Chicago Bears Linebacker Talks Trash Prior To Meeting With New York Giants
Defensively they Giants are allowing 20.4 points and 359.3 yards per game with 9 interceptions, 6 fumble recoveries, and 14 sacks.
“Their record does not obviously show the type of team that they are, so we can’t take them easy, and it is going to be a fun game”.
“I saw that Pernell McPhee already is excited to play against Eli Manning”. Teams have found a way to quiet Young in recent weeks, holding him to just a half-sack in the last three games. With two interceptions against the Bengals, Eli Manning is on track to throw 18 this season, which would be the most from the four-time Pro Bowler since 2013. “I’m gonna make sure of that”, McPhee said.
McPhee has backed up his talk this season.
Since returning from a calf injury that forced him to miss two games, the rookie first-round draft pick has registered 4.5 sacks and scored a touchdown in the Bears’ last three contests. “They’re a unsafe offense and their defense is pretty dang good”. The Giants offensive line heard the comment, so it will be interesting to see if Manning stays clean. Giants center Weston Richburg, who is in charge of communication on the offensive line, wasn’t interested in engaging with McPhee. “That’s how you’re supposed to feel going into a game”. But McAdoo is determined to prevent his players from losing focus.
The Giants rushed for over 100 yards for the first time since they did it in Week 3 against the Washington Redskins. Rashad Jennings is the Giants top rusher with a mere 255 yards and a touchdown and Odell Beckham is the top receiver with 54 catches and 6 touchdowns and Sterling Shepard has 39 catches and 4 touchdowns.
The film from the Bears’ 36-10 loss to the mediocre Buccaneers on Sunday won’t get the message across. “I just know that was a need that we had and we like the player a lot and you try to maneuver in the draft to get the players that you want and he was a player that we wanted”. Newhouse plans to let his performance do the talking for him.
“Once he gets the ball in his hands, he’s a great athlete”, said Porter. Conventional wisdom would say they are about to lose three straight games. We’ll just play. There’s nothing else to it. It looked like Richburg expected more help from left guard Marshall Newhouse, as the linemen had a spirited discussion after the play on the sideline. Cutler has never been the model of consistency, but I expect more from a player we are paying nearly 20 million dollars a year. But that kind of jawing and stuff, some people can do it, some people enjoy doing it. Me personally, I’m not really into it. “To me, there are better uses of my time and energy”.
Bears head coach John Fox, who has taken two seperate franchises to the Super Bowl, is continuing to go about his business despite the 2-7 record.
Defense: The Giants spent a lot of money in the offseason to improve their defensive unit and it’s been money well spent for the most part.
The Bears’ defense has to quickly rediscover the formula for success it displayed against the Minnesota Vikings on October 31, the one that seemingly vanished in the heat at Tampa last week.