I think everyone is making to much of the lack of running game from the starting line.
Had this been a real game they would have had a plan to attack wherever the weakest spot was. Josh said they only had 3 or 4 running plays even available. They were basically just calling plays. It looked from the naked eye the bears were just attacking downhill in the running game and had good fortune that the bills were pulling their left guard on one of the plays to cook that was just wiped out because of the huge gap it left.
if this were a regular season game and they were attacking like that they would have a bunch of ways to counter that. Today they just called the next play. Its preseason football. The way they were attacking was begging to get screened to death.
not to mention that is an excellent front 7 vs the run and was number 1 last year.
If they cant run in september then i will be worried its personnel but for now judging from today this was just basically plays being run and for the first time with real hitting and tackling.
Coleman had his jersey pulled and was getting arm barred as the ball was above and behind him not to mention late.
Going through this is only going to make him better.
i also have a feeling he won't be running alot that in breaking stuff in the endzone and is going to make his living in the back corner and coming back to the ball at the front pylon.
Would have been nice to see the ball be at least reasonably catchable so he could have had a chance though.
when you don't game plan vs a front seven like this you are going to have all kinds of problems. Pretty common in the preseason to
see teams just man to man push people around. again this is the best run defense in the league
yea I understand but there is no reason to put allen at risk vs this bears front seven. None.
I don't want cook out there either. This group will get a ton of work this week vs the steelers in the joint practice.
i am cool with him handing off.
In fact I would not put him back out there again. This bears defense is very good, number 1 against the run last year and have pass rushers.
We dont need allen getting hit on august 10th.
eric wood said on the radio already that williams is slow to read the defense.
Ha. one preseason drive in is a little soon i would say to make evaluations
Friendly reminder last years preseason opener the steelers manhandled the bills.
then bills eliminated them in the playoffs.
so remember this is just practice in uniforms.
He has come off as down on the team since free agency started. It feels like he wants to say they will miss the playoffs and this is a rebuilding year but I am not sure he has said those exact words yet.