Clutts making the most of a long look at FB - executed strong blocks

**The Benjamin** · 08-31-2012, 11:24 AM

Originally Posted by JustAnotherBearsFan99

If we fail this year due to blocking woes, and/or they gurney Cutler off the field with a season ending injury, then I'm watching for that big broom to sweep Smith and Tice out of here. Hope they toss that crappy box of "Tice pixie dust" out into the street too.

If we fail this year due to our blocking woes, cutting Clutts will not be why. The lack of offensive lineman will be why. Last I checked, Clutts was not an OL

**short faced bear** · 08-31-2012, 11:24 AM

Originally Posted by soulman

Of all of the dumb personnel decisions this team has made this one tops them all. We sign useless players like Manu and Taylor, Roy Williams and Sam Hurd, and overpay for a blocking TE with hands to stone, yet we let one of the best pure football players on this team go and instead keep a 4th TE who simply replicates a guy we drafted to do just what Kyle Adams does but does it better.

There is no way in hell any TE or HBack left on the roster can provide the type of error free blocking Clutts did last night. In addition to that he showed that he has a good pair of hands and can long snap in an emergency. Then you can add to that his speed and ability to get down field in punt coverage. I watched him last night on the punt coverage team and he was consistently one of the first guys set in position to make the tackle if the return man avoided the "gunner". This kid plays the game with the kind of precision that only smart football players who know there jobs can do. He's exactly the type of players the Bears need.

Most of the time I shrug off these cuts because it usually comes down to two guys of virtually equal skills like Booker and Allen and maybe you have a favorite but you could really flip and coin and you couldn't go wrong. But when the team cuts a guy when they have no other player who can do the jobs he does with anywhere near that kind of skill then I have to wonder WTF they're thinking.

Some guys flash a lot of skills as offensive players but those skills wouldn't flash so bright if it weren't for guys like Clutts clearing the way for runs or picking up a blitz so the QB gets those extra few seconds to connect on the long ball. Tyler Clutts is that kind of guy and the reason you win Super Bowls is because you have a guy of two like him on your team. The '85 Bears would have used a guy like him and of course they did win a Super Bowl. Apparently the '12 Bears don't think they needs guys like Clutts in order to win one.

I'll bet their wrong. This was a foolish move made to benefit one more OC who has yet to prove that he can put a set of blockers on the field that his stud QB, RBs and WRs can win behind yet he gets rid of the best blocker he has???? Tyler Clutts could have become Tice's Jim Kleinsasser if he'd looked a little farther than his preconceived notions about the guy. Count me pissed off and fed up with the way Mike Tice is handling his decisions relative to the ability of his offense to block the way they need to to even have a shot at post season let alone the SB.

Cutting Tyler Clutts was a stupid move and if last nights game didn't convince them of that then to me there's little hope we'll see what we've been expecting. Who's next, Sanz?.

This times 2

**MPBears68** · 08-31-2012, 11:25 AM

Originally Posted by Riczaj01

JABF, when have you seen these guys block though? To be fair we haven't gotten to see them do it. Maybe it's not as good as Clutts, but maybe it will be good enough + creating offensive mismatches to boot.

Ric, did you watch ERod (whom I like as a receiver) block out of the backfield in the Redskins game? Or the Giants game?

Not good, my friend.

ERod's tape thereof consists mostly of him missing a la OMG or being driven backward. KAdams is no better.

Worst thing is KA was still PS-eligible, I believe, so why not keep TC and put KA on the scout team? I assume that's what they're hoping for at RB by keeping Booker and waiving Allen.

Again this OL blows at pass pro and for all the accolades about run blocking last year, it wasn't exactly good at 3rd and 2 either. I'm really surprised Cutler didn't lobby harder for Clutts because it will his ass on the ground when blitz pickups are poorly executed.

**Riczaj01** · 08-31-2012, 11:28 AM

MP, I was in favor of keeping Clutts, I'm not saying it was right. I'm saying we have yet to really see what this team plans on doing w/the HB's or seen what hey can do blocking.

I wanted clutts, I didn't understand the drafting of Rodriquez when we had Adams. But you saw this writing on the wall, so I'm not stunned; disappointed not stunned.

**The Benjamin** · 08-31-2012, 11:29 AM

Originally Posted by MPBears68

Ric, did you watch ERod (whom I like as a receiver) block out of the backfield in the Redskins game? Or the Giants game?

Not good, my friend.

ERod's tape thereof consists mostly of him missing a la OMG or being driven backward. KAdams is no better.

Worst thing is KA was still PS-eligible, I believe, so why not keep TC and put KA on the scout team? I assume that's what they're hoping for at RB by keeping Booker and waiving Allen.

Again this OL blows at pass pro and for all the accolades about run blocking last year, it wasn't exactly good at 3rd and 2 either. I'm really surprised Cutler didn't lobby harder for Clutts because it will his ass on the ground when blitz pickups are poorly executed.

Maybe Cutler thinks KA is better....

**MPBears68** · 08-31-2012, 11:35 AM

Maybe Tice is just an arrogant dumbfuck. More likely.

**Riczaj01** · 08-31-2012, 11:36 AM

A different version of Martz, possibly, but again under his and Cutlers guidance this O looked a lot better then it did under Martz. Gotta give him a chance.

**The Benjamin** · 08-31-2012, 11:37 AM

Originally Posted by MPBears68

Maybe Tice is just an arrogant dumbfuck. More likely.

Likely. But if Cutler and/or Toub felt Clutts was essential, he would be here

**Riczaj01** · 08-31-2012, 11:38 AM

Originally Posted by The Benjamin

Likely. But if Cutler and/or Toub felt Clutts was essential, he would be here

qft, probably the one reason Sanz will make the team.

**The Benjamin** · 08-31-2012, 11:40 AM

Originally Posted by Riczaj01

qft, probably the one reason Sanz will make the team.

The way some are bitching about Clutts being cut as though he was the second coming.

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