Thanksgiving and the Bears

First of all I want to say Happy Thanksgiving because I won't be posting a blog when it actually is thanksgiving, tomorrow, in case you are calendar deficient. I am also going to preview the Bears game this sunday. It will be a tough game and no doubt it will be very close. So lets get at it. (very interesting wording)
Lets start with the bad thing for the Bears, the offense. Cutler has been playing well recently. He is playing smart and making really good decisions. Yet, he might crack because they are playing a tough team. Cutler is a very unique player in that he needs confidence or he throws interceptions, but if he has too much confidence he will make a mistake. He needs to find that perfect balance in order to be good. And for parts of the game against the Vikings and Dolphins he found that balance and that is why he played really good at those times. Forte and Taylor have become a bit of a dynamic duo and together have built a pretty good running game. We have built a pretty good offense as long as everyone plays as well as they can. This doesn't have to be our weak-point but so far this year it has.
Now the good thing the Bears defense. They have been really good this year. They played really well on thursday against the Dolphins. Peppers was a beast with 3 sacks and the defense had 6 sacks overall. That may have been because the Dolphins offensive line isn't the best, but the Bears pressure is still very good. We have had many interceptions in the past two weeks also, I'm too lazy to look up the stats, but I know they are good. They will be playing a very explosive player in Vick, so lets get into that.
The eagles offense will be hard to face. Vick has had a great season so far after missing three of the games. He had a great game two weeks ago and there is a chance that he could have another game like that. Like I said before our defense is good, but no matter what you do with your defense he will attack it a different way. The thing that makes Vick really good is that if your defense tries to stop him from running he will throw really well and if you try to stop him from throwing he will run on you. He is a great player and he is back. The Bears can stop him if they don't try to necessarily stop one aspect but try to stop both.
The eagles defense is a defense that I don't really know anything about. I know they are a pretty good defense. I don't know if they are good enough to get Cutler off his really good track, but they will make it tough. They might make it tough for forte and taylor to run the ball well, I'm not sure. This is the thing that I will need to pay attention to the most when I watch the game and this could make or break the game.
After looking at all this I'm going to be a homer and say the Bears win. But, if they give up the game they will lose. They could easily lose this game. The eagles are a good team and if we don't take them seriously they will beat the pants off of us. With a win this week people might take the Bears seriously for the first time this year. Bear Down.

Price vs. Hernandez

The winner of the Cy Young was announced and it was Felix Hernandez who won. He had a great season with good stats in both strikeouts and ERA. He was unlucky that he was on a bad team and did not get a lot of wins. This is the second year in a row that a Cy Young winner has been chosen without even looking at wins. Last year it was Zack Greinke and his great ERA. Felix was just plain dominant this year. In years past the wins have counted almost more than anything else. Now there has been a sudden change. I'm going to compare the top two pitchers in this race. Price finished second and a lot thought that he should have been first.
David Price
David Price had a lot of wins this year, and that is what everyone paid attention to. But, there was more to his great season this year. Even with wins excluded David Price was dominant this year. He pitched a lot of good games, and had a good team behind him. Some people say that its harder to pitch when you know that your offense won't back you up anyway. To be a good pitcher you have to be able to stay focused on what you are doing and each pitch. Anything that distracts you is tough. David Price didn't have much distracting him this year. He had a good team and they liked him and the manager and pitching coach liked him. He had it all. He was in the media, he was the starting all-star game pitcher and everyone kept saying that he would win the cy young at this point in the year. He didn't win it and some Rays fans are upset. He just didn't lead in any of the major categories. He had a lot of wins and pitched well. To be the Cy young winner you have to pitch great and that brings us to the next subject of this blog.
Felix Hernandez
As I was writing this blog I received a couple tweets about which one they thought was better. Everyone kept saying that king felix deserved to win. I believe them, because like I said it is harder to pitch with a bad team. They expect you to be a leader. Every time you pitch they expect you to go a lot of innings. Hernandez had the most innings pitched this year and he had the best ERA. Even though the managers and players and everyone on the team were pressuring him he pulled through. He definitely deserved to win this Cy Young. He was the best pitcher this year. It is good to see that the people that vote on these things have the common sense to say that it was the best and most dominant pitcher that should win this award. Felix Hernandez was definitely the pitcher who was the best at those areas. That is why he won and I agree and I applaud the voters for choosing him.

The Bears Season at a glance

The Bears season has been very interesting. From week 1 there has been controversy and disappointment and yet a win. That first game sort of outlined the season. Really weird and sloppy and the Bears not playing good or playing a good team and yet getting a win. I have a lot to say about this team and the way they have been playing. We don't deserve to have a record even close to what we have right now.
First, the offense. I'm starting with this because I think this is what needs the most work. Our defense hasn't been playing as well as in years past, but its still the stronger part of our team along with our special teams. The offense has been just plain awful this year. The offensive line hasn't been able to block any outside blitzes the whole year. They have given up so many sacks that Jay Cutler can't go through a play without being afraid for his life. So now Cutler has no confidence and you think our offensive line sucks with the pass protection, do you really think that Matt Forte is going to survive? I don't think we should blame everything on the offensive line this year, because they aren't the only ones bringing down this offense. Cutler has made his own mistakes not due to the offensive line. He still throws too many interceptions and has held onto the ball too long. He has to have the awareness of knowing when he can or cannot hold the ball or when he just has to throw it away. He tries to make every play perfect and work out exactly like the play wants it to. He needs to know when the play just isn't going to work, and throw the ball out or scrap something, but don't throw an interception. I have nothing bad to say about the running game this year. When we can't throw the ball which is often against certain teams they have stepped it up. Forte has been having another good season, so we don't need to worry about him and when Chester Taylor goes in and gives it his best and gains some pretty good yardage. Our receivers have done very well this year when they actually get the ball because Cutler usually doesn't have time. They have done very well and if the offensive line gave a little more time they would be having historic seasons. The offense as a whole has to take the blow for this last comment, though. The third down conversions are just awful. They played like 26 third downs in row without getting one. Some games I just hope they actually convert one third down. Why is this that they just can't close on third down? I don't know honestly and if someone out there reading this knows please email or tweet me. That is a mystery to me.
Now the defense. I don't really have any beefs with them. Urlacher is back and is playing like he used to before he was out all of last year. Briggs got hurt, though and that has really hurt us. The way we stop the run is the great combination of Briggs and Urlacher they are both two of the league's best linebackers and they are on the Bears. The cornerbacks have done well as usual, and safeties mostly doing well. Between the defense and the special teams they have kept this team alive. They are the reason that we have the record we do. I remember in one game the special teams had more points than the offense. That should never happen. I want to applaud the defense and what Lovie Smith and the defensive coordinator have done with it. The tampa 2 has its mistakes and we see that, but we really know how to run it and that is what makes our defense special. I guess this answers my question of why do we have such an average schedule when we are a basically awful team. The answer is that our defense and special teams cause turnovers and score points. This is on wacky season for the Bears.

Daylights Savings

CLOCKS SHOULD NEVER BE CHANGED!!!!!!!! Sometimes you get more sleep sometimes less, and I can never figure out which is which. In the fall you are like yes. finally i get 1 extra hour of sleep without having to go into work late or anything like that. And then in the spring when you have been at work basically everyday since your Christmas vacation you find out that you get 1 hour less of sleep and you are like. WHAT THE HECK?? Why am I getting less sleep just because some president thought that was a fantastic idea. Well there should be no changing of the clocks because it offsets anyway in six months. If you don't like this topic at all you can thank @CubFanMom on twitter for the help. If you love the idea you should definitely follow her because well I'm pretty sure she might be a good person.