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More like they lose and Derrek Lee is injured by a HBP and is out all of next season. Oh and the ball that hits Lee deflects off him and goes into the stands hitting Derrek Rose injuring him for all of next year. That sounds just about right.

Lovie: -Urlacher out for the year. Big shoes to fill. Will come back strong as ever next year -Other injuries: Dez Clark (rib injury) sounds like d2d (will deal with on his own), Pisa and whats his face have knee injuries, don't know how long they'll be out. -Can't turn ball over, couldn't get running game going, part of that was due to Packers -Passing wise, we moved the ball, but getting inside the red zone 3 times and getting 0 TDs signals you are going to lose -Jay has to and will play better. Cannot live with some of the things he did. Compared this performance to 1st preseason game -Defense needs takeaways. Pass rush up front (front 7) was impressive. Shut down a good Packers offense. Despite offensive follies, we were still in position to win. -We'll bounce back and go from there... -(couldn't hear discussing player's rib injury) -Bears are looking for all available LBs, been looking for a big part of the day. Pisa will be back "eventually", considers them only down 1 LB -Asked if outside org. LB will come in for depth or starter, Lovie says he feels comfortable with his guys. He says he'll more likely look for guys that can help with ST, but looking at all options -Asked about Derrick Brooks, Lovie reinterates that we are looking at all available players, and Derrick is an available player -Asked more about Urlacher, has already had surgery, that's about all there is to talk about -Lovie says the scheme won't change at all with Urlacher out (stupid), you can't replace Brian, but other guys will have to step up, he thinks other guys can step up -Lovie says Lance will NOT be moving to MLB, they like Lance at OLB -Urlacher is disapointed because he put himself into a position to have an outstanding year, was playing great before the injury, and wanted to come back in the game despite the injury. -Said most likely he injured himself and continued to play thinking it would go away but it didn't so he got taken out -Said all of the LBs on the team can play inside, but Hunter has the best grasp of the defense, and the team is comfortable with him playing at MLB (looks like he'll be our MLB) -Asked if Lovie talked to Jay about INTs, Lovie basically just danced around the subject -A lot of football left in the season -Alfalava played "ok", made some plays they liked, made some mistakes he can't make again -Very physical game, a lot of players have little nicks and stuff afterwards -Talks about looking forward to matchup at home against defending champion Steelers and expects a lot of improvement between week 1-2 -Someone asked about McBride's knee and if he'll be out all year, Lovie says that won't be the case -Playing 3 straight games against 3-4 defenses definitely will help them, played better in 2nd half than 1st half -Anyone who they think can help them win, they will play (Vasher?) -Nate made a bad play at the end, but made some good plays during the game -Lovie expects progress from game 1-2 from Jay because in his experience Lovie's seen it before. All QBs have games they'd like to have back, but it's about how they come back. He's a QB and will come back as strong as ever. -Lovie says Alfalava didn't bite on pump fake at the end, he says someone else should have been deep on that play. That's about it.

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Yeah no one was including an injury to the "QB of the defense" in their projections. I don't think anyone is basing their revised predictions on anything else but that.

Possibly. Briggs did play middle linebacker as his primary position all through college.

What time does Lovie do his Monday afternoon presser? I want to say 4:00 but I'm not positive.

Obviously this year isn't over at all, but I gotta wonder what the future of this defense is now that we'll have another year of aging for the core of the unit. This is a defense that was developing in 2004 around injuries, peaked in 2005, was strong in 2006 and has been a bit of a disappointment but still somewhat good the last 2 seasons. You also have to consider the last major piece that was added to the defense was added in 2004. We have developed some starters since then but none of them (Pisa, Payne, Bowman) are essential pieces. So where do they go from here?

Really? I thought the "Jamar Williams has a load of potential" bandwagon ended two years ago and the "Jamar Williams is a bust" bandwagon is in full force.

Losing Urlacher is absolutely devistating to the Bears IMO. He might not be the team's best or most important player, but I think MLB is the most important position in the Cover 2, needing a superior size and speed person to be able to do everything the scheme requires. I just can't see anyone on the Bears roster replacing him even adequately, or anyone the Bears could sign being able to pick up the scheme and be able to run it even half as well as Urlacher. Unless Cutler shows us a completely different QB than he showed us last night and we can win several shootouts, I'm thinking this might be a lost season. Just one man's opinion, and I know you all know me as a pessimist, but that's just what I'm thinking when I read that. I'd love to be wrong.

I'm reading that Pisa will probably be out at least 3 weeks as well. Our LBs go from strength to major weakness for awhile. That plus a tough schedule to start the season = trying hard to fight off pessimism.

BTW, Jay Cutler's QB rating tonight was 43.2, which is the second lowest of his entire career. Welcome to the Bears.

Derrick Rose, whatchu got?

BTW, for the Packers fans reading this, I have a Bears Nathan Vasher jersey that I'm willing to sell/give away if interested.

I have watched this video 10 times and I have no idea why that's funny? Because the ref is laughing about something?

Haha, did you know that Rex Grossman, for as wild and crazy as he was, only had one 4 INT game with the Bears, the MNF game against the Cardinals. Jay did it in his first game. Woo hoo!

Fun that Cutler was intercepted twice within FG range today and we lost by 6 points huh?

Yesterday, Michigan won, MSU lost and OSU lost...perfect day. Today, Bears lost, GB won, and the Vikings won....anti-perfect day. At least the Cubs won??

Why is that a bad call? I would think people would have been more pissed if he ran up the gut for like the 8th straight play and got stuffed. People would have asked why they didn't try to run outside. If you catch the defense right it can really be an easy score (see USC last night). That said, Forte wasn't running to the outside very well all game, I'll admit that.

All the Chicago radio stations have postgame shows. I'm listening to http://www.670thescore.com 's show OB and Doug must be totally flipping out Doug is strangely calm. Maybe I turned in too late. He is usually much more angry even in wins. Classic Doug was after the Bears playoff win over Seattle, yelling about how they have no shot of beating New Orleans with that crap performance.

He had a great view while having his head down motioning to Wolfe. But the point is that the 5 yard flag wouldnt have given the Bears a first down and they would have punted anyway. Which is why they tried to run to Wolfe hoping he could surprise them and run for a first down. If they punt the ball and 12 men is called, they will re punt the ball 5 yards closer to their end zone. I'm not saying I agree at all but that was the logic.

How the [expletive]? We outplayed GB. Every stat but the score (and INT's) were in our favor. Really, if we just cool it with the turnovers and direct snaps to the RB, we'll win those games. First game of the season, lots to clean up. Cutler may have been the worst thing in that game...and we all know he can play. He had a terrible game tonight. Next one will be better. Exactly. No offense to their fans but GB didn't impress me tonight. That's not saying that they didn't also play a bad game, or that the Bears might have done a really nice job against them, but I feel better about the division than before the game. However, I would have felt 10 times better with a win obviously.

All the Chicago radio stations have postgame shows. I'm listening to www.670thescore.com 's show

Guys on Comcast just said that Urlachers injury diagnosis "doesn't sound good"

Is it weird to lose a horribly played game like this and actually feel BETTER about the team than before the game? Honestly that's how I'm feeling.

Dude you're comparing preseason (the world where the Lions go 4-0 and the Packers never punt) to regular season. Neither the Giants or Broncos were showing much of anything they would run in the regular season. Besides in both the Giants and Broncos games, he threw passes that went right off defenders hands, at least one that was guaranteed to be a pick 6