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Bears game 3: Monday Sep. 27 vs GB on ESPN

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Stinks. Hopefully not a lost year for him. Missed all but 1 half of a preseason game. Played some Week 1. Covered a punt week 2, now won't see him again til Seattle at the earliest. Hopefully after the BYE week he can get in there and get a bunch of reps.

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I saw something today about Aromashadu not knowing what his role will be and that Bennett leapfrogged him. In the note, they mentioned that Bennett had a great downfield block on Olsen's TD, but if you watch that play, the guy that was covering Bennett simply never turned around until the last second. Bennett didn't really have to block him, then he leaped toward another guy but didn't make much of an impact. The other receiver cut his route short and the defender stayed with him, taking himself out of the play.
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they should keep orton starting for as long as they can. he's really well-suited for that offense.

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I saw something today about Aromashadu not knowing what his role will be and that Bennett leapfrogged him. In the note, they mentioned that Bennett had a great downfield block on Olsen's TD, but if you watch that play, the guy that was covering Bennett simply never turned around until the last second. Bennett didn't really have to block him, then he leaped toward another guy but didn't make much of an impact. The other receiver cut his route short and the defender stayed with him, taking himself out of the play.

 

I'm hearing stuff about his toughness. They didn't like how he reacted to a couple of hits in Week 1 and then had a couple drops. I think Aromashodu's a better WR than Bennett at this point, but that's not saying much. Neither are likely to be long-term solutions to the WR issues on this team. Still would like to bring in at least 1 guy (eventually, but no rush) with a legit pedigree. A high draft pick with a lot of talent, but not completely raw like Hester and Knox are/were.

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Only Hoge picked the Bears this week on ESPN...

 

http://espn.go.com/nfl/picks

 

Duh, the Packers are the greatest team that ever lived or ever will live.

 

I'm surprised at how many picked Dallas to beat the Texans too...lol.

 

Surely THIS IS THE WEEK the Cowboys will show that they're really a good team.

 

If it is, then I'm pretty glad they waited for week 3 to show it :)

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If it exists, this is the week when the "more desperate team wins" theory should take hold in the NFL. Nobody wants to start 0-2, but 1-0, 0-1 isn't much of a difference. Teams desperate to get their season started versus teams happy to be off to a surprise 2-0 start is a bigger deal.
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0-3 teams -- it's pretty tough to come back from that. I'm sure there's an off case or two that could be brought up, but if I'm 0-2 right now, staring 0-3 right in the face, I'm in full desperation mode.
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Just picking winners the Packers are the obvious choice to make.

 

very true. I did see someone on Foxsports.com pick the Bears in his column though.

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Really wondering what has happened to Aromashodu. He looked so good late last year that in the offseason some people had him as our #1 receiver going into 2010. Is it really the drops he had in Week 1? Is he struggling to learn the playbook? Is Bennett better suited for the system?

 

I just find it odd that Bennett misses the entire preseason because of an injury and it takes him only 1 week to move from 5th to 3rd on the depth chart. Maybe it is a week-to-week thing, so I guess we'll see on Monday. I just think an immediate benching for dropping a couple passes in one game that the Bears won anyway is sort of extreme considering the playmaking ability he showed last year.

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Pete Prisco is really high on the Bears. First he has them 8 in his power rankings with a write up of them at the top of the power rankings, then he has the Bears beating the Packers, 36-27 in his predictions.
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KC Joyner plays the role of Mr. Wolf, telling Bears fans not to start sucking each other's $$$$$ quite yet with regards to Cutler.

 

Pro football has a few areas that probably fall under that "uncorrectable" category: quarterback accuracy and a receiver's pass-catching ability are the first that come to mind, but the one that might be the most potentially damaging to a team is a quarterback's risk-taking mentality.

 

Take the case of Brett Favre. He had a long history of making insanely dangerous throws but decided to rein that in during his first season with the Minnesota Vikings. This effort helped him to tie for the lowest interception percentage in the league last season, but he still couldn't help throwing an incredibly risky pass in the NFC Championship Game that ended up costing the Vikings a chance at going to the Super Bowl. The risk-taking mentality was too ingrained for him to make a total change.

