Cowherd says "No Chance" to the Bears and 14 others

I don’t think the Bears will will or even make it to the Superbowl this year. I would love to be proven wrong, but I feel that they will end up 10-6ish, fighting for a wildcard spot. I think with an exit in the first or second game of the playoffs.

I would love to say 14-2 and homefield through the playoffs, but the last few years have made me a little gunshy on making overly optimistic predictions. However, I would love for the Bears to prove me(and Colin) wrong and win the whole damn thing!

Not exactly, but the Bears are a long shot. The odds do not favor them making the playoffs, but I hope to be proven wrong. I think the defense more so than Martz’s offense will determine how far they go.

Clearly Cowherd missed the memo that golden boy Tim Tebow is on the Broncos, and for that alone, I’m surprised no one on the Booyas is predicting Tebow to lead the Broncos to 16-0 and a Super Bowl domination because hey, it’s what Tebow did in college. ;-)

In serious though, it’s preseason and people will say some dumb stuff, but there’s definitely some teams in that list that shouldn’t be (like our Bears; if you’re in the playoffs, you can be a contender.).

is the only place you can make wild predictions and be wrong most of the time, yet people still listen to you. Sports news is fast and comes everyday, so if you are wrong, oh well no one will remember more than 1 or 2 of them because it is on to the next.

Just like the weather anchors, just say 50/50 chance of rain and increase your accuracy.

It would be great to see the accuracy of some of these sports commentators, see how many they actually hit on.

I wonder if he had the Saints as a no chance to win last year?

Luck and injuries are two factors that you simply cannot predict beforehand. Since both have a huge impact over 16 games, I don’t think you can reasonably say that any team has NO chance. Unless you get paid to blow hot air be a sports commentator and just aim to generate some chatter.

Sports illustrated or someone picked the bears to finish the worst i the league? That very year the bears almost broke the record for fewest points allowed and went 11-5 to win the NFC north….

I see us in the 9-11 win neighborhood as long as we are healthy

but I wouldn’t have given New Orl much of a chance to make the playoffs last season either. I do worry that the Bear defense is mostly a paper tiger with a poorly conceived and executed scheme. The offense could be great or just a little better. IMO, I do not see this team getting to the playoffs but being close. I think another coach and a few players could make this team SB contenders, but this year is more about finally ridding the Bears of the Lovie Smith version of Tampa2. I hope I’m wrong because my liver cannot take another mediocre season of 7-9, 8-8 or 9-7.

Cowherd also said before the start of last season that Dallas WR Roy William would be an absolute fantasy gem.

i know its early and we are all speculating,but if these guys where making a living, betting wise they would all be in the gutter.her is a prediction of mine. we make the play-offs as a wild card, and we end up playing the 49ers for the Hallas trophy at san fran

when the Lions hired Marinelli, and boy, did he SLOBBER on Marinelli—how tough he was, how awesomely old school, how inspiring and motivational, how he was going to turn the Lions right around and make them contenders THAT year.

Hell, he talked up Marinelli’s hiring so much, and so effectively, that I was actually WORRIED about the Lions that year!

So, not saying he was wrong on Marinelli’s character, but—clearly—he got it wrong on his impact.

All that is to say—Cowherd’s a Bear-hating boob, and he doesn’t know what the fudge he’s talking about. He should stick to predicting college ball.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIl8c2ReGuw

I agree with you on the teams that can make the playoffs.

Yes it’s me your favorite Lions fan back for another round of witty banter. Now Mr. Dent you should have put WHY dumb ass cowherd said that your Bears and my Lions had NO chance at winning the SB. Our 2 teams have 2 of the better QB’s in the league on their rosters and our division does not have the easiest of schedules outside of our division. He said something along the lines of with Cutler you have an inconsistant QB who is going to have to learn 1 of the hardest offencive schemes in the game, and that the Bears don’t have a proven #1 WR as of yet. then you look at the Vikes and the Pack and they have playoff ready teams (at least last year) and an up and coming team in Detroit who is not going to go 0-6 in the division this year. It’s not like he slammed the bears any harder than he slammed the other 13 teams that he said had NO CHANCE. But as a Sports Jock he picked the “pretty horses” like the Colts/Saints ect. ect. ect. teams that seem to be in the playoff picture every year or have a “lights out” QB like Rivers/Little Manning/Rogers. I know how you guys feel about Cutler and you know how much crap I gave you all last year about him; by the way I was right(more INT’s than TD’s) and with learning a new system AGAIN this year he is more likely to do the same but with more yards tacked on to the bottom line. Not trying to slam Cutler but he is now learning his 2nd system in as many years with young wide outs and I can’t see him doing any better than a certain Lion did in this offence in his first year cause if him and those WR’s are not on the same page you are looking at pick 6 multiple times this year and that is just going to make Martz want to throw even more.

First of all Jay did not have more int’s than td’s, 27 td’s to 26 int’s, so we know you can’t count, second of all, you have to take in perspective the fact that his wr gave up on their routes or ran the wrong routes last year, something that will change with more experience and time with Jay, third of all, Jay is probably the smartest qb that Martz has ever worked with as far as learning a system, look how he learned last year, that Turner had no idea how to run an offense, and let’s not forget that his top rb was injured most of the season, which put alot more pressure on him. And don’t forget the most important fact of last year, our defense, our defense was so plagued by injury last year, that the offense had to play catch up for most of the year. Well our defense is healthier, we have a big time pass rusher now, our mlb, although getting older, is still one of the better mlb in the league, is back, and our safety position improved, when we got Harris back. So putting injuries aside, I see no reason why this Bears team can’t be a playoff team, maybe not win our division, but a wild card team for sure.

I’d add the Titans to the list of contenders. They did have a long winning-streak after starting terribly.

Herd=Douche