Communism and the Chicago Bears

Occasionally US foreign policy reflects good football strategy, and I believe we are in the midst of this phenomenon striking again. While many of the Chicago Bears' deficiencies are overlooked because of the stunning way in which they won on Monday night, it seems to me that there real weakness has been exposed. Every few years an "offensive juggernaut" shows and leads the league in scoring and yards and most importantly in big plays, the Vikings a few years ago, or the Rams in 2000-2001 and now the Bears this year. The quality of the offense becomes to some degree misrepresented by the large amounts of big plays. I realize that this sounds a bit counter intuitive, because big plays count the same as lots of little plays, because big plays help momentum and a whole host of other reasons, but as an untrained observer it seems to me big plays can be taken away. The Cardinals demonstrated this defensive theory on Monday night, just as the Patriots did in 2001. Make the team who likes to score quick beat you slowly. Make them do what they haven't had to do well yet this year. In a nutshell this was the US response to communism, don't let it expand, and it will collapse. If Communism is growing and expanding it can live and flourish, much like if the Bears can hook up on three or four big plays a game Grossman looks like the second coming of Joe Montana. However, if you can stop the expansion of Communism, the theory held that it would not be able to support itself. Likewise, make the Bears run the ball and complete 7-10 yard passes, and they look like the same crappy offense they had for years. None of this is meant to say that the Bears are no good, or that that they are not the best team in the league, it is only meant to point out that the Bears have not demonstrated their ability to maintain long sustained drives when the big plays haven't been there, which means, come January a team not named the Cardinals will own them. Just ask last years Panthers how good this offensive force is.