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Our objective coming in against the rival Lions was to manage the game, keep their big players in check and make sure we came away with a victory. I'm happy to say that the players did a heck of a job in following Coach Smith's game-plan and we did gain the first couple of points of the new season!
The great news is that both Jay Cutler, continuing his strong pre-season, and Matt Forte, relishing every catch and carry, had very strong games.
We wanted to run and we wanted to use that to buy Jay some time with the play action we could run off of that. Forte had 68 yards on the ground and caught 5 more. And it turns out we really needed Matt to step up because we were again unfortunately bitten by the injury bug when Devin Hester WR went down with a partial ACL tear. Hester will be gone for 9 weeks! And on top of the Brian Urlacher injury, that's two keys pieces, one offense and one defense, that we will definitely miss through the first half of this season.
I would also very much like to single out some names on the defensive side of the ball. While the Lions initially had some success on the ground, we kept pressure on them throughout the game and late in the game that pressure started to wear them down.
Sacks went to Wootton, Briggs, Steltz, Anderson and Tommie Harris. I really hope we have planted the seed that the Bears will get to you!!!
A great way to open the 2010 regular season.
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