Bears 20 - Packers 17

A. Brown!







Hub Arkush, former lackey of Dick Jauron and one of the most influential Bears analysts in town, seems to be on a campaign to run Brian Urlacher out of town. Hub says that Brian has no joy in playing anymore and would be better off going to a new city.
I don't see that. I see a guy jumping and smiling and celebrating after every big defensive stop.
Hopefully, Brian will have a resurgence similar to Ray Lewis', and I hope he stays in Chicago.







Danieal Manning and Devin Hester should be on the field together for all punt and kick returns. With Manning's emergence, if kickers start to avoid him, they'd be forced to kick to Hester. And look here, Kellen Davis is involved in a play, and doesn't draw a flag.








Robbie and Brad love each other.

Bears 27 - Saints 24

Reports from Halas Hall continue to claim that Devin Hester is progressing as a receiver. As far as I can tell, this is the Bears best WR.
His name is P.I. and he is Orton's most consistent downfield threat.









As I sit and wait to see if the Falcons can keep the Bears in the playoff picture by beating the Vikings, I can really only think of one thing. This picture was posted on the Bears message board by ole69.
I have no words.
Go Bears, I mean Falcons.

Bears 23 - Jaguars 10

The Bears are really good at beating bad teams.

If you told me at the beginning of the season that Vasher and Tillman would be starting for most of the season, Mike Brown would stay healthy, A. Brown would be back as a starter and Lance Briggs would be signed long term, I would have thought we'd once again have a dominant defense.







Most of the players are the same from the Superbowl run. Who's missing? Ron Rivera at Defensive Coordinator.














And, of course, Chris "Warf" Harris.










Robbie Gould and Brad Maynard are the same type of player. They're almost like super heroes.


Maynard is at the bottom of the league's average for distance, but he leads the league in pinning teams inside the 20, which is the best possible thing a punter can do on the field.
Accuracy at short distances pretty much describes Robbie as well.

It's hard to tell if the Bears are even a good team this year. They've shown flashes of goodness, but continue to come up short in "most important games of the season".

Tonight is yet another "must win" against the Saints.

Vikings 34 - Bears 14

Lovie is still carrying on about the “6 game season”. We are now 2 games into the 6 game season – or 4 halves into a 12 game half season or a 3rd through our six game season...






Lovie, you've turned a few hundred special teams yards per game and excellent field position into the occasional 66 yard TD run. You made Hester's brain explode.








Horse Collar!







Let's compare Kyle's numbers to Rex's '06 numbers after 12 games - or half way through the 6 game season or whatever Lovie is calling it. No, let's not. Kyle is sucking. He made it as far through a season as Rex ever did before sucking.











A.P. and Rasheed and Hester had how many drops?









Good news is the Bears have stopped the goal line Jason Mckie FB dive. Bad news is Ron Ron is still trying it with recently signed off the practice squad Jason whatever his name is.









Holy flop Gus Frerotte. I can’t stand to watch a single game of my beloved soccer because of all the flopping. 20 times a game you’d think someone cracked a fibula. And now I must suffer through this in football?! Douche.





It doesn’t matter now if the Bears make it into the playoffs. It won’t be because they’re good, just that the Vikings ended up sucking worse. In the 2nd “most important game of the season” the Bears once again were crushed by a division foe.

A look at our 6 wins so far:

· A hobbled Peyton Manning’s Colts
· A Brian Westbrook-less Eagles
· 2 wins against the NFL-worst Lions
· Bottom feeder Rams

The only quality win the Bears had was against the Vikings, who more than answered the challenge in the rematch.

Angelo's Drafts Part II

We are going to look once more at Jerry Angelo's draft picks, this time at the 3rd pick in each draft since '01:

OG Mike Gandy - He played a while, don't know if he was good. Do these guys have to fight over #69?









OG Terrance Metcalf - Same with him. I think he was ok. I want a friend like Jurko who can tell me if offensive linemen are good.








LB Lance Briggs - Picked #68, Great Pick.






WR Bernard Berrian - At his best maybe a B+ for a while.










QB Kyle Orton - Still unproven. Half a season is as far as Rex usually made it too. Don't tell me about ten games as a rookie. Did you see those games?












DT Dusty Dvoracek - Too soon to say, maybe he's good?









RB Garrett Wolfe - Always will be thought of as a reach at #93, arguably a bust.












WR Earl Bennett - Hasn't made it on to the field yet.











Does Angelo deserve his reputation for late round steals? I think it was the Hester pick that gave Angelo that rep, but I don't see a lot of brilliance.

Jurko Is The Artie Lang of Sports Radio

More on this next week.

Packers 37 - Bears 3

The Bears are currently a disaster. Where to start? I'll just start and end with new "Lovie-Speak". He is now focused on the upcoming "6 game season" to right the ship. Here's a good Top Ten that offers common Lovie gripes in Chicago.





