Bears off to a good start
by CBeastwood | 6 years ago | 0 Comments
The Bears are being led by their defense, which comes as no surprise to the coach, Walter Payton. When asked about it, he expounded, "We may be giving up points, and we may be giving up yards at the moment, but we put both teams behind, so they are being forced to throw more often, which leads to more overall yards against us. We weren't happy with the amount of rushing yards to the Seahawks, especially behind their offensive line, which we felt we had a major advantage over. The team has showed up both weeks and made big turnovers when needed to give us the edge."
Khalil Mack made a couple of big plays, a sack on Russell Wilson, and then the huge fumble and recovery after destroying the line and hitting the running back in the backfield. "These are the types of plays we expect to see from Mack on a regular basis, you can only hope to contain him," says Coach Payton.
This team has shown signs of greatness, but then sloppy play, especially from the running game. The Bears tried to get the running game going, and ran it 24 times, but only gained 24 yards. The 2 touchdowns were big, especially given the red zone woes of the Bears to start, with multiple turnovers within that side of the field.
Trubisky played well again, a couple of mental mistakes, not reading the defense, led to two interceptions that will look to be addressed during the week of training.
Who knows if the Bears can keep up this level of play throughout the season, but they are creating opportunities, they have 12 turnovers in their first two games, with a +6 to the turnover ratio in two games.
