November 25, 2019
One of my followers feels reading my posts on Chicago sports
teams is depressing. He suggested I write about a global climate catastrophe.
Since this may be a hoax, I will stick to the Bears. Last week I posted the
Bears are a bad team. However, there are teams that are even worse. The New
York Giants is one of these teams. In a game with low entertainment value, the
Bears won 19-14. If you thought the Bears should have had an easier time, you
haven’t been watching. The Bears have won 5 games. Four of those wins came
against teams with a combined record of 10-33-1 record. The only victory
against a winning team was game 4 against the Minnesota Vikings. Maybe Bear
fans can take solace in the San Francisco Forty-Niners 37-8 drubbing of the
Green Bay Packers Sunday night.
Many coaches have scripted the first 15-20 plays. This
allows them to foresee what calls to make later. Bears coach, offensive guru
Matt Nagy, has a script of 3 plays. The usual results are the Bears league
leading three and outs. The Bears had only 3 first half points. With seconds
remaining, the Bears kicker, Eddy Pineiro, reacted like he had made a Super
Bowl winning kick from a whopping 26 yards out. The Bears trailed 7-3 at the half.
Bears quarterback Mitch Trubisky was both good and bad. He
completed 25 of 41 passes for 278 yards. He had some completions gaining over
20 yards. The Bears got a break when the Giants kick-off went out of bounds to
start the second half. With the ball at their 40 yard line, the Bears quickly
scored on a 32 yard pass to Allen Robinson (6 catches, 131 yards). Khalil Mack
forced a fumble, giving the ball to the Bears offense at the Giants 3-yard
line. Nagy calls two runs up the middle for David Montgomery, netting one yard.
When is this idiot coach going to learn? This hasn’t worked all year. Trubisky
runs the ball in from two yards on a pass option play.
Next on the funniest thing since Curly of the Three Stooges
running while dropping banana peels, was the Bears extra point. Lining up for a
two point conversion, a completion was negated by a penalty. Lining up for the extra point kick, the
coaching staff sends a 12th man on the field costing them another
five yards. This made the extra point try coming from 48 yards. Being way out
his range, Pineiro misses the try. The Bears would return to normal, scoring no
points the rest of the game.
The defense gave up a 92 yard scoring drive, keeping the
Giants hopes alive. The Giants scored a touchdown on a 23 yard pass on 4th
and 16. Inexplicably, the receiver was
uncovered in the end zone. This points to another coaching problem. If the pass rush
isn’t working, why not blitz, especially a rookie QB?
The Bears would eventually win thanks to the Giants having a
worse field goal kicker than Pineiro. Aldrick Rosas missed 2 field goals. The
Giants would have scored 20 points. Matt Nagy’s offense,for the 17th
time in 28 games, failed to score 20 points.
Up next is the Detroit Lions. The Bears may win this one,
but after that it will get ugly.
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