I know that doesn’t mean much, no pads, pretty simple play patterns, etc. BUT it’s good that he impressed nonetheless. I recall when Benson came in for minicamp they said he was having a hard time catching the ball out of the backfield. That was the first time I thought that he might have a few issues. Hopefully Forte can come in stay healthy, compete and do some good as a rookie.

...just teach our lineman to block on a screen pass, we’d be all set.

Sorry Bear Fans, Saints Fan here and just checking on any good word about Matt Forte. I was really hoping after we took our D Lineman from USC in Ellis, I was praying we would take Matt a guy I know from the park my son and Matt were on the same T-Ball team together as well as junior high football, baseball and basketball teams.
When Matt was in the 7th and 8th grade playing Runningback, you could tell or least I could and I am sure alot of other people could notice, this guy was gone to be special. He showed great vision, toughness, and a whole lot of speed: He was truely fun to watch.
So I followed his career as he attended a local High Scool in the area and for 4 years started making his mark in the league. When Matt, who by the way is just as great a person off the field as he is on the field. Well when he was going through his senior year in high school I got all excited to see if either of our local schools LSU or Tulane would get a crack at him. Well to my suprise he landed with Tulane but what was really strange was Tulane and a 1-AA school, McNeese were the only offers he received. That totally blew me away as I knew what type runner Matt was as well as human being he was. Now, the great part is I’ll bet there were so many schools going..”how did we pass that kid up”.
So as any wise Saints fan,(sorry) again LOL started watching Draft day, my thoughts were, well Duece McAllister will be comming off his second major reconstructed knee operation and the fact that Reggie Bush sure missed Duece when he went down early in the year. It was the talk around here Reggie needed that Big Power back in Duece to have more options as how he was used and let Duece run and pound between the tackles. So my brain started to work overtime and kept thinking how nice it would be to have Reggie teamed with Matt in the backfield and let the mismatches begin.
Bear fans trust me on this, he is going to make ya’ll some happy campers and make alot of football teams regret on how they passed him up just like alot of Universities regret their decission on passing on Matt with no schlorship. Ya’ll lucky guys, and I am bummed, especially after I noticed we have to play ya’ll again and also back at ya’lls place(how did ya’ll do that) this will be 3 in a row hmmmm, seems like this one ought to be in our place, in the Dome! LOL

But I will be following his every carry.
Good Luck Matt
Mike Bondio from
Slidell, La.