How Will The Bears Attack The Packer Defense?

[The Shadow]

The Bears will be studying last Sunday's game tape with great interest. Besides the natural rivalry aspect of the upscoming Christmas game, the Bears also have a revenge angle working for them, after the Pack stamped last season's Super Bowl ticket in their house.
WR Johnny Knox, one of the Bears 2 burners, will not play. Hester will. Their offensive line is not very good (although the Packers defensive line will probably make it look better than it is!).
Expect a steady diet of shallow crossing patterns to possession receivers Dane Sanzenbacher & Earl Bennett all night long, as well as lots of screens. The Bears will expect the Pack to load up against the run - but after watching a season-long pattern of receivers getting wide open with these routes (highlighted by the Chief's game), they will simply send Hester deep, to draw one or two defenders away, and put pressure on the GB linebackers to drop back into coverage and attempt to defend passing lanes.
I think that if this is successful, THEN the run game will be employed.
If I were Capers, I wouldn't get overly concerned at the start of the game with loading the box. Instead, I'd instruct the linebackers to not be too eager to crowd up to stop the run. If the Bears ARE having success with the run, it becomes a different story.
This could be a great chance for Woodson to jump a route & maybe bring back that next elusive Pick 6.

[denverYooper]

I hope Bishop is back. Not that he's great in coverage, but he can help out with the pass rush.

[Bossman641]

I expect the Bears to do a lot of what the Chiefs did. Offensively, they will attempt a few reverses and other misdirection plays and try to run the ball. Barber is running pretty hard and I actually like Bell from what I have seen on him. They haven't decided on a QB yet, but Hanie hasn't looked Bennett's way much at all. If it's McCown that may change. With Knox out and Hester limited (I don't believe he played a single snap offensive snap vs Seattle), they really have nobody the defense has to fear deep. The Bear offense is atrocious, and if the defense has troubles with them I will be very disappointed.

Defensively, Bears have been excellent against the run. The pass rush has been good, not great. The DL and LB well, although the LB have faded a bit lately. The safeties are a mess. Packers need to hold up in pass protection and avoid turnovers, as that is the only real hope the Bears have. It would be nice if Finley showed up huge this game, as he can beat the Bear safeties.

[gbgary]

yup...lots of running, short passes, and trick plays. we'll let all the underneith stuff go and the yards will pile up for chicago...but not the points. 28-9 Packers.

[The Shadow]

I'm thinking 24-10 Pack.

[denverYooper]

Answer to the thread Q:

They Won't!

[Pugger]

They'll probably try but do they really have the horses to do what KC did?

[CaptainKickass]

Play Action

I don't post much, but I haven't seen this mentioned in discussions much. I feel like after the Gnats game & the Chefs game, play action is an exploitable weakness on D.

[Iron Mike]

Here's my prediction:

[mmmdk]

Bears D won't have to bring the house to pressure Rodgers which is bad news if Bears can covers our receivers just a wee bit!

[Upnorth]

The Bears will be studying last Sunday's game tape with great interest. Besides the natural rivalry aspect of the upscoming Christmas game, the Bears also have a revenge angle working for them, after the Pack stamped last season's Super Bowl ticket in their house.
WR Johnny Knox, one of the Bears 2 burners, will not play. Hester will. Their offensive line is not very good (although the Packers defensive line will probably make it look better than it is!).
Expect a steady diet of shallow crossing patterns to possession receivers Dane Sanzenbacher & Earl Bennett all night long, as well as lots of screens. The Bears will expect the Pack to load up against the run - but after watching a season-long pattern of receivers getting wide open with these routes (highlighted by the Chief's game), they will simply send Hester deep, to draw one or two defenders away, and put pressure on the GB linebackers to drop back into coverage and attempt to defend passing lanes.
I think that if this is successful, THEN the run game will be employed.
If I were Capers, I wouldn't get overly concerned at the start of the game with loading the box. Instead, I'd instruct the linebackers to not be too eager to crowd up to stop the run. If the Bears ARE having success with the run, it becomes a different story.
This could be a great chance for Woodson to jump a route & maybe bring back that next elusive Pick 6.

I think that the shallow crossing routes would be good for our back up ILB Francois who has shown good coverage skills. The problem is we will have Hawk there.

[The Shadow]

I think that the shallow crossing routes would be good for our back up ILB Francois who has shown good coverage skills. The problem is we will have Hawk there.

I had the same thought. I kinda wish Brandon Chillar was still around.

[swede]

I want to know how Bretsky is going to approach the whammy. Did his whammy against the Chiefs suck, or did the ploy reach its expiration date?

This is far more important than the Xs and Os of Bears vs. Packers.

[King Friday]

I think the bigger question is how our offense plays against their defense. I don't see the Bears putting up much more than 20 points regardless. Orton is a much better QB than McCown.

[Tony Oday]

We are going to get crushed in this game AR cant hit the broadside of a barn and even if he does the reciever drops it....28-14 Bears