Monday, December 31, 2007

Bears finally string two wins together.

Devin Hester really is rediculous....

The D played well, giving up a lot of yards, but coming away with turn overs and getting their hands in the passing lanes all day. The runnung game gve them a lot of trouble however.

Ron Turner called another good game, and from Lovie's post game press conference, it sounds like he'll be back next year.

Orton was inaccurate at times, but did well enough to compete for the starting job next year.

All in all an entertaining game to end the season.

I did want to add one piece on what's wrong with the QB rating, the simple version is it places far too much emphasis on tochdowns, and there is no context to the statistics. Actually my real problem with it is the name, it doesn't in anyway measure the efficiency of a QuarterBack, what it seems to attempt to measure is the efficiency of the passing game. Even in this reguard I still think it places too much emphasis on TD's, but rename it to Passing Game Rating and it has some meaning.

Orton's passer rating was >100 in the first half of the game despite a completion percentage of <50% and <50 in the second half because of the INT. Watching the game you'd have been hard pressed to say he played better or worse in either half.