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Cheesehead
McCarthy got away from what he was doing, and it had ZERO to do with what the Bears were doing on Defense.
The Bears changed in the 2nd half, and MM was calling plays according to their set. Here's MM's quote-
(What adjustments did the Bears make?)
The Bears came out and played us every single snap the second half in two-deep. We had excellent opportunities to run the football. I'm disappointed in our run game, frankly, in the second half - especially the way we ran the ball in the first half. I need to look at the film. The penalties, we had twice as many penalties as our opponent, mostly in the second half, long down and distance. I thought it was a totally sloppy no-rhythmic football game. It totally flipped from the first half. I thought in the first half that our tempo was great. We came out of the gate, went right down the field and scored. I thought we were going to have a big night on offense. You have to give credit to Chicago. They played stingy run defense. Their run defense was better than our run offense in the second half. It was a big part of their success because we didn't move the ball very well.
This one is all on MM. He let his players and his emotions take over and the team fed off of it.
You think that Jones killing two early drives and Woodson handing the ball back to the Bears after we'd stopped them, and Brett giving it to Urlacher inside the 30 is MM's fault? For being emotional? I fail to see the logic there.