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Kane had make some sweet passes so far this year. Good stuff! Awesome win!

Dead sexy

Forget what I said about being outworked. That goal was all about pushing and clawing and fighting for position around the crease.

Please get at least a point out of this.

HOSSA IS THE GREATEST PLAYER EVER!!! TIED!

Horrible breakdown. Hawks are probably going to fall to 1-3 at home this year. Remember, only 8 regulation losses at home last year. 3 already this year in mid-October. Not good.

I've only watched about a period worth of this game but it seems like the Hawks are getting outworked a majority of the game. Despite this, the play has been fairly even from what I've seen. And the stats bear that out. That is, other than the scoreboard. Hopefully we don't get blanked.

Ahhh my bad

Well they do have a first round pick at LT and RT. I wish Jerry's first round offensive lineman could actually play. Chris Williams and....

lol I watched the game last night too and didn't know anything about their oline. I was specifically watching their pass blocking due to watching our adventures earlier in the day. And my impression of them led me to believe they were a solid experienced line. They protected mcnabb amd even helped an unknown backup back rush for 100 yards and 2 scores. Who knew thy were actually inexperienced scrubs.

Per half even. Unless he wastes two of them challenging a play.

It's a test to see if Jacksonville needs to get relocated. Give them a MNF game against a mediocre draw and if they can't sell it out, they're gone.

Yep...it's hard to beat 22-11. .667 winning percentage. Works out to 108-54 over 162 games. If you want to spin it quasi positively, they were only 4-3 against the Cubs, and 18-8 against everyone else :)

Good point why havent I thought about picking the Bears opponent defense yet? My league gives 2 points for every sack. You are right. As much as we want to take about different schemes, or using the shotgun formation or running more, or using the safety valves, etc. Nothing is going to make this offense into anything until the line is fixed. You might be able to slow down the onslaught that is occuring by being open minded and creative, but there is nothing you can do to make this offense functional without personnel changes on the line.

Few more stats I was reading today regarding the Yankees absolute monopoly in postseason appearances. -The Yankees are playing their 360th playoff game in franchise history tonight. They have 30 more postseason games played than 13 franchises combined (Washington (10), Texas (17), Colorado (20), Tampa Bay (21), Milwaukee (21), Arizona (31), Florida (33), San Diego (34), Seattle (36), Toronto (41), Kansas City (43), Chicago White Sox (55), Houston (56)) -They are trying for their 28th world title in history. They have more world titles than 5 franchises have playoff games played (Washington (10), Texas (17), Colorado (20), Tampa Bay (21), Milwaukee (21)). They also have more world titles than 12 teams have playoff wins (Washington (5), Texas (5), Milwaukee (9), Colorado (10), Tampa Bay (10), San Diego (12), Seattle (15), Arizona (15), Kansas City (18), Houston (21), Toronto (21), Florida (22), Los Angeles Angels (27 - same). -Taking a look at their early run of success. They won more playoff games between 1921 and 1964 than every team has in their history (99....St. Louis has 98 all time). They also have won more playoff games between 1981 to 2010 than every other team has in their history (101 wins...again St. Louis has 98 all time). -The Yankees lifetime playoff winning percentage is .604. Over a 162 game season, this is the equivilent of a 98-64 team. Mind boggling. I hate those [expletive]. Edit: Oh and in case you are wondering exactly how the Cubs fit in those numbers, they are 28-55 lifetime in the postseason (.337 winning % - equivilent of a 55-107 team over a 162 game season). The .337 winning percentage is 2nd worst of the 30 MLB teams. However, the worst team, Texas (5-12, .294), is hopefully improving on this number as we speak).

Did you know Andy Pettitte has more postseason starts (41) and wins (19) than any pitcher in baseball history? To put that number in perspective, he's won more postseason games (19) than the Cubs have since 1908 (18).

Was looking at Football outsiders trying to see just how bad the O-line has been. Unfortunately it hasn't updated the numbers yet for week 6 but looking at the adjusted sack rates for team in the NFL, the Bears are by far the worst in the league at 12.2% (next worst is Arizona at 10.9%). And again that was before yesterdays sack fest. Here is how FO describes adjusted sack rate: So if the Bears were to keep up the pace that they are at right now (and the number should be slightly higher than 12.2 after yesterday), only 3 offensive lines in the last 14 years have had a worse ASR than this years Bears: 02 Texans - 15.1% (expansion team) 05 Texans - 13.0% 06 Raiders - 12.3% 10 Bears - 12.2% In a majority of the years, the worst team in the league has a rating somewhere between 9.7% and 10.9%. So in 14 years, there have been 471 different offensive line units in the NFL. The Bears so far are 468th at protecting their QB out of 471 since 1996. Anyone who says that Kyle Orton is better than Jay Cutler should be made to understood what this means.

