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2011 NFL Season - A New Game

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Why did the Packers all run to the other side during the supposed punt return TD, don't the players actually look where the ball's going before running around on the field? Although, even the cameraman was confused. Looked very strange.
 
Why did the Packers all run to the other side during the supposed punt return TD, don't the players actually look where the ball's going before running around on the field? Although, even the cameraman was confused. Looked very strange.

Hester was deep as the return man, and given that his performance on special teams has been one of the Bears' few legitimate weapons over the last several years, it was pretty understandable that everyone would be gunning for him. After the kick, he (in a rare display of intelligence) started setting up to field the punt, which caused the coverage team to converge upon him, despite the ball angling towards the corner where Knox grabbed it in one of the most beautiful catches I've ever seen.

And on how many of those 47.5 pass attempts per game was Cutler hit?

23 total hits, including sacks, over the two games.
 
Fun fact: Over the last two games, the Bears have called 95 passes and 20 runs.

I wish I were joking.

Guess Lovie didn't have a conversation with Martz to adjust his playcalling like all of the Chicago sports media were urging him to do after the Saints loss.

Martz has pretty much proven he's a one-hit wonder who succeeded only because he had HOF caliber players in St. Louis. Fire the guy yesterday--he's shown he's too stubborn to alter his playbook to fit the Bears and will keep running schemes that don't work at all with the current personnel.
 
Hester was deep as the return man, and given that his performance on special teams has been one of the Bears' few legitimate weapons over the last several years, it was pretty understandable that everyone would be gunning for him. After the kick, he (in a rare display of intelligence) started setting up to field the punt, which caused the coverage team to converge upon him, despite the ball angling towards the corner where Knox grabbed it in one of the most beautiful catches I've ever seen.

You think that was a spontaneous thing and not pre-planned? If the former than it was an even more brilliant play by the Bears.
 
Hester was deep as the return man, and given that his performance on special teams has been one of the Bears' few legitimate weapons over the last several years, it was pretty understandable that everyone would be gunning for him. After the kick, he (in a rare display of intelligence) started setting up to field the punt, which caused the coverage team to converge upon him, despite the ball angling towards the corner where Knox grabbed it in one of the most beautiful catches I've ever seen.

You think that was a spontaneous thing and not pre-planned? If the former than it was an even more brilliant play by the Bears.

Hm? No, it was absolutely a trick play. The Bears figured that Masthay would kick a pooch punt into the left corner, so they set Hester up deep on the opposite corner, and had Knox line up as a cornerback to block Jarrett Bush; then, at the snap, Knox turned around and sprinted towards the goal line as fast as he possibly could to catch the punt while Hester was setting up to field it as the decoy.

Dave Toub, the Bears' special teams coordinator, keeps all of his trick plays in a file. Every special teams coach does.
 
Ah right. Anyway, it worked to perfection (minus the penalty), they fooled not only every single one of the Packers but also the tv production crew. Was very funny to see. :lol:

Maybe a good lesson for the Packers, if I was their coach I would be screaming at them in the locker room that the dumbasses should pay more attention.
 
And on how many of those 47.5 pass attempts per game was Cutler hit?

23 total hits, including sacks, over the two games.

So 24.2% of the times he drops back, he gets hit. Holy shit. He's going to be on a liquid diet before the bye week. :eek:

Pretty much, yep. I'll be the first to admit that Cutler makes some boneheaded plays, but, God, I'd be rattled in the pocket too if I had a one in four chance of getting clobbered every time Martz sent me out on a seven-step drop to die.
 
Dan Berstein picks the Bears apart in this column.

During the summer, Martz called Roy Williams an "elite" receiver, and predicted that he'd be good for 70-80 catches this year. Martz also, I believe, called the Ford Pinto "stylish and safe," referred to "Blues Brothers 2000" as "a towering cinematic achievement — a great, great American film," and described Hostess Sno-Balls as being "rich in antioxidants."

Lots of other stuff that would be really, really funny....if it weren't so painfully true.
 
If I was Romo, I think I might have blasted that ball as hard as I could into the back of the center's head. Romo was getting hosed by that guy all night.
 
Yeah, major props to Romo for being a tough sonofagun.

Still, the Cowboys won, which is always bad. :thumbdown:
 
The refs fucked over the Jets in that game with the raiders. So many bad calls. Roughing the passer call so bad they had to add an intentional grounding penalty to cancel it out.

That ref unit should be looked into.
 
No one thought the Jets would win that game, you sound super shocked?

Then again, my team bent over and took it Bills style for 35 minutes. Not like I have a leg to stand on here.

I did win the weekly pool my wife and I are in of 75 people this week though. So that softens the blow. I also gave my dogs an extra scratch behind the ears when Vick got hurt, and then popped off at the media.
 
So, there was this guy, right? And at 4:00 today a lot of people had written him off as a bust because after 2 games in the NFL he had no catches. And then, by about 4:30 today, he had 3 catches, all for touchdowns.

So, I guess the moral of this story is, STFU, morons who think you 'get' football because you watch it, and maybe play Madden. TYVM.
The more you post, the more you sound just like an typical epitome, "trash-talking" RATBIRD fan....:rolleyes:

:techman:
 
Yeah, the Raiders have been slowly improving the past couple of years (as have the Bills and, of course, the Lions). They aren't the scrubs they used to be.

I can't wait to see the Jets get trampled by the Ravens this weekend.
 
I've stayed away from this thread on purposes. My thought on the 2011 is this: Can we just cancel it already? Good Lord, I knew Chiefs were not going to be good this year, but I didn't expect them to be quite THIS bad. :eek:

I enjoy going to the games some and I like the security of having my own seats in the part of the stadium where I like to set, so I picked up season tickets again right before the season started on the theory that I'll go to some games, and sell the rest. BIG MISTAKE! Might as well have taken $1400 and flushed it down the toilet.

I can't even give tickets away. I kind of want to go the Monday Night Football game on 10/31 vs the Chargers (I love the MNF game atmosphere), but I can't find anybody to go with me, even if I pay for their ticket.

And it wasn't that long ago when there was a waiting list for tickets. How the mighty have fallen. :(
 
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