Pack Dissed again

[Him8123]

Just took a small exerpt from the article but this is just frustrating, I think we are better than everybody is making us out to be. Most analysis are picking us to go 6-10. Hardly any credit has been thrown our way, like how the pack have made starters and good ones out of most of our draft picks the last couple of years. Or how Mccarthy has done one hell of a job coaching and speeding up the rebuilding process. Frustrating......


Nick Bakay's Manly House of Football
By Nick Bakay | NFL.com


NFC NORTH
CHICAGO BEARS
The entire planet is so down on Rex Grossman, he's an automatic lock for comeback player of the year. We forget how young he is, yet his teammates seem to have his back; he is cocky, he will survive.

I was sitting on a plane waiting for take-off at LAX the week after the Super Bowl, and Chicago son Jim Belushi entered, sat across the aisle from me, and was promptly questioned about his Super Bowl reaction. He just shook his head and said, "Quarterback."

Fair enough. Rex had that kind of game, what about stopping the run?! Your vaunted defense set Dominic Rhodes for life! The Bears big mystery isn't at QB, but at DT and RB. The D-line will settle down with heath and additions, but when they send a proven warrior like Thomas Jones packing, they beg questions. Why are you assuming Cedric Benson is "the man?" I have yet to see it.

That's the bad news, the good news is that Adrian Peterson is there to catch another weird Longhorn ball carrier when he falls, the schedule is a cake walk, and you can pencil the Windy City in for a serious run back to the Super Bowl.

MINNESOTA VIKINGS
Building ...

Not to be glib, but they will be on the grid when they earn their place on the grid. In the meantime, Minnesota, like many others, is a team you watch only when they are playing a team you care about ... or when you need a big game from their defense to nail down a big win for your fantasy football team.

GREEN BAY PACKERS
Fading. Again, not to be glib, but are we kids or what?

DETROIT LIONS
A team built for greatness ... in a parallel universe called "fantasy football."

Despite head coach Rod Marinelli's defensive expertise, this team looks like Mike Martz is the favorite child. The offense has crazy weapons, including No. 2 overall pick Calvin Johnson. They will be throwing all day long under a dome with a mad genius drawing up the plays -- BOOM GOES THE DYNAMITE! Especially when paired with an hinky defense. It's called playing catch-up, and it is fantasy football's answer to putting out the fire with gasoline.

[BallHawk]

Fading? Don't you have to be good before you can fade?

[Him8123]

I think they meant how there was a drought before the 90`s and then we hit excellence for a while and we`re fading again. That`s how I took it. I don`t know how they are fading when it`s a really young and talented team on the rise again. yea Favre is getting older but we have a pretty good young QB who has improved alot and whose future looks pretty bright right now.

[packinpatland]

A one-liner, that was all they had??



And why would he ask Jim Bellushi anything???
Oh,.... coming from Chicago makes him an expert

[BEARMAN]

Not to kick a fellow whilst he is down, but your run game is in trouble, you have questions at TE, Oline and DB's. Your QB is old, common, admitt it , stop being homers. Your sp. teams are anything but special. Where as Da BEARS, adressed their worries, DT, Tank who? Off season aquisistion, free agency and the draft bolstered that posision nicley. TE, got two good ones. WR, got several realy good ones. Oline, while you are gonna say old, I say one of the best and most experianced in the leauge. "D", common, one of the best in the NFL ! Sp. teams, all good, I am not the only one saying that Da BEARS are legitimate contenders.

[BallHawk]

So he writes an article about the NFC North and he writes more about the Bears then the other 3 teams combined?

Yeah, real good journalism right there.

[BEARMAN]

A one-liner, that was all they had??



And why would he ask Jim Bellushi anything???
Oh,.... coming from Chicago makes him an expert

Well, ... Yes, Yes it dose !

[BallHawk]

Not to kick a fellow whilst he is down, but your run game is in trouble, you have questions at TE, Oline and DB's. Your QB is old, common, admitt it , stop being homers. Your sp. teams are anything but special. Where as Da BEARS, adressed their worries, DT, Tank who? Off season aquisistion, free agency and the draft bolstered that posision nicley. TE, go two good ones. WR, got several realy good ones. Oline, while you are gonna say old, I say one of the best and most experianced in the leauge. "D", common, one of the best in the NFL ! Sp. teams, all good, I am not the only one saying that Da BEARS are legitimate contenders.

I could care less if he has an opinion, he's entitled to it, but he wrote one line. One freakin' line. Did he even think before he wrote that? Did he even have a rational thought before typing that? Seriously, how these guys have jobs is beyond me.

[Lurker64]

I have to say what little content this article had on the Packers, every single bit of it was incorrect. This team is not fading, it's on the upswing. We might not exactly be great or even good yet, but is anybody denying that we're a young team getting better? Well, anybody but this hack?

