Bears 2006 Season Thread

[MyTurn2Raise]

Bears fans....lol

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I [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] Jaroun. "I don't want to be beat by the big play, we're only going to put 7 in the box." I wish I had heard that before kickoff, Thomas Jones would have been in my fantasy line-up.

The upside is we have found that the running game can step up if teams try and take away the pass. Which only makes this the scariest team ever. [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]

Still trying not to be giddy. The only small fear I have is maybe a team like the Eagles or Patriots. Short passes are easily completed against the Bears and you can chip and chop down the field if you are very patient, don't mind getting killed everytime you complete a pass and manage not to make a mistake that gets picked off. I'm also pretty sure that you can confuse the hell out of Grossman with a very complicated blitz package. Which Minnesota kind of did. Then it's just a question of how much did he learn from that game.

Myturn's Cardinals up next. I wonder if Leinart comes in with confidence off of that pre-season game? That could make things fun when he is running for his life. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

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The only small fear I have is maybe a team like the Eagles or Patriots. Short passes are easily completed against the Bears and you can chip and chop down the field if you are very patient, don't mind getting killed everytime you complete a pass and manage not to make a mistake that gets picked off.

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The Eagles are basically awful at short passes other than screens to Westbrook. Their recievers drop too many balls, in part because McNabb is scattershot and throws the ball very hard.

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Still trying not to be giddy. The only small fear I have is maybe a team like the Eagles or Patriots. Short passes are easily completed against the Bears and you can chip and chop down the field if you are very patient, don't mind getting killed everytime you complete a pass and manage not to make a mistake that gets picked off. I'm also pretty sure that you can confuse the hell out of Grossman with a very complicated blitz package.

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Bears @ Pats later in the season should be a good game. The Bears are clearly better right now...but as I've maintained for a while I think the Pats offense will be peaking later in the season. The Patriots also have a great and underrated OLine (and a great blocking TE in Graham) who are one of the few lines that could compete with the Bears front 4.

re: the complicated blitz schemes, I think you only see Belicheck get really tricky against QB's who have only seen the blitz packages on film. In the 2004 wins against the Colts, they played fairly vanilla b/c they know Peyton can read and adjust extremely well. Carson Palmer, on the other hand, was completely befuddled by the Pats 4-2-Nickel, and couldn't even explain to the media what went on.

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Bears fans....lol

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Cardinals fans...lol

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St. Louis... lol

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[KD2552]

I am full of cautious optimism; after all I am a cubs fan too.... All I can say is BEARDOWN!

[Colonel Kataffy]

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I am full of cautious optimism; after all I am a cubs fan too.... All I can say is BEARDOWN!

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Lets not bring the Cubs into this. Keep in mind, the bears have won it all 9 times since the Cubs last won the world series.

[KDawg]

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I am full of cautious optimism; after all I am a cubs fan too.... All I can say is BEARDOWN!

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Lets not bring the Cubs into this. Keep in mind, the bears have won it all 9 times since the Cubs last won the world series.

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what I have noticed is that the bears tend to win a championship every 20 or so years. THey won in 63, they won in 85, now its 06 so its time for them to do it up again