Bears: Another Analysis from Irfan

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This is another great email from Irfan (who needs to start his own sports blog asap) about last week's Bears game:

Now onto my thoughts,

1) Can we cut Archuleta now please? My God, this man is supposed to be the veteran run-stopper, the dude cant catch a cold let alone a running back. To make matters worse, he is even worse in pass coverage than I thought, he is the sole reason for that first touchdown by Williamson. Also, Brandon McGowan, he and Archuleta are supposed to be the guys who are great in run coverage, they look awful, absolutely awful. I don't know if Archuleta's bangin his girlfriend (former pl*yb*y bunny) or if he and McGowan are bangin each other the night before the game but they both look a step slow. Oh yeah, throw in Danielle (that's right he's got a girl's name) Manning too, he looks absolutely terrible out there.

2) Our overrated, over blackened D-line. Tommie Harris didnt even show up, Alex Brown did not get any offsides penalties, therefore we never heard his name, and the Prince of Zamunda was nowhere to be found. I think I saw Anthony Adams make more plays than all three of them.

3) Our defensive strategy. Why in the world wouldn't we put everybody in the box on obvious pass plays and force Jackson into mistakes?

4) The running game. Benson was doing well, not great, but well in the first quarter. So it only makes sense to then bench him and throw 237 consecutive screen passes to Whoopi. All Benson says is give me the ball for four quarters to prove himself, yet we can't even do that. We are suppoed to be a running team, according to Lovie, yet your #1 back gets only 18 carries. Makes no sense, not to mention that if we kept running him, it could have kept Peterson (both the good and the bad one) on the sidelines. On the 3rd and 2, a critical play, run Benson up the gut, its the logical thing to do, so of course we run a pitch play that forces benson farther back and goes completely against his strengths and Lovie's claim of being a "smashmouth" "were a running football team, we like to run the ball" organization.

5) Offensive game plan. Goes hand in hand with point #4 but why oh why can't they see that Olsen is a weapon and we can abuse linebackers all day with him? We put him in once every 5 plays and just run screen passes and crap with him. Then we only run 2 decent plays with him to just piss us all off even more. I hate, absolutely hate Ron Turner, and Lovie needs to step up and take some control of this situation. Finally, we threw a deep ball to Hester, and amazingly, it worked! It only took them 6 games to try it. Next game, if we don't run plays with Olsen running up the seam, and at least 1 deep ball to Hester (who is absolutely amazing by the way) I am going to stab someone and will not clean up the spilling of blood, I DONT GIVE A FRICK!

Overall, in spite of all of our bad plays on offense and defense, we still lost this game on coaching, why the hell would we kick to Peterson, why oh why, I will never understand this. He is their one great player, keep the ball out of his hands, how hard is that! Bad play-calling on both sides of the ball, bad everything. Our defense is beaten up, and they don't look good at all, no excuse for injuries in this game though, they just missed tackles all day long.

Also, I believe that Ron Turner is in the booth watching old Illini highlights from their Sugar Bowl season and thinking, "Oh yeah! I'm the man, I can call anything and it will work, I'm a genius!" and then picks plays based on the strengths of Kurt Kittner, Brandon Lloyd, and Antonio Harris. I believe he also is getting texts from brother Norv, who is telling him, run the pitch to Benson, LT runs it real well and throw it to the tight end's in the flat, they can break through tackles and get tons of yards like Gates. I think Lovie should just let Rex do the play-calling, at least he would run plays to throw the ball down the field

cheers