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Sunday, 06 November 2011 20:14 |
 by Hannah Petrukovich
The Chicago Bears will ride a two-game winning streak into Lincoln Financial Field this Monday where they are set to face unpredictable Philadelphia Eagles. Both teams have had interesting 2011 campaigns that have featured everything from bitter loses early, to genuine optimism over the last few weeks. One of these teams will win a third consecutive game at the others’ expense.
The Bears are coming off their bye week and have outscored the Minnesota Vikings and Tampa Bay Buccaneers a combined 63-28. Historically, the Bears have been very successful when it comes to putting their claws on Eagles quarterback Michael Vick. Vick as a starter has thrown for 187 yards with no touchdowns and three interceptions en route to a 0-3 mark. In five games versus Chicago Vick has been sacked a grand total of fifteen times. “It’s real difficult for us because he creates a lot of time for their (receivers) to get open,” defensive lineman Anthony Adams said. “But we believe in our pass rush and our rush is going to get him and make it easy for us in the back seven. So we’re just got to stay in cover and believe in our pass rush. ”
Vick isn’t the only potent offensive weapon the Eagles posses on their roster. Running back LaSean McCoy has averaged the league high 107.7 yards per game and has scored at least one touchdown in every single outing. On the other hand, Chicago’s defense has limited the Vikings and Bucs to a total 83 rushing yards over the past two weeks. However McCoy has rushed for 152 yards and a touchdown in two games against Chicago in the past.
The Bears also have their own running back, Matt Forte, currently leading the league with 1,091 yards, making up over 40 percent of his team’s offensive yardage output. Needless to say, he’s feeling the pressure. “The running back position in the most physically demanding on the field,” Forte said Tuesday to the Chicago Sun-Times.
In order for the Bears to win, they will have to put their internal issues aside, and focus on taking a team down who is also a roll and has playing to get into playoff contention as well.
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Thursday, 22 September 2011 13:22 |
 by Hannah Petrukovich
With the bitter taste of a loss still fresh in their mouths, the weekend where Chicago plays its biggest rival, the Green Bay Packers, come again.
But Sunday, September 25th is a new day at Soldier Field because the Bears playing ground is lined with newly laid sod. It's an old cliche, but on any given day anything can happen. It’s football!
In spite of statistics like Cutler having a sixty-two percent chance of throwing one interception this game; as compared to Aaron Rodgers passer rating of 99.
The Packers have a sixty-seven percent chance of winning according to the Accuscore. Cutler also has been sacked eleven times through two games this season, according to ESPNChicago.com.
The Bears can win this week in spite of injuries to Gabe Carimi, wide receiver Earl Bennett, and a beat up quarterback with a sore throat, Jay Cutler.
As said by defensive tackle, Anthony Adams, about Green Bay, “They do all the simple things well. I don’t think they ask their offensive line to do anything spectacular. They just go out, and they play the offense the way they want then to play it. Like I said they do a lot of repetitions of the smallest things and that’s what makes them so good.” Even quarterback Aaron Rodgers of the Green Bay Packers thinks it’s anybody’s game. “The team that makes the least amount of mistakes is going to win,” he stated.
Whatever the Bears players lack in size, speed, and skill, they need to play with their intelligence. Each player has to be confident in their knowledge of the basic game of football, which they all have. Re-signing a very frustrated Matt Forte would be a positive for the Bears, being he was the only thing positive the offense had during the game against the Saints last Sunday.
If all else fails, the Bears could blatantly and simultaneously, fall to the ground in faked injuries, and then regroup. Lets hope it does not have to come to that.
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Last Updated on Thursday, 22 September 2011 13:58 |
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Chester Taylor: In or Out (What Really Happened) |
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Monday, 29 August 2011 20:33 |
 By Hannah Petrukovich
Remember that lesson our mothers taught us when we were children to not assume anything until we have all the facts. Well, it seems a few people didn’t listen to their mothers.
The sports reporters arrived at the Bears practice Monday hoping to get the scoop on Chester Taylor being cut from the team. Running back Kahlil Bell was asked his reaction to Taylor being cut and Bell’s response was, “It is always sad to see a fellow running back leave. I wouldn’t say I am happy about it, I don’t think anybody is at the same time I can only control what I can control. All I plan on doing is going out there and doing the best I can do.”
Before I had my chance to write my article about the cut, news broke that Taylor’s agent Ken Sarnoff tweeted, “Here’s a first for me-the Bears just called me and said they have not released Chester. He did talk with Lovie though…misunderstanding?”
Even though a NFL source confirmed earlier Monday that Smith told Taylor that he was no longer in the Bears plans because Barber had been running well.
ESPN reported later Monday afternoon Lovie Smith’s account of what happened. “I talked to Chester a little bit early on, I guess there was a bit of a misunderstanding on exactly what we talked about,” Lovie said “ Chester Taylor is still part of the team I talked to Chester today about the reasons why he didn’t get any playing time the last game (against the Tennessee Titians on Saturday) and that was that we wanted to take a look at some other players. Evidently he took that the wrong way. Hopefully we get him back out there tomorrow."
Shame on all of us for not listening to our mothers…
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 30 August 2011 11:29 |
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A Bears - Packers game for the Ages on Sunday |
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Thursday, 20 January 2011 17:56 |
by Peter Dawlidowicz
Much has changed since the beginning of the 2010 NFL season. The Minnesota Vikings were the defending division champs, the Green Bay Packers were predicted to go to the Super Bowl by many, and the Chicago Bears would be lucky to have finished third in their own division.
Now with the NFC Championship game a couple days away the division winning Chicago Bears will be hosting a Green Bay Packers team that barely squeezed into the playoffs and fought hard to put themselves in a position to get to the Super Bowl against their division rival the Chicago Bears.
A story line of this magnitude could not be scripted any better, with both teams splitting the first two meetings and now playing for the Halas trophy we wondered how Head Coach Lovie Smith looked at the matchup, “Well it’s only fitting that it would come down to that. As I said earlier, they’ve had a great year, we know each other well. Game planning this week, again, we know what they’re going to do. They know what we’re going to do. But no matter where you are there’s always a team that you have to beat. There’s a rival that everyone has, of course being a Chicago Bear fan, you know that it’s Green Bay for us, so to have to beat the Packers to get to the Super Bowl, our ultimate goal, is the only way it should be and we embrace that.”
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Bears defensive lineman Anthony Adams met with members of the Chicago media today at