BigSlick

Baltimore was only favored by 3.5 over the Colts and they were at home. That translates into basically a toss up game if it was on a neutral field. The Bears are favored by 9 over Seattle not to mention that they pounded Seattle earlier this year. The Ravens and Colts were the 2 and 3 seeds while the Bears and Seahawks are the 1 and 4 seeds. The only reason the Colts win is considered an upset is because they were playing on the road. If the Bears were on the road they would still be favored over the Seahawks. It's not a double standard and the Ravens are not the biggest disappointment every. Your homerism is horribly clouding your judgment here. Thats not what I'm complaining about, I'm complaining about the fact that if the team has a bye and loses they should get the same treatment the Bears got last year. They were favored by just about as much as the Ravens were in this past game. Well first you said "if the Bears lose" which led me to believe you were talking about this year and not last year. Second, I don't remember everybody calling the Bears " the biggest failures in the universe" after they lost to Carolina last year. But if I was to guess why the Bears loss to the Panthers was a worse loss than the Ravens to the Colts it would be because of one thing: Steve Smith. Everybody knew the only offensive weapon the Panthers had was Steve Smith and that's it. Nothing else. But the Bears didn't do anything to take him out of the game like Seattle did and just let him do whatever he wanted. Maybe its my paranoid crazy homer Bear fandom (quoting soccer) but I honestly do feel like Chicago gets a (at least slightly) worse rap by the media. I don't know why this is. It might because we let them down (somewhat) during the middle of the season after everyone was calling for us to sweep through the NFL and win everything. (Which we basically did anyway but not...impressive enough or something)

I said it at the beginning of the post-season: Since the Colts had the absolute worst end of the season and everyone has counted them out they will win the Superbowl. Its the same reasoning behind the St. Louis Cardinals. Since they collapsed at the end of the season and barely made the postseason everyone counted them out. The reverse jinx comes in, powers them through the postseason and they easily win the World Series. Rule of thumb: The more I hate a team, the more likely it is they win a championship. Colts are about to take one down, right after the Sox and the Cardinals.

Baltimore was only favored by 3.5 over the Colts and they were at home. That translates into basically a toss up game if it was on a neutral field. The Bears are favored by 9 over Seattle not to mention that they pounded Seattle earlier this year. The Ravens and Colts were the 2 and 3 seeds while the Bears and Seahawks are the 1 and 4 seeds. The only reason the Colts win is considered an upset is because they were playing on the road. If the Bears were on the road they would still be favored over the Seahawks. It's not a double standard and the Ravens are not the biggest disappointment every. Your homerism is horribly clouding your judgment here. not to mention the bizarre paranoia about the media/referees that some fans seem to have Wait, the media hasn't been getting after Rex Grossman the past...forever? I'm not saying its some sort of conspiracy to make him play badly or something, but there hasn't been a single quarterback that the media hasn't pointed at or laughed at as much as him. Its almost inexplicable how much crap he takes. When Joey Harrington plays worse than him he's carrying the Dolphins on his back. :roll: :lol: NO ONE HAS EVER SPOKEN OF PHILIP RIVERS' SUB-30 RATING GAME AND HIS RECENT STRUGGLES. Its absurd. I don't know what it stems from, but its clearly there. In fact, if I just went by what the media has said about Rex Grossman I would be in favor of pulling him for Kyle Orton. Apparently Rex Grossman throws five picks a game. Five picks a game.

Baltimore was only favored by 3.5 over the Colts and they were at home. That translates into basically a toss up game if it was on a neutral field. The Bears are favored by 9 over Seattle not to mention that they pounded Seattle earlier this year. The Ravens and Colts were the 2 and 3 seeds while the Bears and Seahawks are the 1 and 4 seeds. The only reason the Colts win is considered an upset is because they were playing on the road. If the Bears were on the road they would still be favored over the Seahawks. It's not a double standard and the Ravens are not the biggest disappointment every. Your homerism is horribly clouding your judgment here. Thats not what I'm complaining about, I'm complaining about the fact that if the team has a bye and loses they should get the same treatment the Bears got last year. They were favored by just about as much as the Ravens were in this past game.

Did you watch his game today? I would too. :shock: The sad thing is it looks like the Bulls will no longer be in the Greg Oden sweepstakes...the Knicks aren't bad enough. :x

Here's hoping your Bears fare better than Carolina did the last time the Seahawks played an NFC playoff game. I'm pretty sure the Panthers were sitting at home watching the last time the Seahawks played an NFC playoff game. :wink: Oops. Serves me right for trying to sound cryptic. Go Bears. Is what I meant. Why thank you ndistops. I wouldn't root for the Panthers in the same situation. So I guess you are a better man.

Considering everyone said if the Bears lose they are the biggest failures in the universe, please SOMEONE tell me the Ravens are now the biggest dissapointments ever? What? Who's there? Oh yes, thats Mrr. Double-Standard. I forgot about you for a second.

