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We are giving away Bears and Jets tickets!
Friday, October 16th, 2009 | Free Ticket Giveaway, NFL | No Comments
We know that the last year has been tough for a lot of people, so we decided it was time to giveaway some free stuff. We are giving away NFL tickets to two games. The Bears on Dec 6th and for all of our east coast fans the Jets on Nov 29th. All you have to do is go to our web site and sign up. Tell as many people as you want, who knows if they win they might take you with to the game!
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Lovie is making deals
Wednesday, January 14th, 2009 | Chicago Bears, NFL | No Comments
The Chicago Bears are hard at working making big deals this off season. Rob Marinelli will be the assistant head coach/defensive line. As most NFL fans know Marinelli is the recorded breaking ex head coach of the lions that wa 0-16 this year. Yes, they did not win one game. Two years after blowing the Super Bowl the Bears are hiring Rob Marinelli? Lovie and Marinelli both had coaching positions with Tampa Bay. Looks like Lovie likes to hire friends, first Bob Babich and now the coach for the worst team in NFL history. I guess if you look at Chicago sports this is not a big surprise, the Cubs have not won the World Series in over 100 years and got swept the last two years in the playoff but fans keep buying tickets. Let see what else the Bears do this year, I think they should try and sign Michael Vick and Plaxico they are both great players.
Bears win in OT
Monday, December 22nd, 2008 | NFL | No Comments
| Final OT | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | OT | T |
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| Green Bay (5-10-0) | 0 | 14 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 17 |
| Chicago (9-6-0) « | 0 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 20 |
Game Leaders
GB – Pass: A. Rodgers (24-39, 260), Rec: D. Driver (6-63)
CHI – Pass: K. Orton (14-27, 142), Rush: M. Forte (23-73)
Vikings lose what will the Bears do?
Monday, December 22nd, 2008 | Chicago Bears, NFL | No Comments
It will be a warm -15 below with the windchill on Monday night in Chicago and the Bears are taking on the Packers. Back in Nov the Packers rolled over the Bears with a 37-3 win but a lot has changed since then. Fast forward to Dec 22 and the Bears are now 8-6 and the Packers are a sad 5-9. It looks like this game is only important to the Bears right now since they need to win the next two to make it into the playoffs. Also, the Bears expected Matt Forte to be in the lineup on Monday after dealing with injured right toe. Forte is 8th in the NFL with 1,115 yards and seven touchdowns, the Bears defiantly need all there best players on the field for the last two games.
If the Bears do lose tonight they still have a shot for a wild-card spot. The Bears need to win the next two and Philadelphia needs to beat Dallas at home. On top of this Oakland needs to defeat Tampa Bay on the road. All of these are very reasonable situations, but with the Bears who knows what team will come out to play. Lovie Smith is only focusing on Monday nights game and not worrying about the Playoffs right now. The Bears need everything to go perfect the next week for them to make it in the Playoffs and lets see if the Packers of Nov take the field. I’m going to make a crazy prediction and say the Bears are going to win this game tonight.
Bears Crush Rams 27-3; Now Look To Battle With Vikings
Tuesday, November 25th, 2008 | Chicago Bears, NFL, Sports | No Comments
The Chicago Bears road the shoulders of Matt Forte and a bruising defense to help defeat the lowly St. Louis Rams 27-3 in the Edward Jones Dome. Forte carried the ball 20 times for a career-high 132 yards, good for a 6.6 per carry average. Forte had a 13-yard touchdown run in the 1st quarter that gave the Bears a 7-0 lead, and then a 47-yard touchdown run in the 2nd quarter that all but put the game away with a 21-point Bears lead. Kyle Orton was efficient, if not spectacular – completing 18 of 29 passes for 139 yards. Orton completed a 7-yard touchdown pass to Jason McKie in the 1st quarter, and he did not throw an interception – all of which amounted to a respectable 85.3 passer rating.
The Bears defense finally showed some teeth, albeit against a weak Rams offense playing without stars Orlando Pace and Stephen Jackson. The Bears defense knocked starting quarterback Mark Bulger out of the game after just 2 pass attempts. Replacement quarterback Trent Green threw 4 interceptions – 2 by Lance Briggs, and 1 each by Brian Urlacher and Charles “peanut” Tillman. The defensive line finally pressured the quarterback – registering 5 sacks – 2 by each of Tommie Harris and Ogunleye, and 1 by Alex Brown.
