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I'm becoming really concerned about our return game. It could be an enormous problem.

 

how so?

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I'm becoming really concerned about our return game. It could be an enormous problem.

 

how so?

 

Unless they are fumbling left and right and or fair catching it on the 10th the return game will be at worst a non-factor. I don't really care about the return game and am glad we are past the point of counting on it as part of the offense.

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I'm becoming really concerned about our return game. It could be an enormous problem.

 

how so?

 

Unless they are fumbling left and right and or fair catching it on the 10th the return game will be at worst a non-factor. I don't really care about the return game and am glad we are past the point of counting on it as part of the offense.

 

exactly

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I'm becoming really concerned about our return game. It could be an enormous problem.

 

how so?

 

Unless they are fumbling left and right and or fair catching it on the 10th the return game will be at worst a non-factor. I don't really care about the return game and am glad we are past the point of counting on it as part of the offense.

 

Right...turnovers are really the only way it can be an enormous problem. This offense is good enough to be able to overcome the difference in field position.

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oh no we didn't get to the 23 instead of a touchback whatever will we do with our top 5 offense taking the field
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I'm becoming really concerned about our return game. It could be an enormous problem.

 

how so?

 

Unless they are fumbling left and right and or fair catching it on the 10th the return game will be at worst a non-factor. I don't really care about the return game and am glad we are past the point of counting on it as part of the offense.

 

Right...turnovers are really the only way it can be an enormous problem. This offense is good enough to be able to overcome the difference in field position.

 

Yea I'm not really worried here.

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Yeah, we're so used to counting on special teams for field position and the ocassional big play. And honestly, that greatly diminished the last couple years when Hester was mostly a non-factor and only stupid teams shanked punts by kicking away from him based on his reputation.

 

Coverage is more important. Preventing other teams from getting a field position advantage. Especially with a below average defense.

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Pretty crazy, the Bears had fewest punt returns (18) last year as a team. League average was 34.2. They (Hester) returned 70 kickoffs, most in the league. Average was just over 40. The Bears were 10th in average field position. Other than finishing 23rd in averaging starting field position in 2011, the Bears were top 3 every other year since 2008.
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Pretty crazy, the Bears had fewest punt returns (18) last year as a team. League average was 34.2. They (Hester) returned 70 kickoffs, most in the league. Average was just over 40.

 

 

Things that come with the territory when you're like the worst defense ever.

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Pretty crazy, the Bears had fewest punt returns (18) last year as a team. League average was 34.2. They (Hester) returned 70 kickoffs, most in the league. Average was just over 40.

 

 

Things that come with the territory when you're like the worst defense ever.

 

Part of it is Hester would run things out deeper in the endzone than anyone else. Part is teams punting away from him. Part is teams never punting because the defense couldn't stop them.

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I'm becoming really concerned about our return game. It could be an enormous problem.

 

how so?

 

Unless they are fumbling left and right and or fair catching it on the 10th the return game will be at worst a non-factor. I don't really care about the return game and am glad we are past the point of counting on it as part of the offense.

 

Right...turnovers are really the only way it can be an enormous problem. This offense is good enough to be able to overcome the difference in field position.

 

Turnovers are what I am concerned about. Maybe unfounded at this point...we will see

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Just heard this on the radio this morning. I've been done with Ditka for a while, but this just cements it. The guy is a moron and an embarrassment.

 

He's not a moron. He's just old. Old people are [expletive] crazy.

 

He's old and a moron. Being old isn't an excuse.

 

A) He thinks what he thinks because he's old

B) He has the nerve to state his crazy opinion because he's old. I don't think he would have said that 20 years ago.

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A) He thinks what he thinks because he's old

B) He has the nerve to state his crazy opinion because he's old. I don't think he would have said that 20 years ago.

 

the funny thing is he was about to start talking about how he hated the civil rights movement but caught himself just as he was about to go off that cliff.

 

AND ANOTHER THING! I'M NOT TOO CRAZY ABOUT THAT CASSIUS CLAY EITHER!

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WR Santonio Holmes' deal with the Bears is 1-year at the veteran minimum of $855,000, none of which is guaranteed.

 

Can't find much fault with that.

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http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/writer/pat-kirwan/24667666/tom-brady-not-peyton-manning-headlines-preseason-all-kirwan-team-at-qb

 

Pat Kirwan's best at each position, including:

 

WR -- Brandon Marshall, Chicago Bears: Look at his numbers over the past two years: 218 receptions and 23 touchdowns.

OG -- Kyle Long, Chicago Bears: This spot belonged to Logan Mankins but as a personnel director said to me, "Long might be the best guard in the league already." Watch the film. He is on his way to a great career.

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OG -- Kyle Long, Chicago Bears: This spot belonged to Logan Mankins but as a personnel director said to me, "Long might be the best guard in the league already." Watch the film. He is on his way to a great career.

 

I love Kyle. He may have the best combination of strength and athletic ability of any OG in the NFL. But that's juts not true. Long wasn't even the best rookie guard in the division last year, Larry Warford was for Detroit.

 

I feel like this list is part historical (Brady, Willis), part based on 2013 season only (Patterson), and part is projection (Long).

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Apparently there's concern that Jordan Mills won't be able to play Week 1

 

http://espn.go.com/blog/chicago-bears/post/_/id/4693736/bears-hold-out-six-from-practice

 

Bears coach Marc Trestman called Fuller, Mills and Briggs day-to-day. But Mills hasn’t yet played in a preseason outing, and there’s growing concern that his regular-season availability could be in jeopardy.

 

The team has taken a conservative approach in bringing along Mills, who in January underwent surgery on a fractured metatarsal in his left foot. Mills wasn’t wearing a walking boot on Monday at Halas Hall, but throughout camp the second-year tackle wore one sporadically.

 

“Day-to-day, that’s it,” Trestman said of Mills. “It’s really day-to-day. I can’t give you anything more than that. We’re hopeful it’s soon [he returns], but that’s all I’ve heard at this point and time and that’s the way we’ve looked at it: just day-to-day.”

 

Asked if Mills’ regular-season availability could be in jeopardy, Trestman said, “I’m hopeful that it’s not. I’m not trying to get you to insinuate anything. I’m just hopeful it’s not.”

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