{"id":14830,"date":"2016-12-26T20:57:25","date_gmt":"2016-12-27T00:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thehogs.net\/blogs\/?p=14830"},"modified":"2025-06-01T23:27:30","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T03:27:30","slug":"the-loser-papers-2016-edition-viii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-hogs.net\/blogs\/2016\/12\/26\/the-loser-papers-2016-edition-viii\/","title":{"rendered":"The Loser Papers &#8211; 2016 &#8211; Edition VIII"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With their backs against the wall, the Washington Redskins traveled to Chicago on Christmas eve, and soundly trounced the hometown Bears. Due to the holiday, TLP had given all their employees the day off, which is why this Edition comes to you on Boxing Day. Our first article comes from the pages of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Chicago Tribune<\/span>:<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h1>Turnovers, defensive ineptitude plague Bears in another lopsided loss<\/h1>\n<\/blockquote>\n<article class=\"trb_ar\">\n<div class=\"trb_ar_main\">\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"trb_ar_la\">\n<aside class=\"trb_embed\" data-content-pgcredit=\"\" data-content-id=\"92199303\" data-content-size=\"leadart\" data-content-type=\"gallery\" data-content-slug=\"ct-bears-redskins-week16-photos\" data-content-subtype=\"photogallery\" data-carousel-options=\"outer&amp;removePagesOnClose\" data-role=\"carousel carousel_swipe lightbox_container imgsize_ratiosizecontainer\" data-content-key=\"8d75d72ab9053513ec8a37e11d288dc1\">\n<div class=\"trb_embed_modalBox\" data-role=\"carousel_view\">\n<div class=\"trb_embed_media\">\n<aside class=\"trb_embed trb_embed_thumb\" data-content-pgcredit=\"\" data-content-id=\"92199303\" data-content-size=\"leadart\" data-content-type=\"image\" data-content-subtype=\"photo\">\n<div class=\"trb_embed_media\">\n<figure class=\"trb_embed_imageContainer_figure\" data-role=\"lightbox_open imgsize_nonLightboxImage imgsize_item\"><img class=\"trb_embed_imageContainer_img\" title=\"Week 16: Redskins 41, Bears 21\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1260px) 750px, (min-width: 1060px) calc(100vw - 559px), (min-width: 840px) calc(100vw - 419px), (min-width: 800px) 800px, 100.1vw\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.trbimg.com\/img-58606444\/turbine\/ct-bears-redskins-week16-photos\/350\/350x197 350w, http:\/\/www.trbimg.com\/img-58606444\/turbine\/ct-bears-redskins-week16-photos\/400\/400x225 400w, http:\/\/www.trbimg.com\/img-58606444\/turbine\/ct-bears-redskins-week16-photos\/450\/450x253 450w, http:\/\/www.trbimg.com\/img-58606444\/turbine\/ct-bears-redskins-week16-photos\/500\/500x281 500w, http:\/\/www.trbimg.com\/img-58606444\/turbine\/ct-bears-redskins-week16-photos\/550\/550x309 550w, http:\/\/www.trbimg.com\/img-58606444\/turbine\/ct-bears-redskins-week16-photos\/600\/600x338 600w, http:\/\/www.trbimg.com\/img-58606444\/turbine\/ct-bears-redskins-week16-photos\/650\/650x366 650w, http:\/\/www.trbimg.com\/img-58606444\/turbine\/ct-bears-redskins-week16-photos\/700\/700x394 700w, http:\/\/www.trbimg.com\/img-58606444\/turbine\/ct-bears-redskins-week16-photos\/750\/750x422 750w, http:\/\/www.trbimg.com\/img-58606444\/turbine\/ct-bears-redskins-week16-photos\/800\/800x450 800w, http:\/\/www.trbimg.com\/img-58606444\/turbine\/ct-bears-redskins-week16-photos\/850\/850x478 850w, http:\/\/www.trbimg.com\/img-58606444\/turbine\/ct-bears-redskins-week16-photos\/900\/900x506 900w, http:\/\/www.trbimg.com\/img-58606444\/turbine\/ct-bears-redskins-week16-photos\/950\/950x534 950w, http:\/\/www.trbimg.com\/img-58606444\/turbine\/ct-bears-redskins-week16-photos\/1000\/1000x563 1000w, http:\/\/www.trbimg.com\/img-58606444\/turbine\/ct-bears-redskins-week16-photos\/1050\/1050x591 1050w, http:\/\/www.trbimg.com\/img-58606444\/turbine\/ct-bears-redskins-week16-photos\/1100\/1100x619 1100w, http:\/\/www.trbimg.com\/img-58606444\/turbine\/ct-bears-redskins-week16-photos\/1150\/1150x647 1150w, http:\/\/www.trbimg.com\/img-58606444\/turbine\/ct-bears-redskins-week16-photos\/1200\/1200x675 1200w, http:\/\/www.trbimg.com\/img-58606444\/turbine\/ct-bears-redskins-week16-photos\/1400\/1400x788 1400w, http:\/\/www.trbimg.com\/img-58606444\/turbine\/ct-bears-redskins-week16-photos\/1600\/1600x900 1600w, http:\/\/www.trbimg.com\/img-58606444\/turbine\/ct-bears-redskins-week16-photos\/1800\/1800x1013 1800w, http:\/\/www.trbimg.com\/img-58606444\/turbine\/ct-bears-redskins-week16-photos\/2000\/2000x1125 