Could it be . . . is it possible . . . am I actually to believe that the Chicago Bears have become savvy players in the free-agent market?
And that this might mean that I will actually enjoy the coming football season?
For the record, I am perfectly happy to have Ted Phillips continue to lie to us if it means that this trend towards actually becoming a good football team continues.
Congratulations to the New Orleans Saints, who played an excellent game yesterday, and deserved to win the Super Bowl. Indeed, both teams played very well, and it was a shame that someone had to lose; the game was one of the best Super Bowls I had seen.
For me, the football season pretty much came to an end when it became clear that the Chicago Bears would not be going to the playoffs–for the third year in a row, to boot. The fact that Lovie Smith has been able to keep his job, while so many other coaches underneath him in the Bears system ended up losing theirs, only served to further alienate me from football.
This article claims that we did. This one, however, says “not so fast.”
But readers will notice that I haven’t mentioned them in this space for some time. The reason is that the Bears suck.
Sure, the game was uneven, there were times the Bears gave their fans heartburn, the offense sputtered in certain moments, and while the defense did not break, it certainly bent a lot. But at the end of the day, the Bears beat the Super Bowl champs.
Do I really need to go into detail about how awful this is?
but let me take this opportunity to protest the possible extension of the NFL season by as many as two games.
The news that the Jacksonville Jaguars were releasing Fred Taylor started a discussion with some friends about where the oft-injured Taylor would rank among the great running backs, and where he might have ranked if he’d been healthy. There’s no better time to play the ranking game – in this case, evaluating the broader context to judge how the numbers stack up for the all-time great NFL running backs.