da Bears - THE WAY WE HEAR IT....

Backup plan in motion once more for hard-luck Chicago franchise

Bears general manager Jerry Angelo could be a walking Rolaids endorsement.

Expecting a watershed season in his fifth season in Chicago, Angelo instead finds himself treading water.

On Aug. 12, QB Rex Grossman broke his ankle in St. Louis during the Bears

Wow, doom and gloom. The main omission from this rant is that the Bears are doing just fine without Benson. The present RB core in Chicago has ran for a higher average than any team so far during this preseason. With a healthy O-line, the RBs and, dare I say, QBs will be in a much different situation than last year. The Bears should let Benson sit out the year and save their money. Benson would have to go in to the draft again next year. Would he still be the #4 pick. Probably not. The Bears do not miss him.

And don't get me started on the Defense....

Da Sucks

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I hope to see Orton as well. So the Packers can slap him up like the Badgers did and the boy can get the full WI whoopin!

Nothing personal against the guy, but he IS a Bear now.

They had enough depth at RB last year with Thomas Jones, Adrian Peterson and Anthony Thomas so they should have drafted Mike Williams over Benson. Jerry Angelo is a moron and for every good move he makes he kills it with 2 or 3 bad ones. I worry a lot more about Chad Hutchinson playing than Cedric Benson not.

With the Packers sorry defense you may want to rethink that. Hope for Chad Hutchinson if you are smart.

Smart? That has nothing to do with it. It's a BEAR QB even the Packers D can slap'em around.
Bear QB meet KGB again for the seventh time.

Once defenses start stacking the line to counter the run you'll soon see any hope of the RBs doing anything. Same as last year.
I've learned throught the years preseason doesn't mean jack.

Could you give Jim Bates a call - oh wait, cancel that... He already knows that about this guy....
Maybe you should alert Mr. Haynes to possbily give Jim Bates a call - for a better employment gig! :mrgreen:

Do you mean like they did in that game in Green bay last year?

shhhh...that was a fluke.

dammit.

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SCORING SUMMARY
1ST QUARTER
TD Thomas Jones, 2 Yd run (Paul Edinger kick is good), 12:54. Drive: 4 plays, 76 yards in 2:06.
TD Bubba Franks, 17 Yd pass from Brett Favre (Ryan Longwell kick is good), 3:22. Drive: 10 plays, 86 yards in 5:32.
2ND QUARTER
TD William Henderson, 38 Yd pass from Brett Favre (Ryan Longwell kick is good), 13:16. Drive: 2 plays, 86 yards in 0:55.
TD Darren Sharper, 43 Yd interception return (Ryan Longwell kick is good), 11:52.
TD Javon Walker, 25 Yd pass from Craig Nall (Ryan Longwell kick is good), 6:14. Drive: 5 plays, 71 yards in 2:51.
3RD QUARTER
TD Thomas Jones, 1 Yd run (Paul Edinger kick is good), 5:48. Drive: 11 plays, 78 yards in 6:00.
FG Ryan Longwell 20 Yd, 0:41. Drive: 11 plays, 70 yards in 5:07.
4TH QUARTER
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PLAYER STATISTICS
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PASSING
CP/AT YDS TD INT
B. Favre 9/13 196 2 0
C. Nall 7/13 131 1 0

PASSING
CP/AT YDS TD INT
C. Hutchinson 20/29 196 0 1
RUSHING
ATT YDS TD LG
T. Fisher 19 42 0 10
A. Green 4 13 0 6
C. Nall 1 9 0 9
N. Luchey 3 7 0 4
J. O'Sullivan 2 -2 0 -1
D. Driver 1 -9 0 -9

RUSHING
ATT YDS TD LG
T. Jones 26 108 2 18
B. Berrian 1 2 0 2
RECEIVING
REC YDS TD LG
J. Walker 3 82 1 43
B. Franks 4 59 1 17
W. Henderson 2 53 1 38
D. Driver 1 48 0 48
B. Steele 1 27 0 27
T. Fisher 3 23 0 16
A. Green 1 23 0 23
A. Chatman 1 12 0 12

RECEIVING
REC YDS TD LG
D. Terrell 4 99 0 63
B. Wade 4 27 0 12
B. Berrian 2 23 0 17
D. Clark 3 20 0 8
D. Lyman 2 13 0 8
J. McKie 2 10 0 8
T. Jones 3 4 0 11
FUMBLES
FUM LOST REC YDS

FUMBLES
FUM LOST REC YDS
C. Hutchinson 1 0 0 0
S. Edwards 0 0 1 0
KICKING
FG LG XP PTS
R. Longwell 1/1 20 4/4 7

KICKING
FG LG XP PTS
P. Edinger 0/0 0 2/2 2
PUNTING
NO AVG I20 LG
B. Barker 5 37.2 0 43

PUNTING
NO AVG I20 LG
B. Maynard 6 37.5 3 43
KICKOFF RETURNS
NO AVG TD LG
A. Thurman 3 19.7 0 28

KICKOFF RETURNS
NO AVG TD LG
J. Azumah 5 21.2 0 25
B. Berrian 1 15.0 0 15
PUNT RETURNS
NO AVG TD LG
A. Chatman 3 1.3 0 3

PUNT RETURNS
NO AVG TD LG
R. McQuarters 2 15.5 0 20
DEFENSE
T-A SCK INT FF
N. Barnett 9-2 0.0 0 0
K. Gbaja-Biamila 6-1 4.0 0 0
A. Harris 5-1 0.0 0 0
S. Josue 5-0 0.0 0 0
A. Carroll 4-0 0.0 0 0
N. Diggs 4-0 0.0 0 0
D. Sharper 4-1 0.0 1 0
C. Williams 4-1 1.0 0 0
C. Cole 3-0 0.0 0 0
M. Hawthorne 3-0 0.0 0 0
P. Lenon 3-0 0.0 0 0
M. Roman 3-0 1.0 0 0
C. Hunt 2-1 1.0 0 0
K. Peterson 2-1 0.0 0 0
C. Jenkins 1-1 1.0 0 0
B. Jue 1-0 0.0 0 0
V. Leach 1-0 0.0 0 0
B. Steele 1-0 0.0 0 0
J. Thomas 1-0 0.0 0 0
R. Truluck 1-0 1.0 0 0

DEFENSE
T-A SCK INT FF
T. Johnson 6-1 0.0 0 0
J. Azumah 5-0 0.0 0 0
L. Briggs 3-1 0.0 0 0
B. Gray 3-0 0.0 0 0
M. Haynes 3-1 0.0 0 0
H. Hillenmeyer 3-3 0.0 0 0
I. Idonije 3-1 0.0 0 0
J. Odom 3-0 0.0 0 0
C. Tillman 3-0 0.0 0 0
N. Vasher 3-0 0.0 0 0
A. Brown 2-1 0.0 0 0
M. Green 2-1 0.0 0 0
M. Reese 2-1 0.0 0 0
I. Scott 2-0 0.0 0 0
T. Harris 1-0 0.0 0 0
J. McKie 1-0 0.0 0 0
R. McQuarters 1-0 0.0 0 0
A. Peterson 1-0 0.0 0 0
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Orrelse, in the past few years I would agree with you about the defenses stacking the line. The Bears had no strength in creating holes and holding back the blitzes. This is a much improved line with a much different, aggressive O.C. in Turner. While the line is stacked, the opportunity for throwing a deep one has opened in this new Bears' offense, and he has shown it a few times already this preseason.

Well, almost.... I call it a "Rossley"..... :roll: