What can the Bears do differently against the Packers in their third matchup?
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We're sending Marshall Harris to D.C. to run on the field. Come on, Marshall. Bring it home, baby. We're ready for you. The Rahimi Harrison Grody Show. Middays 10 to 2 on 670 The Score.
Can I tell you how much I enjoy Kevin Harlan saying, come on, Marshall, to try to get you to run onto a football field? It's still one of my favorite things.
Kevin Harlan would be quite the hype man, if you think about it. Quite the wingman. Come on, Marshall. And then we ride. We ride off into the sunset.
It's fantastic. So, that said, this is Rahimi Harrison-Grody on 670 The Score. And as busy as the day has been, we haven't really gotten to dig deeper into Bears and Packers today. We gave you a lot of the latest from Hallis Hall earlier yesterday. We do have Chris Emmett with a live report at 125 today. We're going to talk a lot with Danny Parkins coming up at 1. But in the meantime, is frankly a problem that I would probably procrastinate on and avoid if it wasn't staring me in the face. And that is the conundrum, even with Kyler Gordon's practice window now being open, trying to figure out who are the best choices on this Bears secondary to face the Packers when the Packers, as we've seen the past two meetings,
have been able to pick apart the Bears' zone fairly well. And we saw what the Lions did in Mann. We also saw what happened against San Francisco. And this, I think, is going to be the X factor in the game for the Bears. Unfortunately, the weakness and the injuries are going to make this the most glaring part of the game that I'm going to focus in on.
You're familiar with the old school standardized test, the Scantron, B, A, B, C, D, all the above. On this one, I'm like, why didn't you include the E? None of the above. Because that's what it's looking like right now with the bare secondary, to be honest with you.
You mean like who your best choices are?
Yeah. I'm looking for the E, but the E is not an option.
And I think it tells a lot when we're talking about the availability and credit to him for being such a crucial part of the team. But it says a lot when we're talking about the availability of C.D. Gardner-Johnson, who's likely going to be out because he's in concussion protocol. I'm just me personally. This is not a report. We'll learn more today. But I'm not expecting him to be there if I'm watching and trying to plan for this game. And he's been a big part of this. He's two different players almost in man versus zone.
What challenges do the Bears face with their secondary against the Packers?
And unfortunately, we've seen that play out as well. There's one guy we have who is an expert when it comes to secondary play. And that is Matt Bowen, who was on with the afternoon show yesterday. And he broke down why these two choices, neither one of them may be ideal.
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. Playing 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.
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