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Lets hope

Sounds badass.

Plus Bernard Berrina.

Ya, I think the Edgerin James fiasco in Arizona may be the exact reason we get to keep Briggs.

Because Bryant Gumbel is freaking terrible and shouldn't even be announcing. Shannon Sharpe does pre-game, there are so many black people involved with football reporting its not even funny (pretty much all of the glory Cowboys....Deion/Irvin and than obviously Aikman/Johnson who are not black). Shannon Sharpe, Chris Carter, Kordell is apparently doing it a bit, Marshall Faulk and I'm sure there are more.

I heard that but I thought he was actually saying it saracastically based on how a lot of the media has been calling him that. But I could be wrong and regardless Skip is just there on that show to entertain me (I don't really think much of his opinion) but I get good laughs out of cold pizza in the AM. Actually my favorite person is Jay Feeley who is really well spoken and I realized Kordell handles himself really well too (he was on 1st and 10 today w/Skip).

Shoot, you don't have to worry, I'd recommend against using me as your CPA. I swear every one of my friends always asks me to do there taxes and I look at them, shake my head and go you are just as qualified as me when it comes to taxes (that may not be the case, but I don't want to do there taxes and I don't do taxes for a living so while I've had classes in them, I am far from an expert if someone is doing a complicated return or any return for that matter). Hell, I let the tax people at my work do my taxes for free, haha. Hell, aside from my dad and other employees/auditors I don't think many people get/know what an external auditor does (I didn't even until I finally started the job). And no, we don't add any value to a company, rather without us the company would have no value (from an investors standpoint).

With my rocket arm, I can throw a ball through holes that small

A hurricane would show up and Ditka would be a Patriot and Lovie would beat a Colt

I think Briggs is starting to realize that a lot of guys that take the money and go play somewhere else never really reach the success they had prior. Briggs is in a situation where he plays on a team that has just made it to the superbowl and win or lose this team is going to have a shot at being in the next couple superbowls (barring any sort of disaster in terms of injuries or something else). Plus he knows the system works for him and that the coaches have faith in him and all in all I think in the end he may realize 5 or 8 extra million (in the NFL world of non-guaranteed contracts) may not be that big of a deal.

I have it, but have not actually watched it.

Just going to throw it out there, but I think either Grossman or one of the Rb's get it or one of our Cb's get it (I am thinking one of Tillman/Vasher have a monster game).

We still blitz a lot less than a regular NFL team that doesn't run the cover 2, but you are right, Rivera adds a bit of a different wrinkle using a few more blitzes and Lovie did so too when he was the HC with the Rams (they blitzed more than a typical Cover 2 defense).

This is awesome because Bradley is a big play threat. Plus I want to get him as much experience as possible because I think he's one of the few potential #1 Wr's we have on this team (Bradley has size and ridiculous speed, now he just needs to stay healthy and continue to improve on his route running and hands).

Ya, I think we are going to have some real fun games with Rex at the helm next year (if he can stay healthy for a 2nd consecutive season) but first I want to have one more real fun game with him this year Nope, IIRC he wasn't in the Miami game and I think one or two others.

Apparently this is getting a bit of pub as it was reported by Mortensen that the Bears may use Urlacher on the offensive side of the ball. IIRC, Urlacher was involved in a fake punt or field goal a couple years ago. I think Urlacher is a good enough athlete but overall I'm not a major fan of trick plays because I think a team is better with doing what they practice time in and time out (if I want to throw a deep ball, I'm going to let my best passer do so not some RB or WR, unless they are a former QB). Of course I do realize a trick play can make a defense think twice and work very well, but I prefer using screen passes, running plays and play action to keep a defense honest/trick em.

This is fantastic news. I think Briggs is under-rated by many people since I seem to see a lot of Bear fans think he's mediocre and is only good because he plays along side Urlacher. All I know is I see Briggs make plays that very few OLB's make and that isn't just because we have #54 it is also because Lance Briggs is one of the premiere OLB's in this league. If we can keep him without losing our CB's or other key players than I say do it. If it is him or losing guys like Tommie Harris and Charles Tillman than I say nah.

That I agree with. For football more than any other sport I prefer watching the game on TV. If I can get to a Bear game a year thats great (usually its more like every couple years) but overall I think you pick up a lot more watching the games on TV (well I have trouble keeping up with the game in person since it seems harder to tell what is going on).

Even I say that. Only time at all recently that I've destroyed anything is when we were playing Cleveland in 05 and someone blew a save and I punched the wall and I think broke a knuckle as I hit right where the base board was. Damn thing was black and blue and swollen for a couple weeks. I had pretty much figured with that loss (I think it was the game after or before the Joe Crede one where we I thought we had killed our momentum and lost it real late in the game and my punch was frustration that I figured the season may have came to an end).

I wasn't even an Illini fan and I was going crazy in the hotel room with my old man down in Arizona (we were there for our annual spring training trip). We were listening in the car and got into the room and I told him lets just watch it to see if anything happens (thinking it was over) and than we watched the most ridiculous comeback I can remember in the NCAA's. For the Sox in the world series I happened to be in Chitown with some friends that are big big big Sox fans (like myself) and I remember all of us sharing the exact same emotions going nuts (and it made things even cooler) and than in the 2nd game with Pods and Konerko's grand slams all of us going nuts). Heck during the Bears game against the Seahawks me and my two Bear buddies ended up all mobbing each other when Gould's kick went through. We were shocked none of us got hurt or broke anything (furniture wise).

I don't have a problem with it. That said if it is a big game I like to be sitting around with other die-hards of my team or the sport because I can't stand the uneducated comments that could occur during a big game (where my focus is on the game as opposed to trivial things that the casual fan may be interested in). And when it comes to football it is more so important for me to watch the games with other true football fans. This is less the case with baseball because I have a lot of close friends that are big baseball fans so I don't care if I'm around a few casual ones since you don't get as many casual fans watching things like the world series or MLB playoffs than you do when it comes to the NFL playoffs, more specifically the super bowl (where non sports fans watch these games). But if my team isn't in it than you can bet your butt that I'll be at a bbq or sorts to watch the game (as I'm there to watch the game but also for the entertainment factor of joking around too and eating like a bastard). Plus its more exciting when you are with other people who feel the same way you do because you all are feeling the same emotions when something goes good/bad.

Here is an interesting quote from a NY Times article in reference to Grossman (you know, the worse QB to ever start a superbowl game): "On one side of the field Sunday will be a quarterback who completed more passes this season than Joe Namath in 1968, for more yards than Roger Staubach in 1977, at a higher percentage than Johnny Unitas in 1970. He threw more touchdowns passes than Joe Montana in 1981, with fewer interceptions than Terry Bradshaw in 1979, and with a higher passer rating than Len Dawson in 1969. On the other side of the field will be Peyton Manning."

Whose interview is everyone looking forward to the most? For me I think its Bernard Berrian (did any of you guys see him on the Mayne Event talking about how he eats bacon and syrup before games because syrup deals with photosynthesis and bacon because pigs are great athletes). It was hillarious as he's scooping out handfuls of bacon and syrup to kids telling them they need to have this to grow into a football player. I also look forward to Rex's comments, Kreutz, Tillmans and Alex Browns. I wish Tommie Harris was healthy because he's the Bears best interview, imo.

That seems like a good plan. Just make sure you get a prime seat with the game on and hopefully the Bears do there thing because if they do that I think no matter what we'll all have big smiles on our faces