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Live Blogging the Bears Game
By Mike | December 2, 2007
I’ve been wanting to do this all year. This week I’m finally going to do it.
9:58 First Quarter - You couldn’t have scripted the first possessions much better. An interception on the Giant’s first drive followed by the Bears Offense dominating the Giants D. Grossman looked like an actual quarterback, rolling out and hitting Peterson for a big gain followed by three completions to Clark. Peterson looks good running, picking up yards that I don’t think Cedric would have gotten. So far so good.
7:00 First Quarter - Another decent defensive stand. A penalty gave the Giants a first down, but no more. And the Giants kicked it away from Hester. Can you imagine how valuable Hester would be on an offensive powerhouse like the Patriots or Cots? Giving Brady or Manning great field position all the time almost wouldn’t seem fair. At the Bears have a rather inept offense to counter the advantage Hester gives them.
5:00 First Quarter - Maybe I just don’t like Benson, but I think every yard that Peterson gets after initial contact is a yard Benson would have missed. That first down he just dove for is not something Benson would have done.
End First Quarter - Not a bad first quarter. It would have been nice if they could have stopped Toomer a few inches earlier so they’d be getting the ball back to start the second quarter, but all in all I have no complaints.
14:54 Second Quarter - gotta love it when they run a reverse right into your blitz.
12:42 Second Quarter - Long Bomb to Hester and he dropped a sure TD. That should have been caught without a doubt. That leads to a delay of game and then a sack for almost a safety. This could be a huge turning point in the game. And then the punt is partially blocked. A good team would be up 14 -0 here. The Bears will be lucky to get out of it 7-3.
11:56 Second Quarter - Why is it that every other team can rip off runs of 20-30+ yards against the Bears, but the Bears can never do it?
10:41 Second Quarter - Can you imagine the outrage if the Giants don’t score here after getting their TD called back due to a late challenge?
9:46 Second Quarter - Grossman is doing a decent job of avoiding the blitz. Outside of the almost safety last possession.
9:25 Second Quarter - Or Not.
9:07 Second Quarter - I don’t understand why the Bears got an illegal touching penalty. Isn’t it standard for the kicking team to try to down the ball inside the five on a kick? Or if the returner bails the kicking team is always the one that touches it once it stops rolling? How is that different?
8:45 Second Quarter - Seriously, how many times per game do Bears opponents rip off 30+ yard runs? Because more than one is at least two too many.
8:00 Second Quarter - They just mention that Archuletta was benched. Thank God.
7:51 Second Quarter - Eli is doing a very good Bad Rex impression. Let’s hope that changes the momentum a bit because things were not starting to look good.
7:06 Second Quarter - I was just about to say that the Bears were running too many short yardage plays and then they pull off a 50 yard pass play to Berrian. Nice catch.
1:39 Second Quarter - Nice pickup on third and long, followed by a nice scramble/dump off to Peterson. Davis is looking good on this drive.
0:30 Second Quarter - Holy Crap! The Bears just pulled off a successful screen play. I’ve been waiting years to see that.
0:10 Second Quarter - That’s the worst thing ever. If Grossman just fell out of field goal range by turning a sack into a sack for a huge loss I’m going to be upset.
End of Second Quarter - I’ll take the FG but it would have been nice if they could have scored the TD at the end of that drive.
15:00 Third Quarter - Devin Hester effect lets the Bears start on the 40 yard line. Not that it helps because they go three and out.
13:56 Third Quarter - FUMBLE!!! If you can’t stop the run, just take the ball away from the runner. The Bears need a TD here.
11:14 Third Quarter - Thats just horrible. A 15 yard penalty on third and short inside the 10 may have just cost the Bears at four points. Again, good teams score TDs there. The Bears settle for a field goal.
7:40 Third Quarter - Not a very good series. Peterson had a nice run, but followed it up with a five yard loss, and then that was followed up with a bad screen to Hester that lost a few more yards. They’ve started on the 40 yard line twice this half and failed to score on both occasions.
3:00 Third Quarter - 4th and inches. What are the chances the Bears make the stop here? Not so good. They had him in the backfield and failed to make the play. That’s the sort of thing that goes for a TD so I guess the Bears are lucky. Of coarse the drive isn’t over yet.
0:13 Third Quarter - Huge play by Tillman. Manning somehow eludes a sack on third and goal then Tillman boxes out Burris and makes the play. That has to be momentum killer for the Giants.
End of Third - And if that wasn’t how about a 45 pass to Clark. Not that I’m not pleased with Clark’s performance, but where is Olson? Has he caught anything today?
14:00 Fourth Quarter - Bears waste another opportunity to put the Giants away as they don’t even get a field goal out of it.
11:55 Fourth Quarter - Neither offense is looking very good. That works out OK for the Bears since they are ahead by at least two scores, but as I’ve mentioned a few times, it would be nice to see them make a few big plays and put this one out of reach.
9:10 Fourth Quarter - The Bears Defense is painful to watch at times in the fourth quarter. It seems like the other team just does whatever it wants as it drives the length of the field. The only good thing about this drive is that it is taking a bunch of time off of the clock. Its frustrating to see yet another back have a career game at the expense of the Bears D.
6:54 Fourth Quarter - Challenge of the incomplete pass in the endzone. Looks to me like he caught it. The ball skips, but it skips off his hands and into his grasp.
6:54 Fourth Quarter - Can the Bears have a large time consuming drive to ice this one? I’m going to bet on three and out followed by a Giants last second field goal to win.
4:45 Fourth Quarter - Well, I got the three and out part right. Peterson was close to springing a big run on first down, but a minimal gain on second and the sixth sack of the day on third put an end to that.
4:23 Fourth Quarter - The Bears are the worst 4th quarter team ever. How about they tackle some one?
2:00 Fourth Quarter - They are going to lose this game and there is no excuse for it. They had better field position all day and won the turnover battle. All they had to do was make a few plays on either side of the ball in the second half.
1:33 Fourth Quarter - So I was wrong. They scored a TD instead of the field goal. To be honest, if I was the Giants I would have stalled more and kicked a field goal. The Bears will now have a shot with Hester returning plus a minute and a half to work with.
0:54 Fourth Quarter. Short gains up the middle of the field aren’t going to work.
0:36 Fourth Quarter. You know what else doesn’t help? False Starts.
0:26 Fourth Quarter. Dropped passes aren’t a very good plan either.
0:00 Fourth Quarter. What a waste. They had so many opportunities in this game and can’t pull it out. I didn’t expect them to win, but they had every chance to do so and couldn’t capitalize. At least now we’ll not have to listen to the Bears claim they still think they can get into the playoffs.
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