Random Stat of the Day- Let's Spin Away From the Bears Wins

week 1- 89 yard catch and run by forte
week 2 dallas- olsen 39 yard td catch and run
week 2 dallas- knox 50 yard catch
week 3- knox had a 30 yarder i beleive
week 5- the matt forte show

so i think that kind of explains why we get away with a horrned 3rd down percentage and dont even get me started one the woes at the 1 yard line

just this morning.

I’m of the mind that we are. That being said, I see a lot of potential in this team. I am hoping that we use this early schedule to become cohesive and prepared for the latter part of the schedule. I honestly think Washington is going to be our toughest test yet. If we can get some momentem going with us though, we can probably pull out the title in what could end up being a closer division than most of us have anticipated.

it all stems from the bad O-line play. If they can get their act together and get a semblance of continuity, the offense will also be more consistent. The defense has shown they can hold their own and come up with timely stops and turnovers. If the offense can start by taking care of the football and build on the big play ability to include some “small” plays that move the chains, this could be a playoff winning team.

but consider the fact that the Cowboys have just one win, when they were supposedly being considered Super Bowl contenders at the beginning of the year. Nobody really expected them to be as bad as they are right now. Also, while Carolina may have not been great either way, I don’t think people figured they would be winless at this point.
Anyways, yes the schedule appears as if it has been weak but in the end a win is a win and the Bears have 4 of them in 5 games.
And I don’t think anybody expected that to happen when the schedules initially came out.
From the looks of it as well the Bears as a team still haven’t played their best football, so if they can play to their full potential they will be a scary team.
Good teams win the games they are supposed to win and so far the Bears have done that and more, no matter what those teams records is now or how we won.
In the end the Bears are still tied for the best record in the conference and are in control of the division.

People always try to analyze strength of schedule but at the end of the day we played 5 games and won 4 of them and that is all that matters. With the way parity is in the league any team can lose to any team (See: bucs over bengals, cards over saints, redskins over packers, and the chiefs are 3-1). We may be an ugly 4-1 but it’s still 4-1.

the cowboys, packers, and vikings (a team they have not played yet but are 1 – 3) are all going to the playoffs and the Bears are not…..Well according to various ESPN “NFL experts”……Ah well…..

The Bears account for 25% of all Lions losses, 33% of the Cowboys, 50% of the Packers, and even 20% of the Panthers losses. I thin it’s too early to start reading much into statistics like those.

looking at the strength of schedule even before the season starts is worthless. Dallas is obviously much better than their 1-3 record.

Are we currently benefitting from a cupcake schedule?

Jimmy Crack Corn…

Like most teams, the Bears show flashes of brilliance. Abruptly followed by unbelievable ineptitude. But then followed up by more brilliance and tremendous effort. So they win.

So far this season it’s looked to me more like which team can stay more focused and not give the game away through mistakes. Parity in the league and all (smirks).

D and ST are solid, like we usually are. Those units cause other teams to make mistakes.

We have not yet had a dominating performance – I am eagerly awaiting this very thing.

The game against the Giants flashed our lace jockstraps to the world. More than anything, our OL scares the hell out of me as a fan. They will get Cutler seriously injured (yeah, I just threw up a little) unless they step it up 10 notches. Without Cutler our offense is nearly toothless. It seems our O is merely a house of cards, sad to say.

If Jerry Angelo would remember just ONE thing – “Great Players make great plays”.

The vast majority or the analysts look at box scores and highlights, but they never actually watch the games. Too many games for them to actually analyze and break down. They just parrot each other. I hope it continues, it just fuels the fire in the locker room.

and its a good thing, the game against Detroit underlined the fact that this team was not ready coming out of the preseason. For 90% of the Dallas game we were outplayed but this team showed its big play potential. The Green Bay game we were very fortunate, but dispite all the fans who can’t post anything without calling for Lovie’s firing the team was well prepared and showed discipline where GB lost its cool argo all the penalties. Against NY we were badly exposed, a lot of people on this site were quick to place considerable blame on Culler for sacks saying he was holding the ball too long and not making his hot reads etc. however no one pointed out that with the pocket collapsing so
qickly he would have a lot of trouble seeing through his and their linemen. TV coverage really didn’t show how or what his recievers were doing. Blame Martz. Carolina is one of the worst teams in the NFL take away a couple of great runs by Forte and we played pretty much at the same level they did. The good news in all of this is our defense has played good all year, but they are not going to win games for us the way the Steelers D has done for them, but our D will keep us in the game and come up with some take aways to give our O a chance to win the game for us. Our O is struggling and not just the O line. They have time to get it all together before the schedule gets tough lets hope they do.

They based their ‘findings’ on preseason and it didnt amount to squat.

I think we can beat GB again…yes…on their turf, I know we can beat MN at home (heck we beat them in MN last year), we can beat Lions. The only games that concern me are Jets, Pats and Fish… we have to play better each game and get that OL together and protecting our QB!!!!

Our defense is playing so well, ST is kicking butt….GO BEARS!!!!

It isn’t the Bears fault that they faced teams with bad records. I would be perfectly fine with having to face easy teams all the way through as long as we win.