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this game was inspiring, insomuchas it has completely rinsed away the crusty film left over from last week's "victory." what really stuck out to me was when the game started off the cowboys D was essentially playing smear the queer with jay cutler, in just about two seconds he was running for his life, which i think he did an admirable job of doing. also, instead of going for superman throws whilst running for his life, he'd find tommie harris open on the sidelines.
but the biggest thing was martz's adjustments. i believe they were down 7-3 after that dez bryant punt return TD and all of us in chat were like "oh shit, here comes the beatdown" and i'm literally blurting out SLANT THEM TO DEATH MICKEY! SLANT THEM! and sure enough, they hit hester on a slant and then the next play with the box stacked and the middle of the field open a little lob-type-slant to g-reg and BOOM, he takes it to the house.
right as those two plays happened i had been counting to see how long cutler had, and he had two seconds, if that... shortening cutler's drops and having him do hot reads and slants really opened things up. after that, it seemed like dallas had to step back and respect the bears' ability to burn their blitzes and then the offensive line got some bravado and all of a sudden there's that 59 yard bomb to knox, there's that PA TD on a beautiful catch by hester.... they didn't run especially well, and i really do wonder why matt forte is in on short yardage (especially, you figure, cuz chester taylor is a better blocker AND receiver, i believe, altho 4te looks to be good there)
SOOOOOO even tho the running game doesn't exactly inspire me to get off the bus running, having a competent offensive coordinator who only took ~2 series to see that jay cutler was going to be smeared if they stubbornly stuck with a scripted game-plan is such a plus. this game, moreso than most others, really shows you that jay cutler has the raw talent to be a damn franchise QB. i mean, how often can we go out there and say that our quarterback is hands down better than the other team's? we're not used to that, and it will be interesting to see what happens with packers week, i mean, the packers rolled the bills today and from the looks of it the bills o-line wasn't doing a great job with them, but having seen what i saw today, i have some modicum of hope that martz can adjust out of the queer smearing mode and start attacking the other team. i can't remember a game where the pass rush was so effective, even for the first 2-3 drives, that was about as bad as it can get.
i still worry that the packers might be fiddin'ta drop 30+ on us next week (keep in mind the bears D only gave up 13 today, as 7 was for special teams) but at least i feel like we'd have a shot with a quality offensive coordinator and a franchise QB. i mean, they actually found good uses for hester, like that little screen or quick hitch pass where he did one juke and boom, down to the 5 to set up the touchdown for 4te. using greg olsen on that lob/slant over the blitz was a beautiful job of matchups. that playcall on the 59 yard pass to knox... yeah. this was the goods. this was a real damn offense with a real damn quarterback and a real damn offensive coordinator. i believe lil danny beeee calls it "big boy football"
anyways my bad on the novelization i just had to let that one out
_________________ Curious Hair wrote: Les Grobstein's huge hog is proof that God has a sense of humor, isn't it?
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