2006 vs 2018 Team comparison

[adam]

Outside of Special Teams, the 2018 Bears look to be equivalent or better across the board than the 2006 team based on positions.

QB
Grossman vs Trubisky - Not even a competition

RB
Jones/Benson vs Howard/Cohen - Fairly even production-wise but Cohen the X-Factor.

WR
Berrian/Muhammad/Davis vs Robinson/Gabriel/Miller - Fairly even top-2, but Miller takes the cake as the #3.

TE/FB
Clark/Gilmore/McKie vs Burton/Shaheen/Sims - Actually fairly even here with Clark and Burton with similar production.

OL
Tait/Brown*/Kreutz*^/Garza/Miller vs Leno/Daniels/Whitehair/Witzmann/Massie - Edge goes to 2006 team which only allowed Grossman to be sacked 21 times. 

DL
Brown/Ogunleye/Harris*/Anderson/Johnson vs Hicks/Goldman/Bullard/Robertson-Harris/Nichols - Both have one high end guy Harris/Hicks with some very good supporting cast

LB
Urlacher*^/Briggs*/Hillenmeyer vs Mack/Floyd/Trevathan/Smith - Even though it's 4-3 vs 3-4, still a pretty cool talent comparison, Urlacher/Mack Briggs/Smith, current team with slight edge comparing Trevathan to Hillenmeyer. 

DB
Tillman/Vasher/Manning/Harris/Manning/Brown vs Fuller/Amukamara/Callahan/Jackson/Amos - Both great groups, but current team might have the edge due to how good Jackson is playing and the emergence of Callahan in the slot.

Defense:
2006: 9 players with at least 1 sack / 2018: 15 players with at least 1 sack (11 games)
2006: 8 players with at least 1 INT / 2018: 10 players with at least 1 INT (11 games)

ST
Gould*^/Maynard/Mannelly/Hester*^ vs Parkey/ODonnell/Scales/Cunningham/Cohen - Easily the 2006 team in a landslide. 2x All-Pro's and Maynard and Mannelly.

*Pro Bowl / ^All-Pro

DVOA:
2006: 5th (23.9%)/ Offense 29th (-5%)/ Defense 2nd (-20.1%)/ST 1st (8.7%)
2018: 4th (22.4%)/Offense 12th (5.7%)/Defense 1st (-20.9%)/ST 29th (-4.2%)

Besides for having the same exact opponents as 2006, there is an outside chance we would have the same playoff opponents, SEA in Wild Card weekend and NO either in the Divisional or NFCC Game.