it up the middle for some tuff yards. Till then, the Bears are in trouble with Cutler out and two backs of the same caliber....just one is younger than the other.
Loved the Brownies beating up on Cincy! //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif Also Chargers looking to be back!
Noone's going to pick up positive yardage up the gut with the Bears' shi
tty o-line, dude. There are no holes, and opposing defenders are immediately in the backfield 90% of the time. Forte is never going to be a 100 yd per game guy, but he's not a bad RB. He just needs someone to create a hole for him now & then.
And speaking of Matt's receiving abilities and Chester Taylor in general; Why has Martz COMPLETELY stopped using Forte in the passing game when he was so effective out of the gate? And what exactly was the purpose of signing Taylor in the first place if we aren't even going to try to run the football?
Mike Martz is s
hit. Plain & simple. There's a very good reason why he hasn't been able to hold down a job since his days in St. Louis. And he's trying to plug square pegs into round holes in Chicago.
- Our s
hit offensive line can't protect our QB long enough for him to drop back 5-7 steps, assess the field and wait for the receivers to get where they need to be (keep in mind, the Martz offense is pretty much timing/route based EXCLUSIVELY).
- We don't have a QB that's adapt for a "timing" based offense in the first place. Jay Cutler is a gunslinger, much the way Brett Favre was. He's at his best when he can roll out and hit a deep target. Having a RB to dump off to is a plus, but Jay is ALWAYS looking for the homerun first & foremost. It's going to be a feast or famine situation with Jay.
- We don't have WRs that're smart/developed enough to learn the "system" (Aromashodu). Our WRs are small and very inexperienced. What do we do about that? We bring in a guy with a ******* 500 page playbook. Earl Bennett had trouble with Turner's scheme, and it was peanuts. Work with what you have, that's all I'm trying to say. Bring in coaches that can make the most of your talent. This numbf
uck had a large portion of the fanbase and analysts thinking we weren't even going to use our best receiving option (Olsen).
Management & coaching needs to be rebuilt from the ground up, man. And as I said; The o-line has to be addressed...and I don't mean through free agency either. We need a competent general manager that can actually assess talent, and a head coach smart enough to adapt to modern NFL football. Lovie's Tampa 2 "Mug" is worthless....even when it works. Why? Because Lovie doesn't care if they're on the field for 45 minutes & give up 400+ yds of offense as long as they create a turnover or two. The guys are worn the f
uck out midway through the 3rd quarter, and they fall flat on their faces in the 4th quarter. It's happened time and time again. Seriously, our defense allowed 3 pts in the first half of last week's game. They kept us in the game until WELL into the 4th quarter before finally getting burnt out. Doesn't matter how bad the offense looked. Our D kept us in that game even when they probably should've phoned it in.
And I thought Coughlin showed some class, and respect for our D, when he opted to stop our bleeding at the end of the game. He gets major cool points from me for that one.