I watched the game last night with friends and, therefore, didn’t take notes. They know I’m a geek but there’s not reason to make it that obvious.
Nevertheless, here are a few brief comments from the game.
- So, so many drops. Drops are like huge penalties because you lose the yardage and the down. It’s hard to win when you have so many of them, and they were lucky to do it last week.
- Having said that, Caleb Williams didn’t exactly make it easy on the receivers yesterday. A lot of the balls that he threw could’ve been a lot more catchable under the circumstances. He wasn’t very accurate and that’s been the case on and off all season. Something to work on in the offseason, maybe.
- Speaking of the cold weather, I thought the Rams looked like the cold weather team yesterday. It was the Bears, who were having trouble holding onto the ball and, in Williams’s case, throwing it. I thought that was interesting, though I don’t have an explanation for it.
- The play calling inside the 10-yard line wasn’t my favorite. The Bears pounded the ball inside and they were getting nowhere. Not only that, but after doing it over and over again when they finally threw a pass from inside the five, they did it from the shotgun and didn’t use play action. I usually don’t question playcalling as a rule, but I do kind of wonder what they were thinking.
- It’s really pathetic that I’ve watched this game all my life and I still don’t know what a catch looks like. I can’t look at the non-interception by the Bears defense yesterday and then look at the somewhat infamous interception by Denver over a Buffalo player the day before and reconcile the two.
- Nice effort for the defense. All year long I have to say that I bagged on them. They worried me every game, and there were a lot of games where I didn’t think the Bears would win because I thought that the defensive line was so poor. But they held up pretty well yesterday. Kudos to them.
- I can’t remember exactly what my prediction was, but I know it wasn’t more than eight wins for the season. It was a wonderful, magical year. I enjoyed every minute of it.
? on the fact that I don’t know what a catch is anymore. The frustrating thing is I actually believe both, while not the exact same play, were catches but the officials called em opposite and in both games the rules analyst defended the decision. Plays of that magnitude should not be such a gray area.