As far as the forensics are concerned, the Bears gave up 372 total yards while accumulating 110 yards. Once again the Bears couldn't run the ball to save their lives, putting up a putrid 59 rushing yards. The most disturbing stat however was obviously the sack totals. 10 sacks given up by our Swiss cheese offensive line, 9 of which were received by Cutler. Don't get me wrong, Cutler was to blame for many of those sacks as he never once seemed to check off to the hot route whenever the Giants were showing obvious blitzes, but overall the protection wasn't there.
Overall, Cutler looked really out of sorts all night. He also looked out of sorts last week against the Packers. This is making me wonder if tonight wasn't the first concussion he's received this year. Cutler took a tremendous shot to the jaw from Frank Zombo's helmet last Monday, and I wouldn't be surprised if that had something to do with his erratic play ever since the Dallas game where he looked so sharp. Obviously I have no way of knowing Cutler's concussion history, but I do know that the Bears porous offensive line is responsible for a lot of it.
Now comes word that Todd Collins has a stinger, which is also something you don't recover from overnight. Not to mention that even before that, Collins SUCKED to high heaven. There's no way Cutler should play next week, so that leaves Caleb Freakin Hanie to lead us the rest of the way in 2010. Good god...anyone have Kurt Warner's number?
The real shame of it, is that the defense played well. Granted they wore down during the end, but the Time Of Possession had a lot to do with that (Bears 26:35 Giants 33:25). The real bitch of it is, we all saw this coming. We all knew this Offensive Line wasn't good enough to last. I don't care how tough Cutler is, you can't take that many hits and not have it catch up with you.
Unfortunately, tonight might have been the night to pay the piper.
FYI I threw up during this game.
ReplyDeleteI felt like it. Fortunately my daughter threw up on me instead.
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