Boulware Reclaims Spot in Starting Lineup -- Also: Is the Marshall Plan Suspect?

I've been itching to see Boulware back for a while now. I was slightly in favor of the benching back in the day, but after seeing Babineaux play (wasn't he supposed to cover the pass?) I'm grateful to have somebody who can (most of the time) tackle.

but teams have been killing us with there ground game, which I think is worse actually  

First, Marshall made the mistake of forcing Grossman to pass? Zuh?
Assuming for a second that Marshall dictated Chicago's game-planning, who on earth wouldn't have preferred the inexperienced and not very good Grossman throwing the ball to one of the league's top rushing attacks running roughshod?

But what I really find galling is that he lists 6 games pre-benching, 7 games post benching, accounts for no other variables like, I don't know, the health of our D-Line or the ability of our opponent, and then when he doesn't get the results he wants he simply removes a couple games for rather spurious reasons.

This is abusive use of statistics at its finest. Ryan Davis clearly already had a conclusion he wanted to reach before starting this article, and then simply found something that (kind of) backed up his opinion.

Now, do I think that benching Boulware was a bad idea? Yes. You don't a bench a young player who has shown flashes of brilliance for a journeyman not likely to be on your roster next year. At the very least we would have a better understanding of what we have with Boulware, because, honestly, we already knew the dross we had with Babineaux.

This stinks to me of a punishment move by Marshall. An attempt to correct Boulware that got out of hand and has likely stunted his growth. After two seasons the jury is still at the motel when it comes to our young Defensive Coordinator. Our recent struggles absolutely should not be valued more than the awesome job he did last year.