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I'm putting all of my faith in Orton. The guy just knows how to run an offense. He's so calm and collected. I think he might have the "it". That doesn't mean he'll be the guy or anything in the league, but I think with the proper weapons he can be a pretty good QB.

Hopefully Angelo can find some more parts to the oline (I really am starting to like Beekman) because if you put a good oline around Forte we could have a special rushing attack. Jones is a really solid backup as well.

Harrison/Brown/Ogunley/Dusty were all beasts. Anderson did a nice job as well. Didn't notice Tommie much but he had to be part of the big push coming from the interior of the line. LB corps was phenemonal and Peanut was his usual strong self. Vasher doesn't look quite the same but he's gotten better every game so far (counting the preseason). All in all, I'm speachless and shocked but I like what I saw. I still have questions about the line and the receiving corps. Defensively my big question is will the defense show up and play or will they just start talking. If they show up and play that shouldn't be an issue. I'm very very confident in Orton (just wish he had some weapons at WR).

I'm going to hold getting too high after this game. I remember raving about Babich last season after the opening game against the Chargers (a game the Bears should have never lost, but a game in which the Bears D played outstanding) only to be dissapointed the whole rest of the season. Regardless, I'm thrilled about the outcome of tonights game and I'm hoping we'll see more of this throughout the season.

Good thing I have Peyton Manning on my fantasy team, LOL.

What a joke...roughing the passer my freakin ass.

The shredding of the D has begun.

Oh the NBC cast got so much better this season. Patrick and Olby brings me back to when Sportscenter was at its finest.

There run defense was atrocious. Turner played well but a lot of those big runs had multiple blown tackles.

I'm horribly unoptimistic about the season and fear the Bears will lose by 20+ points. But even without any optimism I am excited for football. I just don't see how this team can possibly do anything given the shit offensive line and receiving options.

Great stuff as always Noots. We were able to get it up on the front page of the site as well. www.talkchicagosports.com

Even though it isn't Bears related, its a pretty huge piece of news. Peter King is reporting that those close to the situation indicate that they believe the injury will prevent him from playing this season. Obviously they'll know more once the MRI results are back.

I think everyone knows that Benson is an idiot. We didn't need Briggs to go out and talk about this. This defense does nothing but talk and its why they haven't produced on the field in over a year.

We are having some serious problems with the post table getting corrupted on a consistent basis. It could be a relatively extended outage or thats how it looks as of now.

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).

I've complained heavily about his lack of production in the preseason but I'm willing to give him a pass, but if we don't see production in the first couple games I think it is only fair to point out that it shouldn't come as a shock given a lackluster preseason and training camp. When I saw him on the football field, he just looked slow.

Lets even look at a guy like Parcells. He takes over a franchise, whats he do, he gets rid of guys that don't fit his system and does what he needs to to get the personell that does fit. The reality is in the NFL, more so than any other sport, you need to make sure you and the GM/Player Personsell peeps are on the same page so you are getting talent that fits what you do. Coaches in the NFL can make certain adjustments based on unique personell (ie, a good OC will adjust to put in more wrinkles to an offense if there is a player like Bush/Hester (ie, explosive) or say a Kordell (who could throw/receive). However, they won't completely build there offense/defense around that new wrinkle. The reality is a coach in the NFL is much like a pitcher. They will use what they got. In a coaches mind, that would be the particular system (for Lovie its cover two, for some college coaches, your talking spread offense). A pitcher, they got to where they were because of say a 100MPH fastball or a knee buckling curve. You aren't going to all of a sudden ask that pitcher to try to get guys out in a key situation with that changeup. Just like a coach isn't going to magically change to the West Coast, something that he clearly doesn't have the knowledge to operate effectively. If the Bears don't believe in the Cover 2, its there job to fire the coach since he believes in the Cover 2. Lovie shouldn't have to adjust or get rid of the scheme. Now should they add wrinkles to the scheme, absolutely, and thats why Rivera was a good fit (he brought unique ideas to Lovie's staple). Babich is just shit.

Well you have to realize the scheme helped get Lovie to this point. If I were him I woudln't go away from it either. Obviously you should make tweaks to your system based upon your personell but you can't just magically turn into a 3-4 coach. I mean, should Phil Jackson just go away from the triangle offense?

Prior to tearing up his knee during the Super Bowl season. Essentially the second Harris got hurt, the Bears defense started going downhill.

This was the big reason I was hesitant to give him a fat extension. Over the past two seasons he has done nothing but battle knee problems. We haven't seen Tommie Harris at 100% in a long time and I wonder if we ever will. Sure he's a good tackle when playing banged up, but he's elite when healthy and the Bears paid him like an elite tackle. I love Harris personality and leadership so I hope this really isn't an issue and that he truly will be 100% for most of this season.

What happened to him. I loved him coming out of college. In fact, an ACL injury and hamstring injury were basically what kept him out. This guy is a very good athlete and showed signs of being very healthy in his final two preseason games. I'd take him over Booker and most of our WR corps. Plus he proved that he could stay healthy in college and high school, which you can't necessarily say about Bradley.

It may have more to do with the Bears believing that they could slide Bowman onto the practice squad while McBride would surely get picked up.

Is this guy any good?

Jason, you honestly have to be the only person in the world that would call the Bears WR corps talented.

Yep. If you want to talk about major busts, you'd have to point at Cedric, Haynes, etc. They were first round picks and when you miss on those they have to be considered busts (heck, even Columbo). However, there was solid rationale behind the picks which makes me less hesitant to truly rip Angelo for such. Of course the other luxury pick I'd have major issues with was Devin Hester as I felt it was completely assinine to take him when we did (given the other needs the club had). But it ended up turning into one hell of a pick.