OL not blocking Alex Brown

I was at the game. What a JOKE. The Bears have to be the worst team in the NFL at this point and Brunell STILL looked aweful. Can we please have a Patrick Ramsey sighting? No doubt he could have hit the WIDE OPEN Coles, that would have blew the game wide open. I guess 15 yards past the nearest defender isn't open enough. Tupa could have punted the ball closer. It was nice to see the skins win, but they didn't win by much, and the Bears are HORRID.

Samuels has been fine this year and has definitely stepped up his play from last year.
I agree.

I also think he was deserving of his Pro Bowl status a few years ago, contrary to today's popular opinion.

if you look at those plays sameuls wasnt assigned to block brown. the ball was going to the opposite direction and the runningback should have been gone by the time brown got to the backfield. no one was covering brown. samuels should have had a linebacker on those plays.

Samuels has been fine this year and has definitely stepped up his play from last year.

I think that says it all. He can't be just fine, he's got to dominate. He's the 3rd overall pick, you expect to get a top notch guy in that spot, I'd be hard pressed to put Samuels up with the top guys. The line play has been spotty so far all around, but Samuels has disappointed so far because he can play better. He's not close to a Pro Bowler this season, he must be hurt because you don't go from dominant to also ran in your 5th season.

Most of the time when Brown was getting free was when he was against a TE or when the TE would pull and Samuels would either pick up a blitzing LB or help on the DT. This is a scheme though. When this is done, 99% of the time it's a running play to the right. Brown was so fast that he could blast into the backfield and get the RB before he hit the hole. I think they just underestimated Brown's ability. The Bears do have an excellent set of Dlinemen, though. We need a guy named Tank, by the way. We should call Ola Kimrin Tank.

cpayne5 hit the nail on the head.

Samuels must be doing something right with all the rushing yards yesterday, and even the Bears announcers called his name a few times for laying some guys out on blocks, or were they running to the right all day?? :rolleyes:

I think that says it all. He can't be just fine, he's got to dominate. He's the 3rd overall pick, you expect to get a top notch guy in that spot, I'd be hard pressed to put Samuels up with the top guys. The line play has been spotty so far all around, but Samuels has disappointed so far because he can play better. He's not close to a Pro Bowler this season, he must be hurt because you don't go from dominant to also ran in your 5th season.
I think Matty's point was that he is improving, as is the entire line. But that does not mean they are anywhere near where they should be. It takes time. Just as with Gibbs for the offense as a whole, people kind of expected Bugel to "wave his magic wand" and the O-line would become dominant overnight. It just doesn't happen that way, plus the loss of Jansen was huge, but they are definitely getting there...

I guess we should just cut Samuels right now, he's had 6 games to get back to a Pro Bowl level with a new staff and he's just not hacking it.

Get rid of him! Where's Winey?

cut samuels? why not just cut the other 52 players, so the coaches can give him more attention... cause that's all he really needs... attention and some time alone.

Samuels is doing better then everyone on your o-line maybe except Randy Thomas. It was Rasby who was getting beat by Brown. If you listened to the announcers they would mention Rasby's name whenever Brown pentrated. Remember in Week 1 when Samuels shut down Simeon Rice. I'm pretty sure Simeon Rice is a premier end the league.