I had the opportunity today to sit and watch an entire NFL game for the first time all season: an epic match-up pitting my offensively-challenged Bears against the Denver Broncos. Before kickoff, there was much discussion of comments made by Denver punter Todd Sauerbrun regarding Chicago's feared return man Devin Hester:
Some teams kick out of bounds against the Chicago Bears and dangerous returner Devin Hester. Others squib kick to avoid giving Hester a chance at a big play.
Denver punter Todd Sauerbrun said he doesn't think the Broncos are going to avoid kicking to Hester this Sunday.
"We're not worried at all," Sauerbrun said. "We respect the hell out of him, don't get us wrong. Absolutely. But we're not going to go out there tiptoeing around."
Hester has returned five punts and three kickoffs for touchdowns in his two seasons. Hester has broken long returns despite many efforts to keep the ball out of his hands.
"I think we've seen it all," Bears coach Lovie Smith said.
Sauerbrun said special teams coach Scott O'Brien's style is not to kick away from a player.
"We're not going to do it," Sauerbrun said.
As of this writing, Sauerbrun is officially a goat. Hester returned a punt and a kickoff for TDs, and on both plays, Sauerbrun slipped on the wet Soldier Field turf and Hester either blew right by him or - in one memorably embarrassing move - jumped right over him. If not for Grossman coughing the ball up twice and the Chicago receiving corps dropping half a dozen passes in the middle of the game, the Bears would have won this outright instead of having to rely on a desperate late drive to send the game into overtime.
Aaaaaand Da Bears win on a field goal in OT. Nice game. Don't feel bad Todd, you're not the first German to put his foot in his mouth. Believe me.
Sauerbrun is a complete jackass. It’s pretty well known throughout the league that he refuses to directional kick.
Not sure who that Cameron dude is, but he sure got worked up. I guess he didn’t recognize the subtle Kraut-ness of Vonder Haar.He said, “Because they kick to him…means they have balls.” Balls are great and all, but brains help. I knew a guy a few years back that on a pretty weekly basis would get a few beers under his belt and go and pick a fight with the biggest guy in the room. Balls? Maybe. But this guy was five-five and weighed a buck-thirty, tops.
Can I call you an incompetent a-hole, too? It has a nice ring to it.
I guess he didn’t recognize the subtle Kraut-ness of Vonder Haar.
Yeah, it’s subtle is what it is.
Can I call you an incompetent a-hole, too? It has a nice ring to it.
Only if you also make repeated (and suspect) references to my having my head up my ass.
I enjoyed Hester’s 22.15 points, so I’m pretty happy where Sauerbrun’s kicks ended up.
Incidentally, Hester didn’t run two kicks back “because of the incompetence of the special teams coach’s orders.” He ran two kicks back due, in part, to the incompetence of the special teams players’ TACKLING.
DEAR PETE,
You and whoever else thinks todd sauerbrun is a goat, and and idiot can kiss my butt. Was it his fault that Hester returned his kicks???? NO!!!!!! it was all the the special teams coach’s fault. He’s the one who calls the plays for Sauerbrun, Sauerbrun just does what he is told, so if anybody should be blamed for those runbacks, it should be the coach, not Todd. And becasue they kick it to him does not mean that they are idiots, it means they have balls, and they are going to play the way they always have. His job is to kick the ball the way he is told, and he did just that. I’m sure he disagreed with the call, just like the rest of us, but thats what he was told, so he did it. Oh, and while were on the subject, it’s also not his fault he slipped on the field. It’s called the field is wet and slippery idiot. And so what, someone jumped over him when he slipped, big deal, people get jumped over all the time in football, it’s called avoiding him so he doesn’t get tackled, it’s not like he juked him or anything, he simply jumped over him. At least todd had a reason, and at least he made an effort to do something about it instead of just letting him run right by him. people were slipping all over the field during the game, even Bears players, of course your head is probably too far up your butt that you didn’t see that.
And yes, Hester did run TWO kicks back because of the incompetence of the special teams coach’s orders, and bravo for him. He IS the ONE AND ONLY reason the bears won that game.
Your reasoning for their win is ridiculous and amature AT BEST. You’re right, Grossman did give the ball up twice, and the recievers sucked, its all true, which means that the bears would have been nothing without Hester. If they didn’t have those runbacks, the bears would have lost, and the broncos would have slaughtered them.
And since when does where you come from have anything to do with whether you make a bad judgment before the game, or whether you suck or not?? Being german has nothing to do with it you incompetent a-hole.
Maybe you should learn something about football, educate yourself more, and pull your head out fo your butt for more than 5 seconds before you go making stupid comments like yours.
:)