Last week I blamed the offensive line. This week I’m blaming the offensive coordinator. Next week I’ll be blaming the head coach. The week after that I will be blaming the QB. The week after that I’ll just bury my head and wait for next season. These are the phases of every Chicago Bears season, and the next phase we’ll be talking about after the loss to the Colts in Indianapolis, is blame the OC.
The most replayed play of Sunday had to be the 4th and goal call, you know, the one where 4 Bears offensive lineman are on the ground, and Swift got swallowed up for a loss of about 10 yards. It was a “speed option” call I guess… whatever it was, it should be wiped for the playbook for eternity. You know, I wasn’t so upset with the 1st two calls on that goal line series. We ran the ball up the middle twice, getting down to the 1 yard line; two more runs like that, and we’ll have 6, but noooo… The next run we called was some weird shit that had our WR trying to block a DL; that worked out like anybody with an ounce of football IQ would have expected… stuffed. Then the famous speed option call which has to rank up there with Getsy, Shoop, and every other shitty ass OC the Bears have ever had; it wasn’t all bad on Sunday.
Yes, we wanted a 300 yard passer, we got one… yay!? Well, although I was happy to see it, at the end of the day, it’s about wins and losses, and like many have said, asking your rookie QB to pass the ball 50+ times is probably not the best route to winning games. Seriously, against the worst run defense in the league, we couldn’t run the ball?!?! Swift looks anything but, I long for the days of Herbert from 2 years ago, and Roschon… at least he’s still on the roster. It was a pathetic effort on the ground. Who to blame here? The RBs, the OL, the obvious play calling? I don’t know much, but I do know this; try to call a running play when the defense is expecting a pass and vice versa. Also, the running plays we call just look weird; whatever happened to the I formation and run it up the gut? Or how about at least line the QB under center? Is that out of style now? Whatever is was, as per the subject of this blog, I’m blaming Waldron.
I could easily blame the head coach too, but I’m waiting until next week for that. His 2 challenges for last week were straight up asinine; wasting the timeouts from this week, well… at least 1 of those was on him. The other? Well, after Caleb threw his first TD to Rome (his first TD too), they proceeded to have some orchestrated celebration. That was great and all, but it cost us a timeout, since, you know, we needed to go for 2 points… but the celebration, yeah, that was the shit… Hard Knocks is over boys; that celebration for both of your first TDs ever, just looks stupid now. But I’m not blaming Caleb… yet. See phases above.
We lost one we should have won; hopefully there’ll be those games we should have lost but pull it out… wait, wasn’t that Week 1 already? You’d like to think it would all even out in the end; even out to what? I don’t know. I wasn’t upset at all after the loss to the Texans last week, but this one… I’m pissed. It turns next week’s game at home against the Rams into a very important one… must win? I hate that term unless it truly is, but… almost. Bear Down…
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