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plus interesting note on Barton. http://www.suntimes.com/sports/football/be...earnt05.article Peace uy7hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhyt6

How well the Bears answer five key questions will determine how many games they win in 2008: 1.Can they create turnovers the way Lovie Smith teams typically do? Defensive coordinator Bob Babich calls it the " AT&T'' approach -- attack, tackle and takeaway. But lately the Bears cannot find a good connection with the way they like to play defense. Their defense created only 13 of their 33 takeaways in the first half of last season and by then it was too late to recover. Overall, that was 11 fewer takeaways than 2007. Smith's teams need turnovers to win; he is 21-5 when winning the turnover battle since taking over in 2004. When the Bears have fewer takeaw…

I love football and there is nothing better than opening day. Hope springs eternal and all the work from the team and all of our bullshit from the board will come to light. But, remember one thing boys... This game is winnable! So grab your favorite beverage, cook your favorite meat on the grill and get ready to support your team. This is the day that we will find out what our team and staff are all about. It's gameday! Go Bears! No prisoners!!!

In order for the Bears to win they have to attack the Colts right. It starts with the offense. Being that the Colts run basically the same type of defense that we do they are built for speed. We have to run at the smaller DE Mathis side. We have to use screens to counter their speed rushers. Our TE"s (Olsen & Davis)need to be used to create mismatches against the samller Colts LB'S and DB'S. Do not just line up and try to run up the middle. As for our WR'S we have speed on our side and need to use it with Hester,Davis and Bradley......don't know how fast Bennet & Lloyd are. On defense we have to take advantage of the Colts missing three starters in the middl…

Anybody know?

The Sun Times lists the injury report: Injury report By Brad Biggson September 3, 2008 4:18 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0) The first injury report of the season has been released. We'll try to update them daily on here as they are released, typically around 3 p.m. A look at the Bears: Wednesday, Sept. 3 DT Tommie Harris, left knee. Harris participated partially in practice and is expected to be able to start Sunday. DE Mark Anderson, right thumb. Anderson participated partially in practice and is expected to play Sunday. FS Mike Brown, knee. Brown participated fully in practice and is expected to start Sunday. LS P…

Seems like no matter what topic I read here, I read something about cutting Marty Booker? I just don't get it. The guy set almost every receiving record in Chicago Bears history in the time he was here. He's back now. No, he didn't light up the league while he was in Miami. He did probably match about what any receiver had did here though during that time with comparable QB''n. If the Bears were going to cut underachieving veterans based on preseason games, then basically the whole famed Bears defense would be cut. It was out of the coaches mouth that his roster spot was safe. They had what, like 8 more receivers they had to evaluate this offseason. He didn't play i…

http://www.suntimes.com/sports/couch/11461...-greg05.article

Watching NFL Network this morning they are saying that W Anderson will be signing on with the Baltimore Ravens. No news yet on the Fred Miller option.

In one spot I have Ryan Grant (who will probably suck against the Vikings, but I'll go with him anyway) In the other spot I have to choose between: Ricky Williams Senior (I'd planned to start him until Miami hinted Brown may get more carries) DeAngelo Williams Fred Taylor Ahman Green Kenny Watson Thankfully I'm loaded at WR.

Like many I have the Bears Official Website as one of my Home Pages, the primary (have Vista ;-() I was amazed at the change in the site. For years visiting other sites I always felt the Bears site was very "low tech" compared to some others. Now, all I can say is WOW. They have done a great job of improving the site.

Dante Culpepper sent out notice that he will be retiring from football. For those who wanted him as a badckup for the Bears, FORGET IT! LOL

Interesting read. http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/cs-08...,5949191.column Peace

I saw that he was released and not sure if he signed with anyone -- he has some talent but injury problems. Do you take a look?

Everyone entered into the contests, please check out the TalkBears Fantasy forum and let me know your opinions! I have posted a poll and need your feedback. Thanks!

We had a server error and we are reindexing on the background and this process could cause a couple additional outings over the next 24 hours, but after that the site should be back to 100%. Just wanted to give everyone a heads up (server first crashed this morning).

Per Brad Biggs: Bears have traded Bucs Guard Dan Buenning. No details at this time.

left on the 53 man roster. Cowboys | Team meets with Bollinger Tue, 2 Sep 2008 17:27:22 -0700 Updating a previous report, Todd Archer, of The Dallas Morning News, reports the Dallas Cowboys met with free-agent QB Brooks Bollinger (Vikings) Tuesday, Sept. 2. The Cowboys may sign Bollinger after Week 1. He would have never made it to the practice squad. Dallas was the other team that tried to sign him as a FA after the draft. He is from Texas. They would have snagged him in a heartbeat. Peace

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/cs-08...0,7132303.story Just what we needed to hear - not!!!! Peace

Bears | Bowman signed to practice squad Wed, 3 Sep 2008 17:01:01 -0700 Brad Biggs, of the Chicago Sun-Times, reports the Chicago Bears have re-signed free-agent CB Zackary Bowman to their practice squad.