[CBFF] Tank Johnson gets 8 games

[Jim Ferolie]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ross McCoy" <ross.mccoy at amd.com>


> Jim Ferolie (ferolie at charter.net) writes:
>> First of all, I didn't take the other side of the coin on San Diego at 
>> all.
>> They are scary as hell. I just was making the point -- which got 
>> completely
>> lost -- that winning the game would not require holding LT to a
>> below-average game. Lots of running backs did well against the Bears
>> midseason last year and still lost.
>
> The cases where other running backs did well against us were usually once 
> we
> had a solid lead and we were playing to prevent the big play. In any case,
> if LT has a good game 150 yards/2-3 TDs we will most likely lose. I guess
> we will have to agree to disagree on this point until after the SD game.
>

Tiki Barber got 141 yards, and there was no point where he was just running 
out the clock. Chester Taylor had 99 yards and a 5.8 average, the vast 
majority of it in the first half.

You're right about Gore, yes, it was bad memory on my part, and the other 
one that really sticks out was Ronnie Brown, which was a Bears' loss. But 
even the Jets' backs did fairly well considering they were a totally ragtag 
group, and they lost.

Look back at where this started. You said LT would have to get *injured* for 
the Bears to win. Now it's "if he has a really good game the Bears will most 
likely lose."

And I'm just saying that rarely does anyone really stop LT, and yet the 
Chargers still managed to lose a couple. He had 123 yards and two TDs 
against New England, plus 64 receiving yards, as the Chargers lost in the 
playoffs. He had even 98 yards in their loss to Baltimore.

It IS possible to win without bottling up LT, and it IS possible for the 
Bears to do it. Their defense is not at all indomitable. The Chargers 
allowed 20 points or more nine times last year -- more than half their 
games. They had some really dominant games like the Bears did (against San 
Francisco and in Jay Cutler's second game starting for the Broncos), but 
they also had six games where they won by a TD or less.

And oh yeah, they'll have a new coach this year. A guy with a 41 percent 
record.