[UMFan83]

Take your pick: Rasheed Davis or Scott "Die Hard" McClain. Best preseason player ever

 

 

 

 

See that was an Orton throw. Welcome back drinky

[Butterscup1679666578]

Great job by Orton on the check down on 3rd down, but horrible pass.

[Jon]

Where was that at any point last year, Orton?

 

He looked good against their second or third defense.

[Butterscup1679666578]

Hester, unnecessarily showing his speed there, haha.

[Butterscup1679666578]

Orton is just not good.

[Jon]

Odom isn't exactly showing great speed out there.

[Butterscup1679666578]

Well at least it was close for awhile.

[texascub]

Reading this gets me excited for football season. It's been too long since I've seen the Cowboys play.

[Butterscup1679666578]

I <3 Hester.

[Jon]

Shoulda thrown to Philmore.

[ToupeeOnFire]

I <3 Hester.

I've been away momentarily, tell me what Hester has done.

[Butterscup1679666578]

I <3 Hester.

I've been away momentarily, tell me what Hester has done.

 

Nothing big, but he's made a lot of guys miss on his returns. It's gonna be nice to have a guy back there who knows how to return kicks.

[ToupeeOnFire]

I <3 Hester.

I've been away momentarily, tell me what Hester has done.

 

Nothing big, but he's made a lot of guys miss on his returns. It's gonna be nice to have a guy back there who knows how to return kicks.

Agreed. Hopefully he can cover dudes.

[Butterscup1679666578]

Watching the Bears lose is still 10129083571298347512 times more fun than watching the Cubs at all.

[texascub]

I <3 Hester.

I've been away momentarily, tell me what Hester has done.

 

Nothing big, but he's made a lot of guys miss on his returns. It's gonna be nice to have a guy back there who knows how to return kicks.

Agreed. Hopefully he can cover dudes.

 

I wouldn't expect much from him in that regard. I was actually surprised that he went so high in the draft because he's so raw. Going back and forth between CB, WR, RB, and Ret have really hurt his development IMO and he'll need a year atleast to start showing his potential.

[Jon]

I put up some highlights on youtube.com.

[soccer10k]

Griese will be the starter before they play Miami in Week 9 on November 5.

[Magnetic Curses]

Griese will be the starter before they play Miami in Week 9 on November 5.

 

only if grossman gets hurt again.

[jjgman21]

just some impressions...

 

Rex seemed to make all the right decisions, move well in the pocket and do just about everything well. just wasn't accurate with the ball. very strange. accuracy has never been a problem for him (USS...as a Raiders fan and presumably one who doesn't care about the Bears, I don't understand your strange obsession with Griese). I wonder if all the downfield contact the refs let the niners get away with threw off his rythm or what. I think he'll be fine.

 

for a veteran unit that is supposed to be coming together, the O-line looked terrible in its run blocking, minus the overrated Kruetz or not.

 

I liked Pope. toe on the line or not, that was a helluva play. and for the record, that wasn't a screen pass. a screen pass has blocking and is designed to get 8 yards or so. that was a regular old swing pass, designed to get 4 yards unless the receiver avoids some tackles...in other words, an even worse call.

 

Davis looked great. why put a guy with hands like that on the defense when they were so short on receivers? would have liked to seen him in the slot last year.

 

I hope Vash is ok, and Peanut comes to the realization that not every receiver is Steve Smith. no need to keep turning and running on the snap every play, but that is by design (prevent the deep ball), so its hard to fault him.

[USSoccer]

 

(USS...as a Raiders fan and presumably one who doesn't care about the Bears, I don't understand your strange obsession with Griese). .

 

What did I do now?

[soccer10k]

Rex seemed to make all the right decisions, move well in the pocket and do just about everything well. just wasn't accurate with the ball. very strange. accuracy has never been a problem for him (USS...as a Raiders fan and presumably one who doesn't care about the Bears, I don't understand your strange obsession with Griese). I wonder if all the downfield contact the refs let the niners get away with threw off his rythm or what. I think he'll be fine.

 

Was this directed at me or USSocccer? Either way, I'm not very high on Grossman and have never been high on him. I don't think he's that good of a quarterback which is why I'm never surprised when he doesn't play well. Because of this doubt, I predicted Griese would become the starter before the Bears play Miami. When you have a decent backup quarterback it gives you the option of replacing your starter if need be.

 

So I'm not a Bears fan, what does that matter? That I can't offer my opinion on the team? FWIW, my dad is a Bears fan so I do follow them a little more than other NFL teams.

[soccer10k]

To add anohter thing, the Bears as an organization expect to win this year and I think their fans expect them to win this year. If Grossman comes out and doesn't play very well and the Bears start off the year 3-3, 3-4, 4-3, I could easily see the Bears benching Grossman in favor of Griese to try and give the team a spark.

[jjgman21]

 

(USS...as a Raiders fan and presumably one who doesn't care about the Bears, I don't understand your strange obsession with Griese). .

 

What did I do now?

 

my mistake. confussed the two of you.

[jjgman21]

Rex seemed to make all the right decisions, move well in the pocket and do just about everything well. just wasn't accurate with the ball. very strange. accuracy has never been a problem for him (USS...as a Raiders fan and presumably one who doesn't care about the Bears, I don't understand your strange obsession with Griese). I wonder if all the downfield contact the refs let the niners get away with threw off his rythm or what. I think he'll be fine.

 

Was this directed at me or USSocccer? Either way, I'm not very high on Grossman and have never been high on him. I don't think he's that good of a quarterback which is why I'm never surprised when he doesn't play well. Because of this doubt, I predicted Griese would become the starter before the Bears play Miami. When you have a decent backup quarterback it gives you the option of replacing your starter if need be.

 

So I'm not a Bears fan, what does that matter? That I can't offer my opinion on the team? FWIW, my dad is a Bears fan so I do follow them a little more than other NFL teams.

 

you are predicting Grossman will screw it up and Griese will become starter, and earlier in the thread you said Giese will screw it up. sure its fine to offer an opinion, but it doesn't seem to be offering an opinion. it seems more like baseless predictions of doom and gloom.

 

the Bears are not quarterback centric. the team is designed to win with defense and rushing. all the quarterback has to do is not screw things up and maybe make a play or two in a game here and there. they won a lot of ballgames with terrible QB and special teams play last year. they return 22 starters. why suddenly they should be all that concerned with their QB when the two they have to go with are exponentially better than the one they had last year is a mystery to me.

[USSoccer]

FWIW, I'm willing to cut Grossman slack for a couple preseason games. If he craps the bed in the regular season, then maybe you pull him. But nobody really looked good last night on the first team, and it's really easy for a backup QB to look good against a 2nd string defense in preseason.