Jumping the gun much, gents?
Tausch is done. He won't be coming back this season and with so long out at the age he is nobody will pick him up. As for Barbre, yeah, he had a poor performance. It was also his first start and he was up against a pretty good and experienced DE. More, he got his act together after the half was over.
Barbre played the worst out of the offense that night, sure. But the offense as a whole underperformed. It was the left side which missed the blitz which ended in a safety. Spitz and Sitton both had drive-ending penalties. Five passes were dropped, four for first downs and altogether about 100 yards worth of offense through the hands of our receivers, and an early TD throw was overthrown. The GB offense made all the critical errors at all the wrong times. Even the final few plays were error-ridden. Dropped ball by Nelson followed by Jennings lining up wrong followed by the entire line playing the wrong protection.
This doesn't mean we have to throw out the offense or any particular piece even. It means we have to not play sloppy. The offense needs to shake the early jitters and keep to the fundamentals. If any one piece of that problem played to expectation that game would not have been close. But that's a Bears game for you and everyone here should know that unless you've already forgotten 2007 or the final regular season game of 2006.
Tausch is done. He won't be coming back this season and with so long out at the age he is nobody will pick him up. As for Barbre, yeah, he had a poor performance. It was also his first start and he was up against a pretty good and experienced DE. More, he got his act together after the half was over.
Barbre played the worst out of the offense that night, sure. But the offense as a whole underperformed. It was the left side which missed the blitz which ended in a safety. Spitz and Sitton both had drive-ending penalties. Five passes were dropped, four for first downs and altogether about 100 yards worth of offense through the hands of our receivers, and an early TD throw was overthrown. The GB offense made all the critical errors at all the wrong times. Even the final few plays were error-ridden. Dropped ball by Nelson followed by Jennings lining up wrong followed by the entire line playing the wrong protection.
This doesn't mean we have to throw out the offense or any particular piece even. It means we have to not play sloppy. The offense needs to shake the early jitters and keep to the fundamentals. If any one piece of that problem played to expectation that game would not have been close. But that's a Bears game for you and everyone here should know that unless you've already forgotten 2007 or the final regular season game of 2006.