Let's go to Sunday's loss to the arch rival Green Bay Packers. The Bears are trying to drive for the tying touchdown and Jay Cutler throws a pass to Greg Olsen which he grabs but does not control through the catch and it is ruled incomplete. Smith takes his first charged timeout of the 2nd half. After the timeout and just before the next play is run he decides to challenge the previous play. That means if the challenge is not successful the Bears will lose another timeout without one second running off of the clock.

Well, that is exactly what happened. The challenge lost, the drive stalled and the Bears never did score again losing to Green Bay 21-14. Who knows if they would have scored if they had an extra timeout. Common sense tells me no but you can't dispute the fact that they would have run their final drive differently if they would have had another timeout to work with.

Also, Lovie Smith told the media after the game that the reason they called the first timeout on that play was because they had "some things going on" that necessitated using it. Just what those "things" were he did not say but offensive coordinator Ron Turner said there was nothing going on that would have warranted using another timeout.

However, the Bears decision to call a timeout before throwing the red flag is up for debate.

"For the first timeout, things just weren't right and we needed to call a timeout to take care of some things," Smith said after the game. "That is separate.

"Without going into detail, I called it for the same reason you always use a timeout -- things weren't right, and we wanted to make sure we were in the best situation. Again, after that, it was two separate situations."

"We're shifting up our personnel, trying to get a call, and before you know it the play clock is down to twelve," Bears quarterback Jay Cutler explained. "It's happened to us a few times this year, so I had to burn one. It just happens. Anytime there's a big play, something down field, it's up for grabs like that. Guys are pushing and shoving getting off the pile, taking to the refs, and trying to figure out what happened. The clock is running during that time.

Lovie.....your main goal is to beat the Packers........YOU LOSE!!!LOLOL!!!

"Cheesey" wrote: