CrackerDog

The Bears will stomp a mud hole in Manning's chest Sunday night. Not easy on field turf! If we ugly the already ugly Manning boy up, we could have a shot. We have to hope we can get pressure on the depleted line with only our front 4, covering the field with our other guys and only bringing the blitz infrequently. Manning may be a bit rusty but he's always been a guy who could kill you when you blitz. So, if we can get pressure up the gut, it'll hurt their running game and will cut down Manning's options in the passing game. This thing will be decided in the trenches. As like most football games. They're superior to us at nearly every position so a little luck, like a tipped ball, will help us pull off this unlikely upset.

Sum it up: Benson was an immature douche bag and we made a mistake putting our faith in him.

Republicans are . They want to fight this election based on issues like gay marriage and abortion. I so hope the country sees through it this time. While those may be issues that are important to some, if you're voting against the better good of the country because you don't like gays, or black people, or whatever, you're a stupid bastard. Period. The heartland of this country has been destroyed by Republicanomics. The war, even if you believe it was the right thing to do in the first place, was run as poorly as it could've been and continues to put our men and women in harm's way every day when Democrats had plans 5 years ago to move to a support mode. Has the "surge" worked? Some say yes but others, looking at the underlying reasons for the surge in the first place, disagree. And now Bush and his cronies have come around, they'll tell you, and are planning a withdrawal along the lines proposed by Obama all along. Who would you rather vote for, the guy who was right, ABOUT EVERYTHING, for years, or the guy who comes along in an election cycle and adopts his plans and claims they're his own. All this talk about increased taxes is more bullshit. The facts don't support the Republicans. Obama's plan puts more tax relief into the hands of the middle class than does McCain's. That's a FACT. All along we've been lining the pockets of the wealthy and they've been pocketing it. We're the chumps. Our economy is deeper in the toilet because the plan Bush put in place was never meant to improve things. It was a gift to his biggest supporters. Anyone with half a brain understands you put the money in the hands of those most likely to spend it and the economy will pick up. And don't even get me started on gas prices. Oh sure, it just so happens we put two Texas oil men in the Whitehouse and the price of gasoline triples. How stupid do they think we are? Bush talked about "getting the Saudi's on the phone as president and going to bat for the citizens of the country, bringing oil prices down" during the debates back in 2000. I wonder if anyone remembers that. He also talked about how he was dead set against nation building and only using our troops for their intended purpose. I guess he just failed to tell us they were intended for target practice in Iraq, or being the policemen of the world. Please.... He's failed and McCain is Bush Jr. McSame's VP candidate... oh my. She's a real winner too. My goodness. All these self righteous fools believing in abstinence only programs just got a lesson. But do they choose to learn from it? I'll tell you one thing for god damn certain, if that were Obama's daughter, Fox News and the Repug noise machine would be making it the ONLY issue of the campaign. As it is, they're saying to ignore the 400 pound gorilla in the room. Hell, I agree. But then, I've always held myself and my party to a higher standard. These hypocrites play whatever side of the issue, on every issue, they think best helps them get elected. It'll be interesting to see if the Enquirer is right and Palin had an affair with her husband's business partner. They were right about Edwards... I'll sum this up for everyone: This country isn't supposed to be about rewarding failure and punishing innovative thought and new ideas. If you ask me to vote for your 72 year old 90% Bush candidate, that's exactly what you're asking me to vote for. Sorry, I'm smarter than that and I damn well hope this country is as well.

I'd agree with this 100% in games.

Damn dude. And here I thought I was rude.

All I'm saying is you don't get as banged up as we are laying around in lawn chairs.

Wow, seems like a lot of guys banged up for having a "big giant pussy" of a coach in Lovie Smith. Maybe the internet football experts here are wrong again. Perhaps... maybe, just maybe... the Bears are a little more aggressive in camp than some have kindheartedly suggested here. More importantly, Lovie seems to understand that you don't win games by getting your guys so banged up they can't be on the field on opening day. Even though there are a lot of ouchies, none of them are serious enough to keep anyone off the field.

My money league draft was last night. Ended up with the 6th pick (ten team league) and came away with the following: Starters Peyton Manning Brandon Jacobs Frank Gore Santonio Holmes Calvin Johnson Greg Jennings Chris Cooley Shayne Graham Chicago Bears Backups Jake Delhomme DeAngelo Williams Fred Taylor Earnest Graham Hines Ward Bernard Berrian Joey Galloway

There is a solution on this site. And all you'll see after you flip the switch is... You have chosen to ignore all posts from: TerraTor. Best thing since sliced bread.

LOL! Let's not go there again.

NO question. LT2_3 has a reputation here and has consistently backed up his statements. Further, he's a class guy and knows football, not just the cap stuff (which he's excellent at.) He isn't some cunty newbie.

