Ranked Number 20?
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You have got to be kidding me...
Yes once again, the Chicago Bears have been left in the shadow of sports-writters all around the country. Cbs.sportsline.com has ranked the Bears and a pathetic 20th ranking. It is an assault to my community to have a team who had gone so far last season ranked so low and disrespected more and more as the years go by. This isn't the Bears with Jim Miller, oh no sir, this isn't the fluke season we had once witnessed, this is a team that is respectably compared to the 85' Bears and can do the same as the season goes on.
What's going on here?
Here is a list if teams projected to do better than the Bears this year. the Dolphins, Cardinals, Rams, and the Jaguars. The Panthers were given a top 5 ranking this year. So how is it that we find a team that has 22 returning starters so low on such an un-important scale? It is because nobody seems to like the Bears. Just like nobody likes the Yankees, and Red Sox, the Bears have fallen into the trap of un-liked teams.
How will we do?
But I have no need to worry, it will be me and millions of other Chicago Bears fans getting the last laugh. Just like this past season, we got the last laugh. Now here is my opinion of how we will do, and of course, I will be called a bias sports fan as I have so often. But let me make sense of this, let me compare our team to that of the past. Our Defense has played better than the Bucs and Ravens have in the past, two teams that won it all and won it with loads of comfort. Why they though and not us? It's very simple. Teams like this need time to be put together and they need to experience loss and error to become great. Our team has tasted defeat in the post season and it was very clear why. We had ourselves a very oung quarterback, a quarterback who could be considered a rookie with the amount of games under his belt. We had a very nervous team to sum it all up for us all. We allowed over thirty points that game, a number we had not seen much that season. To be honest, we should have won. If we had just double teamed Steve Smith like Seattle had done, we might have just taken it all the way. As far as Seattle goes? Well we all saw how Shaun Alexander, THEE MOST OVER-RATED RB in the game get shut down. Why? Because he realized there was more than the Cardinals, Rams, and Saints O-Line out there and yes, these other teams actually stop RB's. The Bears would have stummped him as well and we would be on our way to play Pittsburg and would have stood a great chance at beating them.
My Point?
The reason I mentioned this for one was to vent a bit(yes im still upset). But the most important reason being this. We have two, yes TWO QB's this season that can get the job done if neither getsinjured. We have TWO great RB's, one Pro-Bowl material and the other a future Star. We HAVE adressed the dear PR position as it is very crucial to the game. So why is it that a professional sports analysts cannot see this and I can. Well that's just one of the many mind boggeling questions that will be answered this season.
--24.13.53.134 21:53, 4 June 2006 (EST)Marty EN
Source
- cbs.sportsline.com
Date
Sun 06/04/06, 9:32 pm EST
