Five Reasons to Be Pessimistic about the Bears
The Chicago Bears had an extremely disappointing season in 2009 with a 7-9 record and a franchise-type quarterback that threw the ball to the other team as often as he threw touchdown passes. While the Bears defense performed as to be expected in the front seven minus Brian Urlacher, the secondary (except Peanut Tillman) were [...]
Reason # 5 to be Optimistic
Replacing Director of Player Personnel. OK, this may be re-arranging deck chairs on the Titanic, but it is good to see the Bears are firing a guy in Bobby DePaul that frankly has made some questionable moves the last few years. While the Bears credit him with the Jay Cutler trade, he has brought in [...]
Reason #4 to be Optimistic about the Bears
Wide Receivers & Tight Ends. Finally after around 14 games the Bears identified Devin Aromashodu as a productive NFL receiver. Devin Hester has a lot of talent at the position as well (I am sure some would disagree with me on this, but for a guy that has played it for only a few years [...]
Reason Number Three to By Optimistic about the Bears
Close finishes. Last season, the Bears were in position to win four games (Green Bay in the first week, Atlanta, San Francisco and Philadelphia). If they would have won two of those, they would have had nine wins. Now this was the same song as last season, but if the the offense can improve so [...]
Reason Number Two to Be Optimistic About the Chicago Bears
Mike Martz. Ron Turner really had no idea what to do with Jay Cutler. It took him 15 weeks to finally realize that throwing the ball downfield was Cutler’s strength. While Cutler did not help Turner’s year with all of those picks, he is a much better quarterback when he is allowed to throw the [...]
First of Five Reasons to be Optimistic about the Bears
I am sitting here staring at my Bears NFC and Super Bowl Championship tickets I picked up from Las Vegas last summer. OK, so maybe I am a little biased, but I really had high expectations.
For the next several days, I am going to give you five reasons to be optimistic and five reasons to [...]