This week we are taking a look at GM Jerry Angelo's first pick in each draft since '01 and seeing how he's done.

WR David Terrell - Bust. Not sure if Jerry was calling the shots at this point but Terrell was a collosul failure at #8 in the draft.







OT Mark Colombo - Injurys. Bears finally cut him - starts in Dallas - is he good , who knows. That's for bjcowboys.blog to decide.

DE Michael Haynes - Big Bust at #14






DT Tommie Harris - Me and everyone else in Chicago wanted the Bears to lock Tommie up long term, but don't we expect the GM to be smarter than us? Either his legs are messed up or he took the money and got soft. This is on Angelo for giving money to a guy who may be totally injured and on Lovie for failing to motivate or utilize Tommie effectively.



RB Cedric Benson - #4 in the draft. Didn't work out. Some would say huge bust. (No disrespect to Cedric for using this photo - he was maced before this mugshot and anyway, this is how I want my Bears running back to look after partying on a boat during his off time.)






S Danieal Manning - What is Danieal Manning with the f-ed up spelling and the not knowing where to play him and raw talent and blah? Picked #42. Hasn't worked out so far.

Greg Olsen - Looks like a solid pick.



Chris Williams - Already injured, got injured, not playing, whatever, Bust.

That's a pretty awful track record, but Angelo has been given credit for later round picks, so let's look at his second pick in each draft since '01:





RB Anthony Thomas - Rookie of the year. Soon after, Bears cut him. WTF? Good pick, bad managing of talent.

LB Roosevelt Williams - Who?

QB Rex Grossman - I like Rex, but I recently had to let him go from my heart two weeks ago. If he had a chance to start last week against Green Bay after what we could call a rusty game against the Titans, he could have started working towards regaining my love and trust.

DT Tank Johnson - Good player, bad guy. I will give Angelo credit for cutting him - after the Superbowl.

WR Mark Bradley - I wanted to love Mark. With the Bears, a bust.

Devin Hester - Has having to worry about precise WR route running ruined the wholey individual act of running punts and kicks back like a motherfucker?

Dan Bazuin - Picked at #62, he lasted for a minute on the Bears. Bust

Matt Forte - Good pick.

Being generous and calling some picks bad instead of bust here's the totals -

Bust: 4
Bad: 7
Good: 5

I don't know how that compares to the rest of the league, but it doesn't look good.

Titans 21 - Bears 14

"If Kyle is back, Bears win."

Harry Teinowitz
AM 1000


I'm not buying it. Kyle wasn't looking too sharp before he got hurt 2 weeks ago. I'm waiting until the end of the season to decide what kind of player Kyle is.

Rex had one good drive last week against the Titans. He's almost dead to me.








It looks like Rex won't get a chance to redeem himself - Kyle is listed as probable against Green Bay.





Tomorrow is must win for the Bears. When Lovie start talking about getting over .500 as a goal, you'll know the season is going down the shitter.

Bears 27 - Lions 23

I have to admit I was excited when Rex came in. I don't forget what you did in the 1st half of '06 Rex!
Unfortunately, I also remember what you did in the 2nd half of '06 and you showed a bit of both against the Lions.

Ultimately, Grossman did what he does more often than not - pull the fat out of the fire and come away with a victory.











No doubt, he was helped greatly by R.O.Y. candidate Matt Forte tearing it up in the 2nd half.

22 Attempts 126 Yards










Speaking of R.O.Y candidates, Forte will be going head to head with Tennessee RB Chris Johnston, a.k.a. the black Josh Eustis, or the white Josh Eustis - I'm not sure what's going on here.












Orton was looking like "Bad Kyle" until his injury - strangely mimicking Good Rex/Bad Rex, complete with a leg injured during a scramble.
Along with Kyle on that cart may have gone the Bears ability to audible, shotgun or throw a screen pass.






Perhaps, Orton is lucky to not face Albert Haynseworth.

Here is Haynesworth ripping the helmet off Pro-Bowl Center Andre Gurode in 2006...









...And stomping his head.









Like a defenseless lion tamer in a cage, Ex-Bear Jeff Fisher controls the animal with a series of chest bumps and harsh words.

Haynesworth is the current front runner for NFL PLayer of the Year.




If "forced intentional grounding" were an official stat, Brian Urlacher would at least be leading the team in one category. He's even trailing Lance Briggs in baby mamas (3 to 1 I think).

Who is that with him - Shannon Sharp?






I want Brian to succeed so I can show action shots like this. Here's Yisra-el swatting down a Dan Orlovsky pass.















And here's Lance Briggs preserving the Bears victory by forcing a fumble by TE Michael Gaines AND recovering the fumble. A Pro-Bowl play by a Pro-Bowler.










I hope Rex doesn't get eaten this weekend by Albert Haynesworth. If he does, I'm predicting a big game for Quiet Thunder.