jason

I can already see the tears rolling down az's cheeks.

Don't say anything good about Martz or Cutler, az will stomp his feet and hold his breath like a baby who isn't getting their way and can't stand when they're wrong.

Sure you did, bub. Mr. "I won't rewind my DVR" from the previous weeks all the sudden goes back and reviews. Everything I said from the previous post was accurate. Was the pocket collapsing? Yes. The initial pressure came in Cutler's face, then he felt backside pressure, then he stepped up and threw it immediately. This is EXACTLY what everyone has been calling for. Hell, EVEN BILLICK SAID THE POCKET WAS COLLAPSING AROUND HIM! I already said the throw was high, but Cutler HAD to throw when he did. Wait any more and you would have thrown a fit like a little baby about Cutler holding the ball. After that, it hit the receiver's hands. Period. Keep going with your Martz and Cutler hate, it just shows your ignorance more and more.

Dude. Get serious. The pocket collapsed. For a timing route there may have been enough time, but don't act like Cutler had all day to throw the ball. And then when he did throw it, he had a small window to throw the ball. And on top of all that, it went through the receiver's hands. A bit high? Yes. That's realistic. But it went through the receiver's hands. Fact. Your hatred of all things Martz and Cutler is completely irrational. It blinds you from the truth.

Dodged a bullet on that one. If not for a stupid formation penalty on the Panthers - nothing the Bears necessarily did on that situation - the Panthers are either still driving for the TD or ahead with the FG right now.

Looks like the Panthers made a defensive change at half. They plan on loading up against the run. Recipe for disaster in the past.

I find it hard to believe there isn't SOMEONE out there better than Omiyale. This guy is easily the worst player in the NFL. When he's in I expect something to go wrong.

Shot their wad early? Maybe the Falcons forgot how the Bears play defense? Maybe the Falcons thought the Bears would actually change their defense? Who knows.

Whatever defense the Bears play, Cover-2, Lovie-2, Zone-Dominant, it doesn't matter. We all know that just about any competent NFL QB can gash them from 20-to-20 until the zone tightens up. This is not a surprise. The defense they play is designed to get pressure with the front-4, and when that doesn't happen (like now), it's incredibly vulnerable.

And Omiyale gets destroyed again, thereby screwing up the play. WTF. There HAS to be someone on the roster who can do better than this guy. He's atrocious. CUT HIM AT HALF TIME.

HAHAHAHAHA! First real drop back pass? Omiyale gets blown by for the sack. Classic. Tice should get his pay docked. No improvement at all.

HESTER!!!!!!

Let's not fool ourselves. I'm happy with the mudhole the offense is stomping in the Panthers' D, but this is more about the Panthers sucking monumentally than the Bears' OL dominating. This just in, the Carolina rush Defense sucks.

Ahem. Get out the crystal ball.

Says who? Maybe Cutler would have forgotten because of possible post-concussion syndrome, but there is no way the Bears fans would have forgotten.

I love DJ Moore. I knew when he was picked up he was a great selection. Dude is a ball player and should be in all the time. ALWAYS around the ball.

Yep. Barber already has two carries. First one was for about ten, and he plowed over the tackler.

I don't like the QB draw play. Cutler has already been beat up this year. Why endanger him more when it's a near certainty that he'll take more hits this game?

Looks like the season will work out exactly as everyone hoped. The Bears will run on a shitty Carolina Defense and everyone will say, "SEE?! I KNEW THEY COULD DO IT!!" I'm happy to see the start, but this is to be expected.

Bears 24 - Panthers 17 Closer than we think, because the Bears will be up, the Panthers will be forced to throw, and the DL will not get to Newton fast enough to stop him from scrambling around and finding receivers who will get open if given any mistakes or time (read: Smith).

I definitely don't change my point of view on this. The dude is scum, and the literary equivalent to an ambulance chasing lawyer.

Agreed. This is not a chicken-and-egg situation. Cutler regresses when the OL plays like garbage. The OL rarely plays otherwise, so Cutler's flaws will be magnified. It's not like Cutler doesn't step up into the pocket when he has consistently gotten one. And it's not like the OL suffers as a result of Cutler's bad mechanics. The only Cutler--->OL connection is that the OL gets sack statistics when Cutler holds onto the ball. Could he do better? Absolutely. Do I blame him? Not much. Cutler's bad mechanics and bad habits are almost entirely based on feeling the heat of opposing defenders as they collapse his miniscule pocket and attempt to reorganize his organs with yet another unhindered path to his ultimately defenseless body.

Man oh man, I'm glad you aren't in charge. You'd start off with a bang by getting a new staff (I like), but then gut the roster by unceremoniously casting off the heart and sole of the Bears' D (Url, Pep, Briggs, Tillman), and follow it up by failing to emphasize (like Angelo) the #1 priority on the team ("Somewhere in there, draft an OG.") for yet another year. I don't think many players would choose to come to a team that dumped the four defensive stars listed like they were pieces of a jigsaw puzzle rather than veteran leaders.

A thought about message boards, and discourse in general: Passionate responses rarely come from those who are completely satisfied. This naturally lends itself to a message board being more negative than positive. The fact that the Bears are 1-2 and have gaping holes - something Forte hasn't seen in a while - that have been ignored or unaddressed for multiple years is obviously going to bring out more negativity. If the Bears win, this board is less negative. Simple. All that said, to leave because you don't like someone else's point of view is weak. Don't take it personal, even if you happen to be remotely connected to the source of frustration. In this case, the media. Perhaps there wouldn't be an obsession with the media if the media wasn't on a constant witch-hunt to paint people in negative lights once they are no longer able to defend themselves. There is a difference between "reporting the news" and what most "journalists" (term used loosely) do nowadays.