Bear Down Baffa

Andrew Luck (’12), check.  Sam Bradford (’10), check.  Matthew Stafford (’09), check.  And you can add Cam Newton (’11) to the list of four consecutive #1 overall draft picks the Bears have beaten this year.  Combine that with undrafted Tony Romo (’05) and #10 overall pick Blaine Gabbert (’10), we’ve beaten almost $45M in QB’s.  And the season isn’t even halfway over yet.  Granted, we were out-played for three quarters by the Carolina Steve Smiths while Cutler looked like a rookie late-rounder himself.  But the Bears eventually made like an old constipated guy who gave up trying to go all day at the office, but then had minor success after arriving in his domicile, and “squeaked one out at home.”

The Bears sideline erupted after a rare comeback win

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So much for whiny Detroit talking smack – or being a contender.  For all intents and purposes, the Bears ended the Lions’ season on Monday night, dropping them like property values in their decrepit city to 2-4.  And after their flash in the pan season last year, we shoved them back down to “Detroit sucks!” classification.

Game #165 was yet another Bear win in what really can’t be considered a “rivalry”

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The year was 2003.  The Bears had two first found picks.  They went with Michael Haynes (5 1/2 sacks in 43 games), and Rex Grossman (33 TD’s and 35 INT’s in 36 games).  But in the second round they picked Peanut “Butter and Jelly” Tillman, and in the third round they selected “Sir” Lance “A lot” Briggs.  Briggs became a perennial All-Pro, while Peanut took 9 years to make his first Pro Bowl (though he should’ve been acknowledge way sooner than that).  And on Sunday, the two came full circle.

It was a beautiful day – for a thunderous shellacking

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Our blog has been known to use some colorful language and a lot of hyperbole to paint over-exaggerated images of how well or how poorly we’ve played in any given week.  Well I wanted to start by admitting we were wrong last week when we said that the Bears defense was “absolutely awesome,” “dominant” and “stellar.”  Because those words now seem inappropriate by comparison.  So I personally want to apologize to all our readers for under-stating what Monday night showed to be an astoundingly, annihilationary, ass-raping, nuclear bomb, end-of-the-world, global killer defense that is actually suiting up for us.  They just may be as good as the legendary ’85 Bears D, adjusted for football inflation of course.

I guess everything IS bigger in Texas – including blowouts

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