Chicago Bears: Analyzing Sunday’s Matchup With NY Giants—Can Bears Go 4-0?
Published by Bob Warja on September 28, 2010
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Chicago Bears
Amazingly, Da Bears sit at 3-0, the only undefeated team in the NFC. Sure, they’ve been winning ugly, but as they say, a win is a win and we’ll certainly take it.
But this is not a dominant team by any means. In fact, a Lovie Smith-coached team will likely never be dominating. Smith’s teams play a “bend but don’t break” type of defense and as longtime Bears fans will attest to, we like an attacking defense that gets after the QB.
But this isn’t the Bears of the 80s and Ron Rivera is long gone, so this isn’t even the Bears of 2005. But don’t despair—the good news is that teams like this can win the Super Bowl but they need to continue to win games the way they have been doing, which is by taking the ball away and preventing the other team from scoring despite all that “bending” they do.
Meanwhile, it’s just so damn difficult to predict what will happen from week to week based on what has happened with this team so far.
In Game 1 against Detroit, the Bears won by virtue of the right call but a bad rule.
Even against Dallas, while the Bears played their best game of the young season, Mike Martz had to adjust for a line that wasn’t protecting Jay Cutler and the defense gave up a ton of yards.
Versus the Packers Monday night, Green Bay basically self-destructed. Not to take anything away from the Bears who contributed to the mistakes that the Pack made, but without some of those penalties, Cutler throws a couple more interceptions and the Bears lose.
Of course, none of that matters in the end, does it? But it makes the predicting business even harder than it already is.
Look, we all want to just enjoy the team’s success but in order to objectively analyze an upcoming game, one needs to temporarily throw their fandom to the side and take a cold, hard look at the facts.
As Jackie Gleason would say, “and away we go”…
