[CBFF] Benson gets another unappreciated rest

[Tim Lovell]

Good stuff, Jerry. Thanks for sending this over, as I do not remember him being that good! he doesn't have the speed that Peterson showed this past weekend, but he has the moves for sure. It probably helped that his line was much better respectively. The Bears suck on Defense, too.  Eesh...Gonna be a long year, I'm afraid.

Tim


----- Original Message ----
From: Jerry Madsen <jerrywm at gmail.com>
To: post at chicagobearsfanforum.com
Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2007 1:41:26 PM
Subject: Re: [CBFF] Benson gets another unappreciated rest

At the suggestion of Lawrence Holmes on The Score, I went to YouTube
and looked-up "cedric benson highlights".

Checkout the following and notice that (1) Benson is fast.  (2) Benson
makes players miss. (3) Benson can take the ball to the outside on a
sweep or pitch. (4) He doesn't just "fall forward" on plays to get his
yards.

Unlike Rex, he is clearly on the most misunderstood and misused
players I've seen on the Bears' roster.

Ron Turner is a dolt.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uL1bonBnxyc

Jerry


On 10/16/07, Westmalle van 't vat <westmalle at comcast.net> wrote:
> On 10/16/07 9:35 AM, "mom2iancal" <senzigx4 at charter.net> wrote:
>
> > "Cedric ran the ball well, and he helped us set a lot of things up," Turner
> > said. "We want to get Ced going, but we feel like we have to get the other
> > guys out there, too. It was just a timing thing."
> >
> > After gaining 26 yards on his first four carries, Benson slowed up a bit.
> > But he still had a 10-yard dash in the second quarter and wound up with 46
> > yards on his first nine rushes (5.11 yards-per-carry average).
> >
> > He jogged out of the game at the 10:10 mark of the second quarter. Peterson
> > and Wolfe spent the next quarter carrying the running back load. Benson¹s
> > next carry came with 12:58 remaining in the third quarter.
>
> I'm sorry, but this is lame.  Really lame.  Ron Turner has got to stop
> tinkering with the RB position.  It really feels like outthinking yourself
> and your players.  The rap on Cedric is that he gets better with
> repetitions--heck, it is true of most RBs.  I can feel the difference when
> Benson comes back in the game.  He is cold and he has to get warmed up again
> to the hitting and feel of the game.  Things like rhythm and repetition DO
> matter with running backs.  If Benson were a high energy guy who's always
> 'on,' so to speak, I could better understand this approch.  But he's
> motivationally not very tough and isn't apparently able to turn it 'on' and
> 'off' at will.
>
> Leave him in the game, Ron.
>
> Steve
>
>
>
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