Sunday, January 21, 2007, 5:31 PM
And so, as the Chicago Bears firm up their hotel and flight reservations to Miami and Super Bowl 41, what does one still hear?
The Saints got robbed! The refs were horrible!
As it has been all year, the Chicago Bears went out on the field and did the one thing that they do better than all the other teams in the NFC, they win ball games. Its simple really. You don't have to look good doing it, or blow opponents out of the water, or get tons of sacks or dominate or any of the above. The only per-requisite to winning football games is that you must have more points on the board at the end.
Was Grossman great? No. Was he great when he needed to be? Oh yeah. And that's all that counts, now isn't it.
Did the Saints get close during the end of the half and the third quarter? Yep. But you have to play all four quarters. That's kinda' the point.
The Bears played disciplined football today. They rushed their lanes, keeping Brees on lock down. When they ran stunts they left the middle open and Brees ran away. The Saints resorted to keeping two guys in just to block the defensive end on Brees' blind side.
The defensive ends looped constantly, taking away the roll out and not allowing the running game to cut back to the outside. The Bears tackles pushed up front, taking away the middle, shutting down the run between the tackles.
The Bears strip the ball better than any team in the league. And it showed.
Pass rush? Brees was sacked, what, 18 times all season?
But I'm sure that the "experts", both here and on television (where is seemed the Saints were picked at a rate of about 10-1) will find still more fault for a team that has done what so many others couldn't this year.
They just won ball games.
Sounds simple, doesn't it? The Eagles, Cowboys, Seahawks, Saints and the rest of the supposed cream of the NFC should give it a try.
"If you want to crown their ass, crown em!"
One to go. One more to go.
The Saints got robbed! The refs were horrible!
As it has been all year, the Chicago Bears went out on the field and did the one thing that they do better than all the other teams in the NFC, they win ball games. Its simple really. You don't have to look good doing it, or blow opponents out of the water, or get tons of sacks or dominate or any of the above. The only per-requisite to winning football games is that you must have more points on the board at the end.
Was Grossman great? No. Was he great when he needed to be? Oh yeah. And that's all that counts, now isn't it.
Did the Saints get close during the end of the half and the third quarter? Yep. But you have to play all four quarters. That's kinda' the point.
The Bears played disciplined football today. They rushed their lanes, keeping Brees on lock down. When they ran stunts they left the middle open and Brees ran away. The Saints resorted to keeping two guys in just to block the defensive end on Brees' blind side.
The defensive ends looped constantly, taking away the roll out and not allowing the running game to cut back to the outside. The Bears tackles pushed up front, taking away the middle, shutting down the run between the tackles.
The Bears strip the ball better than any team in the league. And it showed.
Pass rush? Brees was sacked, what, 18 times all season?
But I'm sure that the "experts", both here and on television (where is seemed the Saints were picked at a rate of about 10-1) will find still more fault for a team that has done what so many others couldn't this year.
They just won ball games.
Sounds simple, doesn't it? The Eagles, Cowboys, Seahawks, Saints and the rest of the supposed cream of the NFC should give it a try.
"If you want to crown their ass, crown em!"
One to go. One more to go.
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