OSS: "It's Just Preseason"

….then you’ve seen MANY more horrible Bears teams than the one that will be on the field this season.

Remember against the Packers in the 70s, when the Bears blocked the Packs’ game-winning field goal…..right back into the kicker’s hands, and he ran it in for a game-winning TD?

C’mon. The Bears were CLOWNS for most of the late 60s (even with Butkus and Sayers), 70s, and 90s, not to mention a few years back. This Bears team has just as much chance of winning the Super Bowl as it has to be as pathetic as you suggest. Your ‘three years and counting’ some people call “NFC North Champs”.

The Bears are coming off a division title, and even though their schedule within the NFC will be more difficult, they play the AFC West this season rather than the AFC East. They drew the better two teams – Chiefs and Chargers – and home, and the Broncos and Raiders on the road during a year when both teams will probably suck ass (much like their AFC draw last season, Pats and Jets at home).

They get the Falcons and Seahawks at home (Qwest is a difficult place to play), while drawing the Eagles away. And even the game in London against the Bucaneers is an ‘away’ game for the Bears, so they didn’t lose a game at Soldier Field.

Three of their first four games, and four of their first 6, are at home before they travel to London. And their bye week comes perfectly in the middle of the season, after the London trip – and a week of rest and game-planning before they play the Eagles on the road.

Meanwhile, the Bears have good depth at many positions, and our major complaints as fans are things that still have time to be fixed in the next three weeks (like inserting Spencer at C and sliding Garza over to G).

Basically, I’m calling you out – if you’ve been watching the Bears for 47 years, then this years’ team should be in the top 30% of all the Bears teams that you have watched, and has an opportunity to be in the top 10%. The 2006 team was rather lucky, and really wasn’t as good as advertised, considering they likely lost the Super Bowl when both Tommie Harris and Mike Brown were injured in the regular season. So this current Bears edition, coming off hosting the NFCCG with stability at QB, RB, DE, etc, is likely the best Bears era since Ditka was on the sidelines. It’s certainly better than the majority of Bears teams that you have witnessed.