Greg Olsen still isn't sure how he and Earl Bennett ended up running almost the exact same route in the end zone when he caught a 4-yard touchdown pass from Jay Cutler in the first quarter.
"Good thing we ended up scoring the touchdown," Olsen said. "We'll work on not having two guys in the same spot. The bottom line is, we scored."
The two were so close together that Bennett actually thought Olsen was defending him on the play.
"He thought I was coming over his back to pass interfere so he got up trying to draw the penalty and then he realized it was me," Olsen said, chuckling
It looked like Bennett was defending him, for second I was like "wow just slipped that past the defender, oh wait." Not the first time we have seen that this year. Hester did it to Knox one time where he knocked him off his rout and I thought it was interference until I realized it was Hester.
Do you realize that the TD play to Olsen was a totally broken play. Knox, Bennett, and Olsen all meeting in the middle, Bennett trying to bat the pass down. Hahahaha.
From the replay it appeared the defender forced Bennett to adjust his route - it looked like Bennett was trying to run a shallower cross but the defender beat him to the spot. Still, better to see two Bears in the vicinity of a Cutler pass instead of three defenders.