I don't think the Vikings are as flawed as they are off to a slow start. I think the Vikings should be considered the favorites at this point. The Packers are very hobbled but should stay in contention. The Bears? I have no clue but my gut says a level below those 2. Vikings still have to go 8-3 if they want to win 10 games. Packers have to go 7-3, Bears 6-4

The Bears have been booted off Peter King's top 15 team rankings this week. Teams like Green Bay (3-3), Kansas City (3-2) and Washington (3-3) are in there though. Not saying its a sham, but pointing it out anyways. In fact, in the entire 6 page article, he only mentions the Bears and/or the Bears/Seahawks game two times. 1. Ten things I like: 2. Ten things I don't like:

Who do you blame for that one? The one who put these mismatched coaches together. I'm sure Martz is a nice OC for someone who has the pieces, but we never should have hired Martz. We have no offensive line at all, and yet we employ an offense with deep dropbacks, no safety valves, no audibles and no adjustments. Those are the things you have to do if you have a bad offensive line to stay successful. To be honest, I'm not entirely sold that the line is that much worse than last years. The difference is last year we would at least attempt some screen passes, we could check down, we could change things at the line, etc. This year its just down the field 80% of the plays and its simply not working.

He's not blaming the coach with no reasoning. It makes sense that when a team has a brutally miserable record in close games that reflects on the coach. Obviously the players have to play, but when you are talking about a close game its things like which team executes better, which play calling is better, who makes the least mistakes, who puts the right personel in there, that make the difference. Most of those are things that the coach has a big hand in. I don't watch enough of the Packers to know if McCarthy really is a big issue, but with a miserable record like that, I'd immediately look towards the coach upon reading that.

I remember another NLCS where in game 2 a pitcher was left in for way too long with a big lead. That turned out well didn't it?

I've honestly never followed a team quite like this, at least offensively. We look so disjointed and disfunctional, you wonder how we ever score any points at all. And then Cutler will get enough time to find someone like Forte and Knox and they will make a move in the open field and get a 40+ yard gain. And then the offense will go back to looking disjointed. We came into the game dead last on 3rd down conversions and assured we would remain that way by going 0-12 today. A breakdown of those 12 third downs: -10 were 3rd and 5 or worse -12 were passing plays -0 were running plays -6 resulted in incompletions -2 resulted in completions short of the stick -4 resulted in a sack That's beyond awful to go 0-12 on 3rd down, but its even worse when 33% of your 3rd downs your QB gets sacked. The majority of the time the team just looks so disjointed. I am used to seeing bad offense, but I'm used to seeing it because of poor QB play. Not that Cutler had a great game today, but the Cutler who played today could have been successful. I have never seen an offensive line as bad as this one. I never knew that offensive lines could be this bad. Have any of you witnessed a line, college or pros, that is as bad as this one? We have no running game, our QB gets sacked in like 1 out of every 4 passing attempts, our receivers don't know what routes they are running. The only good thing I can say about this offense is that they aren't turning the ball over very often. So what can be done to fix this in season? Is there any way to? Is there any lineman we can find somewhere, either on another teams practice squad, or a veteran FA, or a trade target that we can do to improve the line even marginally? We have the bye week coming up after this next game, that would give the team 2 weeks to work in a new guy. Jerry has to be working the phones because he can not possibly be sitting there with his team leading the division but with an obvious season ruining deficiency and think that he doesnt need to try someone, anyone else on the line in an attempt to improve (I know, he's ignored the line for so many years, why would he start now). If he doesn't, management is going to see a team that started 3-1 last year and 4-1 this year that were ruined by glaring deficiently that was left unaddressed for so many years. That's not gonna look good on Angelo's resume.

I was gonna mention during the game that at least 3 times every game I see a cutler pass sail into the middle of the field 10 yards from anyone and Knox is always somewhere in the shot looking confused. after one of them, they showed cutler, who clearly said "what happened? what happened?" and it's not that he's a bad route-runner, he's actually a pretty good route-runner, it's just that he's a complete idiot and doesn't know which route to run. In a Martz offense, don't you have to have somewhat intelligent receivers because his plays are so complicated? Unfortunately with Hester and Knox you don't have that. I can see why Martz was only hired after everyone else said no. The Bears have the wrong line and the wrong receivers for this offense. Yeah you do. And the whole offense is about throwing to a spot, not throwing to a receiver. So if the route is run improperly, the ball is just going to sail into no mans land most times. I'm shocked Cutler only has 3 INTs this year so far.