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I think the absence of Bennett is hurting our offense even more than the losses of Louis and Carimi.

Earl Bennett is the only WR on our roster of any size who can be counted on to get open and make a contested catch in a clutch situation.

Without him to account for, opposing defenses can sell-out against the run with very little risk. Once you make our offense one-dimensional (which happened very early in the Packers game), we're at your mercy cause like Dallas said, our remaining WRs are not up to that challenge.

If you don't have great run blocking then you had better have an insanely good passing game (e.g., the Marino era Dolphins or the Packers of last season). Unfortunately, minus Carimi and Bennett, we have neither.

As for Knox, he had better pick it up soon or he will find himself giving way to Sanzenbacher, who has 1/10th the physical ability but 10 times the feel for the offense and will go all-out for every catch.

Oh and then he rolled around on the ground like he was hurt as if that would give him an excuse for dropping the ball that he dropped before he even got hit.

So far this year pretty disappointing.

I guess we can't be surprised to lose to the Pack as they are beating everbody lately.

I expected our offence to have its **** together much more this year after a full training camp.  After making steady progress last year, this step backward is alarming.

Dropped passes, overthrows, pass rushers not accounted for, false starts......the Bears are not in focus and ready to play.

I will give some credit to shoring up the pass blocking somewhat yesterday, but clearly we have multiple OL not NFL ready.

Finally, I'm not so sure I like this "no frills" defense that just plays straight up with no strategy.

Can't we try to screw up the offense once in awhile with zone blitzes, dropping the unexpected guy into coverage, mess with their blocking assignments a little?

 Wonder what this team would look like with Bennett and Barber in the mix?

 And Carimi back? Hopefully we shall see this season. 

I so wanted to see Barber destroying Packer DB's.  *sigh*

 13 more games to go ... we might just get it all. 

JJ "dislocated kneecap" remember? Columbo was YEARS before he got into playing shape again. Carmni - eh I hope not. Betcha the Bears could run a hell of alot better with him in. I'm at a loss why the Bears keep what seems like 10,000 DL and like 4 OL on the roster. Astoundingly blind.

 Either they clean it up ... or the McCaskys with any brains ... fire them all.

 BEARS are streaky ... one year up ...one year down ...

 this keeps owners bought off.

 Wanna look at a solid building project?

 The class act clowns of the NFC North ...

 DEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEETROIT Lions.

 And they did it in how many years?

Capers pulled some 'creative' stuff yesterday. Saw him drop 8 into coverage a couple times. Cutler needs to do more also than call a TO when he sees something he doesn't like. That's a waste. I'm definately not liking what I'm seeing out there. There's so much disarray that needs fixing.