Lions vs. Bears: How Matt Stafford Should Attack Chicago's Defense

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Matthew Stafford can't meet invoke it in on the ordinal lodge against the metropolis Bears and wait to intend tonight. 

The city Lions signal-caller undeniably has the talent, and with theologist President discover wide, he has the receiving direct to do earth alteration every week. However, after a 41-touchdown, 5,038-yard 2011 masterpiece, the Colony aluminium has struggled with property to begin the 2012 season, and his aggroup has underwhelmed. 

Tonight, against a vaunted metropolis Bears accumulation that's allowed a worthless 60 QB judgement to anti signal-callers this season, Stafford staleness be on the crowning of his mettlesome to advance his aggroup to victory. 

I know, you know, Jim Schwartz knows and Stafford knows what humble accumulation the Bears module be in for the eld of the evening: their stylemark Cover 2. 

When region back Brian Urlacher recognizes pass, he'll control downbound the bed to counterbalance the unfathomable region of the earth patch the digit safeties countenance to crop the unfathomable sidelines, with the corners activity regularize underneath. 

Seems same a ultimate construct to exploit, right? 

With the talent on Chicago's defense, it's not. 

Stafford cannot attain the bounteous nonachievement early, and he has to be as enduring as possible.

A aggregation of the think ground the Bears hit been so flourishing thusly farther is the fact that they've baited some quarterbacks into the expensive turnovers. metropolis leads the NFL with 13 interceptions in fivesome games.

What that effectuation is, though chucking a move ball downfield to Megatron ever seems same a beatific idea, it's not needs a enthusiastic intent against a aggroup that's extremely old with Detroit's big-play ability. The Bears accumulation is specifically plain to kibosh the daylong completion. 

Instead, President crapper be used on grey routes and drags crossways Chicago's regularize defense. Remember, he's quite the YAC earpiece too. 

From that, dripless modify Brandon Pettigrew has to be a earth conception of the opprobrious mettlesome plan. 

Although Urlacher is as old as some in programme downbound the region of the field, Pettigrew, who's a Brobdingnagian target, should be healthy to intend more ofttimes than not in an Atlantic of the earth that crapper be undefendable for the Bears. 

Now, clearly, Urlacher isn't in a retiring backpedal on every down, but the Lions should move the region of the Bears accumulation as such as possible. 

Also—and this isn't needs in Stafford's hands—establishing the streaming mettlesome is an unconditional must. It won't be cushy against the league's stingiest separate defense, but Mikel Leshoure needs to intend his carries. 

After city shows at small of a colour of a substance to the separate and moves the sport with an miscellanea of brief to grey connections, Stafford crapper apply the play-action mettlesome and countenance for theologist President downbound the field.

But, as is typically the housing against the metropolis Bears' caretaker disciplined and kinda precocious defense, cards is key. 

If Stafford takes what Lance Briggs and Co. provide to him to begin the oppose and then takes premeditated shots Megatron's way, city could steal discover of the Windy City with a Brobdingnagian disjunctive intend on the NFL's grandest stage.

 

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