Week One Bears Recap: Tony Siragussa has very little to add to my football experience unless he’s delivering me a pizza pie
I watched the Bears game by myself on Sunday and had to make a few notes because there was no one around to hear my clever witticisms (raging hatred for all things not Bears). Here they are:
First, let me say that this loss is going to be a tough one for me personally. I live in Washington D.C. and these pathetic, bandwagon Wizards and Nationals fans actually do care about the Redskins. So all the local nerdlingers I work with will have something to say to me this week.
This is why my favorite play of the game was Lance Briggs dropping Patrick Ramsay with a Russian Sickle clothesline.
You should’ve seen the local sports shows here after the game. Indignant outrage at Brigg’s “dirty, shameless move.” This from a city whose prized free safety Sean Taylor, actually pistol-whipped a guy on South Beach for stealing his 4 wheel ATV. Yeah, Briggs is a real menace for tackling a guy in a football game. And it wasn’t like we took out Joe Theisman. This is Patrick Ramsay, the Beltway’s version of Cade McNown. Okay, I’m getting angry. Better move on…
Roughing the passer on the Redskins’ first possession? Bullshit. Ramsay barely had the ball out of his hands when Ogunlye hit him. Didn’t matter though…
The interceptor strikes again!!! Nathan Vasher made the pick on the overthrow. Good defensive start to the season.
The Bears had two three and out’s in their first two possessions. They run the ball on third and two on one of those possessions. I’m okay with this. Because when Kyle Orton drops back to pass, teams will bring the blitz all year. And Orton appears to enjoy throwing the ball directly into the facemask of oncoming d-lineman. So we’re better off running the ball on those shorter third downs. We should just be happy it wasn’t third and 17 and Chad Hutchinson isn’t falling into the fetal position and breaking into tears.
Too much Fat Guy on the sidelines. Tony Siragussa has very little to add to my football experience unless he’s delivering me a pizza pie. In general, athletes are not very funny. They have other things to worry about. Just because Siragussa was the funniest guy in the Ravens locker room, funnier than, say, Ray Lewis, doesn’t mean he should be cracking jokes during the most precious three hours of my week.
Bears pass D looked bad early. Third and longs cannot be converted. Redskins had three on one drive in the first half if you count the first down called back because of a penalty.
Patrick Ramsay sucks. It’s almost a shame Briggs concussed him. Then again, I do appreciate a good concussion.
Orton’s facemask makes him look really young. And nervous.
After playing so much Madden ’06 on Playstation, it’s weird to see Thomas Jones and not Cedric Benson out there.
Delay of games killed the Bears. That could be a problem all year. They ought to practice with a 35 second clock to give Orton an extra five seconds in games… They’ll never do that but it’s not a bad idea.
There was a third and eight in the first half where the Redskins didn’t blitz Orton. He took his time, stepped up and hit Muhsin Muhammad for a huge gain. Orton can sling it. The problem is the line is mediocre and blitzes will kill us.
Mike Green’s brutal pass interference call on Nathan Vasher’s second interception killed us. Offense would have had the ball inside the Redskins 20 after Vasher’s return. Instead it’s like a 40-yard penalty and they end up with a field goal. Hopefully, Green will learn to trust he has help on the deep ball if that’s what they call in the huddle.
Bears running game sucked. Benson, more of a bruising back, will be needed. Thomas Jonas did okay, but he’s kind of small and he can get into the bad habit of dancing in front of a small hole instead of just barreling through it for as many yards as possible. But he wasn’t the problem on Sunday.
Orton did okay. Saw some good things. Some bad things: Ron Turners play-calling is predictable. If the idiots in the booth know the Bears are going to go deep in a specific situation, DON”T GO DEEP.
Orton wants to go for throat too much. The tipped-ball interception hurt big time. Any one of five Redskins could’ve caught that ball. That’s almost half the team being in the area where Orton wanted the ball to go. If Jerry Rice was ever quintuple covered, I guarantee Joe Montana dumped it off to Roger Craig. That pick was another lost field goal. I say field goal because I’m being realistic and the Redskins suck to the point that a few field goals would have won it. One, actually.
Three straight false starts on that one drive in the fourth quarter? All Orton’s fault. He was so obsessed with calling out pass protections or changing the play that the lineman had no idea when he was actually going to say, “hike.”
Snap the ball. It’s embarrassing to look so frazzled against a team that was six and ten last year. And Olin Kreutz didn’t help with his melodramatic blocking assignment pointing and gesturing. We know you’re a pro bowler. We know you know karate. Calm down.
Bears D? Besides a few third and longs they gave up, they looked great. Clinton Portis is one of the best backs in the league and he didn’t break off too many big ones. He never got in the end zone either and that was also huge for my fantasy team He Still Hate Me.
This game reminded me of the first game of the 2001 season when we went 13-3. We lost a close one at Baltimore that no one thought we should have even competed in. But the Bears always felt like they were the better team that day.
And we were the better team today. We have more positives to take away from this one than Washington. The Redskins barely beat a rookie QB in his first start ever. In my opinion, Orton did lose the game for us but not in a Jonathan Quinn, Steve Stenstrom, Chad Hutchinson, put my fist through the wall, spew vicious slurs against the opposing team’s fans sort-of-way. A few adjustments and he’ll be okay. Remember, the Redskins are a solid defensive team and we were driving for the winning score with six minutes left when we decided to incur three straight penalties to make it third and 584.
