Bears Report Card, Offensive Line...........

I have to admit the OL looked pretty bad.  The running game had poor blocking in particular.  Fox wants to run the football.  But to do that the Bears need better blocking.  Of course the passing game had its own problems too.  

The OL talent really sets the ceiling for the offense... and to some extent the team's season for that matter.

If you saw Kyle Long during the game giving Massie all sorts of shit on the bench after letting Cutler get sacked and then heard him post-game, I think we are getting the 2016 version of Olin Kreutz. He looked angry enough to kick someone's ass.

I agree.  When your facing a fierce pass rush you need to slow down, you run some quick slants and outs and some screens and draws.  Play calling 101 there.

its always amazing when bears coaches can't seem to figure that out.

I have to think that's pretty much what Fox was referring to when he said that Houston made adjustments in the second half and we didn't.  Loggains game plan and play sheets had no answers for those adjustment.

IMHO KW is the perfect guy to be running those quick slants because with his size and speed he'd be crossing into zones where a Safety or NB would have to cover him and he's much faster and bigger than they are. But here's where White's issue with not getting his job down come in.

Cutler probably can't and won't trust throwing to him on those routes and I addressed that in another thread.  He and Loggains will select pass plays to receivers he does trust and ignore those that require he throw to a receiver he doesn't.  So this is yet another way where White being so far behind the learning curve is hurting the offense by limiting it's options.

Jay said as much when he emphasized that they need KW out there playing fast and drawing attention away from AJ, Royal, and Miller and KW is not doing that.  He may run a 4.35/40 but he's playing much slower than that due to his uncertainty and hesitation.  Cutler is not gonna throw crossing routes to KW in the "danger zone" when he's unsure of his ability to adjust to the throw or hold onto it so it doesn't get picked off a bobbled catch.

White is hurting that offense right now and he should be benched in favor of Bellamy and Meredith until he gets his assignments down and Cutler can trust him.