Umm, that's what people said last year. And it fit even better then. Nice try, though. :wink: I cant wait until the mid 2020's. I'll only be in my late 30's early 40's, heck I could see...4 Bears championships in my lifetime. To think, we've already seen 6 Bulls championships. :shock: Hey its better than the zero Cubs championships we'll see. *zing*

Umm, that's what people said last year. And it fit even better then. Nice try, though. :wink: I cant wait until the mid 2020's. I'll only be in my late 30's early 40's, heck I could see...4 Bears championships in my lifetime.

Using Safari on my Macbook so no IE or firefox, although I could DL firefox if I really cared. BEARSBEARSBEARSBEARSBEARS

I'm getting that feeling again...like this might that special year. Think about the spacing between Bear Champions. 1943, 1963, 1985...2006? About 20 years between each. Just about that time for our next championship.

Only things I've ever seen at Soldier Field were the Pink Floyd and Grateful Dead shows Thats not a bad alternative, either.

This will be my 7th Bears game this year. 6 @ home and the Giants game. My Record is 6-0 and the Bears have won the games I've attended by a combined score of 224-81 and an average score of 37-14. I think we got this one in the bag. 8-) woot :lol: you should have attended the Dolphins game.

I still haven't been to a game at new Soldier Field. You guys are lucky.

Alexander would have to start running strong before he can continue running strong. An average of 105 yards per game since coming back from his injury is nothing to laugh at. If that was his average, maybe you'd have a point, but it's not. Besides, he's only rushed for that much twice in the 8 games since he's been back, and he's averaged just 3.69 yards per attempt. You confused me by this... perhaps I miss calc'd ? As Soul mentioned, those numbers are elevated due to his 200+ against GB and SD. That being said, he isn't the RB he was last year and Hasselbeck is an average QB right now. I have a gut feeling the Bears will win and could win big, However... IF, and it is a BIG if, Hasselbeck finds his stuff, that opens up Alexander to have a nice game. Just a thought.... And we all know you would thoroughly enjoy that. Thanks for coming.

Alexander would have to start running strong before he can continue running strong. An average of 105 yards per game since coming back from his injury is nothing to laugh at. Mostly that is 2 games, GB & SD, where they ran him 40 and 31 times respectively. All the other games he was below 100 yards: SF, DEN, ARI, SF (again), TB.... He's still a great back, but he clearly hasn't been the same this year. Word is he was limping last week too. Now that I've said it I'm sure he'll torch us for 150 :wink: While our pass defense has declined since the Vikings game, our running defense has been pretty stout. Boone+Scott is a nice little combo to stop the run, HORRIBLE rushing the passer though.

What's his contract situation? I believe it was very team friendly when he signed, and he didn't have a crazy bonus that would make a trade nearly impossible. Ideally Grossman has a great postseason run, and some team wants both Griese and Jones for a couple mid round picks. Then draft a QB and RB with those picks and save your regular picks for defensive help and O line. It would be funny if Tampa tried to get them both back. Jones' contract is up after next season. I'd really like to see the roles switched next year, with Benson getting most of the carries and Jones getting 5-10 a game. Absolutely agreed on my part. Benson is the type of RB you want on this team, and not the boom-bust type player that Thomas Jones is.

I should hope we score more points than that. I'll take any win this weekend. Even a 1-point, total-luck, whole-country-knows-you-should-have-lost, win. JUST DO NOT LOSE. Oh, I totally agree. I don't even care if the reffs hand it on a platter to us like they have so many times to other teams this year. I just expect our team to put up more than 17 points.

I should hope we score more points than that.

If they don't win this playoff game I will take it personally and it will ruin my whole year.

Hardly http://cbs.sportsline.com/nfl/features/writers/expert/picks What is encouraging is that accuscore.com ran the simualation of this game 10,000 times and the Bears won an outstounding 78% of the time. That's talking about the spread. I'm talking about everybody picking the winner, and they all seem to be picking the Bears. Why does this concern you? I doubt the Bears are getting full of themselves over it considering the tremendous amount of criticism they have endured lately. Urlacher today was talking about how they were the "Worst 13-3 team ever." They can't be any worse than the 2001 Bears which also went 13-3. In fact, those Bears were pretty average and lucky to go 13-3 at all.

Hardly http://cbs.sportsline.com/nfl/features/writers/expert/picks What is encouraging is that accuscore.com ran the simualation of this game 10,000 times and the Bears won an outstounding 78% of the time.

I have that same feeling about the Bears-Seahawks matchup :lol: BEARSBEARSBEARSBEARSBEARSBEARS p.s. does your signature have to be so obscenely huge? not if you block it hey now, why you gotta be ruining everyone elses signature fun because you got a big one? i can't block yours without blocking everyne elses.

I know how you feel, I don't know how I'm going to survive till Sunday. Lets get it overwith already! Does anyone know where I can find some good Bears Wallpapers? The main site has some really really lame ones.

yeah its not quite as good as the first one. there is plenty of bear stuff on that site if you look at the rest of the articles. they seem to rip every team to shreds.