2000w, http:\/\/www.trbimg.com\/img-58606444\/turbine\/ct-bears-redskins-week16-photos\/2048\/2048x1152 2048w\" alt=\"Week 16: Redskins 41, Bears 21\" data-baseurl=\"http:\/\/www.trbimg.com\/img-58606444\/turbine\/ct-bears-redskins-week16-photos\" data-c-nd=\"2048x1571\" data-role=\"imgsize_srcsetdisplayitem\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"trb_ar_by\"><span class=\"trb_ar_by_nm_pm\"><span class=\"trb_ar_by_nm_au\" data-byline-withoutby=\"\">By\u00a0<a class=\"trb_ar_by_nm_au_a\" href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/chi-dan-wiederer-20140805-staff.html#nt=byline\">Dan Wiederer<\/a>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0<\/span>Contact Reporter <\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"trb_ar_by\"><span class=\"trb_ar_by_nm_pm\"><span class=\"trb_ar_by_nm_pb\">Chicago Tribune<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"trb_ar_dateline\">December 25, 2016, 10:35 AM<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div>\n<div class=\"trb_ar_page\" data-role=\"pagination_page\" data-content-page=\"1\">\n<blockquote><p><strong>B<\/strong>y the end of Saturday&#8217;s game, the Soldier Field stands had emptied significantly. So, too, it seemed had the <a id=\"ORSPT000036\" title=\"Chicago Bears\" href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/sports\/football\/bears\/\">Bears<\/a>&#8216; energy reserves. In an abysmal performance befitting a woeful season, the Bears were outclassed and outperformed by the visiting Redskins. And so the parting gift for the home crowd on Christmas Eve was a 41-21 loss, the team&#8217;s 12th this year and the latest reminder of how flawed this Bears group remains.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bad news:<\/strong> Receivers Josh Bellamy, Alshon Jeffery and Cameron Meredith, running back Jordan Howard and left tackle Charles Leno all made tackles Saturday. That&#8217;s never a good sign with the offense losing the ball over and over and over again. QuarterbackMatt Barkley threw five interceptions as the Bears lost the turnover battle for the 10th time this season.<\/p>\n<div class=\"teads-inread sm-screen\"><\/div>\n<p>But equally disappointing, the defense had few if any answers to slow the Redskins. A week after allowing 451 total yards to the Packers, the Bears were gashed for 478 more yards Saturday, allowing 7.5 yards per play.<\/p>\n<p>Within that debacle, the Redskins converted eight of their 13 third-down attempts. Four of those eight conversions came in situations in which the Redskins faced third-and-6 or longer.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"trb_ar_sponsoredmod trb_barker_mediaconductor\" data-adloader-networktype=\"mediaconductor\" data-role=\"delayload_item\" data-screen-size=\"desktop\" data-withinviewport-options=\"bottomOffset=100\" data-load-method=\"trb.vendor.mediaconductor.init\" data-load-type=\"method\" data-vendor-mc=\"\" data-mediaconductor-processed=\"true\">\n<div class=\"tlod\"><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>&#8220;Third-and-long, we&#8217;ve got to be way better than that,&#8221; inside linebacker Jerrell Freemansaid. &#8220;Come on, man. We&#8217;ve got to be. When you get them in third-and-long, you have to get the ball back. You have to understand situations, know the route combinations, know what they can give you and what they can hurt you with. And then go make a play.&#8221;<\/p>\n<aside class=\"trb_embed\" data-content-id=\"92201100\" data-content-size=\"small\" data-content-type=\"story\" data-content-slug=\"ct-bears-ugly-christmas-picture-haugh-spt-1225-20161224\" data-content-subtype=\"column\" data-role=\"sc_item imgsize_ratiosizecontainer \" data-state=\"\">\n<div class=\"trb_embed_media\">\n<figure class=\"trb_embed_imageContainer_figure\" data-role=\" delayload delayload_done imgsize_item\"><\/figure>\n<div class=\"trb_embed_related\" data-role=\"lightbox_metadata\"><span class=\"trb_embed_related_title\">Ugly Christmas picture: Bears routed at empty Soldier Field<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The Redskins&#8217; first touchdown came on third-and-9, a 17-yard screen pass from Kirk Cousins to Chris Thompson to beat a Bears blitz. Still, Freeman said, it was more than just a well-timed play call against the extra pressure the Bears brought.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At the same time, on those screens when you&#8217;re blitzing, you have to feel that,&#8221; he said. &#8220;You have to know what can hurt you and what can be coming.