Welcome to the Sunday version of Monday Morning Quarterback. Let’s not waste any time and jump right into it. I have no doubts that much of Chicagoland is feeling melancholy right now. The Jay Cutler debut was far from spectacular …
Continue reading Monday Morning Quarterback: Preseason Game 1
The Bears will take the field for the first time in 2009 under the leadership of new quarterback Jay Cutler Saturday night against the Buffalo Bills. While it may just be a preseason game, there will still be plenty to …
Continue reading Ten things to watch in Bears-Bills preseason game
It’s good to see that a pen to the paper on a big contract extension for a player not in Chicago can draw such a big response from the Windy City media. Look at me, I’ve even been sucked into …
Continue reading No need to rush to the table with Cutler
As the first day of the 2009 training camp comes to a close, let’s take a look at some of the news, observations, sights and sounds from Bourbonnais. Cutler has slow start: New Bears quarterback Jay Cutler began training camp …
Continue reading Bears wrap up first day of 2009 training camp
Boy, I feel like a kid again on the night before Christmas. The excitement and anticipation is building — and has been building for quite some time — and it will all culminate in the kickoff of the 2009 season …
Continue reading Training Camp Eve
The month of July has been one filled with anticipation and excitement as Bears fans have eagerly awaited the beginning of a training camp filled with promise. After the Bears made national headlines by acquiring Pro Bowl quarterback Jay Cutler, …
Continue reading Tillman’s injury no more than a damper on exciting week
The countdown to the start of the 2009 campaign is rapidly dwindling. Although the NFL has become a 12-month sport in the past two decades, in my mind the official kickoff for the new season does not begin with free …
Continue reading Give me five: Reasons Bears will/won’t win NFC
Former Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Denver Broncos safety John Lynch said this week on the “Waddle & Silvy” show on ESPN 1000 that his pick to win the NFC North division title this year is the Chicago Bears. The former …
Continue reading Lynch likes Bears, cautious about Marshall
ESPN.com’s KC Joyner continues to stand firmly behind his belief that Jay Cutler will remind Bears fans of Rex Grossman with a lot of the same risk taking that Grossman had done in six seasons with the team. In a …
Continue reading KC Joyner still down on Cutler
i⋅ro⋅ny [ahy-ruh-nee] an outcome of events contrary to what was, or might have been, expected. The Bears’ quarterback position has been a running joke in the NFL for more years than I can — or care to — remember. It …
Continue reading Depth behind Cutler a problem for Bears?
