Football Gameplan's Bears vs Chargers Video Preview

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[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lE9asGOXdzE"]Bears vs Chargers Video Preview[/ame]

Good evening Bears fans! Good luck this week!

Em

 

[Rush]

Final Cut Pro X?

 

[MSOADE54]

I would say.... DAAAAAAAAAAAAAA BEARS DA BEARS DA BEARS!


http://www.hulu.com/watch/4171/saturday-night-live-bill-swerkskis-super-fans

 

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Final Cut Pro X?

Yessir!

 

[Rush]

I want to use it for my video editing but it bogs my computer down too much. I'm on a 2GB macbook, tried it on my fiance's 4GB and it was slow on that too.

 

[RPrevidi]

Dear god... why is it everyone just loves to pick against the Bears. Rivers won't have time to throw... and that pressure will have an effect just like it did last week on Stafford... plus has he been watching the Chargers lately? This game will be very similar to last weeks game with the exception that Lions defense is much better than San Diego's defense...

San Diego's X-Factor is going to be Matthews not Vincent freaking Jackson...
If Matthews is 100% healthy and can help them establish some type of ground game it will help Rivers tremendously and the Chargers run game alone will make the difference in this game for them.

Our X-Factor will be Bennett not our safeties (if I were to pick our X-factor on D it would be our DE's actually)...
San Diego will stack the box and force us to throw. They will key on Matt Forte the entire game. Bennett will be our key possession receiver and he'll be the guy who will have the greatest effect on our 3rd down conversions. The Bears are 26th in the league (31.6%) in 3rd down conversions.

The Bears win this one at home and go 7 and 3... 31 -27 Bears

 

[EmDiggy]

Dear god... why is it everyone just loves to pick against the Bears. Philips won't have time to throw... and that pressure will have an effect just like it did last week on Stafford... plus has he been watching the Chargers lately? This game will be very similar to last weeks game with the exception that Lions defense is much better than San Diego's defense...

San Diego's X-Factor is going to be Matthews not Vincent freaking Jackson...
If Matthews is 100% healthy and can help them establish some type of ground game it will help Rivers tremendously and the Chargers run game alone will make the difference in this game for them.

Our X-Factor will be Bennett not our safeties (if I were to pick our X-factor on D it would be our DE's actually)...
San Diego will stack the box and force us to throw. They will key on Matt Forte the entire game. Bennett will be our key possession receiver and he'll be the guy who will have the greatest effect on our 3rd down conversions. The Bears are 26th in the league (31.6%) in 3rd down conversions.

The Bears win this one at home and go 7 and 3... 31 -27 Bears

I chose VJack because of where they can line him up across the formation to create Mis-matches for other players on their offense. Mathews is too injury prone to become a factor.. Even if he's healthy, the Chargers don't run the ball enough anyway (although they should)

 

[JJ-28]

What I get a kick out of is when all these experts tell everyone the Bears run a Cover 2 Defense. When we only run it a small percentage of the time anymore.

 

[Rush]

What I get a kick out of is when all these experts tell everyone the Bears run a Cover 2 Defense. When we only run it a small percentage of the time anymore.

Yeah, the FOX announcers were the first ones to point out the slow change to more Cover 3 on Sunday.

 

[Capt. Serious]

Rivers won't have time to throw? Um almost 305 yards a game says otherwise.

Lets stop pretending that we're the 85 Bears defense all of a sudden.

 

[Rush]

Rivers won't have time to throw? Um almost 305 yards a game says otherwise.

Lets stop pretending that we're the 85 Bears defense all of a sudden.

Chicago has a good pass rush and Peppers/Idonije are really hitting their strides right now.

Not to mention Marcus McNeill might not play due to a neck injury, he is easily their best linemen. He is also the 3rd most sacked QB in the NFL right now.

 

[MSOADE54]

Rivers won't have time to throw? Um almost 305 yards a game says otherwise.

Lets stop pretending that we're the 85 Bears defense all of a sudden.

Dude I don't think I have ever seen you credit the Bears. On anything and if you do then it is doubled with an insult. Are you just a Packer troll on a Chicago Sports site? I don't get it... and if some one actually has confidence that their 6-3 team can beat the 4-5 team than they are just a meat head Bears fan. All in all ....

