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:hello: [expletive]. Hahaha

hands to the face on Mills was called on Peppers instead and changed a 3rd-15 to a 1st-10 Ah. I thought it was a no call at best and Cutler had the 1st anyway. it was definitely a hold on mills. come on. Watching grainy online. Thought he released it quickly enough.

Jeffery is our best blocking TE.

hands to the face on Mills was called on Peppers instead and changed a 3rd-15 to a 1st-10 Ah. I thought it was a no call at best and Cutler had the 1st anyway.

Bostic on Nelson in the slot seems like a bad idea

Refs how? What did I miss?

From now on. THAT'S HOW U PLAY OFFENSE!

"@bears_insider: RT @JayGlazer Jared Allen is out today bc pneumonia. Weight dropped all the way to 237. Had another chest xray this AM. Still wanted to play" He's listed at 270. Said he's lost 18 pounds in the last week.

Would like to see Bass get some snaps when Houston goes inside.

Gotta love not choosing your inactives. 5 starters. best special teamer.

"@kfishbain: Brandon Marshall is ACTIVE. Bears inactives: McManis, McClellin, Garza, Slauson, Allen, Leno, Ratliff."

Wow. Jared Allen doesn't miss football games. He may have Ebola.

Marshall is playing. Apparently looks good in warm-ups with no visible limp.

Yep, this is the week. Biggest one of the year. I don't even think you'll see a group of games this good championship week, because of some unbalanced conferences.

Yeah, I think I'm going to use the blog for more draft stuff, the way it was intended. Just gotta get in gear.

In the NFL, the desperate team often wins. The Bears are facing a Packers team that is trying to avoid going 1-3, with 2 division losses and 3 Ls in the NFC. A loss today and the Packers may have to hang their hopes on another Cutler injury and another Lions collapse. But also, most times in the NFL, the better team wins. The question here is are the Bears "clearly" a better team. For all the talk of the Bears struggles running the ball, the Packers have BEARLY been better. Eddie Lacy looks a little fat and slow, to be honest. Even the Packers passing offense hasn't been stellar. Rodgers looks like he is really missing his extra options in James Jones and Jermichael Finley, who have had a lot of success against the Bears D. I'd love to see Fuller on Nelson all day (with safety help at times). I actually think Fuller can handle him decently. But I'd also like to see Jennings in the slot, where Cobb is exclusively. In the nickel (which the Bears will play most of the day), that would put Frey on the outside against Devante Adams or Jarrett Boykin. I'd take my chances on Rodgers trying to throw to his 3rd (at best) option even if it is against a weak CB. On offense, I expect the Bears to get the running game going. I expect 18+ carries to Forte and a couple big plays in the run game. Watch for them to exploit Peppers' ability to keep contain by running that toss to the outside quite a bit. In the air, I don't think the Bears have to change much of what they have been doing all year and what they did to the Packers last year, because they've had some success. If Marshall can't go or is visibly hampered, I look for the Packers to single cover him and maybe use the bracket coverage that Marshall struggled with against Jeffery. That would force Cutler to throw to an injured Marshall, a 3rd WR or Bennett almost exclusively. Forte has also had some big games in the pass game against them, so he becomes a huge option too. This is Bears/Packers, but this is going to come down to basic football. The team that can get their running game going the most and rush the passer the best will win. I think the Bears OL is better and I'll take the Bears group of pass rushers over the Packers group, though Clay is obviously the best on either team. The biggest thing the Packers have going for them is history. Cutler has been terrible against them other than Week 17 last year. I think he can continue that. I think the Bears win this in a close game, similar score to week 17.

Damn. IU kicker just hit one down the middle for a 58-yard FG at the halftime buzzer. Down 20-9 though.

I think that's an improvement for both.

Can't get the website to work, is the 92-93 IU team on there? That team was so loaded. Calbert Cheaney won every POTY award that year, and the team also had 3 other eventual All-Americans and players among the top 10 in scoring in school history (Alan Henderson, Damon Bailey, Brian Evans). Plus Greg Graham, who put up 16.5 per game that year too. Nah, 1975 IU though. Yeah, that makes sense. Looks like 1 team per school and that team was definitely a contender. If not for an injury, they probably would have won back-to-back titles. Plus the 92-93 IU team had a couple really good teams that were better than them, though it was the most talented IU team ever.

Can't get the website to work, is the 92-93 IU team on there? That team was so loaded. Calbert Cheaney won every POTY award that year, and the team also had 3 other eventual All-Americans and players among the top 10 in scoring in school history (Alan Henderson, Damon Bailey, Brian Evans). Plus Greg Graham, who put up 16.5 per game that year too.

Lost Pitta for the year, going back and forth between Donnell and Pitta's backup who's name I can't even remember right now. And guess who I picked? NOT DONNELL!

While we're at it get rid of the stupid number rules. Let a WR wear single digits if he wants. Nothing better than seeing a 340lb DL wearing #1 (looking at you Louis Nix).

The thing about numbers of true legends and faces of the game like Payton, Butkus, etc. is that nobody wants to wear those numbers unless it's a tribute to that person. Hell, in highschool after our star players graduated, none of the underclassmen would take their numbers. I don't think there would be very many players who would come to Chicago and want to wear 34 for the Bears or 23 for the Bulls. But yeah, players who most of these kids have never heard of like Gallimore etc should not be retired. I know it's hard to judge if the person will be an icon or not when they actually retire, but most of the time you just know. Urlacher was really good, maybe HoF worthy, but nobody 20 years from now is going to think #54 Bears is a sacred jersey.

Well, that list is wrong. Oh well.

Absolutely not. The orange jerseys are hideous. Orange pants are hideouser. Put them together is hideousest.