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Good news:<\/strong> The best news for Bears fans is that only one line remains on the schedule. But in the spirit of the holidays, it&#8217;s important to acknowledge at least a couple of bright spots from Saturday&#8217;s game. So here goes. Both Howard, the rookie running back, and Meredith, the second-year receiver, topped 100 yards against the Redskins. Howard turned his 18 rushes into 119 yards. It was his sixth 100-yard rushing game this season and pushed him to 1,178 yards for the season, just 60 short of Matt Forte&#8217;s franchise rookie rushing record. Meredith&#8217;s nine catches went for a career-best 135 yards, including a 21-yard touchdown grab late in the first half.<\/p>\n<p>Barkley has appreciated Meredith&#8217;s development.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The way he always wants to keep moving after the catch is impressive,&#8221; Barkley said. &#8220;He has grown in a lot of ways in regards to finding open windows and feeling the defense, not just running his route like it says on paper.&#8221;<\/p>\n<aside class=\"trb_embed\" data-content-id=\"92201205\" data-content-size=\"small\" data-content-type=\"story\" data-content-slug=\"ct-bears-defense-evaluation-biggs-spt-1225-20161224\" data-content-subtype=\"column\" data-role=\"sc_item imgsize_ratiosizecontainer \" data-state=\"\">\n<div class=\"trb_embed_media\">\n<figure class=\"trb_embed_imageContainer_figure\" data-role=\" delayload delayload_done imgsize_item\"><\/figure>\n<div class=\"trb_embed_related\" data-role=\"lightbox_metadata\"><span class=\"trb_embed_related_title\">Better hope Bears aren&#8217;t fooled by their defense<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p><strong>Extra point:<\/strong> The Bears announced 18,116 unused tickets for Saturday&#8217;s game, the latest indication of fan apathy as the team pushes to the end of another last-place season. Over the Bears&#8217; final four home games, the team had a used-ticket average of 44,867. As a reminder, Soldier Field&#8217;s capacity is 61,500.<\/p>\n<p>With fewer than 10,000 fans hanging around late into the fourth quarter Saturday, the sight of a mostly empty stadium proved jarring in the home finale.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The fans expect more,&#8221; Meredith said. &#8220;We expect more of ourselves. So we can&#8217;t blame them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Up next:<\/strong> The Bears will make their first visit to U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis on New Year&#8217;s Day, facing a Vikings team that is sputtering to the finish line. After starting the season 5-0, the Vikings are 7-8 and were eliminated from playoff contention with Saturday&#8217;s 38-25 loss in Green Bay.<\/p>\n<p>For whatever it&#8217;s worth, the Bears claimed the season&#8217;s first meeting against the Vikings, winning 20-10 on Halloween night at Soldier Field.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Final word:<\/strong> &#8220;Obviously it&#8217;s very disappointing. It&#8217;s disappointing to everyone, ourselves included. I feel bad for our fans.&#8221; \u2014 Bears coach John Fox.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/sports\/football\/bears\/ct-bears-redskins-turnovers-defensive-ineptitude-spt-1225-20161224-story.html<\/p>\n<p>And from the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Chicago Sun-Times<\/span>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h1>\u2018Do your job\u2019: Bears\u2019 defense lays another egg in blowout\u00a0loss<\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chicago.suntimes.com\/author\/mpotashcst\/\">Mark Potash<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Jerrell Freeman knew how bad it looked.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cThe fans deserve better than that,\u201d the Bears linebacker after the defense allowed 478 more yards in a 41-21 loss to the Redskins on Saturday at Soldier Field. \u201cWe had a lot of guys fighting, but we have to come out here and execute, whether you\u2019re a vet, a young guy \u2014 when you step on that field, we expect you to come out and know your job and do your job.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Determined to atone for a poor performance against the Packers last week, the Bears instead suffered an embarrassing ignominy \u2014\u00a0they got worse. After making steady progress throughout the season under coordinator Vic Fangio, they seem to have hit the wall, with Kirk Cousins and the Redskins offense consistently keeping them off balance \u2014 zigging when the Bears were zagging, throwing screen passes to beat the Bears blitz and out-playing the Bears when they weren\u2019t out-foxing them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">If it wasn\u2019t a perfect play call, then it was Cousins outrunning Bears linebacker Pernell McPhee to the pylon for a nine-yard touchdown that told the story.