The victory allowed the Bears to keep pace with the Minnesota Vikings, who defeated the Jacksonville Jaguars 30-12 on the road. The Vikings and Bears now sit atop the NFC North division with 6-5 records. The 2 teams battle it out for the outright division lead on Sunday night in Minneapolis. With only 4 games left after the contest, it is a must-win for each team. Each team will have to pull out all the stops to get the all-important victory. There are 7 teams with better records than the Bears and Vikings in the NFC, so the only realistic shot at the playoffs will be through a NFC division title berth. So it all comes down to this. Will the Bears build off of the Rams performance and put up a good fight at the Metrodome? Or will the Bears return to the form shown at Lambeau Field 2 weeks ago where the team was embarrassed 37-3? We’ll have to wait and see Sunday night. It most likely won’t end up being the shootout that saw the Bears beat the Vikings 48-41 in Week 7 on the lakefront at Soldier Field, but it should still be just as exciting nonetheless…
Bears Embarrassed at Lambeau, Lose 37-3 to Packers
Tuesday, November 18th, 2008 | Chicago Bears, Green Bay Packers, NFL, Sports | No Comments
Ouch…
The Chicago Bears were tied atop the NFC North Division with the Minnesota Vikings, who had just beaten the Green Bay Packers. The Bears were getting their starting quarterback back after Kyle Orton had missed the Tennessee Titans loss the week before due to a sprained right ankle injury suffered the week before against the Detroit Lions. The Bears had something to prove against the Brett Favre-less Packers, who trailed the Bears by 1 game and were looking to make a statement of their own. It seemed the Bears had things going in the right direction, and then BAM!!! They actually had to play the game on Sunday.
Bears 3, Packers 37. Not good. The Bears managed only a 35-yard Robbie Gould field goal in the 2nd quarter. The Bears’ offense sputtered along for most of the game. Orton completed only 50% of his passes for 133 yards, with no touchdowns or interceptions. The Bears managed only 9 first downs and only 234 total net yards. The lone bright spot was Matt Forte who compiled over 100 total yards from scrimmage – 64 rushing yards on 16 carries and 40 receiving yards on 6 receptions. After Forte, the Bears’ next best receiver was Greg Olsen who caught 4 passes for 45 yards. The offense may have been out of sync with Orton getting back up to speed after the week off, but the Bears have a lot to be concerned with as they come down the home stretch.
The Bears’ defense was ineffective once again. Packers Quarterback Aaron Rodgers completed 23 of 30 passes for 227 yards. Rodgers threw 2 touchdowns and 1 interception, good for a 105.8 passer rating. Packers Running Back Ryan Grant rushed for 145 yards on 25 carries and scored on a 4-yard rushing touchdown to give the Packers a 14-3 in the 2nd quarter. Packers Kicker Mason Crosby also kicked 3 field goals, including a 53-yarder at the end of the 2nd quarter to give the Packers a 17-3 halftime lead. The Packers gained 24 first downs, controlled the clock for over 37 minutes and amassed a total of 427 net yards.
The Packers defense is good, but the Bears offense should have been to produce a better offensive attack to take less pressure off the Bears defense. Orton probably wasn’t fully up-to-speed after dealing with his right ankle injury, but the team will need to execute better if it still hopes to make the playoffs at the end of the season. The defense was atrocious. The Bears did not have 1 touch on Rodgers all game long. The front line is not getting any consistent pressure on the quarterback, as Tommie Harris, Mark Anderson, Adewale Ogunleye and Alex Brown have not lived up to the expectations going into the season. That factor is allowing opposing teams’ offenses to execute their designed game plan at will. Lovie Smith and Defensive Coordinator Bob Babich are not making any adjustments during the course of the game, and that is compounding the problem. Immediate changes are necessary if the Bears defense expects to stop anyone during the last 6 games of the season.
There is some good news. The Bears schedule is beatable down the stretch. They have road games at the St. Louis Rams (2-8) and Minnesota Vikings (5-5) the next 2 weeks. Then the Bears have 3 consecutive home games at Soldier Field – the Jacksonville Jaguars (4-6) on Sunday 12/7; the New Orleans Saints (5-5) on Thursday 12/11; and the Greeen Bay Packers (5-5) on Monday Night Football on 12/22. The Bears finish on the road at the 3-6 Houston Texans. So the Bears do not have to face a team that has a winning record currently. The Bears have already beaten the Vikings and are capable of beating both the Vikings and Packers – both wins would make it very likely that the Bears would win the NFC North and make the playoffs. The Jaguars and Saints are both having down years, and as long as neither team finds the right “answer” when they play the Bears, the Bears have a good shot at winning both of those games. The Rams and Texans are both bad football teams, so a loss to either of those teams would be devastating to their playoff chances. So even though the Bears have a lot of holes, and my rating of the Bears’ defense and Head Coach Lovie Smith’s schemes is poor at best, they still have a very good chance to return to the playoffs in 2008-9. Once in, anything can happen – just ask the 2007-8 Super Bowl Champion New York Giants.
