Thread: For What It's Worth In Postseason 2010

Forte is a top 5 back in this league. That's including blocking skills and catching out of the backfield.

Mike Martz will never hear of it, but this team has the potential to be a lot like the New York Jets and the Pittsburgh Steelers in terms of the running game. If Chester Taylor ever starts averaging about a yard more per carry than he did last season, watch out! We could lead the league in rushing yards.

Originally Posted by soulman

This kind of defeats all of the arguements about the Bears not being a very good team and just lucky to even be in the playoffs! Essentially the only area wher we don't quite match up is in the passing game and we all know that's mostly due to our Oline and we all know that an overhaul is in progress. A bigger go to guy at WR would also help and Martz needs to get his head out of his ass and start throwing more seam routes to Olsen. He dominates anyone who has to cover him on those routes.

As for total defense, I can't believe that were all that much different. The main reason behind that is that we give far to much of a cushion to WR's in Lovie's defense and give up a lot of yardage on passes into that coverage. We don't give up many scores on the long ball but we do give up the yardage between the 20's. When we played tighter coverage against Seattle all that changed.

Some of what the coaching staff chooses to do in terms of strategy baffles me, like what you said about not playing tighter coverage in Lovie's "Tampa Two" zone defense. Also, I feel like Greg Olsen is capable of being a Pro Bowl caliber player if he's ever appropriately used as such.

We're one of the few teams that shuts down rodgers though. the guy had a 55 passer rating in the NFCC...
pretty impresive by ANY standards.

I don't fear the Packers. We played them close in all three games. Of the two we lost, we could have easily won them if a few things had gone our way and we didn't abandon the run. If we upgrade our CB situation where Tim Jennings is located, I think we can do some nice things against not just Rodgers, but the rest of the league.