Lions at Bears Pre-Game Open Thread Den

I guess we will now fairly quickly today if this team has improved at all, what we saw during the pre season will not get it done thats for sure.

lets go

The Field was completely resodded since the Cardinals game and is, to quote Thayer and Hilgy “The Field is in phenomenal shape”

I play the same reg season game on Madden the night before a real game soo.

I predict, Matt Forte 1 rush TD

Brian Urlacher- 67 yard INT return to the 5 yard line

Jay Cutler 1TD 0INT

Bears win game 20-10

Dickerson on ESPN 1000

- Hopes Hester can take off but think DA is the more polished WR

- For him thinks production from WR will be DA #1, Knox #2, Hester #3

- Briggs is not 100% but will start. Briggs did not have a good preseason and coaches did talk to him about his tackling

- Clark fighting ankle injury and gout is probable

- Steltz is most likely out for Sun

- Bears love Taylors blocking plus ability to pick up the blitz and if the Bears pass a lot like he thinks they will expect to see more Taylor than Forte

- Marinalli will call the plays but Lovie will have the ability to over ride a play if he does not like it

- Marinalli expects to help more with the game planning more than anything else

- Thinks Bowman and Tillman should be fine but concerned about the safties

- STUNNED that Wright is not starting even with the injury. Does not even know how much Wright will play

- As of right now starting secondary is Bowman, Tillman, CHarris, DManning, and DJ Moore at nickle

- Prediction for game Bears 28 – 21

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Haugh on ESPN 1000 on Afternoon Saloon

- Thinks the vikes will be ok but that the D did get run on and that should worry them

- Jurko claims that berrian is the most OVER RATED and OVER PAID WR in minny history and the Bears made the RIGHT call letting him walk

- Haughs screams NO WAY Bears SHOULD NOT have let berrian walk because the team had NO WRs at that time

- NFC should worry that the saints won a 14 – 9 game as it shows that their defense can step up and win the close one

- Thinks lions can beat Bears if they are not careful

- Revamp D line can be a problem for Bears O Line and they will be tested

- Lions secondary is in shambles but the lions pass rush might be able to make up for it

- Thinks the Bears NEED to run the ball to be successful and win the game sun

- Bears face a must win Sun are ELSE

- Carm thinks Bowman is a training camp myth does not think that Bowman is ready and needs to show it Sun (especially with how johnson destroyed him last year)

- Haugh agrees Bowman needs to show that he has earned the top CB spot

- Haugh asked who would you want stafford, best or johnson Vs Cutler , Forte, Hester and thought it was close and probably go with the lions 3

- Prediction Bears 31 – 21

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Bear talk on CTL (featuring Brad Biggs)

- Was not concerned with preseason record concerned with how the starters played as you could not really point to one area and said that they were OK

- Bears using the excuse that they played vanilla football they are using that as a crutch stating “You do not go into a preseason game saying we will not reveal how we will block for our QB”

- Cutler got sacked 10 times in 6 qtrs and O line gave up an NFL preseason high 19 sacks

- Card game stopped most of the hype for offense since the card D gave up something like 95 points last 2 games

- CHarris Manning safety combo will mark 43 changes in 97 games under Lovie

- Predictions from panel

Chuck Garfien (filling in for Dave Kaplan) lions 24 – 21

Biggs Bears 35 – 31

Chris Hine Bears 28 – 24

John Crist Bears 27 – 20

All think the game will be FUGLY

Interesting fun fact: lions have lost 20 straight road games. Last road win was @ Bears when brian griese had 3 red zone INTs

Season predictions

Garfien 7 – 9

Hine 8 – 8

Crist 7 – 9 (thinks the roster is improved from last season but the schedule is BRUTAL)

Biggs 7 – 9 (but would not be surprised if they were 5 – 11 or 11 – 5)

50: Season-opening victories by the Bears, which ties Green Bay for the most in the NFL.

.700: Bears’ all-time winning percentage in home openers, which ranks as No. 1 in the NFL.

what are the stats for bears lions games who is winning the series and if lovie is 2-4 on openers then after this game make it 3-4. BEAR DOWN