New York's writers apparently are still giving Eric the honeymoon treatment, and that's OK, Eric is great. But they're a little too soft on the onsides kick call, IMO. Let's see what the reporters and players from Chicago thought of the play: --"The other big play was when the Jets helped jump-start the stalled Bears' offense with a surprise onside kick to open the seconed half. Chris Harris easily fielded Mike Nugent's attempt and the Bears were in business in Jets territory. Thomas Jones, who rushed for a season-high 121 yards, carried seven straight times to set up Robbie Gould's 20-yard field goal, and the momentumless Bears suddenly were in command." --"The Bears stopped short of calling the New York Jets a desperate team, but their onside-kick attempt sure portrayed them that way." --''That was surprising,'' quarterback Rex Grossman said. ''That definitely helped us get points on the board. Anytime you get points on the board, you start to feel better, get a little more relaxed and get into your game plan.'' --"Explained Mangini, unlikely to be referred to as ''Man-genius'' again anytime soon: ''We have been practicing it for quite a few weeks. It looked good in practice. It was a good opportunity." I say F---k Chicago. But I'm pissed at Mangini and the Jets for letting these a-holes steal that game away.
People in Chicago are clueless. They think that team is the greatest ever. I can't wait till they get bounced in the first round they play.
Even though the Bears are filled with flaws, the NFC sucks, the Bears could go to the Super Bowl as a slightly better than average team.
The Bears are the best team in a terrible conference. I was just talking with a friend about how the NFC East and AFC East have totally switched places over the past 11 weeks. The Bears are good, but they better not make any plans for Disneyworld yet. It will be interesting to see what happens up in NE with them this weekend.
Were I a Chicago beat writer, I'd be writing about the huge concern of their star quarterback managing single digit passing yards in the first half against the 29th ranking defense in the NFL.
Mangini knew he had to shorten the field....he was astute enough to see that Chad was not going to take the team on a long drive...
My gut feeling is the Patriots will win with ease. 3 straight road games for the Bears will catch up to them. The Jets had chances and didn't take advantage. The Patriots will.
New England is favored by 3.5 right now. I took Chicago. My logic: The Jets beat the Pats a couple weeks ago. The Jets went on to hold one of the best offenses, and the best defense in the league to a 10-0 win. Chicago by 6. I also apply some of the same logic in my belief that the Jets are better than the Giants now. Chicago stomped a mudhole in Big Blue. Chicago barely beat us. It may be flawed logic to others, but I think it's true.
I like a coach who is willing to take a risk. The bigger the risk the bigger the reward,sure things can (and will at times) go wrong.I think it's better to take a calculated risk, than do the conservative things all the time.It keeps other coaches on their toes, not knowing what is play is going to be next.
Damn we're in serious trouble this week then, when we face a team that's beaten the Jaguars twice, a team we lost to 41-0. And then the trouble continues when we face Miami, a team that has beat the team we just lost to, and with Alio logic means we're going to lose to again. Man, I don't like Alio logic. It's all in good fun though my friend. :rofl:
God, I didn't think much of the onsides kick call, but Chicago's sportswriters are bigger deluded homers than their fans.
Completely different situation, that was the 2nd qtr against a team that we knew we had to score alot of points on. This was at the half in a game that was clearly going to be very low scoring where a FG could have been the difference and we gave them 3 free points. Even if we missed that OSK against Indy it was a worthy gamble b/c of the situation. IF we were successful against Chi it was still a bad decision b/c we still would have been around our 40 yd line and a long way away from a FG.
I like Herm and I like mangini but you make it sound like you'd rather lose in an exciting fashion than win a boring game. i don't care how boring a game is I just want the W.
Which is exactly why you want to pin Chicago deep as many times as possible and hope the D can eventually force a turnover and score. Our O was done after the first turnover.
This is correct. Comparisons of the OSK's of the Indianapolis game with the Bears game are not similar situations at all. OSK's are low percentage and used in desperate situations to turn the momentum around in a lopsided game or a game in which you know the opponent will be putting a lot of points on the board (Indy game). None of those conditions existed in the Bears game. In fact, at the half, the general feeling was that WE had the momentum and could pull off a win by having our DEF continue to hold them pretty good (which they did) and by tweaking our OFF game plan in order to score some points (which we didn't). Unnecessary, dangerous play that backfired. Still, our DEF limited them to a FG, so it can't be said that the OSK alone cost us the game. What cost us the game was our inability to put points on the board. But enough already... it's over with and the best I can hope for is that Mangini, despite publicly supporting the call, sits back in his quiet moments and asks himself, "WTF was I thinking?"
