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Wade Phillips reacts, explains odd pooched kickoff that led to Bears TD
05:34 PM CDT on Sunday, September 19, 2010
TODD ARCHER
One of the oddest plays of the game was the pooched kickoff by David Buehler after Dez Bryant's 62-yard punt return gave the Cowboys a 7-3 lead.
Tim Jennings smartly called for a fair catch at the Chicago 42 and the Bears needed just three plays to take the lead back with a 39-yard TD catch by tight end Greg Olsen.
Here's Wade Phillips' explanation:
"We were going to kick it to 71 [Israel Idonije] and we didn't kick it far enough," Phillips said. "We wanted to be aggressive right there and I thought it was time to be aggressive. We didn't kick it far enough and the guy fair catches it."
Buehler led the NFL with 29 touchbacks last year. Let him blast away and put the ball through the end zone (not that he's done that this year) and make Chicago drive the field.
More from Phillips below:
On the consistency of the offense: We need to run the ball better and that would have helped us, obviously our passing game, they didn't sack us one time the whole game, I'm sure his (Tony Romo) average was big and we didn't score enough.
What adjustments did they make to slow down the pass rush: Not much, the quarterback started getting rid of the ball a little quicker, we knew he was going to run around and we thought he did a good job of that. We had 2 sacks and 2 more sack that we had roughing the passer on that negated a couple of big plays for us.
On Chicago's big plays: That's what we try to pride ourselves on. Our goal going into the game was not to give up big plays with those guys because that's what they've done previously, that guy (Jay Cutler) has a big arm and they've got some real speed. One of them they threw short and made a big play but their back and two wide receivers can really fly.
Do you think this is uncharacteristic of the defense? They did some good things, I don't want to take anything away from them, but third and fifteen there's no excuse for that and there's not excuse not to cover everybody on a blitz. Those two big plays were my fault for not getting us ready to make those plays.
On Tony Romo throwing behind the receivers: I don't know, overall he obviously had a good game throwing the football. I'm sure he and I would like to have a few more, he made some great throws, I wish he could make all good throws.
On the offensive line run blocking: We got hit in the backfield too many times, we are a team, at least we weren't in the past, had a lot of negative plays in the running game, we had too many this game.
On his faith in David Buehler: I don't have a great faith but the guy made one at the end that we had to have for us to get back in the game, and it was a longer one then the one he missed. He hit them great in pre-game, he didn't miss one and I thought he was hitting the ball really well. They had a heck of a rush too, I'm not sure he didn't see the rush on the first one, they have two guys that have blocked a lot of field goals and I think they had more of a rush then what we wanted.
05:34 PM CDT on Sunday, September 19, 2010
TODD ARCHER
One of the oddest plays of the game was the pooched kickoff by David Buehler after Dez Bryant's 62-yard punt return gave the Cowboys a 7-3 lead.
Tim Jennings smartly called for a fair catch at the Chicago 42 and the Bears needed just three plays to take the lead back with a 39-yard TD catch by tight end Greg Olsen.
Here's Wade Phillips' explanation:
"We were going to kick it to 71 [Israel Idonije] and we didn't kick it far enough," Phillips said. "We wanted to be aggressive right there and I thought it was time to be aggressive. We didn't kick it far enough and the guy fair catches it."
Buehler led the NFL with 29 touchbacks last year. Let him blast away and put the ball through the end zone (not that he's done that this year) and make Chicago drive the field.
More from Phillips below:
On the consistency of the offense: We need to run the ball better and that would have helped us, obviously our passing game, they didn't sack us one time the whole game, I'm sure his (Tony Romo) average was big and we didn't score enough.
What adjustments did they make to slow down the pass rush: Not much, the quarterback started getting rid of the ball a little quicker, we knew he was going to run around and we thought he did a good job of that. We had 2 sacks and 2 more sack that we had roughing the passer on that negated a couple of big plays for us.
On Chicago's big plays: That's what we try to pride ourselves on. Our goal going into the game was not to give up big plays with those guys because that's what they've done previously, that guy (Jay Cutler) has a big arm and they've got some real speed. One of them they threw short and made a big play but their back and two wide receivers can really fly.
Do you think this is uncharacteristic of the defense? They did some good things, I don't want to take anything away from them, but third and fifteen there's no excuse for that and there's not excuse not to cover everybody on a blitz. Those two big plays were my fault for not getting us ready to make those plays.
On Tony Romo throwing behind the receivers: I don't know, overall he obviously had a good game throwing the football. I'm sure he and I would like to have a few more, he made some great throws, I wish he could make all good throws.
On the offensive line run blocking: We got hit in the backfield too many times, we are a team, at least we weren't in the past, had a lot of negative plays in the running game, we had too many this game.
On his faith in David Buehler: I don't have a great faith but the guy made one at the end that we had to have for us to get back in the game, and it was a longer one then the one he missed. He hit them great in pre-game, he didn't miss one and I thought he was hitting the ball really well. They had a heck of a rush too, I'm not sure he didn't see the rush on the first one, they have two guys that have blocked a lot of field goals and I think they had more of a rush then what we wanted.
