Thread: Bears on verge of unraveling?

Originally Posted by The Benjamin

That stat is skewed by the Collins game.

Take that game out then give us the ratio.

while do not think 'fair" to just ignore a game

take the panther game out and its 63%- 37%( 19 pass and 42 rush in panthers game)

We threw 80% of the time against Seattle and 75% against Washington. That averages out to 77.5%.

The play calling in the last 2 games was not even close to balanced. We were fortunate early, and made adjustments when necessary. Since then, we have been stubborn EXCEPT when forced to do something different against Carolina by a lack of QB's.


By the way, 2 great articles. Hits the nail on the head for how the fans feel.

How on earth can this guy say this:

Originally Posted by dabears54

David Haugh In the Wake of the News October 26, 2010

~ For the record, I would trade for Jay Cutler all over again if I were the Bears.

~ I still would give up Kyle Orton, two first-round draft picks, a third-rounder and Michael McCaskey's photography collection for a 26-year-old Pro Bowl quarterback.

~ I still see more pros than cons in acquiring a player with such rare physical ability as Cutler, baggage and all.

And then he goes on to follow that with:

Originally Posted by dabears54

But realize that when the Bears traded for Cutler in April 2009 on one of the franchise's most exciting days since the 1985 season, everybody naturally made some assumptions.

~ We assumed Cutler would make the cast around him better as great players can.

~ We assumed Cutler himself would commit to continuing a career ascent into the next echelon as budding stars do.

~ We have been reminded the past two weeks why we never should assume anything about the NFL, especially this Bears regime.

~ The result is a damaged quarterback with flawed mechanics and stunningly worse decision-making ability, an athlete sorely in need of tough coaching trapped by a superstar's mindset forbidding the entry of constructive criticism.

~ Rip the offensive line all you want, but Cutler now has thrown 33 interceptions and 34 TDs as a Bear.

~ In the 22 games Cutler has played in Chicago, the Bears have lost 12.

~Fair or not, the argument that Cutler never will be a winning quarterback in the NFL can be made stronger today than it could April 2, 2009.

~ Cutler's postgame bravado that he still would go at Redskins cornerback DeAngelo Hall "every time," even after Hall's four interceptions ......

~ Sometime between Hall's second and third pick, I still would have had Cutler start picking on Carlos Rogers.

~But you only can coach a quarterback who accepts coaching.

~ As close as the Seahawks and Redskins losses were, the Bears needed Cutler to find a way to pull it out as do quarterbacks in his pay range and on the NFL plane he aspires to be.

~ There was a time I felt confident saying Cutler one day could enter the realm of Favre, Brees, Rivers, Brady or Manning.

~ But the more I see, the less I'm sure. And the more whispers I hear out of Halas Hall, the less I think every Bear is convinced Cutler will fulfill the potential they once saw.

~ When a franchise guesses wrong about a quarterback, everything else threatens to unravel. The margin for error shrinks.

~ How you divvy up blame between bad coaching and worse Cutler the last two losses matters less than what those defeats meant.

~ If the obituary for the 2010 season is written after a fourth straight year without making the playoffs, the cause of death will be traced to the last two Sundays at Soldier Field. With the AFC East foes looming and the Vikings and Packers lurking, the opportunity portion of the Bears' schedule has passed.

"For the record, I would trade for Jay Cutler all over again if I were the Bears." ...... ????????


Thank GOD David Haugh is NOT Bears Management!!!!!! ... he'd better not quit his day-job!!!


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the problem with trying to run, is exactly what we saw in the first quarter against the skins....3 and outs. we had like -5 yards going into the second quarter. this is not a running team, and it hasn't been since TJ left. What I do think needs to happen is a whole lot less 7 step drops and more 3-5 step drops to set up the run. This team will go no where on the ground...nowhere.

Originally Posted by dabears54

and while think 77% obviously too high facing the 31st and 32nd ranked passing D"s you SHOULD be unbalanced to tak adavantage to that weakness, right?

Or a predictable attack without the tools to execute and the strategic ability to adapt.