Post by GrizzlyBear on Dec 4, 2016 16:38:06 GMT -6
www.chicagotribune.com/sports/rosenblog/ct-bears-49ers-rosenbloom-20161204-column.html
Congrats, Bears and 49ers: You delivered the promised bad and stupid football
The Bears offense entered Sunday’s game ranked 31st in points scored. The 49ers defense entered the game ranked 32nd in points allowed. Fox Sports should’ve repackaged the show as "So you think you can play football?’"
No. The answer to the question above would’ve been no.
The game began amid moderate snow and light hope for either team’s future.
Colin Kaepernick took a knee during the national anthem and then took the pipe during the game.
First play of the game, and Kaepernick threw incomplete, but Akiem Hicks committed a roughing-the-passer penalty. Five plays later, the 49ers ripped off a 20-yard gain, but Vance McDonald was flagged for holding. Three plays, later, the 49ers run into the Bears punt returner. You get two teams with three combined wins in the last month of the season, you get a buffet of bad and stupid football.
So, it took one second-and-long for Dowell Loggains to get away from the run against the worst run defense in the league.
Bryce Callahan fair-caught a punt at his 5. Seriously, dude? Like the offense doesn’t stink enough, and now the punt returner can’t let the ball perhaps bounce into the end zone for a touchback? That’s something they teach in Pop Warner, but apparently not at Halas Hall.
The Bears took a delay-of-game penalty on a punt because Ben Braunecker didn’t know he was on that unit. Do they practice?
And then Braunecker was beaten to the inside to allow the punt to be blocked. Do they practice?
But wait. There’s more. That play ended with the returner stepping out of bounds short of the goal line followed by former Bear Shaun Draughn drawing a penalty for unsportsmanlike conduct for celebrating a TD that wasn’t a TD. I’m telling you, this game had to be challenging the NFL record for combined stupid.
Good for Jordan Howard, but isn’t that what a tough running back is expected to do against the worst rushing defense in the NFL?
Even a running back from the second-worst scoring offense in the NFL?
So, there you go: Josh Bellamy can’t catch passes while wide open in good weather and bad.
No, look, Bellamy caught a pass down the left sideline. It was a pass that highlighted Matt Barkley’s lack of arm strength, but still, Bellamy caught a pass.
And look at that: Loggains went back to the shovel pass at the goal line, only this time it worked. I guess there’s at least something the Bears practice.
Hold it. Bellamy dropped a potential 61-yard TD pass. Barkley should know better by now.
John Timu got credit for a pass defended when the ball hit him in the helmet as he was beaten badly on a play that Kaepernick badly underthrew. It’s insulting to the Patriots and Cowboys to call this football.
Has it always taken Barkley a half to get into playing a game?
The Bears defense was excellent in exposing Kaepernick. Either the defense or the snow. Or Chip Kelly's death-spiral leadership.
The 49ers proved to be a joke, so before you think the Bears accomplished something, remember this: They leave the game with just two wins more than that joke.
The Bears offense entered Sunday’s game ranked 31st in points scored. The 49ers defense entered the game ranked 32nd in points allowed. Fox Sports should’ve repackaged the show as "So you think you can play football?’"
No. The answer to the question above would’ve been no.
The game began amid moderate snow and light hope for either team’s future.
Colin Kaepernick took a knee during the national anthem and then took the pipe during the game.
First play of the game, and Kaepernick threw incomplete, but Akiem Hicks committed a roughing-the-passer penalty. Five plays later, the 49ers ripped off a 20-yard gain, but Vance McDonald was flagged for holding. Three plays, later, the 49ers run into the Bears punt returner. You get two teams with three combined wins in the last month of the season, you get a buffet of bad and stupid football.
So, it took one second-and-long for Dowell Loggains to get away from the run against the worst run defense in the league.
Bryce Callahan fair-caught a punt at his 5. Seriously, dude? Like the offense doesn’t stink enough, and now the punt returner can’t let the ball perhaps bounce into the end zone for a touchback? That’s something they teach in Pop Warner, but apparently not at Halas Hall.
The Bears took a delay-of-game penalty on a punt because Ben Braunecker didn’t know he was on that unit. Do they practice?
And then Braunecker was beaten to the inside to allow the punt to be blocked. Do they practice?
But wait. There’s more. That play ended with the returner stepping out of bounds short of the goal line followed by former Bear Shaun Draughn drawing a penalty for unsportsmanlike conduct for celebrating a TD that wasn’t a TD. I’m telling you, this game had to be challenging the NFL record for combined stupid.
Good for Jordan Howard, but isn’t that what a tough running back is expected to do against the worst rushing defense in the NFL?
Even a running back from the second-worst scoring offense in the NFL?
So, there you go: Josh Bellamy can’t catch passes while wide open in good weather and bad.
No, look, Bellamy caught a pass down the left sideline. It was a pass that highlighted Matt Barkley’s lack of arm strength, but still, Bellamy caught a pass.
And look at that: Loggains went back to the shovel pass at the goal line, only this time it worked. I guess there’s at least something the Bears practice.
Hold it. Bellamy dropped a potential 61-yard TD pass. Barkley should know better by now.
John Timu got credit for a pass defended when the ball hit him in the helmet as he was beaten badly on a play that Kaepernick badly underthrew. It’s insulting to the Patriots and Cowboys to call this football.
Has it always taken Barkley a half to get into playing a game?
The Bears defense was excellent in exposing Kaepernick. Either the defense or the snow. Or Chip Kelly's death-spiral leadership.
The 49ers proved to be a joke, so before you think the Bears accomplished something, remember this: They leave the game with just two wins more than that joke.
It wasn't two separate games even though some would like to see it that way. I know you all aren't gonna want to admit to this either but the ONLY 60 minute game we played all year was against Minny and Cutler actually played that one.