Matt Bowen

A lot of those throws through speeds were rhythm throws, right?

Inbreakers, crossers, over routes.

That's where golf is at its best, especially when you have a clean platform to throw the football from.

Bears will not generate enough pressure.

And when you play man coverage and you don't hit the quarterback, you better be really good in the secondary.

And the Bears were not.

Played at heavy outside leverage.

There's a lot of in-breaking routes.

And I'll tell you right now, against Amonra, St.

Brown, Jameson, Williams, Raymond, if you allow immediate separation at the line of scrimmage, you're not going to get back in phase.

That means back to the hip of the wide receiver where you can make a play on the football.

Then it turns into a foot race.

And what the wide receiver does is simply run away from coverage.

So why do they play so much man speaks?

Because, again, zone coverage here is 10 of 12 for 103 yards.

So I'll tell you, this is why I say that speaks, because zone coverage against a team like Detroit, heavy play action, similar to playing against Ben Johnson, there are windows to attack at the second level and the third level if you can create the coverage voids.

They're excellent at that.

So if you're a defensive coordinator, you're saying, we're not going to give them those open window throws to the middle field.

We're going to challenge them.

But again, going back to my original point, to do that, you have to hit the quarterback, you have to make a player like Jared Goff move off his throwing platform, and you have to play much tighter coverage.