Alaskan Grizzly

So there’s talk Eric Ebron may want out of Detroit. Know he’s a TE but so was Zach Miller. Is he a tradeable option? And...he played at North Carolina...although a few years before Biscuit was there.

Excellent question.

...and a pretty blatant hold on Floyd on the edge...again.

Ok Biscuit. No pressure but let’s see you do your thing.

Challenge probably won’t win but Foxy has had enough of these BS officials.

The guys leg nearly snaps off and he “dropped” the ball. What a total BS call!!!

End of the year for Miller on a spectacular catch.

He did at least let Trubisky roll out...once. Progress?

I’m done with this ‘human joystick’ crap. When you get the ball GO UPFIELD.

Feel the same way. Especially after the opening drive where the D played like the D from last year and early this year. Penalties kill the stop...

Another note I observed about this Inman kid I like. Watched an interview he just gave after joining the team and have to say I’m impressed. Well spoken, very engaged and focused. He was asked several times about his thoughts on leadership and had some impressive perspective considering he now is on a very young team and he himself is a ‘veteran’. One quote he used to illustrate his thought on leadership was from Michael Jordan: ‘When Jordan would step on the court he would tell the rest of the players he would need them to match his intensity’. I gotta say, good choice of quotes and well said. Now go ‘get some’! Welcome to Chicago (new) #17!

I’d liken this to the experiment that was Devin Hester as WR. Although my opinion was in the minority (I liked it) overall it didn’t work. Big reason, to me, is if you line him up as a slot receiver that pretty much tells the other team what you’re up to. In this case you’d be better off just having him line up in the backfield and catch it there.

Gotta say ... I like it. He’s a ‘big body’ receiver (6’3” 205#) the team needs but the question now is how productive can or will he be? In exchange for a 7th round pick makes it an easier pill to swallow. Dude had 800 yards last year with ~14 yard average and 4 TDs so that’s as good if not better than what we currently have.

Funny...wasn’t this the recipe Lovie Smith ran with? ?

Not for nothing but apparently Hicks is leading the team with 6 sacks. Who knew? Didn’t seem like he had that many but good on him. And just in case you were curious; Jones leads overall combined tackles at 41 and Fuller leads with individual tackles at 31. http://www.nfl.com/teams/statistics?team=chi

Was watching a post game interview with Mitchell { } and gotta say this kid is growing on me. You can tell that he’s learning and even admitted to wanting to have more passes but instead ‘chose to take the sacks’ rather than do something risky (ala Cutler). He recognizes his own shortcomings but there is no question Loggains and the o-line are not holding up their end of the deal. I am still confounded why, despite their saying they’d do since Cutler, the offense has hardly used the zone scheme with bootlegs and roll outs. That was easily Cutlers strength and based on how well he did with Minnesota, Trubisky too. Why are we keeping this guy immobile? Makes no sense. One thing I have noticed on a few of Mitchell’s longer throws (20+ yards) is that he has a tendency to float them. He did it last game against Baltimore and again this game a few times. Fortunately they were out patterns or outside shoulder so they go out of bounds but I have seen him do it once or twice on skinny posts and seam routes in the middle. Those can be dangerous. I noticed in this interview that he noted on the long pass to Cohen the safety was busy with Sims so that in and of itself is encouraging. He’s obviously learning plenty. And very humble about it.

Crap.... I thought he was on the PS. Ugh...

Plain and simple. Trubisky is better as a mobile roll out passer at this point in his career. They don’t have to do it everytime, just enough to horizontally stretch the field. Opposing teams are able to crunch the offense between the hashes. This standing in the pocket like a statue thing is what got Glennon demoted.

You were saying?

Hate to agree (again) but couldn’t agree more! Lol!!!

^^ this ^^. What the MAN said!

My wife and I were just discussing how much better Trub looked in his first game when he was bootlegging. Having him stand in the pocket isn’t working.

Have to ask again; why isn’t Trub doing bootlegs? He clearly isn’t ready for pocket reads yet.

Technically Wheaton has one catch for 4 yards. But the current offensive struggles are more due to the relative incompetency on play calling. Believe me, I’d rather they had a big bodied receiver on the team (hello Garçon I’m looking at you) than all these slot receivers. But even then, Meredith hasn’t proven he’s better than them ... yet.