Thread: Mike Tice blames overemphasizing pass for Bears' run blocking woes

So you learn to throw a uppercut so much that you unlearned your jab riiight. GMAFB Tice, run blocking is fundamental and foundational. Plus your playing freaking VANILLA how much more paint by numbers can you get and still forget?

Tice understands that you don't have to block well to have a great offensive line.

It's a paradox. Webb is the guru. He understands the Zen of how the correct pasta with shrimp (followed up with Web Nation t-shirt sales) results in good karma. Lovie explains it perfectly when you wake him from his nap. He simply says "Rex is our quarterback"...

Solid run & pass blocking? It's meaningless.

Originally Posted by bearsinhouston

Remember his past press release after the first game when they didn't run it very well and he said that they were now moving onto pass protection? I thought that was strange since they didn't really do well in opening holes. So now he says that they can't run because they were focused on the pass.

Let me think who might have made that decision..... hmmmmm.... almost got it..... I'm seeing pictures of a meatloaf.... no Webb just ate that...


No, it was a meathead, not a meatloaf. Threw me off. It was close.

ok, so now does he eliminate training on pass protection and move back to the run? Here is an idea.... The guys need to be able to do both. Maybe work on both UNTIL they have one down, and THEN focus on the other. In the meantime, work on both.

God, I miss Meathead the bot that used to be a resident member of the site years ago. He used to keep me entertained with his funny quips and one liners, none of which made any sense.

Well it's a logical if not totally reasonable explanation so the only question that remains is that if that's what he believes is the root cause what are you gonna do about it. He says what he intends to do about it so all we can do is wait and see if it works.

You can't really fault him for his initial approach to it. Run blocking wasn't the problem last year. Pass blocking was. I still don't know how you can get anything serious accomplished with half your line still "under construction" though.

Of course moving your best run blocking OG out of his spot and using him as a horse whip for your underachieving LT probably didn't help much either Mike. Just get your starters set right now OK? Then work on the timing and blocking schemes you want to use.

I don't think there's a single area of this team that's been handled anywhere near as poorly as this line situation has so far. It's been an abortion. Just poor, poor, and very poor decision making all the way around. Maybe Tice bit off more than he could chew trying to coach both the entire offense and the line simultaneously. Didn't we go through this once before when Lovie attempted to coach the LB's after he made Babich his DC?

I think we had a pretty good chance of improving the line if he'd have just started where we left off last year but this is another example of a Bears coach outsmarting himself. You can't expect outstanding play from guys who don't know there position well enough to play it or even know if that's the position they'll be playing.

Poorly handled Mike. Very poorly handled.

Our season is in the hands of the finest LT ever to walk the earth. Tice sleeps well at night knowing Webb Nation is on duty!