Nah... Everyone knows you're "the guy" anyway LT2_3! So, it seems we're in the range of $9 million and have something left for a FA LT if we can locate one. Thanks!

Welcome to the club, Pix!

I was joking/teasing with my "suck" comment. I agree, it's the QB, line and WR's along with the running game and play calling that make a passing game successful. Plenty of places to foist a little blame.

They all suck equally? If I had to guess, I'd say Lloyd/Hester but I doubt designating them 1/2 really means all that much.

But but but... We have the Wonderboy. We don't need Chris Simms.

You bet there'll be movement. 8 OL is inadequate, particularly when you realize one of those won't be available until close to November, at the earliest.

Teams across the league will be cutting proven vets. Tampa has 5 QB's on their roster right now, if not more. Culpepper is still out there. Several others. What makes anyone think some team somewhere is going to jump on a BEARS QB who hasn't proven a thing? Hell, I'm not even convinced we won't just cut the guy and sign a proven guy within the first week or two of the season. Depends on who might be available. These Haniacs are pathetic. (Not saying you're one of them, necessarily.) Again, that said, I still think they'll keep him for now on their roster. I doubt there's real pressure from elsewhere on the roster that we can't keep three QB's.

I'd be willing to lose him. If someone is willing to sign him to their 53 man roster, A BEARS QB WHO LOOKED GOOD AGAINST SCRUBS, I could live with that. I suspect they'll keep him, however.

He's smart.

Just finished an ESPN league draft I'm doing with my dad and a bunch of his buddies. Got confused by the interface so blew it once or twice but overall I'm happy. One guy who let it autodraft for him got a full team but every player on his bench is either a RB or TE. Ouch. (1) LaDainian Tomlinson RB (20) Maurice Jones-Drew RB (21) Tony Romo QB (40) Plaxico Burress WR (41) Jason Witten TE (60) Jerricho Cotchery WR (61) Jonathan Stewart RB (80) Kevin Smith RB (81) Hines Ward WR (100) Chris Chambers WR (101) David Garrard QB (120) Giants D/ST (121) Shayne Graham K (140) Derrick Mason WR (141) D.J. Hackett WR (160) L.J. Smith TE

OK Republicans everywhere, you've had your chance. The American People gave you 8 years, 6 with complete control over our government. Where has it led us? It's one thing to honestly believe in reducing the size of government. I respect those "Jack Kemp Republicans". I really do. However, the last 8 years have proven those were just words, all along. Instead of smaller government, we got record deficits and incompetent governing. Quite literally, nothing has gone right in 8 years. Oh sure, you can feel good about your lower taxes. But the fact is every dime, and then some, was borrowed money. There will come a time when we'll need to pay the piper... with interest. And the way it was done, nothing more than a huge cash grab for the wealthy... It didn't stimulate the economy. We're far worse off now than we were in 2000 when this absolute joke of a man was elected. The John McCain I saw in 2000 was an honorable man. Since then he's gone south. I don't know if the political realities of being a Republican got to him or what but he isn't a "Maverick" anymore. And, frankly, he scares the shit out of me. I didn't think anyone could be less inspirational than George W. Bush. Can McCain string two sentences together without a massive gaff of one sort or another? This VP pick of his is clearly an act of desperation. He just had to find a woman, any woman. This is like Dan Quayle in a skirt! I'm not going to debate anyone here. This is my one and only post on this topic and hopefully "The Water Cooler" is the right venue for it. I welcome responses but I won't get into it with anyone here. In closing: I'm just asking that Republicans everywhere apologize and go stand in the corner for the next 8 years while WE FIX YOUR MESS. Thank you for your time. UPDATE: I see there's already one emotional responses below and I'm sure there will be others. All I can say is you're free to feel that way. However, you probably ought to find a news source other than Faux News and/or Rush Limpdick. My goodness, the uninformed BS in that post is unreal. I recommend anyone seeing, hearing or reading something they think is obvious bullshit, here or elsewhere, do the research themselves before forming an opinion. If you just believe me or anyone else below, that's your mistake. This election is critical and we all ought to spend the time to get educated on the issues. It's called citizenship and we need to take it seriously. We get the leaders we deserve.

Fox Sports and ESPN generally break everything sports-wise. So you're right. But that doesn't really apply to Mariotti. The guy never got off his ass once in his life to get anywhere he might get some inside information. He feared going into clubhouses and basically used quotes others got to build his stories around. In other words, he's not going to go somewhere because they're breaking stories. That said, he's right, newspapers are dying. Sam Zell is getting his ass kicked on this Tribune purchase. Couldn't happen to a "nicer" guy. If you broke Sam Zell open, demons would fly out. I don't know where Jay will end up but I'm sure I'll continue to ignore him there too.

Good point. I guess I just hope they have a serviceable OT they can spare to get our "serviceable" DE, Dan Bazuin.

Tommy and Dusty are licking their chops.