AL HARRIS OUT FOR SEASON?!!?!?!

[Patler]

Yes I am. A good coach tries to create favorable match-ups. Sanders decided he would take away the pass and could live with forcing Dallas to run the ball. So far so good but that didn't work because Barber was gashing them. You have a plan and when it doesn't work you adjust. Sanders did not. The absolutely last thing you want is a 235lb beast like Barber building up a head of steam and your DB's having to take him on. You absolutely can not have your DB making tackles on him because he will hurt them. You are better off going to 8 or 9 in the box and forcing Dallas to throw. When they do it is easy to rush 6 or 7 if that's what it takes to hit the QB and you force Dallas to have fewer receivers out. So what if they lose the game, it's game 3 and Dallas might lose half their team to injury before game 17. There are certain players that absolutely can not go on IR if GB wants to go far in the playoffs. Sanders shit the bed by not stopping the run when it was obvious 7 couldn't do it. He wants to rush 4 every down and Dallas drooled at the chance to unleash their huge line and Barber on them.

So the defense should be designed to protect the health of Harris? I doubt one defensive coordinator would agree with that, but even if they did, Harris was hurt when he ran into Hawk in pass protection. Collins was hurt making a tackle after a completed pass. Bigby was hurt last week during a pass play. Hawk was injured in preseason when he dove and hit the ground during a pass play.

Sounds to me like we should encourage teams to run. Playing pass defense is just too dangerous for our players!

[Guiness]

One loss makes you a pretender? So the Eagles, Steelers and Patriots are pretending? Please just stop shouting.

The Patriots are looking an awful lot like pretenders right now!!!

ok, ok, I'm being an ass. But to get slapped around like that by Miami

IMO Cassel is an awful lot like Pederson - great clipboard holder behind the guy who is actually important.

[Harlan Huckleby]

I haven't read this thread yet, but I don't think the loss of HArris will be devestating. Maybe I would have thought differently before the Dallas game, but now I think the Packers are not championship calliber anyway.

Travon Williams will be adequate and will improve with playing time.

[texaspackerbacker]

I just remembered what Al Harris said about the game plan. That we would all be smiling after the game. Well I am not smiling asshole. You need to tell your stupid coach to get 8-9 in the box and blitz.

Blitzing--other than a few rare surprise type situations, is bonehead stupid. I've said that for a long time.

The good teams--the consistent winning teams--don't do it. They KNOW a helluva lot more bad is likely to result from blitzing than playing steady bend-don't-break defense--like the intelligent WINNING teams do.

How in the hell do you extrapolate Al Harris's injury to not blitzing, of all things anyway? That's just idiotic.

WHAT IS THE LATEST? IS IT EVEN SURE HE HAS THE SPLEEN THING?

[mraynrand]

I just remembered what Al Harris said about the game plan. That we would all be smiling after the game. Well I am not smiling asshole. You need to tell your stupid coach to get 8-9 in the box and blitz.

Blitzing--other than a few rare surprise type situations, is bonehead stupid. I've said that for a long time.

It depends on what you mean by blitzing. If it means sending more than yor standard 'line' then it can be very effective. For example, even though the Cowboys play a 3-4, they pressured Rodgers the entire night, probably sending 5 or more, more than half the time. If you mean sending 6-7 in an all-out blitz, I would agree, you really take your chances. Even sending the rare surprise blitz can hurt you if the QB recognizes it and throws it to the spot in the D vacated by the blitzer.

[The Gunshooter]

I just remembered what Al Harris said about the game plan. That we would all be smiling after the game. Well I am not smiling asshole. You need to tell your stupid coach to get 8-9 in the box and blitz.

Blitzing--other than a few rare surprise type situations, is bonehead stupid. I've said that for a long time.

The good teams--the consistent winning teams--don't do it. They KNOW a helluva lot more bad is likely to result from blitzing than playing steady bend-don't-break defense--like the intelligent WINNING teams do.

How in the hell do you extrapolate Al Harris's injury to not blitzing, of all things anyway? That's just idiotic.

WHAT IS THE LATEST? IS IT EVEN SURE HE HAS THE SPLEEN THING?

Al Harris isn't the only one banged up, his is the most serious injury but all the starting DB's have something. I believe it's from not being aggressive enough with the playcalling. They are on the field too damn long. Most teams blitz between the twenties and will play 8 in the box if they are having trouble stopping the run but for some odd reason Sanders believes stopping TO is somehow going to stop Dallas. Ah, no, they have Barber to soften you up and then there goes Jones. All I am saying is be aggressive. Attack. The way I figure it is, you want to throw, you want to go deep? Ok, but I am hitting your QB and you might win but your QB might leave on a cart.

[Dabaddestbear]

Us Bear fans no it better than anyone last year. We had several of our "Pro BOWL STARTERS" out with injuries for most, if not pretty much the entire season, but all you would hear is how bad the team was. Not how bad the team was without its pro-bowlers.

And now that your squad is all healed up, the Bears are...........1-2.

That will change in time..hopefully this week. The Bears just need to learn how to protect double digit leads in the fourth quarter. But at least they lead...lol.
But like I said,..you all will now know what I was talking about last year. But heck you guys only got one starter out....the Bears had 6 throughout the year on defense alone!
--Have fun.

[Scott Campbell]

The Bears just need to learn how to protect double digit leads in the fourth quarter.

......ie, learn not to choke?

[Kyle.McCarroll]

The Patriots are looking an awful lot like pretenders right now!!!

It's the curse of the SuperBowl loser.