Hah! They Had Both Of Their Vaunted Running Backs In The Game.

After a weekend of “Too bad you guys got rid of Brees” e-mails, I was rather relieved to see Ole Drew shut everybody up against the Cowboys last night. Not that he was God awful or anything, but he certainly didn’t do much to keep the haters flaming. At least not flaming in the e-sense of the word. Of course, the New Orleans game plan was actually very similar to what Marty put out there the other night, with remarkably similar results. Don’t let the QB throw very far, etcetera and so forth. With Brees you’d be concerned that maybe his arm isn’t quite as 100% as they’d have you believe. With Rivers, I’m concerned that they were afraid to let that O-line guard him for more than a nanosecond or some overzealous Bears’ defenders may try to take random QB limbs as souvenirs. The fact is, though, who knows what the Chargers offense is going to look like under Rivers until Our Boy Spectacular is on the field. And it doesn’t look like we’re going to see that until it counts in Oakland.

I worry a bit more about that damn secondary again. The Bears have a good defense, so their play on that side of the ball is to be expected. Their offense on the other hand, despite some off-season improvements, should leave more to be desired. Sadly, they really picked on our DBs Friday night. Especially Griese, and while I could care less what the Bears do, I’ve been saying that’s the guy they should be going with. Grossman is still developing and that team needs to take a shot while that defense is still stellar. God, did I really just have that much to say about Da Bears?

All in all, Friday’s game was a pretty sad performance, with a mere handful of bright spots. Michael Turner continues to be brilliant, and that guy Perkins had a couple of nifty little runs as well. There was a field goal. Probably kicked by Kaeding. So that’s good. If you’re into that sort of thing.

So, we beat up on a bad team in the first game against Green Bay. We got beat up by a good team in the second game. The truth probably lies somewhere in the middle. Until, of course, we plug in that one Running Back guy that’s pretty good. Then I think we’ll be pretty all right. Pretty damn all right, indeed. Go Bolts!!!