Chicago Bears Report Card: Grading Every Bear Starter Thus Far
Published by Timothy Hockemeyer on September 19, 2011
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Chicago Bears
Two weeks into the season and the Bears look like last season never ended.
The Matadors of the Midway made an encore performance Sunday afternoon, allowing six sacks and allowing the Saints defense to perform more hits than a Beatles reunion tour.
Mike Martz forgot that Matt Forte is a running back after the first quarter and the play of the tight ends—especially in pass protection—left us wondering why Greg Olsen is a Carolina Panther.
One thing that didn’t bring back memories of 2010 was watching Bears fall to injury. Marion Barber missed his second game while Roy Williams, Chris Harris and Lance Louis all sat out their first in Sunday’s contest. Exiting mid-game were Gabe Carimi, Major Wright and Earl Bennett.
For those keeping tabs, that’s seven starters the Bears were without by the time the game got out of hand.
Add to all of that some atrocious refereeing that saw both teams getting questionable calls and even more questionable no-calls and gave the Saints the touchdown that opened up the game and what you get is a recipe for a 30-13 loss by the Chicago Bears to the New Orleans Saints.
But how have the Bears players performed so far? Well today we’re going to answer that question as we grade the Bears’ starters and some major contributors on their performance thus far in the season.
So follow me as hand out report cards, ladies and gentlemen, and we’ll let the chips fall as they may.
