Five Bears To Watch: Week 11 vs. Denver

A number or elements factored into those kinds of responses from John Fox.

-Bears SS Adrian Amos, who is without an interception this year, vs. Broncos TE Vernon Davis, who has two catches in two games for Denver since being traded by San Francisco.

“We’ve been growing every week”, Acho said.

Is Fox just downplaying it in the media?

Redzone struggles are costing them wins: The Bears converted only one of their four redzone trips against Denver into a touchdown. RB Raymont Harris, who amassed 112 yards rushing, was thrown for losses of one and two yards on the Bears first two plays. I think I made the right call.

The point is, the 4-5 Bears played a 7-2 Broncos team to the final whistle. “We’ve had a few red zone problems throughout the year”. With the ball getting out of his hands quicker, opponents aren’t getting to him at the rate they did in the past.

And it must be said that running the same play you had just run the play before for the touchdown didn’t look good, especially when the Denver defense stuffed Jeremy Langford for no gain. We knew Brock had it in him. It had been kind of a field goal game.

“Jay is a wiz and he is a bit of a nerd, and he picked it up probably faster than a lot of these guys”, right tackle Kyle Long said of Gase’s schemes. “So we were aggressive and came up short on 4th and 4”. “They scored 17 points and we scored 15 points – that’s not a really high scoring game in our business”. “We didn’t let them in a couple of times when they were down there and I think that just shows the type of football we like to play on defense and what we can do when we have our back against the wall”. Through the magic of slow-motion instant replay, it became evident that Miller got to quarterback Jay Cutler before his arm began a throwing motion. “If you can hold on the field goals even if you’re coming off of a turnover or whatever it is, that’s what you’ve got to do”. But in 52 other drives over the past five games, the defense has allowed just 74 points (an average of 14.8 points per game). Fox was going to be aggressive on this day and he was going down with an aggressive plan. The regular players returned for Week Seven, but the replacement games counted and the season was shortened to fifteen regular season games.

“You want to take a shot”. Manning broke Brett Favre’s record for career yards passing, but had nearly as many interceptions (four) as completions (five). “He’s a guy where, you better know where he is on the field at all times”. They have faced a succession of top quarterbacks, including Aaron Rodgers, Carson Palmer, Russell Wilson and Philip Rivers. But the Broncos sniffed the play out from the snap and stopped Langford for no gain ending any hopes for overtime.

The biggest challenge facing National Football League offensive coordinators is crafting a system that accentuates the strengths of the quarterback’s game. Many weren’t satisfied with the answer but it seems to be simple.

Fox, meantime, confirmed that Rolle hurt his knee at practice on Saturday, forcing the 11-year veteran to miss his third game of the year. Maybe if it’s someone else he kicks but not today, not against the Broncos.