Bears Misuse Benson

The Chicago Bears fell to the Seattle Seahawks on Sunday, and this one should fall squarely on the coaches.  Somehow, with Benson finally running as if his life depended on it, the Bears took the ball out of their starting halfback’s hands as the game progressed.  Brad Briggs of the Chicago Sun-Times wrote an article detailing the Bears’ coaches horrible misuse of Benson, especially late in the game.  The coaches have said they were trying to get (the other) Adrian Peterson more involved in the action, but Peterson didn’t do much to support this decision, taking his five carries for little more than 10 yards on the day.

I’m fully aware that Cedric Benson hasn’t had the season the Bears hoped for when they let go of Thomas Jones in the offseason.  I know that Adrian Peterson has shown flashes of great potential when he’s had the rock in his hands.  But at the end of the day, you have to be able to trust your first-team guy, especially when he’s rattling off huge runs to start the game.  I don’t know who dropped the ball here, but by forsaking their ground game and putting the competition in the hands of Rex Grossman, the coaches severely handicapped the Bears in this game.  Now, the Bears are going to need a lot of good fortune to make the playoffs.

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