Bears clip the defending champs; Gould good as Gold again

The Bears defeated the defending champion Pittsburgh Steelers 17-14 at rainy Soldier Field today.

I don't think the Bears played their best game today but it was good enough to pull off the victory. Some guys I have to give props to include Johnny Knox who had another excellent game and is looking like a huge 5th round steal for Jerry Angelo so far. Johnny Knox caught 6 passes for 70 yards with a TD. Jay Cutler bounced back after a poor outing in week 1. Cutler went 27-38 with 236 passing yards and 2 touchdowns. A huge improvement over last week's 4 interception performance. Alex Brown also had an excellent game with 2 sacks and Lance Briggs pitched in with 8 tackles of his own. The real props has to go to Robbie Gould though who hit the game winning field goal with 15 seconds left from 45 yards in the sloppy rain. Jeff Reed had just missed 2 kicks before that as well.

But as I said, I don't think the Bears played as good as they could. I thought the defense was shaky most of the game despite only giving up 14 points to a very good Pittsburgh Steeler offense, I thought the offense outside of Cutler and Knox wasn't that good. Forte had another bad game and the receivers dropped way too many passes. It was almost like having 7 Rashied Davis's out there. And I thought the coaching wasn't that great. At one point in the 2nd half, the Bears called for a screen pass on 2nd and 13 and completed it for about a yard and on the next play they ran a draw for Forte that only went for about 6 yards.

But forget all that, the Bears pulled off a huge win today moving them to 1-1 on the season and they get the Matt Hasselbeck-less Seattle Seahawks next week in Seattle as Hasselbeck left today's game with broken ribs. So he won't get the start next week and Seneca Wallace will start in his place. So the Bears have a good chance at going 2-1 in a tough stretch of 3 games to start the season. Hopefully the Bears are up for the challenge.

Check back all week for more news and notes previewing this weeks battle against the Seattle Seahawks.

BEAR DOWN!