It would be nice if the national media were capable of seeing past our QB some time.

[Ballboy]

Not to kick a fellow whilst he is down, but your run game is in trouble, you have questions at TE, Oline and DB's. Your QB is old, common, admitt it , stop being homers. Your sp. teams are anything but special. Where as Da BEARS, adressed their worries, DT, Tank who? Off season aquisistion, free agency and the draft bolstered that posision nicley. TE, got two good ones. WR, got several realy good ones. Oline, while you are gonna say old, I say one of the best and most experianced in the leauge. "D", common, one of the best in the NFL ! Sp. teams, all good, I am not the only one saying that Da BEARS are legitimate contenders.

What questions do we have at OL? By the end of the year last year they played together very well, not giving-up hardly any sacks????

DB's - What question do we have? Two legit pro-bowl corners, wasn't Woodson tops in INT's for 06?

You can call Brett anything you want...just so you can sleep well at night. You know, as well as everyone else that he can still strike fear. He may not be as nimble, yes, he is 37.....but he has one of the best arms in the league.

Granted, our SP sucked last year, that was because our back-ups weren't that good. We will see this year.

How exactly did the Bears address the DT position? I live and work in the Chicago land area, and the DT position is one of worry by many talk radio spots - even worse, they worry how it will affect Urlacher in the middle.

I'm not sure what you mean by "several really good ones" at WR. Sure, Bernard seems like he could be "that guy". MM is a possesion receiver at best. Are talking about Bradly - who hasn't hardly played because he has been injured? Or wait....Devin Hester? Who got hurt on an offensive play that he was trying to block on?

Really, what it all comes down to at WR is the ability of the QB to get them the ball......are you saying that your WR are the best because they have a great QB to get them the ball?!!?? Now who is drinking the Bear-Aide.....this is the same QB that fumbled how many snaps this preseason from the "great" OL center you are talking about?


In all reality, I think the Packers & Bears will split the regular season series. Packers must win all other division games going 4-5 in the division.

[4and12to12and4]

A one-liner, that was all they had??



And why would he ask Jim Bellushi anything???
Oh,.... coming from Chicago makes him an expert

Well, ... Yes, Yes it dose !

Most experts know how to spell "does", actually quite a few illiterates do also. Maybe you're mom should start typing you're poorly spelled and grammatically incorrect posts for you, bearnaked!! You have been exposed.

[Packers4Ever]

I think they meant how there was a drought before the 90`s and then we hit excellence for a while and we`re fading again. That`s how I took it. I don`t know how they are fading when it`s a really young and talented team on the rise again. yea Favre is getting older but we have a pretty good young QB who has improved alot and whose future looks pretty bright right now.

I sure hope you're right, Him8123, I've always had my glass 3/4 full but can't manage it this time.
There's such a thing as wanting something so badly that pretty soon
we figure it's close to being true. Yes, we've improved - thankfully! - but I don't think it's going to be enough to make people sit up and say Hey, not outside of the organization anyway. Parts of each line are better, surely way more than 2005, but many are still learning on the job. Like you, I'm waiting til I can read all the glowing reports on how the Pack stuffed its latest opponent, I just can't see them doing it frequently enough this year to boost them up to maybe 10-6.
Sure hope I'm guessing too low, but consistency is the game here...

[packinpatland]

A one-liner, that was all they had??



And why would he ask Jim Bellushi anything???
Oh,.... coming from Chicago makes him an expert

Well, ... Yes, Yes it dose !

Most experts know how to spell "does", actually quite a few illiterates do also. Maybe you're mom should start typing you're poorly spelled and grammatically incorrect posts for you, bearnaked!! You have been exposed.

Thank you for getting after this little twit! I couldn't have said it better!!!!!

[Him8123]

very true. My argument though packlady is that we are not a fading team such as the article suggests. I was simply stating in my own opinion, as well as everyone knows, yes we are rebuilding. But I feel we are up and coming again, not fading. No one is suggesting 10-6, stuffing opponents, dominating the field. etc. etc. But we are a little better than the average opposing fan, or critic gives us credit for if at all they do. We have a lot of questions on the offensive side of the ball, mainly RB and TE. But our O-line is gelling nicely, they just need to work on opening more holes for whoever is running the ball or for the "committee" for that factor. Also our defense finished last season very nicely and seems to me that they are still on that roll, I know it was only preseason but still. I think our D will be the majority factor of our wins, but I think, and I may be drink the koolaid as one would suggest. But I think our offense will come into its own especially with Driver, a healthy Jennings, and The newly talented James Jones, and hopefully Franks will be back to his old self as he has looked in preseason. So with that being said I think we will be alright not fading as all the pessimists would say about us...we are rising. At least thats just my opinion.

[Freak Out]

Who cares what the "experts" and Bears fans think of the Packers..not me. The Packers have to go out and make all those chumps eat their words.