The Bears Den - 6/1/09
by ChiFan13 on Jun 1, 2009 12:00 AM CDT
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....where we actively campaign to have the hardest-to-spell roster in the NFL.
In The Den
ChicagoBears.com
Izzy is excited to sign with the Bears for two more years.
Chicago Sun Times
With the Pisa signing, the Bears are at 80 players - the Bears will have to drop someone prior to training camp.
KC Joyner performed a study that looked at Jay Cutler vs. Brett Favre in 2008. This is a good read; don't miss it.
Chicago Tribune
Mike Singletary is using an old Bears training technique for his 49ers.
Instead of giving you a generic story on the Izzy signing, Vaughn McClure gets some quotes from Drew Rosenhaus, Marinelli, and Izzy himself.
McClure also runs down the busy day the Bears had last Friday.
Taking a look around the NFL, the Tribune writers surmise which defensive players are poised for a breakout season.
Daily Herald
Bob LeGere is very excited about the Pisa signing.
ESPN Chicago
Jerry Angelo has said that it all starts with the quarterback: Jeff Dickerson thinks much differently.
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I have to agree with a Sun-Times poster that said it'd be nice to have a Cutler - Orton comparison instead,
Comparing any quarterback to Favre’s strange ’08 season comes off as rather trivial to me.
by Black Sox Baseball on Jun 1, 2009 12:10 AM CDT reply actions
Favre also had Thomas Jones taking a lot of heat from him.
And let me ask this, will Cutler’s success be limited more than Orton, Grossman, Griese, Krenzl, Quinn, Matthews, Miller, Wuerffel, Stewart, etc. etc. etc? I think not.
"Well, we didn't block real good but we made up for it by not tackling."
- John McKay
I was simply referring to the fact that Favre was hurt the latter part of the season.
Making him an odd comparison choice considering how his season was going early on.
by Black Sox Baseball on Jun 1, 2009 4:20 PM CDT up reply actions
I came across this...
… article and found it very interesting. If you have ever thought the NFL injury reports seem inaccurate, this would be a good read for you.
http://www.profootballtalk.com/2009/05/31/more-evidence-of-injury-shenanigans/
I came across another...
… article, this one on The Bears. Good read. (receiver situation)
http://www.nfl.com/news/story?id=09000d5d8109228c&template=without-video-with-comments&confirm=true
You see the ESPN Outside The Lines piece on Marshall?
Say what you want about the girl and her motives but the facts seems pretty clear: the guy consistently beats up women. After watching that, I’m not too sure I want him on the Bears.
I don't want him on the Bears at all(Sorry if it came out like I did)
But it seems we’re headed to that direction. Hopefully not. This guy has been a troublemaker since he’s came in the league. And from what a friend of his told me, he’s got a lot of maturity issues.
Think With Your Dipstick Jimmy!
by ifuwannacrownem on Jun 1, 2009 8:35 AM CDT up reply actions
I saw that piece.
Marshall is in complete denial. He really believes that their has been no wrong doing, on his part. Didn’t Bob Ley say, Marshall has had 12 or 13 domestic disturbance calls reported? Someone NEEDS to get this guy help, before the worst case scenario takes place.
The guy sounds like a total D-bag...
"You win because of the quarterback. We have to get that position stabilized. We're fixated on that." -- Jerry Angelo (12.30.2008)
Jerry Angelo trades for Jay Cutler! (4.2.2009)
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Love the Tag Line This Week...
Indeed, the Bears do seem to have a hard to spell roster. Here is my top 5 list:
5. Adewale Ogunleye: Throw phonetics out the window on this one. If I didn’t know it, I’d think we were talking: “aid-whale” O-gun-lie" Anyway…we all know him as Wale or O-Gun and that’s all we need.
4. Mat Toeina: Not even sure I know how to say it— much less spell it. His anonymity makes this one especially tough. Can anyone else give me a six letter word with an “a, e, i, o” in it? Triple word score if you can…
3. Dusty Dvoracek: Anytime you have a eastern European name that has a “d” followed directly by a “v” you can pretty much assume that you’re not going to spell it right.
2. Will Ta’ufo’ou: A name with two apostrophes in it?! Has to be damn close to the hardest name to spell in the entire NFL
1. Danieal Manning: Danieal? Does this make any sense to anyone? This gets my number one vote simply because what should be simple somehow has become the one most likely to be spelled incorrectly.
Rounding out the Top 10: Al Afalava, Devin Aromashodu, , Frank Omilyale, Pisa Tinoisamoa
by The Kaiser on Jun 1, 2009 8:24 AM CDT reply actions 4 recs
Yeah I remember
In 2006 it took until like week 7 for anyone to figure out how to say Danieal (was it Daniel or Danielle?)
by Sam Householder on Jun 1, 2009 10:03 AM CDT up reply actions
Ayup, that was mine, after realising I had to look it up every time I wanted to refer to Tinoisamoa or Ta’ufo’ou.
It reminds me a little of towards the end of the Ditka HC era when we had some players with seriously long Polish surnames crammed across their shoulders :-D
"They tried to take out the quarterback, and if they managed that, they tried to take out the backup." - Bears SB20 TE Emery Moorehead, on the mentality of *that* defense
Rounding out the top ten
only = 9? Lol. :)
"A lot of fans were drawn to me because they knew that whatever the score was, I was going to run as hard as I could on every play. You don't have that now, you have guys waiting for next week or even next year." - Walter Payton
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