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I don't even think Ogunleye should be saying anything. I saw him mimicking the referee's safety signal, and I know he'll celebrate after a sack. Unless you're Barry Sanders and you never celebrate on the field, shut the hell up and quit whining about other people showing you up. Mimicking the ref's safety signal? Seriously man, your trollish anti-Bearness has gone to new levels. He was calling for the refs to make the safety call. Considering it took them 10-15 seconds after the play to make the call, it made perfect sense that a player would be making that signal. Guys do the same thing when a player gets in the end zone. Their is an enormous difference between mocking an opponent mid-play, and signaling a safety or TD after it has occurred. I don't even care about the Bears, that's the funniest part. You're so paranoid you think everyone on this board who isn't a Bears fan is just some anti-Bears troll. The Bears don't play in my team's division and for most of the time that I've been an Eagles fan, the Bears have sucked. They're irrelevant to me. But guess what - Ogunleye taunts, Urlacher taunts, most players in the NFL taunt. Dawkins or Trotter or McNabb or the other 40 players on the Eagles who celebrate or taunt or talk trash - I wouldn't want them bitching about something like what Bush did. If you want the right to complain, then conduct yourself like a perfect gentleman on the field. Otherwise, keep your mouth shut and stop the other team so that you're not the one being shown up. And yeah, if we're going to start complaining about that, then let's actually call it both ways. I took a look at the Bears-Rams thread, and want to guess how many people called Hester's antics on him? Here's a hint - it's a number between -1 and 1.

the national media hates the colts!

If Bears are one-dimensional they will lose. And I don't mean throwing in a play-action pass every 5 runs, I mean they have to throw it about as much as they run. I completely disagree with the "as much as you can" talk. That's playing into Indy's hands. They've won in the playoffs when teams' abandoned the run and went to the pass. The Bears need to run it 30+ times. Getting into a shoot-out with Indy is a losing battle. No, teams abandoned the run and went to the pass when they were behind by a lot and didn't have several minutes to blow by running the ball every team. The Chiefs weren't running the ball effectively at all, because the Colts were loading up the box. Larry Johnson had 32 yards on 13 carries - you really want the Chiefs to keep feeding him the ball when they couldn't run the ball well and were down two scores in the fourth quarter? The Ravens, you could argue they abandoned the run too early. But they also only ran the ball effectively on one drive. The Colts have recognized that their biggest weakness is their ability to stop the run, and since the playoffs started they've been selling out to stop the run. If you try to consistently pound the ball into an 8-man or 9-man front, you will lose.

I don't even think Ogunleye should be saying anything. I saw him mimicking the referee's safety signal, and I know he'll celebrate after a sack. Unless you're Barry Sanders and you never celebrate on the field, shut the hell up and quit whining about other people showing you up.

If Bears are one-dimensional they will lose. And I don't mean throwing in a play-action pass every 5 runs, I mean they have to throw it about as much as they run.

who's next?

Actually I never posted anything about Devin Hester, but keep tryin' there buddy.

I completely agree on all points. The man's a .500 coach since he left the Giants. No more, no less. plus he has man boobs

On #3, I believe the replay showed the defender got his hand up high enough that he hit the side of Peyton's helmet. No matter how softly it's done this year, that is an auto-roughing call. The announcers didn't mention it, but what's new there. I know that, but that was ridiculous. The guy was shoved into Peyton by a Colt lineman, as I recall. When you start flagging personal fouls on clearly unintentional plays, you're crossing the line IMO. almost all facemask penalties are unintentional.

Fortunately for me, I root for the Cubs and the non-baseball teams in Philly, which means I'm never going to be spending money on all that stuff.

wrong thread

By this standard, every touchdown that doesn't involve running into the end zone at full speed and then handing the ball to the ref should be a delay of game penalty.

The Bears also played the easiest schedule in the NFL, whereas the Colts had a middle of the pack strength of schedule... and the Bears' strength of victory was in the bottom third of the NFL, whereas the Colts' strength of victory was 4th in the NFL.

What the hell is that thing? Not a bear, unless it's a deformed Bear with rabies.

They don't do the crap Bush did. Everybody in the league does some sort of celebration, that's completely different from pointing at your opponent on the way into the end zone and doing the flip. Dance all you want, that's part of the game. Flipping into the end zone is not. So dancing after you sack a quarterback is not taunting, but doing a flip into the end zone is? Sounds like quite the double standard there, not to mention that "dancing" really is not a part of the game at all. I've watched Chris Harris and Thomas Jones taunting the other team in other games. I didn't like it when they did it. But, I'm relieved they weren't so juvenile to do a flip into the endzone while the team was losing. A celebration after the catch is much more different than delaying a game so you can show off on National TV that you know how to do a somersault. Delaying a game?!?!?!? Boy that's rich... now I've heard it all.

It's quite a bit premature for Colts fans to start comparing the playoff success of Peyton Manning and his team to the success of Tom Brady and his team. I don't see how they are doing that. They are celebrating the fact that Peyton and the Colts beat the Patriots, a feat that many people decided was impossible. Impossible? Come on. The only people who decided that it was impossible were probably lunatic homer Patriot fans. Most sane people could look at the teams and see an evenly-matched game, hence Indy being favored by about a field goal.

If the Bears had been assessed 7 penalties and the Saints only one, I guarantee you the Bears game thread would've been replete with complaints about the officiating. Not saying it was a poorly officiated game - although the one offensive PI call on the Saints was terrible - but that's the truth.

It's quite a bit premature for Colts fans to start comparing the playoff success of Peyton Manning and his team to the success of Tom Brady and his team.

They don't do the crap Bush did. Everybody in the league does some sort of celebration, that's completely different from pointing at your opponent on the way into the end zone and doing the flip. Dance all you want, that's part of the game. Flipping into the end zone is not. So dancing after you sack a quarterback is not taunting, but doing a flip into the end zone is? Sounds like quite the double standard there, not to mention that "dancing" really is not a part of the game at all.

At least the Bears don't celebrate or taunt at all.

i love it, fatties are scoring at will in this game!

tailor-made INT ball against a competent cornerback, but fortunately for the bears, nobody would mistake fred thomas for a competent cornerback

Bitter fans, gotta love it. It's not being bitter....Bush is a tool. At USC, and now at NO. And once a tool, always a tool. a tool with a heisman trophy and a $55 million contract

yeah he's not going to accomplish much in his lifetime

jones sucks, put in benson!