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Matt Forte is a workhorse. He proved it at Tulane and he's proving it for the Bears. Forte is a fantasy owner's dream. He is a true feature back and doesn't come off the field in short-yardage or third-down situations. Forte has appeared on the injury report just once in the first five weeks. He was listed as probable in Week 2 with "ankle soreness." But since the Bears' season opener, Forte's yards-per-carry average has dropped sharply. On his last 61 totes, Forte holds a Cedric Benson-like 2.7 YPC. In Forte's last two games, he's mustered only 2.3 yards a carry. And in one of those contests he was going against the Lions. As a senior for the 4-8 Green Wave, Fo…

Bears are wearing their orange jerseys Sunday and have requested the fans do the same. They want an Orange-out. I'll have my orange on!

Hey, its a bye week, so how about a little fun. Here is how I see some of our players (offense) finishing the year statistically. Orton: 3,900 yards - 24 TDs - 8 picks. Forte: 1,150 rushing yards - 11 TDs - 56 catchs - 480 receiving yards - 2 TDs. Olsen - 60-900-6 (I think he is on the verge of taking over as a lead receiver) Clark - 45-525-2 Lloyd - 60-750-4 Davis - 50-660-3 I think our run game is going to continue to struggle. Forte may have a good/big game here and there, but I think he will continue to struggle on the ground, due in largest part to our OL. Meanwhile, Orton is going to have to take it to the air much as he has…

http://www.mlive.com/lions/index.ssf/2008/...umors_pers.html The Lions have finally confirmed an earlier report here that free agent quarterback Daunte Culpeper is visiting the team at its Allen Park practice facility. Whether Culpepper eventually will sign a contract with the Lions is unknown. It's not usual for free agents to visit teams Tuesday, the day that clubs continue to maintain their "short list'' in case of injury to other players. Last week, the Lions brought in free-agent quarterback Tim Rattay for a workout. What makes the Culpepper situation more interesting is that Culpepper was scheduled to visit the Kansas City Chiefs today, presumably …

I LOVE this team, and I can foresee a deep playoff run in our near future, if not a Super Bowl berth. - The offense is clicking on all cylinders. Kyle has gotten us to this point with better-than-game-managing play, and because of that the run will start opening up for us. -The defense is loaded with veterans who will not tolerate playing second-fiddle to the offense, especially after so many years of high-level play and being the pride of Chicago. Read the cover story on www.chicagobears.com today. Tommie Harris and that D-line KNOW they haven't been getting it done. They will not allow it to continue. I believe it has nothing to do with Babich, or Lovie, o…

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SportingNews thinks so.

Video Its really cool the breakdown he has, I enjoyed it.

Are we ever going to see him on the field again?

The Titians are a good football teams this year, but they can be beaten. We have to get them out of there mind set of being 8-0. We have to first stop their running game, which we can do sinse we have been good against the run all year. But the main key this game is to move the LB'S back from the line and let them play normal. This will take away some of those short passing lanes that are killing us. Also with the WR the Titians have we need to play more bump and run and two deep double the outside WR. This takes away timing and free passing lanes. The second thing is the Dline needs to rush Collins....he is no V. Young when it comes to running. Now the offense needs…

seriously....get back to bears football and run the freak##g ball!!!! good lord!!!

You just summed up your sorry career. I am hoping you get cut tomorrow. You will never play in the NFL again.The whole stadium had no faith in you, and you showed why. How dare you go on National TV and talk about why u didnt win the starting job, you have absolutely no business being on a football field. Everytime you dropped back to pass i held my breath and you delivered. You seriously make me wanna vomit in my mouth. You cost everyone on the team a superbowl ring and now you brought your losing mentality to the table two years later. Goodbye and good riddens

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Just waiting for you guys to jump in. Peace

Why does Kevin Payne consistently get a free pass on this board? He's far from our biggest problem, but I don't see what everyone else sees in Payne. He is a huge liability in pass coverage, and having him and Brown both out there is hurting our pass D big time, IMO. Payne does play with a lot of heart and emotion though, and he is very solid in the run game. But we need some sort of rotation of safeties so we don't have to have two liabilities in pass coverage back there on passing downs. We need to either take out Brown or Payne and put someone with coverage skills in, but Manning sucks in coverage anyway and Steltz isn't much better, IMO. I think safety is a …

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7-rVcQ4F8M I just made this, what do you guys think? Outside of the fact that the Bears dominate in Madden. Song is "Drivin' down the block" by Kidz in the Hall.

Dam McNeil at the SunTimes offers some advice for future Bear dealings: http://www.suntimes.com/sports/mcneil/1313...T-mac04.article Sounds just too logical. Doh!!

Are you still recording the games on DVD? If you are and could make a copy I'll pay you.

first before we start thinking draft. I sincerely think that Lovie should start with himself. If I read it right his contract stipulated that he gets more control over team decisions like personnel, coaches etc. and thats great if it's working well. But it's not, He's no "Tony Dungy" like his mentor. Lovie seems to like to surround himself with yes men. God forbid they have a thought of thinking out of the box or the Lovie way. The same could be said for Angelo to a certain point. I'm tired of the Tampa defense, Former Tampa, Ram coaches, and players or anybody related in Tampa OR St louis. It's done, over, fini, addios. His hand picked coaching staff h…