UMFan83

Did they ever rule either way on the starcaps thing or did the NFL just decide to ignore it and pretend nothing ever happened?

Knock on wood but the Bears are almost too healthy for this time of year. I don't know how many nagging undiscolsed injuries they have but it definitely plays into our favor with a short week. I feel pretty good about this one. But then again the Bears usually do the opposite or what I think they are gonna do so many I should continue hyping up Thigpen. We need revenge for that crapfest against them in 2006. IIRC the last time we had a primetime game against Miami, it was the infamous Monday Night Football game against them in 97, where the game was supposed to be played on a Sunday but instead was moved to Monday to accomodate the Marlins game 7 of the World Series.

And Soul I agree. I do not like bracing for a flag everytime te Bears do something good like a big kick return, a TD run, etc. Sure it's nice to see a long run against the Bears negated for a holding call or something. But overall it annoys me.

I can't stand the effect that the PI penalty has on the NFL. It really does have such a huge impact on more than a couple games each week. I've seen enough completely wide open receivers botch easy catches that it's hard for me to justify a team get awarded all of that yardage on a judgement call like that. Half the time the ball might be catchable but not an easily catchable ball. But I find it hard to change the penalty from spot of the foul to something lesser where it's more enticing for a defender who is beat to lunge forward and purposely commit a PI penalty rather than give up a much bigger gain and or 6 points.

If the season were to end today, the Bears would host the Packers on Wild Card weekend :)

Do you think Wisconsin will top the century mark on the Michigan defense? It was better last week against a bad team, but its still really banged up and bad.

I naturally cheer for the Bears/against the Packers/Vikings, but this season my rational side keeps yelling at me "No! That is bad for the team!" If the Bears can play one or two more games this month that make them look competent, I'll have to rethink it. I dislike Lovie Smith as a coach but not enough to hope the Bears do horrible so he gets fired. I mean if he leads us to the playoffs, I am fine with that. If we go 8-8 and miss the playoffs and Lovie survives, so be it. I guess it doesn't really matter because cheering for or against the Bears doesnt affect the team in either way but still.

I want the season to be exciting and for the Bears to just miss the playoffs so the administration can clean house. But there is no great team so maybe, just maybe the Bears could win the Super Bowl. I don't see Atlanta or the Giants to be that much better than the Bears. No one is blowing anyone else out on a consistent basis. No team is dominant. If the whole point of playing in the NFL is to win a Super Bowl, maybe this is going to be the last time they could really do it in the near future. I think you are right. I keep waiting for the Saints to turn it on, but it doesn't look like that is going to happen. It'll be interesting to see how the Giants respond after their loss to the Cowboys. They could really go in the toilet. I think GB has played much better than the Bears as of late, but playing Minnesota in the dome next week will be a tough game, and I'm not sure they will be able to beat Brett in his last shot against them. I have not seen the Falcons play enough to make an educated evaluation. I don't think you can forget about Philly either. If I were to rank the NFC right now I'd say: 1. Falcons 2. Packers 3. Giants 4. Bears 5. Saints 6. Philly Too bad the West is eating up a playoff spot this year. In terms of who the best teams are (and not playoff seeds), I'd go 1. Falcons 2. Saints 3. Giants 4. Packers 5. Eagles 6. Bears But the Bears really impressed me today, so I have a better opinion of them right now than I did before today. I also think that 2-4 are very close and could go either way. I put the Packers a little lower because of injuries.

Dan Pompei is predicting a 19-17 Dolphins win on Thursday. Please please please don't have a game like last years Thursday game Cutler. In the recent years, the Bears have lost a game against the Redskins in Washington, beat the Saints in Chicago, and lost to the 49ers in San Francisco. Am I missing a game?

Personally I cheer for the Bears to win every game. I don't believe in losing to have a better chance of winning in the future. I believe in winning as much as possible and letting the chips fall where they may. I just don't have it in me to root against the Bears.

I love me some Stallberg. Not exactly the same player, but he's replacing Versteegs production.

And the Hawks pretty much dominated that OT after the penalty was killed. It was only a matter of time before they scored. Also the shot differential was very encouraging. Maybe tonight it only led to an OT win, but you keep putting up numbers like that and the wins will come. Oh and given the struggles we've had this year, I'll take 3 out of 4 points available on the weekend, even if we gave our Western Conference opponents 3 points back.

