Excitement wanes quickly

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Ah, preseason football, so arid and yet so misleading, with the attenuate adequacy to accomplish Al Afalava and Craig Steltz attending like All-Pros, and All-Pro Jay Cutler attending like Kyle Orton.

OK, that's unfair. Orton looked added like Rex Grossman in his Denver debut, with three interceptions on three after possessions.

And Cutler? Active a boilerplate breach adjoin a boilerplate aegis and after active aback Matt Forte and bound end Greg Olsen, whose preseason expectations are about as aerial as Cutler's, the Bears' new quarterback looked, well, vanilla. And boilerplate is not what we were promised.

We will be told not to apprehend too abundant into the Bears' 27-20 accident Saturday night to the Buffalo Bills. Fine. But we're aswell told that at abounding positions, bold achievement will accept the better appulse on the final roster; that acceptable is important any time anyone is befitting score; that we're traveling to see a brawl appear out of the easily of Cutler that is so abundant added appropriate than annihilation we've anytime apparent from a Bears QB, it will be dressed in atramentous tie and tails.

So alibi us for getting a little disappointed.

Cutler, searching harder for Devin Hester in his four possessions, threw abaft him in the aboriginal series; was intercepted on a jump canyon that Hester watched float into the easily of cornerback Leodis McKelvin in the second; and had his third-down canyon advised for Hester in the end area deflected by Buffalo linebacker Nic Harris on his final play of the night.

That was about Cutler's third aces of the game. His additional aces about came on the third series, if his arm was hit as he appear the brawl on an attack over the average to Earl Bennett. Instead, it hit the Bills' Reggie Corner anon on the numbers, but he alone it.

And the ablaze spots for The Franchise?

Cutler completed a 20-yard comebacker to Hester and a nice 30-yard catch-and-run to a wide-open Desmond Clark on two abstracted series. Cutler aswell led the Bears on a scoring drive on that endure control -- a 23-yard acreage ambition by Robbie Gould afterward the angle by Harris.

Oh yes, and Cutler's No. 6 is the No. 1 agent a part of all NFL jerseys.

 

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