NFL - Are You Ready For Some Football?! - 2009 Regular Season

[-Jrabbit]

No freaking excuse for that. And very unlike Forte.

If the Bears lose this one -- and that's looking pretty likely -- red zone performance and turnovers will be why.

[Lord Avalon]

Boy, did da Bears need that 30-yd romp by Cutler.

[-Jrabbit]

Sigh... the D is going to get a good talking-to at halftime. This is where I half wish they'd just left Urlacher in, with no wrist, because his signal calling is worth far more than his actual play ...

I assume you're just frustrated, because that's just stupid, snoop. This is not a typical wrist injury.

That’s not the case reports Mike Mulligan of the Chicago Sun-Times, who spoke to two hand specialists. Urlacher dislocated the lunate bone, which is at the center of eight bones in the wrist and controls the movement of the hand. It’s also close to nerves so the risk in not repairing the injury immediately is that it could lead to permanent nerve damage. Two Bears players had wrist surgeries last season but returned in a matter of weeks with protection on their hands. They had broken exterior bones in their hands.

The risk, according to the club, is that Urlacher could do serious longterm damage by returning this season. According to Dr. Michael Bednar of Loyola University Health System, athletes typically return in six months to a year after these rare types of injuries and even people with complications typically retain 75 percent of their grip strength.

[snoopy369]

Umm, read my post. I'm not suggesting Urlacher actually make any tackles. I'm suggesting he stand out on the field, call the defense, then go hide somewhere

(And yes, I'm not being serious.)

But thanks for the linked article, I hadn't seen the actual details on why they kept him out - I assumed something like that but didn't know for sure.

[Lord Avalon]

If the Bears lose this one -- and that's looking pretty likely -- red zone performance and turnovers will be why.

Add special teams play. And the D was pretty porous on that drive.

Can da Bears score a TD and 2-pt conversion and leave no time on the clock?

[-Jrabbit]

Lovie would never go for two -- not the way they've played on the goal line tonight.

[snoopy369]

Actually, I think if they just do a play action pass, with olsen to the back corner or back middle and 88 across the goalline, they might well be able to make it pretty easily (with a WR, hester or knox or bennett, doing something useful on the other side).

[-Jrabbit]

Doesn't look like it will be an issue

[snoopy369]

My god did we need that flag.

[-Jrabbit]

saved by the flag

[snoopy369]

Come on ... Cutler to Knox, nice easy twenty yard score...

[Lord Avalon]

saved by the flag

Live by the flag, die by the flag?

[Lord Avalon]

Oo, 4th-and-1.

[snoopy369]

4th and 1 ... can we figure this one out?

[snoopy369]

I predict QB sneak.