Bears Defeat Lions 27-23 Behind King Rex
Monday, November 3rd, 2008 | NFL, Sports | No Comments
The Chicago Bears defeated the Detroit Lions 27-23 on the Chicago lakefront on Sunday. It was a game with 3 distinct chapters. The Bears raced out to a 10-0 1st quarter lead courtesy of a Robbie Gould 36-yard field goal and a 5-yard touchdown scramble by Bears Quarterback Kyle Orton. In the 2nd quarter, the Lions exploded for 20 unanswered points on a 1-yard touchdown run by Kevin Smith and two touchdown passes from Lions Quarterback Dan Orlovsky. The teams then traded field goals to set the halftime score at 23-13 Lions. Right before the 1st half ended, Kyle Orton was injured trying to scramble and pick up some extra yards in the Bears 2-minute offense. Orton would not return to the game and he was replaced by former starter Rex Grossman, who led the Bears to the Super Bowl during the 2005-6 NFL season. In the 2nd half, Grossman and the Bears defense both stepped up to pull
off the comeback against the still-winless Lions. Midway through the 3rd quarter, Grossman hit Rashied Davis with a 6-yard touchdown pass down the middle that cut the Lions lead to 3. And with 5 minutes left to go in the game, Grossman QB sneaked the ball into the end zone for the go-ahead, game-winning score. The Bears did not allow the Lions to score a single point in the 2nd half to preserve the win.
Although Grossman’s final numbers weren’t spectacular, he did enough to allow the Bears win a game they desperately needed against one of the worst teams in the NFL. Grossman had a 49.9 passer rating, hitting only 9 of his 19 passes, with 1 interception. But he did orchestrate the 2 drives that led to the go-ahead and game-winning scores, and that should be enough to come Bears fans for the time being. Bears Running Back Matt Forte put forth a solid effort – 126 yards on 22 carries – a good sign that the Bears will stay true to the run.
On the defensive end, the lack of pressure up front is very discouraging. Only 1 sack against a poor Lions offensive line sends up red flags all over the place. The Bears also should have had more than 1 fumble recovery and 1 interception against Orlovsky and the Lions offense – going into the Bears game, the Lions offense had committed 5 fumbles, and Lions quarterbacks were responsible for 9 interceptions.
The Bears have a 5-3 record and sit alone at the top of the NFC North. The Lions are 0-8 and are in last place in the NFC North. The Bears have a critical 4-game stretch coming up, and the loss of Kyle Orton will hurt that much more because of the competition that stands in their way of an NFC North division win. The Bears host the undefeated Tennessee Titans on Sunday, November 9th at Soldier. Then the Bears embark on a 3-game road trip to Lambeau Field to take on the Green Bay Packers on November 16th, to St. Louis to take on the Rams on November 23rd and to Minnesota to take on the Vikings on November 30th. Given the stiff competition, if the Bears can manage to win 2 of the 4 games during this stretch, they should look at it as a huge positive moving forward to the final 4 games of the season.
Bears Cherish Bye Week – Look to Tame Lions
Monday, October 27th, 2008 | NFL, Sports | No Comments
The Chicago Bears sit atop the NFC North Division with a 4-3 record. The Bears are tied with the Green Bay Packers and are 1 game ahead of the Minnesota Vikings. The Bears, Packers and Vikings all had bye weeks in Week 8.
The Bears cherished the week off right smack dab in the middle of the grueling 16-game season. The Bears will face the Detroit Lions at Soldier Field on Sunday, November 2nd. The Lions lost to the Washington Redskins 25-17 this past Sunday and have yet to win a game during the 2008 campaign. The Bears and Lions met in Week 5 in Detroit, where Quarterback Kyle Orton led the Bears to a convincing 34-7 win. Orton set numerous individual records in the game – career high in completions with 24, career high in yards passing with 334, and a career high in passer rating with a 121.4 mark. Orton also threw 2 touchdown passes. The Bears will look for much of the same from Orton and the rest of the offense that has been surprisingly efficient so far this year.
On the injury front, the Bears hope to get some help back in their secondary with the return of Nathan Vasher and Charles “Peanut” Tillman. This will present an interesting decision for Head Coach Lovie Smith regarding 2nd year player Corey Graham who has started the last 3 games due to injury. He has the most tackles of any Bear during that 3-game stretch – 33 tackles – and he made his 1st career interception against the Vikings on October 19th.
