2009 Chicago Bears offseason

[Magnetic Curses]

september 13th, lambeau field, 50-yard line, 20 rows up.

 

[minnesotacubsfan]

nice haul sulley

[manbearcub]

remember to bring your camo gear and an orange hat or the natives will throw pheasant heads at you

[treebird]

For anyone who's interested... here's what I've found

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Media Guys

 

 

 

 

 

this is amazing

 

Has anyone seen the ugly truth

 

it was funny! U should see it! Just don't bring ya girl lol! She might get offended lol

[Butterscup1679666578]

it is cool seeing all of these athletes with twitters, talking to their teammates and stuff.

 

i hate the site as a whole, but its cool seeing them talk to each other about movies and normal, everyday stuff.

[MidoreX]

- Dez Clark's blog

 

I love the guy, but someone needs to learn Dez how to spoke...

[Derwood]

these athlete Twitter pages aren't doing a whole lot to break the dumb jock stereotype.

[David]

Greg Olsen's stuff isn't that bad

[manbearcub]

Greg Olsen's stuff isn't that bad

yeah, but he's white.

[Banedon]

Cutler lines up as WR...direct snap to Hester.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_0vNluVaYw&feature=channel_page

 

You can hear the defense flipping out....and the crowd buzzing.

[Banedon]

ESPNChiBears: Somebody just asked if 86 was marty booker. Booker and eric peterman look a lot alike.

[Magnetic Curses]

Cutler lines up as WR...direct snap to Hester.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_0vNluVaYw&feature=channel_page

 

You can hear the defense flipping out....and the crowd buzzing.

 

kind of tough to surprise anybody when you're wearing the orange jersey, though.

[Banedon]

Cutler lines up as WR...direct snap to Hester.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_0vNluVaYw&feature=channel_page

 

You can hear the defense flipping out....and the crowd buzzing.

 

kind of tough to surprise anybody when you're wearing the orange jersey, though.

 

Definitely. :)

[Banedon]

Wow...this is high praise:

 

Matt Forte is the next Brian Westbrook. His 5.4 YPA on runs with zero Point of Attack (POA) block losses last season was superb. He is also a terrific receiver (63 receptions for 477 yards) and can pass block quite well. If the Bears can apply the Eagles’ approach to using Westbrook to Forte, he could supplant Adrian Peterson as the best running back in the N.F.C. North as early as this season.

 

http://fifthdown.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/03/the-bears-beyond-cutler/

[apete6]

Wow...this is high praise:

 

Matt Forte is the next Brian Westbrook. His 5.4 YPA on runs with zero Point of Attack (POA) block losses last season was superb. He is also a terrific receiver (63 receptions for 477 yards) and can pass block quite well. If the Bears can apply the Eagles’ approach to using Westbrook to Forte, he could supplant Adrian Peterson as the best running back in the N.F.C. North as early as this season.

 

http://fifthdown.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/03/the-bears-beyond-cutler/

 

It's also a flat out lie. If Peterson is healthy, Forte can't hold his jock. Doesn't mean Forte is bad, just that AP is that good.

[Banedon]

Wow...this is high praise:

 

Matt Forte is the next Brian Westbrook. His 5.4 YPA on runs with zero Point of Attack (POA) block losses last season was superb. He is also a terrific receiver (63 receptions for 477 yards) and can pass block quite well. If the Bears can apply the Eagles’ approach to using Westbrook to Forte, he could supplant Adrian Peterson as the best running back in the N.F.C. North as early as this season.

 

http://fifthdown.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/03/the-bears-beyond-cutler/

 

It's also a flat out lie. If Peterson is healthy, Forte can't hold his jock. Doesn't mean Forte is bad, just that AP is that good.

 

There was about 200 total yards seperating the two last season.

[David]

vxmcclure23Jarron Gilbert outstanding with his rush from the inside. In the same mold as tommie harris.

[David]

Wow...this is high praise:

 

Matt Forte is the next Brian Westbrook. His 5.4 YPA on runs with zero Point of Attack (POA) block losses last season was superb. He is also a terrific receiver (63 receptions for 477 yards) and can pass block quite well. If the Bears can apply the Eagles’ approach to using Westbrook to Forte, he could supplant Adrian Peterson as the best running back in the N.F.C. North as early as this season.

 

http://fifthdown.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/03/the-bears-beyond-cutler/

 

It's also a flat out lie. If Peterson is healthy, Forte can't hold his jock. Doesn't mean Forte is bad, just that AP is that good.

 

There was about 200 total yards seperating the two last season.

 

 

Pretty sure that will increase this year.

 

 

Forte is not in the same league as AP, and there's nothing wrong with that.

[apete6]

Wow...this is high praise:

 

Matt Forte is the next Brian Westbrook. His 5.4 YPA on runs with zero Point of Attack (POA) block losses last season was superb. He is also a terrific receiver (63 receptions for 477 yards) and can pass block quite well. If the Bears can apply the Eagles’ approach to using Westbrook to Forte, he could supplant Adrian Peterson as the best running back in the N.F.C. North as early as this season.

 

http://fifthdown.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/03/the-bears-beyond-cutler/

 

It's also a flat out lie. If Peterson is healthy, Forte can't hold his jock. Doesn't mean Forte is bad, just that AP is that good.

 

There was about 200 total yards seperating the two last season.

 

 

Pretty sure that will increase this year.

 

 

Forte is not in the same league as AP, and there's nothing wrong with that.

 

Didn't Peterson miss some games? Also, Chester Taylor had to have gotten more carries than Kevin Jones/bad Adrian Peterson did on the Bears.

 

What were their respective yards per touch? I'm guessing APs was much higher.

[Banedon]

Didn't Peterson miss some games?

 

Nope. He had at least 17 carries in every regular season game.

 

Also, Chester Taylor had to have gotten more carries than Kevin Jones/bad Adrian Peterson did on the Bears.

 

What were their respective yards per touch? I'm guessing APs was much higher.

 

Yards per touch

Forte 4.5

AP 4.9

 

Carries

Forte 316

Jones 34

AP 363

Taylor 101

 

AP was better last year, but not by an enormous margin, unless we look strictly at rush stats.

[David]

FWIW, Forte figures to not get nearly as many receptions this year... but by the same token his YPC could very well improve with the existence of a real passing game.

[SpongeWorthy]

The eye test is enough to tell me that Peterson is significantly better than Forte and every other runningback in the league.

[Banedon]

The eye test is enough to tell me that Peterson is significantly better than Forte and every other runningback in the league.

 

At rushing, yes.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

Yards per touch seems a bit unfair in favor of the running back who receives a lot of passes.

 

It would need to include zeroes for incomplete passes intended for the back to be a fair comp, imo.

[Banedon]

Yards per touch seems a bit unfair in favor of the running back who receives a lot of passes.

 

It would need to include zeroes for incomplete passes intended for the back to be a fair comp, imo.

 

Well incompletes can be the QB's fault too though...so you're penalizing the back for something that may not have been his fault.

 

Drops would probably be better, although that's a difficult stat to find for running backs....