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"post-lead-media end\">\n<div class=\"image-caption\">\n<p>Redskins quarterback Kirk Cousins (8) leaves Bears linebacker Pernell McPhee (92) in his dust on a nine-yard touchdown run on a zone-read keeper Saturday at Soldier Field. The Redskins won, 41-21. (David Banks\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cHis speed snuck up on me,\u201d McPhee said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">The Redskins seemed to sneak up on the Bears\u2019 defense at every turn Saturday. With Cousins virtually playing catch with his receivers, the Redskins had 270 passing and 208 rushing. Cousins had pass plays of 57, 46, 29, 25 and 21 yards. Reserve running back Mack Brown capped the horrific day for the Bears\u2019 defense with a 61-yard touchdown run with 57 seconds left. The Bears, who allowed five plays of 40 yards or more in their first 13 games, have allowed six plays of 40 yards or more in the last two.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cThey didn\u2019t do anything that surprised us, and that\u2019s the reason for the frustration,\u201d Freeman said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Even in his low-key tone, Freeman couldn\u2019t hide his emotions, laying the blame for this debacle on the defensive players for \u2026 just not playing well enough.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201c[We\u2019re] shooting ourselves in the foot \u2014 that\u2019s the biggest problem,\u201d said Freeman, who led the Bears with nine tackles in his first game since serving a four-game suspension for violating the NFL\u2019s policy on performance-enhancing substances. \u201cKnowing situations. Knowing the play. Knowing the defense we\u2019re playing. It\u2019s understanding what\u2019s going on out there. We\u2019ve got to be a better team than that.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cYou\u2019ve got to go out there and perform \u2014 do your job. Don\u2019t be out there playing not to mess up. Go play ball. We had a good week of practice. Vic had a great game plan. He makes the call, go out there and do what you\u2019re supposed to be doing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cWe\u2019ve got guys counting on each other. [But] we\u2019ve got guys running scot-free. We\u2019ve got to tighten stuff up, regardless of who\u2019s in there. You get on that field, we trust you to make plays.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Freeman didn\u2019t let himself off the hook. He was burned on a blitz on a third-and-nine from the Bears\u2019 17 when the Redskins had the perfect play call \u2014 a screen pass to running back<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Chris Thompson, who went into the end zone untouched to give the Redskins a 14-0 lead.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cYeah [it was a good call], but at the same time, when there\u2019s a screen like that and you\u2019re coming on the blitz, you\u2019ve got to kind of feel it. You\u2019ve got to know what can hurt you and what can be coming.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">About the only redeeming value to this loss was that the Bears\u2019 defense didn\u2019t make excuses.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cNot making plays. Not finishing,\u201d McPhee said when asked what went wrong. \u201cI think I had a good performance last week and I really didn\u2019t do nothing to help my team win or put my team in a position to win. I\u2019ve got to do a better job of winning my individual match-up and making plays for the defense; for the whole team.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chicago.suntimes.com\/sports\/do-your-job-bears-defense-lays-another-egg-in-blowout-loss\/\">http:\/\/chicago.suntimes.com\/sports\/do-your-job-bears-defense-lays-another-egg-in-blowout-loss\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With their backs against the wall, the Washington Redskins traveled to Chicago on Christmas eve, and soundly trounced the hometown Bears. Due to the holiday, TLP had given all their employees the day off, which is why this Edition comes to you on Boxing Day. 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