The Bears 2008 1st round draft pick – Offensive Tackle Chris Williams – has been cleared to play after having back surgery in August to repair a bulging disc. The Bears makeshift offensive line has responded well for Orton, and Orton has developed a good feel for when the pocket is collapsing. With the offense playing well, it is unclear how much time, if any, the Bears will give Williams over the next few weeks. The coaching staff doesn’t want to disrupt the offensive line team play right now, but also wants to get some NFL experience for their high-priced offensive tackle. While this week’s game against the Lions could be a good first test for Williams, the Bears have formidable foes during the 4 weeks following the Lions game – home against the undefeated Tennessee Titans, at the Packers, at the resurgent St. Louis Rams and at the Vikings. Barring a serious injury to one of the current starters, the chances of Williams seeing significant playing team in any of those contests is slim to none.
Bears Top Vikings 48-41 in NFC North Shootout
Monday, October 20th, 2008 | NFL, Sports | No Comments
Not what anyone expected from the gritty NFC North, known for its bruising rushing attacks, bone-crushing defenses and low-scoring games. The Bears ultimately held on for a 48-41 victory that put them in a tie for 1st place atop the NFC North with the Green Bay Packers. The Vikings are 1 game behind the Packers and Bears with a 3-4 record. Bears Quarterback Kyle Orton threw for 283 yards and 2 touchdowns and did not throw an interception, good for an exceptional 114.5 passer rating. Vikings Quarterback Gus Frerotte put up similar numbers – 298 yards and 2 touchdowns – but threw 4 costly interceptions that prevented the Vikings from picking up the win at Soldier Field. Vikings Running Back Adrian Peterson rushed for 121 yards and 2 touchdowns against the porous Bears defense. Bears Running Back Matt Forte had trouble rushing the ball all day long, but still managed 56 yards on 20 carries and a touchdown run at the start of the 4th quarter that gave the Bears a 17-poit cushion at 48-31. Although the Vikings scored 10 points late in the 4th quarter to pull within 1 score at 48-41, the Bears defense held on for the all-important intre-division victory. The Bears special teams scored 2 touchdowns – on a blocked punt in the 1st quarter in which Garrett Wolfe returned the ball 17 yards into the end zone for a score and on a Bears punt in which the Vikings return man fumbled the ball in the end zone which the Bears Zackary Brown recovered for the score. Each special teams’ touchdown gave the Bears back the lead and proved that the Bears special team unit still has the potential to be a game-changer as the season wears on.
The Bears have a bye week in which the team can nurse some lingering injuries and focus on a tough stretch ahead. After playing the winless Detroit Lions on 11/2, the Bears will face off against the undefeated Tennessee Titans at Soldier Field on 11/9, and then endure a 3-game road trip which could determine the fate of the Bears season – 11/16 at the 4-3 Green Bay Packers, 11/23 at the rejuvenated St. Louis Rams in St. Louis; and 11/30 at the intra-division Minnesota Vikings. The Bears have a difficult road to hoe, but with the new leadership of Quarterback Kyle Orton and the committment to the rushing game which opens up all facets of the Bears offense, the Bears feel like they can win on any given Sunday.
Bears Lose to Falcons 22-20 on Last Second Field Goal
Monday, October 13th, 2008 | Sports | No Comments
The Atlanta Falcons defeated the Chicago Bears 22-20 on a game-ending 48-yard field goal by long-time great NFL kicker Jason Elam. With the Falcons leading 19-10 midway through the 4th quarter, the Bears drove down the field with ease, only to be stopped on a heroic goalline stand by the Falcons on several plays from the 1 yard line. The Bears didn’t despair however, as the team cut the lead to 6 with a 32-yard field goal by Robbie Goul with 4 minutes remaining in the game. When Elam missed a 33-yard field goal with less than 3 minutes to play which could have preserved the win for the Falcons, the Bears had a new lease on life. Bears Quarterback Kyle Orton calmly directed a 77-yard drive which ended with a 17-yard touchdown strike to Rashied Davis to tie the game at 19 all. Gould’s extra point gave the Bears the 20-19 lead with only 11 seconds left to play. The Bears elected to squib the kickoff, and the Falcons were able to return the ball 10 yards to their own 44 yard line. The Falcons had time for 1 quick pass and Rookie Quarterback executed a perfect 26-yard sideline pass to Michael Jenkins – shockingly putting the Falcons and Elam in range for a makeable 48-yard field goal attempt. Elam made up for this earlier “chip shot” and connected on the field goal – his 5th of the day – to give the Falcons the unexpected 22-20 win. With the win, the Falcons jumped to 4-2 – tied for 1st place in the NFC South with the Carolina Panthers and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. With the loss, the Bears fell to 3-3 – tied for 1st place in the NFC North with the Green Bay Packers and the Minnesota Vikings. Kyle Orton had one of his best days as a pro – completing 60% of his passes for 286 yards and 1 touchdown. He had a passer rating of 87.9. Matt Ryan completed over 73% of his passes for 301 yards and 1 touchdown, good for a 116.1 passer rating. Neither quarterback threw an interception.
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