Kreutz vs. Raji: Veteran vs. Rookie

the twilight of his career, no doubt. He is smaller, older, and probably not as strong as Raji; though I’m sure he is faster and has a better right hook.

That said shut your mouth Raji, rook! Don’t want to hear from you until you’ve completed a full season and been to a few pro-bowls. Then maybe you’ll have earned the right to talk shit to a six time pro-bowler.

The only way you’re going to get anything out of Kreutz this year besides failure and bad snaps is by pissing him off.

Beekman may be starting C the second half after Kreutz breaks Raji’s jaw.

The way Kreiutz & his fellow lineman are playing this year, they need all of the motivation that they can get. I wish more guys would come forward and challenge them like Raji did, and get them pissed off!

if Kreutz can have one last great game before he falls off the cliff. It would be nice for the Bears to at least get a parting shot on the Pack, and possibly prevent them from making the playoffs.

this team is an easy target both on and off the field. Respect must be earned, even from rookies. In the past when we were bad, teams at least respected us and our D, not the case right now and deservedly so. The fact that there was not a successful attempt to make Chad or Berrian pay for talking smack has only invited more similar shenanigans.

Speaks to Urlacher’s point about identity. Hopefully Olin was the wrong guy to pick on and he can help to reestablish an identity for this team which at bare minimum will not tolerate disrespect.

Just food for thought. Wondering how Kreutz compares physically to other centers in the league – let’s say compared to the centers of each of the division leaders. In terms of weight, height, strength. Is he really that undersized when compared to his peers who are centers or is that a myth? I can do the comparisons myself, but maybe some of you already know the answers and have the numbers to show for it. Jeff Saturday comes to mind, but I don’t know how he compares to Kreutz in terms of size.

Also, Jeff Dickerson reports that league sources have informed him that the Bears will keep Chris Williams and Kevin Shaffer at the starting LT and RT respectively.

at least the Chris williams part…

to get blown-up like the old Pinto from the movie Top Secret.

his better days no doubt, but he’s been around a good amount of time and those were some pretty decent days. He is one of the smaller hikers, but his “attitude” made up for some of that when he was indeed younger. The punk cheesehead better hope he dont end up on the bottom of a pile….I’m sure there’s a little Mongo in Kruetz…..