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You can use whatever excuse you want about the Bears having "one of the better defenses in the NFL", but I don't buy it. Why? Because if we're going to have a winning season, make the playoffs and hopefully go somewhere we need to BEAT teams with good defenses. We can't do that playing like we played tonight.
Also 3 things:
1. PENALTIES
2. FUMBLES
3. MISSED XP and FG
First of all, at the NFL level a missed XP should be an automatic forfeit. Any HS kicker can come in and consistently make XP's on PERFECT snaps and holds- the reason there's only 32 FG kickers (give or take) in the NFL is because they're supposed to excel at difficult situations. Lindell obviously doesn't. More importantly, these are not the types of errors that magically go away once the season starts. They're the type of persistant errors that will cost you games and thus playoff appearances. Mularkey and Co. now have two weeks and one more practice game to figure it out.
Do I care that we lost a preseason game? Not particularly, except that one of my good friends is a Bears fan. Do I care that we played a sloppy game and would have absolutely had our asses handed to us if it was a regular season game against NE, NYJ or a whole host of other teams? HELL YES.
Also 3 things:
1. PENALTIES
2. FUMBLES
3. MISSED XP and FG
First of all, at the NFL level a missed XP should be an automatic forfeit. Any HS kicker can come in and consistently make XP's on PERFECT snaps and holds- the reason there's only 32 FG kickers (give or take) in the NFL is because they're supposed to excel at difficult situations. Lindell obviously doesn't. More importantly, these are not the types of errors that magically go away once the season starts. They're the type of persistant errors that will cost you games and thus playoff appearances. Mularkey and Co. now have two weeks and one more practice game to figure it out.
Do I care that we lost a preseason game? Not particularly, except that one of my good friends is a Bears fan. Do I care that we played a sloppy game and would have absolutely had our asses handed to us if it was a regular season game against NE, NYJ or a whole host of other teams? HELL YES.
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