For better or worse, the Caleb Hanie (304 total yards, 2 TDs, 3 INTs) era began this week in Oakland, and predictably it was a rough first game.  Hopefully for the Bears faithful Hanie will find his groove and stop making critical errors, as the Bears are playing good enough defense to win games as long as Hanie doesn’t give the game away.  Carson Palmer (301 yards, 0 TDs, 1 INT) threw for over 300 yards, but otherwise was pretty unspectacular as he wasn’t able to get the Raiders into the endzone through the air.

Where’s Johnny Knox (4-145, 1 TD) been all season long?  Maybe he just needed Hanie throwing him the ball… ok, that’s a stretch.  Kellen Davis (2-25, 1 TD) got the other TD from Hanie, while Earl Bennett (1-5) sorely missed his buddy Jay Cutler.

Palmer probably would have had a better day passing the ball if Denarius Moore and Jacoby Ford weren’t out injured.  Instead he was throwing to Chaz Schillens (4-58), Louis Murphy (2-53), and Darrius Heyward-Bey (4-42), who weren’t nearly as good as Moore and Ford have been as a tandem with Palmer.

The Bears fell into a timeshare for some reason, as Marion Barber (10 car., 63 yards) got almost as many carries as Matt Forte (12 car., 59 yards; 6 rec., 25 yards).  The Bears’ rushing attack seemed to be most effective earlier in the year going often to Forte, but now the Hanie era seems to include a lot of Barber in the game plan.

Michael Bush (24 car., 69 yards, 1 TD; 4 rec., 24 yards) didn’t find a lot of running room against the solid Bears defense, but he did get a second half touchdown to make for a decent fantasy day.  So far Bush has been money since McFadden went down with a foot sprain, and will probably get a good portion of the carries even when McFadden returns to the lineup.
 

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