Friday, September 21, 2007

Lovie & Urlacher's explanation as to why the Bears played so poorly against the Chiefs

Susan Rhein, Bears Superfan

I have read a lot of different articles over the past couple of days regarding the Bears and, I agree with Lovie on a lot of what I read with regards to not giving up on Rex just yet. After all, its not Rex who calls the plays while they're in the huddle, the plays are called in to Rex via Ron Turner and then Rex just relays the play to the rest of the guys and then from there its up to the receivers to execute the play properly and run the proper route.

There is one thing that I would like to see more of on the field and that is Rex in the Shotgun position rather than under Center. I think if Rex were in the Shotgun position more, it would give him better visibility of the field instead of him having to come out from Center, drop back and then look down field to see who is open. Just my suggestion.

I was surprised to read the following quote that was made by Lovie, but there it was in black and white on the Chicago Bears website. Here's the quote: "When you get a 17-0 lead on a team, sometimes you can relax a little bit and not play as well as you need to, and that’s what we did."

Well I hope for everyone's sake, the Bears don't take that same mind set into Sunday's game against the Cowboys. I keep hearing people talk about how the Bears better have all their quirks worked out prior to playing the Cowboys on Sunday because otherwise, the Cowboys are going to hand the Bears more than just their second loss for the season.

I have heard that the Bears will sometimes play softer against certain teams (such as the Chiefs) than others because, they look down the schedule to see which teams they are playing and when, and that's how the Bears know exactly which teams to "give their all to" (like the Cowboys). For instance, maybe the Bears didn't play as hard against the Chiefs as they could have because they knew they had to play the Cowboys this Sunday. If that's the case, then Lovie's quote from above would make sense to me and if that's not the case, then the Bears really need to start stepping it up a notch and start playing football at the professional level instead of at the high school level.

I found another quote with regards to the game against the Chiefs, but this one comes from Urlacher and it is actually more believable than the quote from Lovie, “We didn’t play as good as people think we did last week,” Urlacher said. “We made some mistakes. We should have gotten to the quarterback better than we did, had some chances to make some takeaways and didn’t do it and should have got a couple more sacks.” At least Urlacher was honest and didn't try to "sugar coat" why they played so poorly against the Chiefs.

GO BEARS

Posted at 4:23 PM

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