There's this thing in the NFL called the "safety blitz". It's been around since the 1960's, when Cardinals' safety Larry Wilson started doing it, but it looked like you were unfamiliar with it before today. Even if that's true, you had to have noticed at some point during the game that the Seahawks' safeties kept blitzing and having unobstructed paths to Jay Cutler, which once cost your team a safety and another time knocked you out of field goal range - that's five points left on the table in a game you lost 23-20. Did it ever occur to anyone on the Bears' sidelines to do something to prevent this from happening, like making some type of adjustment in play calling or blocking schemes?
With the Packers losing today, this loss represents a major missed opportunity to create a little breathing room in the division race, and if the Bears can't win this game at home, it makes me wonder what games they can win the rest of the year.
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