NFL - Are You Ready For Some Football?! - 2010 Offseason

[Zopperoni]

Yeah, but when the screen is your best pass play, you're screwed anyway. And it requires blocking technique and mobility that the Bears O-line just plain lacks.

I agree that the O-line is mostly appalling and it hurts their chances to move the ball, but as Ming also alluded to, this offense needs more variation.

I haven't watched many Bears games, but there are three or four things they could try more often:
- Stacked receivers: for a screen pass or to beat press coverage and give one guy a free release
- WR reverse: single reverse, fake reverse, double reverse, with Hester and Knox being speedy, elusive guys, it might just work every now and then
- Option plays: probably works best out of a WR motion. They could run this out of a 212 power set to pretend it's going to be a run.

I guess that anything they try couldn't be worse than what they're doing now, but there needs to be more creativity.

[Ben Kenobi]

You are a ****. Yeah, going 10-6 in 2007 or 13-3 in 2005 (you know, the year they went to the SuperBowl) is really "[winning] once in a blue moon".

I wish the Detroit Lions on you.

And they stink right now. Your point? They play in the weakest division in football.

I don't want to watch them, and they've stank up the joint for years prior to their one and only superbowl run, where they got crushed.

They went 11! Years without a playoff game from '88 to '99. Prior to their superbowl win, it had been 20 years since a playoff win.

[Imran Siddiqui]

You really don't know what "stink up the joint" means do you? In the decade prior to their Superbowl run, they had 3 losing seasons and those records were 7-9 twice and 6-10 once. Sure they had a good deal of 8-8 years, but that's mediocrity, NOT stinking up anything.

[Ben Kenobi]

How many wins would they have had in the NFC North? I'm sure they would have been like the lions.

[Lord Avalon]

I'm sure they would have been much better than the Lions.

[Japher]

Tonight's game: Shootout or D-struggle?

They never seem to go as suspected.

[Zopperoni]

I think the Patriots will storm out of the gates, but the Saints will catch up in the second half. Over the season, the Saints have outscored their opponents by an astonishing 188-78 in the second half

[Ben Kenobi]

I hope so too.

Colston has been very quiet lately!

[MOBIUS]

A couple of cracking games last night: TEN Vs. ARI, and BAL Vs. PIT

I think I may have sneaked into the playoffs of my division in our fantasy league - 25 points up with Tom Brady to play, against my opponent having Pierre Thomas...

Was touch and go for a while!

[-Jrabbit]

Congrats, Mobius.

[Zopperoni]

Ben Roethlisberger, Clinton Portis, Brian Westbrook, DeSean Jackson, Danny Ware: concussion.

Matt Ryan: turf toe.

LAME!

[Imran Siddiqui]

Turf toe ****ing hurts.

[Tuberski]

And they stink right now. Your point? They play in the weakest division in football.

I don't want to watch them, and they've stank up the joint for years prior to their one and only superbowl run, where they got crushed.

They went 11! Years without a playoff game from '88 to '99. Prior to their superbowl win, it had been 20 years since a playoff win.

Unlike the Chargers?

Oh, that's right, the Chargers haven't been to the Super Bowl since the '94 season. Other than that, copy and paste.

ACK!

[ZEE]

They play in the weakest division in football.

no, Seattle isn't in the AFC West anymoar, remember?

[Ben Kenobi]

Unlike the Chargers?

Oh, that's right, the Chargers haven't been to the Super Bowl since the '94 season. Other than that, copy and paste.

Oh, they've stank up the joint for years and years. I was so happy when they finally showed the Chargers-Indy christmas game in 2005. That was the first time I recall them showing the Chargers game on TV up here.

Contrast that with the Seahawks who we get 16 games.