Bear Down Baffa

Die Lance Briggs
Now I’m not threatening or even suggesting that I would kill him, nor am I condoning murder.  But if a stranger came up to me with a gun and said, “Hide this, I just shot Lance Briggs,” without hesitation, I’d take it and I’d hide that shit.  First, this mofo screams in the media that he won’t play another snap for the Bears when they tag him a franchise player.  Then (get this) he threatens to sit out only 10 games so he can still get credit for an accrued season – and get paid for the final six.  Where does he get the balls?  F that, and f him!  I believe in Capitalism and “getting yours” when you can, but there’s a way to negotiate professionally, and there’s a way to do it like a whiney bitch.  You can buy plenty of Lamborghini’s (http://www.lamborghini.com/) with $7.5M.  But you can’t just flip off an entire city like that – or your team.  As it turns out, he’s back and everything’s supposed to be back to normal.  I’m sure I’ll get over it once we win the Super Bowl.  But for now, I’m hating that guy like Judas on Good Friday.

“Frank the” Tank Johnson
Sad story.  The guy just couldn’t obey laws.  But who am I to judge?  All I know is he’s gone, and we found someone better to replace him in Darwin Walker.  Hey, if someone has to go to jail for us to win a SB, then lock his ass up!

Department of Defense
Acquiring strong safety Adam Archuleta – we missed out last year when he signed the largest contract of any safety in NFL history with the Redskins – could turn out to be big.  A hard hitting converted LB, Archuleta was solid playing under Lovie in St. Louis and he’ll be asked to serve a similar role here.  Signing experienced and consistent D-lineman Darwin Walker could be even bigger.  Then you bring back Pro Bowlers Tommie Harris and defensive leader Mike Brown from injury, and even though Brown won’t last more than 2 or 3 games, you’ve made some substantial upgrades to what was already a Super Bowl caliber defense.

Offensive Assualt
I wish all the Rex-hating would cease and desist.  This is really only Sexy Rexy’s second full season, and the learning curve at QB is the highest of any position in the sport – possibly any sport.  He’s only played 28 games to date, and last year was the first year he’s played more than three.  When it really mattered in the post season, he averaged 17 for 30 (57%) for 200 yards, 1 TD, 1 INT and a QB rating of about 73.  Now that’s not spectacular by any stretch of the imagination, but it does show promise for what was almost a rookie QB.  I think an off-season to fine tune and hone his craft should lead to him playing closer to the caliber that earned him NFC Player of the month last September than when he scored a goose-egg QB rating against Green Bay in the meaningless, regular season finale.

Only One Reason for Pre-Season
I hear a lot of questions regarding our performance during the 4-game pre-season.  But pre-season games are just that – before the season.  The games (and therefore the scores) mean nothing, so there’s very little you can garner from them.  Rex looked good, Rex looked bad.  Hester looked good, Hester got hurt.  Olsen looked good, Olsen got hurt.  Tommie Harris played 3 snaps.  The rest of our starters averaged about a dozen snaps a game.  So who did we really see play?  Hence, it doesn’t really count for anything more than a little foreplay for the season.  And in that respect, it certainly does the job.  Aren’t you anxious for the season to start?!

2007 Season Outlook
With the addition of Hester and Olsen on offense, we should see marked improvement.  They will open things up, which will require defenses to do more to stop us.  I think we’ll miss Thomas Jones, but Cedric Benson could help us forget about him if Benson can play his style game for a full season.  Defensively, we should be outstanding.  And with Pro Bowl caliber Brad Maynard, Robbie Gould and Hester on Special Teams, this team has few weaknesses.  There may be 15 other teams in our conference, but there aren’t really any NFC teams that are in our league.  The only way we don’t win the NFC Championship is if someone key gets injured.  So I’m going to go out on a limb and predict we’ll win the Super Bowl (yet again!) this year.  Super Bowl, Super Bears!

© 2007

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