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This game is going to be tough. Hopefullty we can squeek it out. The Philly game scares the crap out of me. They are playing great so far, I know it is early, but if McNabb stays healthy along with Westbrook, and their aggressive defense style, they are going to be tough to beat.

Excellent article Noots. Thanks for your insight into the Bears. I value your opinions very highly!

Yes it is,

The Picksheet for week 2 is now ready to go. Be sure to get your selections in before 11 AM CST this Sunday the 14th. http://www.talkbears.com/Contests/index.htm I will be uploading selections made daily, starting tomorrow night (Wednesday). We will see how this works out and go from there. Good luck this week!

Sorry, link now fixed.

I loved this bit from the Daily Herald, actually got a good laugh out of it to start my day. Some NFL Predictions to make you laugh or cry

....... to congratulate you on beating everyone in the weekly pick'ems contest. 13-3 to start the year off, WOW! You are a marked man now, we will all be gunning for you! LOL Here is a link to this weeks results: Week 1 Pick'em Results

Agree with you on this one. The Bears need a minimum of a 60% run to 40% pass ratio to be successful, IMO. Run that ball with success like in week 1 and we will win a mess of games this year.

Congratulations to BearFan2000 who comes out swinging the big lumber and collecting 13 wins in week 1!! Outstanding job! Now be careful, there are a few games left to select and we are gunning for ya! LOL Here are the results from week 1: Pick'em Results from Week 1

Thanks for that info, very interesting information from a guy I respect a lot for his football IQ.

Will they sign Simms? No, I am sure he will go to NEP

I am telling you guys, from what I say I am not at all impressed by Minny. Their pass defense still sucks, J Allen was manhandled by Clifton all night, their secondary sucks. They put good heat on the QB but if they do not get to the QB they get torched. Aaron Rogers had an excellent 1st game as a result of the soft Minny secondary. Grant broke a nice one against a very good Minny run defense. However, I am not convinced that they are that good. I think they will struggle this year. We know Detroit sucks. This division is now, IMO, offically up for grabs.

I have lost track of how many penalties the 2 teams have had called in the game so far. Minny still sucks on Pass Defense, making Rogers look much better than he is.

Exactly right, Manning was taking advantage of what the defense was offering. Because of the pressure Manning was forced to go with short slant patterns verses the vertical game he prefers. That is the way to beat the Colts (along with stopping the run, which we did an excellent job!)

I am getting a bit concerned over some of the plays I see from Vasher. I love this guy and we all know how much his absence hurt our defense last year. However, my concern is, it seems like every time I turn around he is being made to look bad when trying to tackle. I know Addai made him "wiff" a tackle and look bad, and then another Colt had him spun around for another "wiff". he needs to start tackling better in the open.

I thought Babbich had an excellent game plan, but far more important, the Bears defensive players executed the plan. Babbich gets far too much blame when the Bears players fail to execute his plan. When we have bad games, it is not always because of the "PLAN" but sometimes because of the players failing to execute it. With the defensive players we have - all in pretty good health right now - I expect to see them play like last night.

How sweet it is. I hope all of those ranting about how bad the Bears Suck, Angelo Sucks, the Coaching Sucks, etc... How the Bears are going to get their asses handed to them, etc... enjoy their "Crow" for all three meals today. I know this will not automatically put us in the SB. However, we can enjoy this week and hope we can continue to improve as a team against Carolina next week. Carolina just upseat SDC so I am sure they are pumped as well. I doubt many had the Bears and Panthers knocking off the Chargers and Colts.

Yes, thank you, thank you, I was running seriously low on my supply of Kool Aide and now have my tank back up to Full. LOL

Great Article Noots. I can't remember the last time we had a game grade out this high. It certainly has been awhile. Maybe we should have given "Horns" to the female reporter who was interviewing Forte and Urlacher. She definitely blew it telling Urlacher that no one expected the Bears to beat the Colts and it could be argued with the look on Brian's face when she told him that and his response to her, I am sure he would have loved to put her in the "hardest hits" area as well.

Yep, when the bitch reporter said to Brian that no one expected the Bears to win you could see fire shooting from his eyes. He quickly let her know it was no surprise to the Bears that they won! I doubt she will make that mistake again, LOL.

I do not want to hear any bull shi* excusses. The Bears out played the Colts in all phases of the game. They deserve to be recognized for it. They held the Colts to 46 yds rushing! 13 points! There is nothing more that needs to be said!

Now we need to duplicate that effort in the 2nd half.

Very impressive beginning to what I hope will be over a decade of excellence!

Well, I guess from the lack of responses to the poll, there is very little interest in this decision to be made. I will post the picks this week just before game time at Noon Central. In upcoming weeks I am not sure, but might go ahead and post them Saturday night so that you will have 12 hrs + to check the site and view your picks on line and decide if you want to submit a corrected picksheet. If I do not get any more emails or poll results I guess it is not an issue of great importance to the players. At the time of this post we only have 25 of the 34 entrants submitting picksheets. Hopefully the 9 missing entries will get in on time. I really enjoy these contests and want this to be fun for all involved.

I have to agree with you, excellent post!!