adam

After the first quarter of the season, we are through the toughest part of the schedule, which was expected. Most had us at 1-3 after 4 anyway. Now it seems like we shift into an easier quarter of the season, currently scheduled to play teams with a combined record of 5-10. We should at least split, if not go 3-1 in the next 4. That would put us between 3-4 at the halfway point. Then we go into a tougher quarter playing teams 11-5, and 1 win seems to be the most realistic outcome (though we could split depending on what STL team shows up). Then we get into the final quarter against teams currently 5-10 again like the 2nd quarter. To me this sets up for 7-9 wins and a strong finish. If the season ended today, a .500 team would be the 2nd wild card. Here is what we have coming up: @ Kansas City (1-3) @ Detroit (0-3) BYE Minnesota (2-2) @ San Diego (2-2) -- @ St. Louis (2-2) Denver (4-0) @ Green Bay (4-0) San Francisco (1-3) -- Washington (2-2) @ Minnesota (2-2) @ Tampa Bay (1-3) Detroit (0-3) I know it was only 1 win, but if you look at the other teams with 1 win or less (14 of them), we seem to be better than most of them and have had the toughest schedule of the group.

Forte now has over 8,000 rushing yards and 11,931 yards from scrimmage. The 8,071 rushing yards puts him in 48th all-time only 3 yards behind Freeman McNeil and 10 yards behind Larry Csonka. In the next few games he should also pass the likes of Maurice Jones-Drew, Priest Holmes, Gerald Riggs, Roger Craig, Herschel Walker, and Earnest Byner (some pretty good company already). Additionally, he is now in 59th for yards from scrimmage with 11,931 and nearing 12k. In this game he passed Don Maynard and Michael Irvin and is now only 10 yards behind Clinton Portis for 58th. Cutler is now 41st all-time in completions, passing Y.A. Tittle, Randall Cunningham, and Sonny Jurgensen today. Next up, John Brodie and Jake Plummer to move into 39th all-time. With 2 TD passes, Cutler is now tied for 47th all-time with Matt Ryan and Sammy Baugh with 187. With 28,375 passing yards, Jay passed Ron Jaworski for 52nd on the all-time list. He is now within 100 of Trent Green and 109 of Chris Chandler who is 50th. With 10 pts, Gould now has 1,112 all-time, good for 45th, 1 point behind Joe Nedney. With 3 FGs, Robbie passed Gostkowski for 39th all-time with 252. Gould currently sits in 52nd in XPM with 356, 1 behind Lawrence Tynes for 51st all-time. With 5 more pts, Gould becomes the all-time Bears scoring leader (passing Kevin Butler). Martellus Bennett is currently the 5th most productive TE in Bears history and is closing in on Greg Olsen. He needs 15 receptions and 105 yards to tie Olsen. Then he will challenge Desmond Clark by the end of the year for 3rd. Moorehead is 2nd, with Ditka #1. Alshon is stuck on 2,999 receiving yards and is only 1 yard away from 3k and Wendell Davis for 15th all-time (Bears). He is also only 32 yards away from Jim Keane. Jeffery will also pass both of them with 6 more receptions.

Jared Allen's first game with the Panthers, 1 tackle.

wtf, 2 drops and a bad pass by Jay.

God Bennett is such a beast. Another 3rd Down conversion for offense.

wtf refs.......

OMG, a decent return and no penalty? Unpossible!

Jenkins with a sack, another 3rd down stop.

Yeah he has been brutal, there was no reason not to fair catch that last punt. We lost 10 yards and a couple of seconds.

16-14 Halftime lead, 13-6 in First Downs, 239-93 in yards, 6-9 vs 3-6 for 3rd Downs, and TOP 20:14 vs 9:46. We really just need to convert in the Red Zone.

GOLDMAN!!!! With a huge sack

Absolutely, but you can tell he is much more comfortable in this offense; you can see him going thru his progressions, and is throwing the ball away when there is nothing there.

Holy shit McPhee!@!!!!! He just INT the ball and then carried Murray on his back for 10 yards, lmao.

Cutler looks pretty good, 11-16, 149 yards, and 2 TDs so far. We just need to control Cooper and Oakland won't have much of an offense.

Forte with over 100 yards already.

Wow, so Roy Helu is in the open field with Jones and Porter and we can't even touch him? Wtf.

Our special teams blow. Hard to start inside your 20 every drive. Even on a return when we gain 2 yards, we lose 10 with a hold. We might as well go for the block every time and leave no one back there. Offense playing conservative, but we have a lead after a quarter. We have had good first halves for the most part. I am more concerned about how we finish this game in the 2nd half.

A 3 and out on defense? What is this?

Then we kick the kickoff out of bounds, wtf.

Welcome back Jay, great series and drive by Jay. Then, of course, our special teams jacks up.

Looks like Bushrod is out: http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2015/...r-questionable/

https://www.profootballfocus.com/blog/2015/...negative-grade/ So PFF is taking a lot of heat for a crazy grade given to Rodgers for his game against KC. Some hilarious tweets in regards to this: https://twitter.com/PFF/status/648856080945147904

Ratliff back too.

I can't believe we got a 6th for Bostic as he was clearly going to be cut at some point.

I don't think it is as bad as people are making it out to be. We were almost assured of 0-3 or 1-2 after 3 games. White has been out all year and we were really looking to have a compliment to Alshon on the outside. We have yet to see that. Alshon himself has been basically out all year and was somewhat effective in the short amount of time he has played. Cutler was decent before injury and the defense is slowing improving. Seattle was 5/16 on 3rd Downs and 0 for 2 in the Red Zone. The defense only allowed 1 offensive TD, which is an improvement. Are we a playoff team, no, but we are playing competitive. If we get Cutler, Jeffery, and Ratliff all back next week, that will be a huge boost. I am most upset with the special teams play. That is killing us. Watch the other teams with injuries, Dallas or Pittsburgh might not win one game while their QBs are out. Look at Baltimore, Trestman has neutered the Ravens offense and they are 0-3. There are a lot of bad teams right now who have not played GB, ARZ, and SEA.