 

Jay Cutler has a similar history in that he has always thrown caution to the wind and passes to the other team, but his play so far this year has been stellar. He has tossed only one interception in two games and his 121.2 passer rating is tops in the league.

 

He goes on to make some decent observations that could mean Cutler will still be turnover prone despite a strong start. But his entire premise is flawed as the first comparison, which apparently indicates that if Cutler turns into Brett Favre that would be a bad thing. Maybe Favre's risky behavior doomed his recent teams in the end, and maybe it prevented him from winning more than 1 Super Bowl. But the guy still put up HOF numbers and kept his team in contention nearly every year. That's not a bad thing at all. Additionally, his entire premise is based on him watching game tape and deciding whether or not a QB made a bad decision. That's a flawed way to create a stat. Sometimes you can tell if it's a bad decision, sometimes you can't. Sometimes bad decisions don't actually result in bad things happening.

 

I fully expect Cutler's INT ratio to increase as the season goes on. He's not finishing with 8 unless he gets injured early. But that doesn't mean it's doom and gloom.

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Yeah I won't be shocked at all if Cutler throws 15-20 INTs this year. Anyone who thinks Cutler's INT problems are suddenly over because he had a 4 game span with only 2 INTs (with 2 games against Detroit) is a moron.

 

That's not to say there is not improvement there, but Cutler is always going to make bad throws from time to time. If he can move the offense like he has the last 2 weeks, I can live with the occasional INT even if occasional for Bears fans is slightly more than league average.

 

That's why I get annoyed when I see all these "Cutler's turned the corner" articles that I've been seeing. Because while I agree its possible Cutler has turned a corner, I understand he's probably going to have a game in the near future where he has more INTs than TD passes, and when that happens the media is going to jump back into "Same old Cutler" mode.

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KC Joyner plays the role of Mr. Wolf, telling Bears fans not to start sucking each other's $$$$$ quite yet with regards to Cutler.

 

Pro football has a few areas that probably fall under that "uncorrectable" category: quarterback accuracy and a receiver's pass-catching ability are the first that come to mind, but the one that might be the most potentially damaging to a team is a quarterback's risk-taking mentality.

 

Take the case of Brett Favre. He had a long history of making insanely dangerous throws but decided to rein that in during his first season with the Minnesota Vikings. This effort helped him to tie for the lowest interception percentage in the league last season, but he still couldn't help throwing an incredibly risky pass in the NFC Championship Game that ended up costing the Vikings a chance at going to the Super Bowl. The risk-taking mentality was too ingrained for him to make a total change.

 

Jay Cutler has a similar history in that he has always thrown caution to the wind and passes to the other team, but his play so far this year has been stellar. He has tossed only one interception in two games and his 121.2 passer rating is tops in the league.

 

He goes on to make some decent observations that could mean Cutler will still be turnover prone despite a strong start. But his entire premise is flawed as the first comparison, which apparently indicates that if Cutler turns into Brett Favre that would be a bad thing. Maybe Favre's risky behavior doomed his recent teams in the end, and maybe it prevented him from winning more than 1 Super Bowl. But the guy still put up HOF numbers and kept his team in contention nearly every year. That's not a bad thing at all. Additionally, his entire premise is based on him watching game tape and deciding whether or not a QB made a bad decision. That's a flawed way to create a stat. Sometimes you can tell if it's a bad decision, sometimes you can't. Sometimes bad decisions don't actually result in bad things happening.

 

I fully expect Cutler's INT ratio to increase as the season goes on. He's not finishing with 8 unless he gets injured early. But that doesn't mean it's doom and gloom.

 

I don't have insider, but does he mention Mike Martz's system as a factor at all? Surely the system you play under can have an effect on decision making. From what I understand, there's much less decision making to be made under the Martz system.

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