Yakuza Rich;1096787 said:
Chicago showed their weaknesses, mainly in that if you take away the deep ball to Berrian, their offense is extremely limited. Grossman has played like that pretty much all season, the difference is that the Cardinals defenders actually held on to the INT's instead of dropping all of them.
On defense, I think you need to do what the Cardinals did. Spread them out, get them in the nickel defense, and operate intermitently out of the shotgun.
I think Dallas has the talent to play with Chicago, but given Bledsoe's unwillingness to operate out of the shotgun, I think he'd wind up turning the ball over too much against their defense.
YAKUZA
This is pretty much my point. We see the Bears flaws and that they aren't invincible. But people only see that they barely beat a bad team. They give no credit to the Bears defense, which actually played well, just not better than Leinart and Boldin. The AZ offense didn't 'accidentally' score on them - they were really that good, in the face of pressure.
Offensively, everyone knew they were limited prior to the beginning of the season. Now we see that - take away the deep and Grossman becomes Bledsoe - he won't check down or get rid of the ball, and it makes his line look bad. When he does check down he makes goof ball throws, throwing INTs.
But I say that the Cowboys lose, and all anyone sees is that a bears team barely beat the Cardinals, and we are better than the Cards, so therefore, we MUST win? RIght?
WRONG - it's all about matchups. If the Bears defense comes at us like they did against Leinart, Bledsoe has already shown that he can't make the throw Leinart did. The only sack Leinart took was the one where ross let his guy go - he got there in about 2.5 seconds. Any time you give Leinart, at 3 seconds, he had the ball out. Pressure and all. So the passing game is shut down on the bears.
Offensively, we can most likely stop the bears by pressuring Grossman. The thing is, we have shown that we do have a penchant for letting the big play get away, as in the Eagles game. If we get that squared away, we have a chance to make Grossman hurt us. But we also have to note that they had to abandon a pretty solid run game early - can we stop Thomas Jones? I tell you now - the Bears OL is better than AZ's and is pretty darn good - their QB made them look bad while holding the ball too long.
Now, what we have going for us is a strong run game and defense. If we can run the ball on them, and do so early, and then take away their offensive bread and butter, we stand a chance. But not unless we can do that. Because I tell you right now - we CANNOT pass on this team with Bledsoe at QB.
