Post by jamaisvu on Dec 5, 2016 11:25:07 GMT -6
The Good
My two favorite football games are any game played in the rain or the snow. It adds this sloppiness to the game that makes it fun all over again. You can come in with all the best strategies in Professional Football, but can never account for having to play in mud, ice or some weird combination that Solider Field had going on yesterday. Takes me back to the days of backyard football and playing on the worst high school football team on the South Side of Chicago, but I digress...
How beyond fitting that the Slopfest came to Solider Field on the same day that one of the two teams worse than the Chicago Bears had to fly in for. For the entire first half, it genuinely looked like each team was trying to tank the game without tanking the game. I have seen far worse conditions at our stadium and it still did not take twenty minutes for someone to complete a forward pass. Finally Loggains realized this game was putting him to sleep along with the half empty stadium and realized Barkley was not as bad as John Fox said he would be.
At the end, the Chicago Bears came out victorious in Suck Bowl 2016.
(Or not...the Draft Kings are bitter, but to hell with them...I love trouncing the Niners)
Aikem Hicks...I take back any doubt I had about you last week. The Bears DL won this game by a far margin and Hicks may have had his best game of the season. Ten tackles, two for a loss. Two sacks and two more QB hits out of your 3-4 DE is an All-Pro game. I hope he gets some recognition at the end of the season, but it may be hard on such a bad overall team. Eddie Goldman also threw in another sack and a tackle for a loss, with Unrein playing stout against the run while Washington was very effective on passing downs.
Leonard Floyd came back from the bench to add another two sacks and two points. That now gives Floyd a respectable seven sacks on the season and has scored more points than Alshon Jeffrey. Not to be outdone, fellow rookie Nick Kwiatkoski overcame a slow start to put up some fine numbers himself. Nine tackles, two for a loss and two pass breakups. Timu and the un-benched HJQ did a good job in giving the Niners no sort of passing game. Porter and Whitehair came back from injuries I thought at the time was going to add to the ridiculously long IR List.
Jordan Howard padded his impressive rookie stats by accounting for every touchdown of the game, after a bad fumble on a toss play. Barkley did not have the gaudy stats this time thanks to the first half out of 1916, but made just about every throw he needed to make. It was good to see Meredith shake off the recent funk a few clutch first down catches.
Overall, the Niners were every bit as bad as their eleven game loss streak shows. Even a team as wrecked by injuries as the Bears are by now were able to shut them down. All the same, Fangio's Boys looked good in front of his old team and the offense is even climbing out of it's funk by playing Third String Everybody.
In a terrible season...this was by far my favorite game.
(Funk the Draft)
The Bad
On a day that rookies like Floyd, Whitehair and Kwiatkoski shined bright...third round pick Johnathan Bullard was benched for the returning Unrein. As well as the the line played without him, the rookie is going to have to work his butt off to get back into the rotation with Cornelius Washington making a strong case for a new contract in Chicago this offseason and another draft coming before training camp next year. He is quick, but just does not have the power to play DE in this defense. Hope the offseason is kind to him.
And Marquees Wilson followed his career game with another injury and zero catches. He is making a strong case to be completely ignored in free agency.
This week it was Josh Bellamy's career day with four catches for 93 yards. The two drops will hopefully remind everyone that he sucks and this is fool's gold. Speaking of which, the 5'10 175 pound Daniel Braverman made his regular season debut...to block a DT.
(Dipstick Moment #118 for the Bear Offense)
The blocked punt was a disaster for Special Teams, but somehow the Niners screwed that up too.
(R.I.P. Chip Kelly's NFL Career)
And yes...the Niners will most likely pick ahead of the Bears in the Draft and will probably take a quarterback.
(Hopefully, they screw that up too)
The Ugly
I was slightly embarrassed by the Meatheads at Solider Field that booed Kaepernick for seriously Meathead reasons. I was even more embarrassed to read about the Meatheads continuing to wish bodily harm on Kaepernick for previously stated Meathead reasons.
Colin Kaepernick is not the most intelligent person in Football, but he is a better American than said Meatheads.
(Now I know why I don't go to the games)
Unfortunately, he is also a subpar passer and a PR nightmare....so I hope you saved your money kiddo.
That's it...enjoy the win, Bear Nation. The Lions are going to be pissed next week.