Next game, the Lions at home. We should be tied for first place in the NFC North a week from tonight.
First, let me say that this loss is going to be a tough one for me personally. I live in Washington D.C. and these pathetic, bandwagon Wizards and Nationals fans actually do care about the Redskins. So all the local nerdlingers I work with will have something to say to me this week.
This is why my favorite play of the game was Lance Briggs dropping Patrick Ramsay with a Russian Sickle clothesline.
You should’ve seen the local sports shows here after the game. Indignant outrage at Brigg’s “dirty, shameless move.” This from a city whose prized free safety Sean Taylor, actually pistol-whipped a guy on South Beach for stealing his 4 wheel ATV. Yeah, Briggs is a real menace for tackling a guy in a football game. And it wasn’t like we took out Joe Theisman. This is Patrick Ramsay, the Beltway’s version of Cade McNown. Okay, I’m getting angry. Better move on…
Roughing the passer on the Redskins’ first possession? Bullshit. Ramsay barely had the ball out of his hands when Ogunlye hit him. Didn’t matter though…
The interceptor strikes again!!! Nathan Vasher made the pick on the overthrow. Good defensive start to the season.
The Bears had two three and out’s in their first two possessions. They run the ball on third and two on one of those possessions. I’m okay with this. Because when Kyle Orton drops back to pass, teams will bring the blitz all year. And Orton appears to enjoy throwing the ball directly into the facemask of oncoming d-lineman. So we’re better off running the ball on those shorter third downs. We should just be happy it wasn’t third and 17 and Chad Hutchinson isn’t falling into the fetal position and breaking into tears.
Too much Fat Guy on the sidelines. Tony Siragussa has very little to add to my football experience unless he’s delivering me a pizza pie. In general, athletes are not very funny. They have other things to worry about. Just because Siragussa was the funniest guy in the Ravens locker room, funnier than, say, Ray Lewis, doesn’t mean he should be cracking jokes during the most precious three hours of my week.
Bears pass D looked bad early. Third and longs cannot be converted. Redskins had three on one drive in the first half if you count the first down called back because of a penalty.
Patrick Ramsay sucks. It’s almost a shame Briggs concussed him. Then again, I do appreciate a good concussion.
Orton’s facemask makes him look really young. And nervous.
After playing so much Madden ’06 on Playstation, it’s weird to see Thomas Jones and not Cedric Benson out there.
Delay of games killed the Bears. That could be a problem all year. They ought to practice with a 35 second clock to give Orton an extra five seconds in games… They’ll never do that but it’s not a bad idea.
There was a third and eight in the first half where the Redskins didn’t blitz Orton. He took his time, stepped up and hit Muhsin Muhammad for a huge gain. Orton can sling it. The problem is the line is mediocre and blitzes will kill us.
Mike Green’s brutal pass interference call on Nathan Vasher’s second interception killed us. Offense would have had the ball inside the Redskins 20 after Vasher’s return. Instead it’s like a 40-yard penalty and they end up with a field goal. Hopefully, Green will learn to trust he has help on the deep ball if that’s what they call in the huddle.
Bears running game sucked. Benson, more of a bruising back, will be needed. Thomas Jonas did okay, but he’s kind of small and he can get into the bad habit of dancing in front of a small hole instead of just barreling through it for as many yards as possible. But he wasn’t the problem on Sunday.
Orton did okay. Saw some good things. Some bad things: Ron Turners play-calling is predictable. If the idiots in the booth know the Bears are going to go deep in a specific situation, DON”T GO DEEP.
Orton wants to go for throat too much. The tipped-ball interception hurt big time. Any one of five Redskins could’ve caught that ball. That’s almost half the team being in the area where Orton wanted the ball to go. If Jerry Rice was ever quintuple covered, I guarantee Joe Montana dumped it off to Roger Craig. That pick was another lost field goal. I say field goal because I’m being realistic and the Redskins suck to the point that a few field goals would have won it. One, actually.
Three straight false starts on that one drive in the fourth quarter? All Orton’s fault. He was so obsessed with calling out pass protections or changing the play that the lineman had no idea when he was actually going to say, “hike.”
Snap the ball. It’s embarrassing to look so frazzled against a team that was six and ten last year. And Olin Kreutz didn’t help with his melodramatic blocking assignment pointing and gesturing. We know you’re a pro bowler. We know you know karate. Calm down.
Bears D? Besides a few third and longs they gave up, they looked great. Clinton Portis is one of the best backs in the league and he didn’t break off too many big ones. He never got in the end zone either and that was also huge for my fantasy team He Still Hate Me.
This game reminded me of the first game of the 2001 season when we went 13-3. We lost a close one at Baltimore that no one thought we should have even competed in. But the Bears always felt like they were the better team that day.
And we were the better team today. We have more positives to take away from this one than Washington. The Redskins barely beat a rookie QB in his first start ever. In my opinion, Orton did lose the game for us but not in a Jonathan Quinn, Steve Stenstrom, Chad Hutchinson, put my fist through the wall, spew vicious slurs against the opposing team’s fans sort-of-way. A few adjustments and he’ll be okay. Remember, the Redskins are a solid defensive team and we were driving for the winning score with six minutes left when we decided to incur three straight penalties to make it third and 584.
Next game, the Lions at home. We should be tied for first place in the NFC North a week from tonight.
posted by David Stassen at 8:47 PM