FINALLY 2 points at home! Normally that takes 3-4 games to collect 2 points. Please be the start of a turnaround. I enjoy this team too much.

Another of the many problems the Blackhawks have is they seem to always take inopportune penalties late in a game with point(s) on the line. Last night a trip in OT (on a sketchy call), and tonight Kop gets called for boarding with 50 seconds left in a tie game.

Bill Simmons called it when he said exciting games just seem to find their way to the game Gus Johnson is calling.

This should give you what you need: http://www.pro-football-reference.com/teams/min/2010.htm As for what you're looking for, this is only the 5th time in the last 5 seasons that the Vikings have given up 130+ rushing yards in a game. Fairly impressive for our rag tag bunch to do so.

They gave up 155 to the Jets in Week 4. They gave up 122 to the Pats a few weeks ago, but not quite 130. Where did you find those stats? Umm...ESPN.com's box score of the games

They gave up 155 to the Jets in Week 4. They gave up 122 to the Pats a few weeks ago, but not quite 130.

If only we had beaten the Giants as one of our 6 wins, we'd be in a bye right now. And we all know that when the Bears bother to show up for the playoffs, they don't do wild card weekend. It's been 16 years since we've lowered ourselves to participate in one of those.

Yeah and Tyler Thigpen has a better chance than probably any 3rd string QB would. If any other teams 3rd QB was in there, there would be almost 0 chance of a victory. But the Dolphins have a pretty good QB for 3rd string standards, and thus still have a chance to beat us. I was gonna talk about all the teams Thigpen beat when he was starting for the Chiefs and averaged 186 passing yards a game, and had an 18-12 TD-INT ratio, not to mention averaged 6.2 YPC and 3 rushing TDs, but I forgot that Chiefs team was beyond miserable. Despite that miserable team he did manage to lead the offense to 20 PPG in his 11 starts. You are arguing that I am saying that we're in trouble that we have to face Thigpen, when all I am arguing is that despite the Dolphins being on their 3rd string QB, that QB is capable of beating us if we aren't playing well. Meaning he's not going to go 5-16 with 4 INTs or whatever Todd Collins did. My guess is we do play well and beat him. I have read and considered what you have posted. I shall now respond: http://media.funlol.com/content/img/bear-dick-punch.jpg POINT: ME. Now that is how you win an argument. Well played, sir.

lol one of the bloggers on the Daily Norseman is calling the Bears the best team in the NFC North and endorsing the Bears to win the division title.

Yeah and Tyler Thigpen has a better chance than probably any 3rd string QB would. If any other teams 3rd QB was in there, there would be almost 0 chance of a victory. But the Dolphins have a pretty good QB for 3rd string standards, and thus still have a chance to beat us. I was gonna talk about all the teams Thigpen beat when he was starting for the Chiefs and averaged 186 passing yards a game, and had an 18-12 TD-INT ratio, not to mention averaged 6.2 YPC and 3 rushing TDs, but I forgot that Chiefs team was beyond miserable. Despite that miserable team he did manage to lead the offense to 20 PPG in his 11 starts. You are arguing that I am saying that we're in trouble that we have to face Thigpen, when all I am arguing is that despite the Dolphins being on their 3rd string QB, that QB is capable of beating us if we aren't playing well. Meaning he's not going to go 5-16 with 4 INTs or whatever Todd Collins did. My guess is we do play well and beat him.

Yeah I'm thinking the McDonalds parking lot would be good. Actually an awesome thing would be to be on a rooftop, but then I guess the crowd cant really be in the background. Another possible spot would be the players parking lot where the triangle building is supposed to go. They could also do it across the street from Murphy's in that parking lot, near the bleacher entrance. Either way I'm really excited. I'm thinking about picking up a couple of $25 SRO tickets and be around for all the festivities.

The lesson here is don't give up 2 late TDs when the game is already in hand, and don't destroy teams that Notre Dame can also beat.

The point is he's not completely useless. He's good enough to beat us if we aren't at our best. He's like Doug Flutie. Elusive white guy that can move the ball through the air and get some decent yardage on the ground if you don't watch him closely. He obviously isn't like a starter quality QB but he's probably better than half the teams backup QBs and can lead them to wins. Good Lord, I know you're always desperate to make posts about every single way your teams can lose, but come on. I didn't say he would beat us. I said he could. I'm not desperate to do anything but have a discussion about next weeks football game.