Bear Down Baffa

Coulda, shoulda, woulda.  I gotta be honest, I’m sick of this season already.  Dropping good passes, throwing bad passes and throwing passes to the other team were the only things the Bears did well on Sunday, and they led to us beating ourselves yet again.  At 4-3, our record is slowly and surely crawling back down to reality.  And that reality seems to mean a 5-11 season.  

The pigskin spent more time “on the ground” than American Idol contestant “General” Larry Platt’s pants.  Eight fumbles made this game a mess, though only three were turned over.  Surprisingly, only two of those fumbles came from the Bears.  But unsurprisingly, both were turned over.  And when combined with our four INT’s, those six turnovers made it difficult for our defense to score enough points to win.

As usual, the defense played well enough to keep us in it.  But, as usual, our offense blew it.  The stats don’t accurately reflect just how badly they played.  We couldn’t move the ball until our last drive of the first half.  And despite figuring something out and actually putting some solid drives together in the second half, five of those six drives ended in turnovers.  The other was a punt – I never thought I’d be so happy to see us punt.

Losebag Lovie
Lovie challenged (and lost) a call after a 48-yard pass play down to the goal line.  Why challenge a ruling that leaves you with a first-and-goal at the one?  And on the next play, when Cutler was ruled to have fumbled while reaching the ball over the goal line – a ruling that not only cost us 7 points, but also possession – he didn’t challenge it.  I understand not wanting to lose challenges on consecutive plays with almost half a game left to play, but if there’s a play you challenge, it’s the one where you fumble on the goal line – especially when you clearly scored on the play and would still have 3 plays to get it in if they ruled Cutler was down.  This clearly ended up costing us the game, and Lovie seems to be very good at losing games from the sideline.  This guy is worse than Lou Piniella and Dusty Baker combined.  He needs to GTFO – get the fuck out!

What’s Up Aikman’s Ass?
Is Jay Cutler banging Troy Aikman’s wife?  Aikman was all over the Butler, basically calling him a hack throughout the game.  He’s probably accurate in that assessment, but not only did he seem to insult him with regularity, he also seemed to be doing it with purpose.

The Cutler Cataclysm
If you count the 4 INT’s the Butler threw to DeAngleo Hall for 92 yds (yes, he threw 4 picks in the second half to the same guy), his numbers would have been phenomenal – 30 for 40 (75%) for 373 yds.  And if you take out his first 6 drives (all of which ended in punts), he would have been an even better 25 for 30 (83%) for 334 yds.  Instead he finished 26 of 40 (65%) for 281 yds, 4 sacks, 4 INT’s and a QBR of 54.3.  Seriously, this guy sucks.

Game Ball
Washington CB DeAngelo Hall had more receiving yards than any Bears receiver (92).  We should sign him and move him to offense, as Cutler seems to like throwing to him so much that he’s become his go-to guy in key situations.

Summary
With our bye week coming up, I’m actually relieved.  I don’t know that I can watch us lose another game to a team that we should beat.  At least we get winless Buffalo a week from Sunday.  If we lose that one, our season’s over.  If we win, our season stays alive – at least for one more week, when Favre and his photogenic penis come to town to put a fork in us.

© 2010

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