The Bears Den: November 17, 2010

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/football/bears/ct-spt-1117-haugh-bears-dolphins-chic20101116,0,911460.column

He(a Dolphins fan) is going to the game with his girlfriend(a Bears fan) . Knowing him, I’m not too sure they’ll be driving back up together.

But the Ocho also had an article on the proposal the union gave. Turns out the owners also proposed two bye weeks. One for all teams immediately after the pre-season, and another based on the current layout.

Not saying some of these things are being put in just as points to be eliminated later, but that is a stupid idea.

I was the staffer.

From what I understand, a lot of the Dolphins woes have been coming from less than stellar play by the interior offensive line.

If Long is going to play with one arm, they’ll probably cheat to help cover Peppers. If he’s out, they’ll definitely cheat to help cover Peppers. From what I read somewhere, I think it was on the Phinsider, if Long doesn’t play, they’ll swing their current RT over to LT, and then put someone else in at RT. Then if either end starts to go off, they’ll cheat out to cover them, opening up the middle for the return of Tommie Harris.

A long shot, I know, but I can hope.

Especially now with Hester lighting up the return game and getting the nod again from coaches.

you have to expand the number of players a team could keep in order to factor in injuries. Each team should have 60 players that can be activated. Two bye weeks sounds good too, more games, more NFL! Woohoo!

Meatheads in Cleveland, but it could have been anywhere else just as easily. He’s lucky it didn’t happen around here, I don’t think Bears fans would have any trouble kicking the crap out of another Bears fan if he turned out to be a complete ass.

told an interesting story about how his career ended…..

He heard/felt his knee buckle then got hit with the crown of the helmet that gave him a huge gash on his chin that needed 25 stitches to close (He talked about how he thought it was an illegal hit but the player, who was an ex – cowboy player that wanny coached, was not fined and wanny kept saying what was wrong it was a legal hit. Dont think waddle liked that as he mentioned it but laughed)…..

Anyways just before the half ended as he was getting stitched up and looked at on the trainers table he heard wanny scream out “can he go!?!”…..The trainers started to say tell him no way (Waddle joked that the trainer said “I think hes dead”) but Waddle didnt want to be cut so replied “Ill give it a go coach”….Waddle ran routes but his knee kept on buckling and he would fall….He was on one knee when wanny ran up to him and screamed “Can you go?!?!”….Waddle said he had tears in his eyes from the pain in his knee and hip and said “Coach I cant g….” Wanny cut him off swore at him and ran off…..Waddle joked he gets asked what the difference between wanny and Ditka and he said jokingly “I would have found a way to play for Ditka that day”….. Waddle did say that he understood why wanny wanted him to play because Jeff Graham was hurt and out that game so wanny only had 3 WRs that day……

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Also Lovie Smith teams on Thurs are 1 – 3 and avg 7.5 penalties and 3.5 Turnover in those games…..

Lovie has come out and said “Yeah we want to get Hester the return record.” For a guy who doesn’t say a lot, I find that pretty cool. In a way he’s saying “Kick it to him at your own risk, but our special teams guys want to block for him as bad as he wants to get into the endzone.” I hope Hester takes it to the house tomorrow night.

Two bye weeks DURING THE SEASON would be a necessity for an 18 game season. Teams get banged up pretty heavily during a 17 week season. My thought is that each team would have one bye during weeks 3-9, and a second bye from weeks 10-17, with the first two and last two weeks of the season having no byes, and there being at least 3 weeks between bye dates for every team. Also, reducing the preseason schedule to 2 games would be necessary. They add one week to the schedule, but that can easily come from the 2 week layover between the Conference Championships and Super Bowl, putting the Pro Bowl back where it belongs after the Super Bowl.

I cannot agree with you more for the necessity of more bye weeks. Although, I personally would rather see three bye weeks than 2. But yeah, I think the NFLPA is on the right track for handling a ‘18 week’ side. 2 would be nice, 3 would be better. 1 in 4-8, 1 in 8-12, 1 in 12-16, 21 weeks of regular season football. this would kill off 2 preseason games. and expanding gameday rosters (if not practice squad rosters too)

That “The” is spelled wrong in the title of this post?