Aug

19

What the Seattle Seahawks think of the Bears

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August 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment

It’s always interesting to learn what sports experts in other cities think of our Bears. If you visit the Web site of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, you’ll uncover a preview of the Bears. And what do the fine minds in Seattle think? Well, they have the feeling that new quarterback Jay Cutler will improve the Bears [...]

Aug

18

Favre changes his mind: Is anyone surprised?

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August 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment

So Brett Favre actually isn’t retired. Anyone surprised?
Here’s a promise from me: When I say I’m retiring from this blog, I’ll mean it. You won’t see me sneaking back in here three months later to post about the problem of grown men wearing Urlacher jerseys.
Anyway, Favre is back. And this time he’s playing with [...]

Aug

17

Instant analysis: Preseason football blows

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August 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment

They need to stop television preseason football. All it does every year is make Chicago Bears fans think the team’s backup quarterbacks are future ProBowlers.
It happened again Saturday night during the Bears’ 27-20 loss to the Buffalo Bills in their preseason opener: Starting quarterback Jay Cutler looked pedestrian in his outing. The backups, though, looked [...]

Aug

14

The slog of preseason football

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August 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment

I always have mixed feelings about the first preseason game of the Bears season.
It’s nice to see the NFL, and the Bears, of course, back in action. But preseason football? There are few things worse to watch. Maybe Spring Training baseball. But who watches that?
Here’s what you’ll see Saturday night: A whole lot of action [...]

Aug

12

Are Bears overrated?

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August 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Training camp is an odd time. You can either leave it completely in love with a mediocre team or horrified by what you see from a highly regarded squad.
That’s because you spend much of training camp watching scrubs try to tackle other scrubs. Sometimes, these scrubs look great. Other times, they look like scrubs.
But this [...]

Aug

10

Will we see the dominant Tommie Harris again?

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August 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment

When the Bears made it to the SuperBowl in the 2006 season, defensive lineman Tommie Harris was a big reason. Simply put, he dominated several games.
Then Harris suffered a serious of injuries. He hasn’t been the same since.
Sure, he’s been a good player. But he hasn’t been the same fearsome force he was.
Of course, a [...]

Aug

9

Are the Bears asking too much of Manning?

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August 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Danieal Manning will play both nickel back and free safety this season for the Bears. He’ll also return kickoffs.
The question is, Will he be good at any of these positions?
I’m sure he’ll be good at returning kickoffs. Manning is deadly fast, and proved last year that he’s nearly as devastating on kickoff returns as Devin [...]

Aug

6

Another odd Bears jersey sighting

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August 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment

It happened again yesterday. I was riding my bike when I came across a middle-aged man, also on bike, wearing a Bears jersey. I think this is weird in all cases: An adult shouldn’t be wearing a football jersey unless it has his own name on the back of it.
Anyway, this guy was wearing a [...]

Aug

5

Why do radio shows broadcast from training camp?

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August 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment

I do like sports radio. But I like it best when people are yelling at each other, whether it’s hosts screaming at each other or fans and hosts bickering back and forth. It’s fun because sports is silly and stupid, and there’s nothing more entertaining than people getting riled up over largely trivial stuff.
Unfortunately, that [...]

Aug

3

Is the Urlacher-Cutler tiff over? And why are the media such simpletons?

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August 3, 2009 | 1 Comment

I’m a writer for a living, a newspaper and magazine writer. So I know how sucky most of the members of the media are. And we saw a great example of this during the whole Brian Urlacher-Jay Cutler tiff.
The moment it came to a head to me was when Urlacher was addressing a throng of [...]