Starting to Turn the Corner

This week was 1000000x better than last week was. All three teams had a pretty good week. We will start with the Bears. They played on Monday night in primetime against the Seattle and the defensive was lights out once again. That defense has been by far the best part of this team. Mack had another sack and forced a fumble. Russell Wilson was running for his life all night because of that front 7 of the Bears.  The offense, on the other hand, is very very questionable still. Again just like last week on the first drive of the game they went right down the field and scored and it looked really good. This has me nervous a little bit because usually the first 15-20 plays of a football game are scripted. Meaning they already know that those plays are going to be the plays they run no matter what the situation and when they have done this they looked really good. But when they get off the script it gets a little fishy. The offense stalled many times after the first drive. Tribuskiy showed signs of possibly being really good, his athleticism was really good and made some plays. He just needs to be more consistent overall he wasn't terrible but needs to be more consistency.  The Bears ended up winning the game 24-17 but it wasn't even that close. The Bears dominated the game and it shouldn't have been of close as it was. The Bears head to Arizona this coming week to face the Cardinals and the Bears should absolutely dominate this game. The Cardinals have been getting killed the last two weeks and the Bears will rely upon that defense to come up big again and shut down David Johnson and the Cardinals offense.
  The Cubs have a very good week winning 5 games this week. It started with that makeup game in D.C last Thursday and it was a big big game because they had just lost 2/3 against Milwaukee and their lead was dropped down to 1 1/2 games. They went to D.C needing to win and that's exactly what they did. Javy continued his MVP campaign with another home run that tied the game in the 6th and ended up having the game-winning bunt in the 10nth. But then a very questionable call by Joe Maddon later in that inning let Pedro Strop bat with the bases loaded so that he could pitch in the bottom of that inning and then he hit a ball to third base and when he was sprinting down the line and ended up straining his hamstring. This is NOT good because Brandon Morrow who was the Cubs closer who has been hurt the entire second half of the season and was reported yesterday that he will not pitch again this season.  Strop is hopeful that he will pitch this seasons but this hurts. The Cubs don't have a true closer for the rest of the regular season.  They will need Strop for the playoffs because of Morrow being hurt. On the weekend, the Cubs took 2/3 against the Reds and gained another game on the Brewers. Now they have three more road games than the last 10 games of the year will be played in the city of Chicago which is huge as they close down their third straight division championship. As of today, they have a 3 1/2 game lead on the Brewers and the magic number for them to clinch the division is 8. Go Cubs!

Via USAtoday.com