It's F-ing Bears Week!

The more I read about the Bears, I think this will be a close, low-scoring, even ugly game. Special teams might be the difference, so don't kick to Hester!

This is an intriguing matchup for the NFC. I think both teams are middle of the pack, but a convincing victory would elevate the winner above mediocrity, for now at least. The Bears are in their position because the NFC North has been a big disappointment so far.

This probably will be a close game, and we are both middle of the pack teams with issues on both sides of the ball. Chicago Defense is absolutely no joke...but they can be inconsistent. Yeah they have a bad Oline, ours isnt so great itself. But their front 7 can be very aggressive and usually play solid. I think the difference will be which offense can play the best and turnovers are probably be the difference in the game.

One thing that worries me is how we play with a lead. When we went up 27-10 on Houston I figured it was business as usual, all we had to do from there was play smart football, don't turn the ball over, and run out the clock and we'd have an easy win. So if we do go up by a decent margin Sunday I'll be holding my breath to see if we can sustain that lead.

Martz and Cutler is a match made in near heaven.

And by heaven you mean the opposite right? That's why Martz keeps calling 4 and 5 WR spread looks with an empty back field when the O line can't stop my great grandmother from blowing up the back field. Let's hope that continues this week.

And FYI, I saw someone say earlier they predicted Torain to go for 125 and a TD and that our running game was going to propel us. Don't count on that. After doing some fact checking...

Bears 2010 Defense
Rushing - Rank: 3rd Yards/G: 90.8
Passing - Rank: 18th Yards/G: 220.8

If anything its going to be our passing game that does it. I hope Cooley is back...

Let's rack up some more wins in the conference. Grossman surely wants to play too.

Speaking of racking up points, let's go with oRAKpo doubling his sack total for the season this week. How's that for a prediction? If we don't get atleast 11 sacks in the first half I won't be satisfied. I don't want the Giants holding that record.

Skins 34
Da Bears 16

Speaking of Da Bears.... Always a classic.

DA BEARS: SNL

And as far as the Bears looking horrible the last three games, we haven't been exactly stellar ourselves.
Nah...we only beat the Eagles, Packers and played the Colts down to the wire...PATHETIC!

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Also lets keep in mind that Briggs is going be playing hurt this week, its an ankle so hopefully slows him in coverage against Cooley/Davis/any RB and we can exploit that during the game! If AH plays I would look for Orakpo to have a big game

I think the key for us will be sustaining drives more than causing turnovers and sacks (which I suspect we will do). But if we cannot do anything once we get the ball, we leave ourselves open to Forte trying to grind us down and keep our D on the field for a long time. To sustain drives, we need to get something going on the ground to set up the pass (esp. play action), and that will reuqire Torain to play with more discipline than last week. Against the Colts, he was solid, but tried too often to bounce outside the tackles and go for longer yardage, usually to the opposite effect. Had he stayed with his blockers, he likely would have been more effective. If he does that, I think we can keep the chains moving on offense.

An early lead will be key. We need to get out in front and force the Bears to throw. If we do, we could have a great day. If they do, they can pressure McNabb and try to grind us down with Forte, which has to me their strategy.

While no one should take the Bears lightly, we should win this game and I think we will. It would be nice to having a convincing win for a change, but I will take an ugly one at this point. I predict 22-16 Skins (we get a safety).

Nah...we only beat the Eagles, Packers and played the Colts down to the wire...PATHETIC!

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Not pathetic, a win's a win, I'll take an ugly win over a pretty loss etc. We've all heard those phrases over and over again.

At some point, in order for us to be a complete team, we have to go into someone's house, play better than them in every facet, and win on a regular basis. We are not there yet and so there is always room for improvement.

Chicago is 4-2, has a stellar defense, and they also happen to have beaten the Packers. Can the Redskins win? Absolutely, I think we've proven that we can hang around with a lot of teams in the league. We have 3 wins in 6 games, 1 less than we had in 16 games last season.

But we have to improve our overall defense, the offensive line still has to gel, we are still looking to establish a consistent running game and we have yet to develop a very thin WR corp, arguably one of the worst in the league. So, while not pathetic, we have a ways to go before we are where we could be.

What excites me about this game, is this really will be the first week without any serious drama. (well Hall was drama:rolleyes: but yeah well back to my thought). AH is at practice and playing nice apparently, the whole 1st team is at practice and working hard, Rocky was back. I am hoping we get a real solid win out of all this, and a long look at what this team's identity will be going into the second half of the season.

Us blowing them out would be great, but if this team just comes in and does a hard day's work and gets the W without any last minute heart attacks, I will be very happy.