Thread: Bears not looking past Panthers. They play us tough.

Another guy who needs to step it up is Carimi. This season, he's the one allowing Cutler to get hammered.

I doubt they'll get over 500 yards this year, not the way this defense plays.
Cam Newton you go run, I'm sure Shea will enjoy hunting you down like a goat on his farm..
Smith? I've heard that Peanut is going to shadow you, so you might aswell give up.

I believe that Smith will find himself stranded on "Peanut Island" and our "D" line will eat Cam alive with Shea chasing him down on multiple occasions or turning him back into Peppers or Melton.

Originally Posted by ZifanQ

I doubt they'll get over 500 yards this year, not the way this defense plays.
Cam Newton you go run, I'm sure Shea will enjoy hunting you down like a goat on his farm..
Smith? I've heard that Peanut is going to shadow you, so you might aswell give up.

Best post of the morning. I love that "hunting Cam like a goat."

Classic post Z. Love it.

Originally Posted by bearsinhouston

Smith has historically been a Bear killer. Not sure he can do it against this defense though. Newton may not have as much time to get him the ball. I agree with not taking them lightly though. All the same, I expect to win this game.

This is one of those games where we need to make a change in the coverage responsibilities. As great as Tillman plays against the bigger guys like Megatron the smaller guys like Smith give him fits. Like a smaller fighter jet against a bigger one they can turn faster and then he loses them. They can shake and bake better too and that get's them loose more often.

So what do you do? This game we put Jennings on him. Jennings has the speed, quickness and leaping ability to play with Smith whereas Peanut doesn't. He's burned him big time nearly every time we've played him dating all the way back to that 2005 playoff game where he beat us almost singlehandedly. I'm gonna be really disappointed if Lovie and Marinelli can't see this and make the change. This week it's Tim Jennings turn to take his shot at being a shut down corner.

McClellin could be a real ace in the hole this game too. Keep him free of blockers, move him around some and let him spy Newton and keep him pinned where the others can get to him. They lost Kalil at OC and that should help Melton and Paea inside and I'm sure Pep knows how to attack Jordan Gross. He played with him long enough and Gross hasn't been 100% healthy either as I recall.

Newton is in a funk and throwing guys under the bus so get in his head early like we did with Stafford. Frustrate him anyway we can and get them struggling to move the ball. I'd play them somewhat like we did the Lions and keep Smith and Olsen from hurting us. Force them to play too may offensive snaps and we'll get turnovers just like we did with Detroit.

We've always been able to run the ball on these guys so for God's sake I hope Tice puts away about half his passing plays and lets Forte and Bush lead a ball control game early and keep finding ways to sustain drives. Keep the ball away from them, stop the big plays again, and this time score some TDs instead of always having to settle for FGs.

One FG block and a FG instead of a TD from 1st and goal from the 4 yard line cost us 7 points against the Lions and without Peanuts heroics and a timely fumble could have cost us a game we should have won easily from the way the defense dominated. Detroit should never have even been in that game at the end. We should have been up by at least two scores.

We need to start closing teams out much earlier in the game and not put as much pressure on the defense to hold them off. That's working now but barely and later in the season it may not work at all.