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Chicago Bears are
“Undefeated” after decisive win over the Dallas Cowboys 27-20
Jay
Cutler has become the “Best” quarterback in the National Football
League after the stellar performance in Dallas in week two.
The
Dallas defense gave Jay Cutler fits early on and he was bruised and
abused early. He ran for his life in the early going, easily running
more yardage laterally than forward.
"We knew we were
going to get their best punch early. They were coming off a tough
loss and wanting to put a good showing here at home. We had to ride
the wave a little bit, we emptied it out a few times got them to
settle down, and hit Greg over the middle on a busted coverage. So
once we started attacking them a little more we settled down in some.
The
key play to Olsen… took the pressure off.
"We
knew were going to have a tough time taking seven steps and
protecting everything and being able to dump the guy down the field,
so we thought the next best thing was to empty it out and see if they
wanted to blitz or if they wanted to play soft and get it out quick.
The first time we did we brought Kreutz up the middle and dropped
Greg. We have to take advantage of those things."
The
Best game as Chicago Bear?
"Got
to go back and look at it, but we did some good things and missed a
few things, but I am just proud of these guys. It so rocky those 2 or
3 series and those guys stuck in it. I thought the receivers played a
great game. I thought Devin Hester had one of his best games. It was
just staying in it for four quarters and Devin probably didn't get as
many balls as he would have liked, but we still got him the ball and
he made some big plays for us.
Losing
your left tackle the first couple of series..And adjustments
made..
"Going
against a guy like DeMarcus Ware, you always got to be weary of him.
Frank hadn't played left in a long, long time he had been practicing
right for so hard so it's tough in the middle of a game for a guy to
switch over like that and then go against a guy like DeMarcus Ware.
So you got to be proud of his effort going out there. He left a few
things, but I thought he played phenomenal right down the stretch."
Jay
Cutler on his offense
"We
are trying to get them the ball, get them match-ups with Greg and
Matt and those guys. When we sent them out there, I wasn't sure
exactly what we were going to get wither they were going to zone it
out, but we got the match-ups and won it."
Mike
Martz and his offense, a different look for the Chicago Bears
"When
Mike got here with this offense, I don't think you need a update
number one, I don't think you need that guy because the ball is going
in so many directions. We are creating so many match-ups for guys; I
think it's almost even a bigger advantage to have what we have, and
have a lot of weapons. It keeps teams off balance. They don't know
where we are going or what we are doing in some of these formations
or where we are headed, so it is working out to our advantage and we
have a guy like Mike Martz who knows how to take advantage of all
that." Said Cutler
Confidence
is important, don’t you think?
"It's
a fourth quarter game. I think we are all maturing as offense all
maturing my 5th year. Going through the ups and downs and I think
last year helped a lot going through that struggle but it helps the
ride, it's a long game, it's a long season so we just got to stick in
there. I have all the confidence in Mike and his play calling
ability, giving us our plays and making the proper adjustments, which
we did."
Winning
the fans confidence…and the respect of Chicago
"It's
still early, I think everyone in the locker room understands that.
There are 14 games left, there is a lot of tough games left, but
Bears fans travel well. They always have and they always will. We
have a big test next week, Monday night and we got to start getting
ready for it."
Greg
Olsen, a factor the Dallas Defense did not expect.
"We
had to make a big change early with Chris getting hurt. We moved
Frank from right to left and Shaffer into right. Anytime you shift
guys in the offensive line, it's going to take a minute for everyone
to get settled in and get comfortable. Once we got everything settled
down and Coach Tice got them running, they played amazing the rest of
the game. We kept a good defensive front at bay and our guys on the
outside were able to make a lot of plays."
"It's a
good win. All wins in the NFL are good. People think that winning the
NFL is easy. It's not easy. To come on the road against an NFC team
and to be 2-0 right now with a big Monday game against Green Bay,
it's the best we can be at this point."
Olsen on Jay
Cutler: "He played great. He got hit a couple times early. He
hung in there. He's tough. He got the ball to a lot of different guys
who were able to make plays."
"With the way our
defense was playing, we knew if we scored one more time in the fourth
quarter...we felt we had a pretty good chance with five minutes to go
up by ten."
Devin
Hester, emerges on offense.
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