Tough loss out of the gate

Patrick Mannelly is walking home from Green Bay tonight. What the hell was he thinking direct snapping the ball to Garrett Wolfe there? He's supposed to be team captain. Even if he caught Green Bay with an extra man on the field, we weren't going to get the first down. You just can't do that in that situation backed up on your side of the field late in the game. That was a terrible decision on his part.

And Jay Cutler, in his Bears debut, throws four interceptions. Ouch. While I think he should take a lot of the blame, the receiver play was not good. They looked sloppy. They ran bad routes, they made bad decisions. We need a legit number one receiver. Is it too late to make the trade for Marshall or Boldin?

My other beef with the offense was the play calling tonight. The running game was nonexistent in the first half. And one of the best ways to attack the 3-4 is to pass to backs and tight ends underneath where they're in coverage with defensive end / outside linebacker hybrids who, generally speaking, don't cover all that well. We have good pass catching tight ends and running backs. We should have tried more of that.

On defense, I thought we played well, particularly in the first half. Ogunleye looked fantastic. Nathan Vasher, on the other hand, looked flat out bad. And I don't understand why we brought the safety up on that last Packer touchdown. Coming out of a time out like that, with less than a 90 seconds on the clock, you have to play the pass.

We've got the Steelers next week while the Pack gets the Bungles.

Bear down.