Man, that was impressive by the Bears. This team is special. Major Wright intercepted a pass and returned it for a TD, Julius Peppers grabbed a fumble out of the air and returned it for a touchdown, and Jay hit Earl on a beautiful 14 yard pass for a clutch score in which Jay threw the perfect pass and Earl used textbook footwork to get the seven. The TD was originally ruled an incompletion, but on replay and review it showed Earl drug his right foot on the ground thereby getting both feet in. Awesome win over the Steelers at Steel town. Team looks great. Go to Detroit on Sunday in a huge road game. We’ve had our problems at Detroit with the crowd and their defense, but hopefully with a new team and a new coach, we’re going to get it done this year. Marc Trestman has done miracles with Jay. Jay has always needed a good offensive coordinator to help him make it work. He’s got that now in his head coach. Lovie always had good defenses and I really liked Lovie a lot,. But we needed to make a change in offense and we’ve gotten it. Brandon Marshall is being Brandon Marshall which is fantastic, Alshon Jeffery had a big game last night. He will be important for us. Martellus Bennett has been a huge pickup at tight end and Earl gives us a fourth guy. If we can stay healthy this could be a Super Bowl winning season. That’s the key for this team. Staying relatively healthy. You’re going to have some injuries. Looks like we lost defensive tackle Henry Melton, maybe for the year, to a knee injury last night, so some other guys are going to have to step up. But I like what we’ve got going at Chicago. Could be a special year. The o line has been fantastic. The right side of the line are rookies, right guard Kyle Long and right tackle Jordan Mills. They are playing outstanding football. The whole line is.
I thought the team played a good second half. Jonathan Krause played a really good game, the defense didn’t give up a point in the second half and the offense woke up. Austyn Carta-Samuels had all day back there. The o line was great. Would like to see ACS find a receiver quicker, but the receivers need to get open to. Hopefully that will develop more this weekend. Looks like Krause is giving us a pretty good second option to JMatt. Need a third guy like Jordan Cunningham to step up at wr. Wesley Tate is running with a lot of confidence and playing really well. I love Jerron Seymour. He’s special. Great kid too. Darreon Herring is playing very well at linebacker. Would like to see us blitz more in the middle of the line with a linebacker or safety. We blitz a lot on the edges, but would like to see us come up the middle more like the Bears do.UAB Saturday at 7:30 PM ET/ 6:30 CT on Fox Sports South. Need to play well as we play Missouri and Georgia the next two weeks at home.
Sonny pitched pretty well yesterday and got the win. A’s won the West. Sonny now 4-3 with a 2.90 ERA. He gave up four runs, but I watched him and he threw the ball really well, hitting 94 a lot and the curve was exceptional. Sonny gave up seven hits and four earned with two walks and three K’s, but his stuff looks great. He has now walked 17 and struck out 59 on the season. His curve ball is flat out filthy good.
Dave didn’t get the W Friday Night, but pitched pretty well. Hitting 95 some with his fastball. And his team won in 18! Wow! Dave went five, gave up nine hits, two runs with a walk and four K’s. His ERA is 3.43 now. Thought he pitched OK. He’s 8-8. He hung in there. Rays going for a four game sweep of the O’s today. Leading 1-0 in the bottom of the second. Rays lead Indians by a half game in first place of wild card. Indians have had an easy schedule in September and host the White Sox and go to the Twins to finish off the season. If we win today over the O’s, we’ll have to do well at Yanks tomorrow through Thursday and at Toronto over the weekend. I like the way we’re playing now though.We’re a game and a half up on Rangers and 3.5 up on KC. Bucs lost two of three to Reds this weekend. Pedro had a chance to end the game on a play at third Friday Night on a ball hit hard to his left, but he couldn’t come up with it and the Reds tied it in the top of the ninth with two runs on that hit and won it in extras. Bucs tied atop the wild card with the Reds, but I’m pretty sure Reds hold the tiebreaker on head to head.
Braves in good shape. Mike on the hill tonight. Braves a game and a half up on the Cards for best record in the National League. If they hold on they get home field throughout the NL playoffs and will host the World Series if they can get there. NL won the All Star game. Bosox have the best record in baseball at 95-62. Braves at 92-63. Cards 91-65 and Dodgers are 90-66.
Basketball has two four-star commit guards for the 2014 class. Really like both guys. Both are shooting guards. Need to get a power forward or two to go along with those two. Baseball got a commit out of the 12th ranked player nationally in high school according to perfect game. He’s Dylan Cease, a right handed pitcher who clocks in at 96. We’re eighth in Perfect Game’s team rankings for recruiting. We’ve got 12 commits, four top 100 players. Justus Sheffield is a lefty who is 19 and brings it 94.
Our bball commits are Wade Baldwin from New Jersey and Matthew Fisher-Davis is from Charlotte and chose us over Wake, Georgia and Virginia. Wade chose us over Auburn, Pitt and some other not as high majors. Watched Wade on film. Liked him. Will watch Matthew when I find some film which will be soon.