:farley:

 

[RPrevidi]

Chicago has a good pass rush and Peppers/Idonije are really hitting their strides right now.

Not to mention Marcus McNeill might not play due to a neck injury, he is easily their best linemen. He is also the 3rd most sacked QB in the NFL right now.

You beat me to it.

They are down 3 starters now on their O-Line and Kris Dielman just went on IR so he's not coming back.

Since Dielman's departure from the Jets game, Rivers has been sacked 11 times and has thrown 6 interceptions (over the past 3 games).

Plus, if you've actually been watching the games he's been under constant duress... especially last week.

Conversely, the Bears have recorded 4 sacks and 9 interceptions over the past 3 games.

Does Serious just hate on the Bears and always make claims that have no basis in reality all the time? It sure does seem that way.

 

[RPrevidi]

Yeah, the FOX announcers were the first ones to point out the slow change to more Cover 3 on Sunday.

There ya go again... using extremes to try to make a negative point that shows a complete lack of football knowledge.. or you just plain aren't watching the games / keeping track of player news...

 

[RPrevidi]

I chose VJack because of where they can line him up across the formation to create Mis-matches for other players on their offense. Mathews is too injury prone to become a factor.. Even if he's healthy, the Chargers don't run the ball enough anyway (although they should)

First off, I respect what you do and your analysis but I want to point some things out:

1. VJax has been dealing with injury issues himself (hammy / abdominal) the entire season as well. He has been extremely inconsistent and other than the Green Bay game he hasn't really done anything since week 4. He's also had some games where he's had the dropsies...

2. If you watched the Lions game last week, they tried a lot of different WR looks with a ton of slant / short routes. It obviously didn't work out that well for them... and those passes will be the majority of the ones Rivers will have the chance to make... why do you ask...

3. Dombrowski gets owned against speed rushers just like he was owned last week by Wimbley. With all of the pressure that Rivers will be under, they MUST run the ball and they know that... which leads us to...

4. When it comes to Mathews look at the patterns throughout this season. He started with a lighter workload and that workload ramped up in weeks 3-5. During that stretch he averaged 4.9 yards / carry. He had the calf strain in week 6 against the Broncos and the groin injury against the Chiefs in week 8 so he's been dealing with those injuries ever since then but now he is supposedly 100%. His workload will increase and the Chargers know that it has to this week.

In addition, here's a recent quote Rivers said about VJax from last week...

Rivers said if he had to guess, a safety was "clouding" over Jackson on 80 percent or more of the Chargers offensive plays. Rivers chose to look elsewhere, leaving V-Jax as a non-factor for the first three and a half quarters.

5. This will happen again this week with our safeties and if Rivers follows his pattern he won't throw very much to VJax.

Anyways, I guess we'll both see what happens this Sunday and who knows... maybe we'll both be wrong.

 

[TopekaRoy]

As has already been pointed out, the Bears aren't playing that much cover-2 defense any more. Because they have a front four that can put pressure on the QB, that allows them to play more press/man-to-man coverage. Tilman pretty much shut down Megatron last week and I expect him to do the same to Jackson this week.

The Lions only had 5 turnovers in their first 8 games and the Bears forced 6 Rivers has thrown 15 interceptions already. The Bears will win the turnover battle and the game.

 

[ClydeLee]

The Bears still and always have run a TAMPA 2 defense... the whole blown out of cover 2 team has been a myth from the start. The majority of time they've played cover2-tampa2 around 20% of the time. It has always been that way except they played it slightly more up to 33% during 06 because they had tons of games with big leads they were playing back off.

The cover 2 is not the only aspect of a Tampa 2 team though, the positioning of the D line as a 1 Gap defense putting the NT at the 1 gap and the UT in the 3-tech. That's also a big part that separates the Tampa 2 from a different 2 deep team like the Titans or Dick Jauron style.

 

[RPrevidi]

The past two games the bears have been playing single high safety 70% of the time. They've been playing much more aggressive with their secondary and it's been working.