Well a win is a win after all.....
Thank God for Allen Robinson on offense (Miller had more stats but AR is/was a main reason the Bears won today)......
On Miller, he just seems to have good games against the Lions for some reason. He kind of reminds me of the anti-Golden Tate who was a Bears killer (and last week almost did with the Giants)....
WTF happened to the Prince and the secondary in general yesterday ? One play 75 yards for TD ? You've got to be kidding me....
This team still makes dumb, dumb mistakes (Roquan, what are you doing tossing that dude when he was out of bounds ?? Miller lines up offsides on a 4th down and "saves" the Bears from also getting called for a delay of game ? With the delay of game it is only 5 yards and the Bears can try the FG. With the offsides it is just declined and the ball turns over. WTF)
Good to see the D tighten up in the 2nd half (Smith balled out and TBH looked kind of angry).
The only thing worse this season than the Bears season is the officiating. Clueless Booger not seeing Trubs getting blasted right in front of him that everyone else in the stadium (and TV) saw. Not a good look for the NFL and a case study in having someone "eye in sky" (or at least looking at the broadcast) to correct truly bad missed calls like that....
Patterson taking the ball out of the endzone. I'm like no no no then yeah yeah yeah. He's been better on KOs the last few weeks. Maybe "Dave Toub" light has a method to his madness after all.....
I hope everyone had a Happy and Safe Thanksgiving. Always better after a Bear win... and the Cowboys being blowout
Several points to address.
- We share a brain, because freaking Golden Tate! Either we need to sign him or he needs to retire. Every game we play him, he makes THE play. Tired of him.
- I know it was against the Lions, but I like the pressure packages with Roquan yesterday. It seemed like Pagano was like, okay, we have to do more than lay back and let this Blough guy beat us. Kwit and Ro both showed an ability to get home. If teams are going to double Mack, we need to send more so they have something to think about.
- On Roquan's late hit penalty, if you rewatch it, we did not violently slam the running back out of bounds. It was more a catching his balance so he wouldn't take the blow hitting the ground. The tribune also pointed out this morning the same thing saying that Johnson stepped on Smith's foot which cause him to wrap his arm. I didn't see the foot, but I did not see violent intent. Of course, having it happen on the Lion's sidelines did not help one bit.
- I know we are using this year to evaluate the PI review, but I do think there should be oversight on QB hits. Last year's hit on Osweiler, this year's hit on Trubisky in the Denver game...likely both should not have been called. Both lead to teams winning. The hit on Trubisky under the chin was malicious and should have been flagged. The ref was looking right at it. The second hit where Trubisky got pancaked on 3rd down, that was close. There should be a quick booth review of late hit flags on the QB and for the obvious missed calls by the officials.