Quick Recap: Bears 29-Colts 13

is recievers need to start CATCHING the friggin ball. Two easy scores just let go. Inexcusable.

Usually the defense doesn’t turn to shit until the playoffs…..

Now that every team’s strategy is going to be to assign a full-time blocker on Bob Sanders, the rest of the defense is going to be exposed as the paper tissue they are.

BTW, what happened to all the new defensive line players? Despite all the scorn that Josh Thomas got here and elsewhere, he seemed to be on the field all the time.

with you cardzfan24, I can think of several times that our receivers couldn’t catch the ball. Reggie dropped one in the end zone thrown perfectly to his hands. He HAS to make that catch. Isn’t that why he makes the big bucks?? I love Reggie, but he did the same thing in the regular season New England game last year. Also, Marvin fumbles again and destroyed some serious momentum. Are you kidding me? Gonzo was missing catches. If any of those receiver mistakes are not made, who knows how the game could have shifted? Peyton was a bit tentative, but still could have easily pulled out a win if the receivers and defense had their act together. Unfortunately, they didn’t. I’m confident the Colts will get it together, but there goes the undefeated season I was predicting.

They did a good job picking up the constant blitzing since Manning only got sacked twice (?) but they couldn’t open a whole for anything. There was no ground attack.

We were dominated on both sides of the ball. Didn’t come to play and our main players Freeney, Sanders, Manning were rusty. In addition with Clark out, Ed Johnson out, Saturday out, Howard Out it just added up to a big loss. Bears played great and we played so-so with a lot of mental mistakes…We better be ready for next week isn’t the Jags on the schedule? If we can’t stop the run next week we will be 0-2…

First of all, we won’t have to hear the ‘undefeated’ distraction talk towards the end of the season like we did in 2005. Also, next week the Colts will most likely be 1-1 and tied for the lead in the AFC South. And finally, Manning looked better than I expected and will dominate teams in the weeks ahead. I’m not panicking.

I believe that tonights poor showing was due to a few factors. First the coaching was absolutely horrible,, from challenges that had no chance, to overall scheme. Icing on the cake was that call on 4th and 1, the play went right where all the Bears were lining up. A few minutes later Bears had 3rd and 1 in Colts territory, and do a successful play action pass.
The special teams were again terrible,,especially on returns. Of all the phases of game this disappointed me the most, as I believed the rhetoric from pre-season that the special teams are so much better.
Wide receiver play was poor, all dropped passes, Harrisons fumble was final turning point of game. The offensive line play was also poor,,but I think worse from the tackles then from the middle. The middle of line may not have opened up any holes but at least they protected well, it was the tackles who caused Mannings sacks.
I think Manning threw pretty well, a few catches and he could have had two more td’s. However, I must agree with announcers in that this wasnt the old Manning who would burn the opposition when they blitzed. One play missing whole game, was that down the middle throw about 15-20 yards downfield, Bears were stacking the line so often, I would have thought, that pass to be wide open. A passing statistic that means much more than percentage or yards,,,is yards per pass attempt… Mannings was only a shade more than 5,,,his career its near 9. 30-49 for 255 yards is NOT a good game, by any ones standards.. Ask Dungy, I guarantee if he could have opposition do that every game, he would be very satisfied. Note: throwing 49 times means you arent running well and probably are behind.
I hope Colts significantly improve in all phases from this game. You can be optimistic saying its only first game and also its a non conference game, plus SD lost, Jax lost and NE is done. However, I would like to point out,,,Colts will again have worst special teams in NFL,,for them to win, they need to SIGNIFICANTLY outplay their opposition from scrimmage (which they normally do), reviewing their schedule, this team does look like they can significantly outplay very many.. especially not the next 2 games