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Yeah, let's make that mistake our last one. This is our home field, the Bears ought to know how to protect the ball in sloppy conditions as good as anyone else.

I will take that. Good stop.

He used to fumble at the end of receptions, too.

Good protection on that play too. I was loving that entire play up until the end.

Horrible.

That's it. Tie game. Weirdness

I hate to seem like I'm picking on you...but for a change? They've won plenty of big games in recent years. Maybe it's the darn Packer games. Feels like whenever the Bears are ready to be declared one of the league's best, something bad happens. NOT TONIGHT.

This might be a tie-?

This rivals any lucky win the Bears have ever had. 49ers have lost the game twice. And they're still playing.

Ooooh no no no Rams Rams Rams...

Of course it is. That's just how Brandon Gibson rolls. Well, Akers decides to give a gift to the Rams.

Eh, it's much easier to look good when spot-starting against a team that prepared for the other guy.

That one illegal formation is probably going to cost the Rams the entire game. Wow.

Oh my god, what!?!

Big play Rams!

It's a big game for us. Maybe it's just me, but I'd like to see the Bears come through in one of these "crossroads" games for a change.

Seems like there isn't going to be much of a running advantage for either team, if there's sloppy conditions due to rain. Both teams can play dink n' dunk in the passing game if they have to. Here's my fearless prediction: if there's significant swirling wind tonight, Graham is going to miss a kick because of it. Let's hope it's a big one.

That's pretty big, but I still think the Cody injury is bigger. Texans will still use their other TEs. Bears prepared for Daniels. Hopefully they don't change their gameplan last minute. Houston sure isn't going to. I don't see how it matters if the Bears prepared for Daniels. He's better than their other TE, so that's all good. Bad weather has to benefit the Bears. Windy conditions surely benefit our kicking game, big time. Gould is the best at this type of situation. Why? Because of the next sentence.

Oh, Rams left too much time.

Yeah. Isn't it great?

That's pretty big, but I still think the Cody injury is bigger. Texans will still use their other TEs. Bears prepared for Daniels. Hopefully they don't change their gameplan last minute. Houston sure isn't going to. I don't see how it matters if the Bears prepared for Daniels. He's better than their other TE, so that's all good. Bad weather has to benefit the Bears. Windy conditions surely benefit our kicking game, big time. Gould is the best at this type of situation.

His writing is meant to be fun and not taken at all as serious analysis... When does the fun part happen? I like him. To each his own. The Book of Basketball was very good despite having to sift through all the Celtics love. He's a Celtics/Boston fan. Explains much.

Daniels, Cody apparently out. Huge help for the Bears. Link: http://www.csnchicago.com/football-chicago-bears/bears-talk/Sick-bay-Texans-NT-Cody-TE-Daniels-out?blockID=799979&feedID=10330&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed The loss of Daniels is pretty big.

Yeah well Bear fans ought to know better this year, given what happened last year when we were riding high. I'm sure there's plenty of Bear fan blustering going on, but I'm pretty cautious and every other Bear fan I know is the same.

That and him figuring out the whole being a decent WR thing Yeah yeah, I know I know. He's not a WR, blah blah. Except that's the position he's playing, and occasionally he does catch a long TD. It doesn't happen as often as it should, but it happens, and with Alshon out and Marshall likely to be double covered by a good defense, this would be a great week for it. Yeah, I was being a bit facetious. I know all it takes is one deep ball to change a game with Hester, but I just hate him as a WR. Not having Alshon and/or a decent 2nd WR option is killing the Bears right now and playing against two good defenses the next two games is/will likely really hurt them. Hopefully they can get creative with Forte and get him the ball in space a lot. Marshall is so good that even if he's double teamed I still expect Jay to get him the ball 7+ times, Jay's ability to not give a [expletive] about throwing a ball into coverage and Marshall's skill is too much to completely shut him down. I wouldn't say not having Jeffery is "killing" a Bears team that has not lost a game without him and scored 37ppoints without him last week. Yeah, it's just too much for me to think of Alshon as that important. Not yet, anyway. I'd rather not look past the obvious OLine flaws to find reasons why we've struggled. Fix the pass protection issues and then let's see how many of these other problems are actually problems. Personally I think Bennett is filling in just fine. Jay's going to target Marshall more often even with Alshon Jeffrey in the mix. He just feels most comfortable that Brandon is the guy who will pull the ball down, covered or not.