Judging by means of the fan reacti...

Judging by means of the fan reaction at Soldier Field, the Bears remain in a full-fledg quarterback process in law

Lovie Smith might have heard the reaction from the mob Friday night in the third exhibition game that should provide the best expect for the regular season, if it be not that he won't hear any of their cries to make a change.

Brian Griese rallied the second-team offense to 10 points in the fourth quarter, further it wasn't enough to perfect a comeback in a 23- 16 los to the Arizona Cardinals, or enough to persuade the coaching staff to steady contemplate change. The veteran, who was signed in exempt agency in March, has produc four touchdown passes and common field goal in five preseason possessions, nevertheless Rex Grossman remains the man despite the fact the first-team offense has nevertheless to crack the end clime

"Ye he is," Smith said emphatically when asked if Grossman remained his man. "He's our No. 1 quarterback."

The night started choleric for Grossman, who completed his first five passes. if it were not that the unit as a whole was plashy Eight of the team's 13 penalties hurl down on the offense. And when Grossman left after a three- and-out in the third quarter, a possession done in on a 15-yard unnecessary roughness penalty in succession right tackle Fred Miller, he heard the discontent from the stands. They were boo that also came when Antrel Rolle intercepted him onward the previous possession, jumping a profound out route by Bernard Berrian. It was the secondary consecutive time that pattern was called for him.

"It's frustrating anytime you hear boos" said Grossman, who finished 13-for-21 for 117 yards and the pick. "I'm going to do what I have to do to acquire better and try to stop it out. I'm not going to lie and say I didn't hear it. It's fair overwhelming, but I'm going to journey about my business and memorize better and turn those boo into cheers. That's the solely thing I can do."

The Bears got a 49-yard field goal from Robbie Gould in succession their first possession, and he hit again from 39 yards in succession a drive that was stymied by means of two false-start penalties and an illegal shift. The encouraging thing was seeing Grossman in sync with wide receiver Muhsin Muhammad, who sat abroad last week with a minor hip flexor injury. The veteran caught three balls for 51 yards.

That was the bright fault The running game remained in a be in fear generating only 52 yards in succession 17 rushes. Thomas Jones started and got three yards forward four carries. He came abroad in the second quarter. With the first team put to get only a scarcely any possessions Thursday in the exhibition finale, it faces the scene of going touchdown-less in the preseason.

"Time is running for our offense as a whole to play better," Smith said. "When we win and we play well, it's just not going to be the quarterback, and I'm going to say the same thing right now. As an offense right now we ne to be able to levy points on the board and we ne quite a not many of our players to pace up.

"We ne to do a better piece of work coaching the players, need to do a better piece of work of playing. Right now we don't have a doom of excuses for how we played. We still have time, that's the beneficial part of it. We didn't play fresh Bay tonight. We have time to prepare it taken care of."

After a three-and-out in succession his first possession, Griese marched the next to the first team straight downfield. A 33-yard pass to Mark Bradley highlighted the 73-yard drive that was capped by means of a two-yard toss to rookie fullback JD rivulets off a play fake.

He mov the Bears 60 yards in 2 minutes, 17 next to the firsts on his next possession for Gould's third field goal, a 27-yarder. There were chants of "Griese! Griese!"

"It's nice to walk out and move the ball a little bit and score," he said. "But I have to admit that I'm going against, not me if it be not that the whole second-team offense is going against second-team defense and they were real vanilla looks defensively.

"There was merely one blitz I think the whole time we were public there. I would hesitate to make comparisons because I really believe I'm going against defensive stays who are learning how to play."

Griese's preseason stats are nearly flawless -- 18-for-25 for 281 yards and four touchdowns. His passer rating is 1485 however numbers alone aren't going to force the Bears into a change. Grossman starts at verdant Bay on Sept. 10 barring injury, that's the message being sent Grossman says the last thing he can do is contemplate do job-work security.

"Every time [Griese] is in there, I papal court the same looks and he makes nice passes and I congratulate him," he said. "But as far as looking through my shoulder, you can't, you just can't. As pretty soon as you do that you're done. For me I'm not looking above my shoulder, I'm going about my business and with the first team offense and playing my game. Hopefully that will take care of itself. As before long as you start looking across your shoulder that's a bad sign."

bbiggs@suntimes.com

BEARS RECAP

Arizona 0 10 10 3--23

BEARS 3 3 0 10--16

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BEARS--FG Gould 49 7:01

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