[CBFF] Behavior analysis: Bears already done as '07 contenders

[Ryan Dietzenbach]

Heard the same thing before last year.  "This group isn't hungry...aren't
acting like champions...bla...bla...bla..."

RD


On 5/24/07, Jerry Madsen <jerrywm at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Clark who?  Never heard of the guy.
>
> What month is it?  Is it May?  It's May right?  When did the
> off-season start?  February, right?  Where has this douche been?  The
> saga that is the Bears 2007 off-season has been going strong since the
> Bears let Ron Riviera walk right after the Super Bowl.
>
> Where's this guy been?  Even our blog covered this stuff before he got
> around to it.
>
> Don't let him get to ya Steve.  The guy is a hack.  The fact that he
> drew a comparison between TO and Briggs just shows how far he was
> reaching.
>
> Jerry
>
>
> On 5/24/07, Steve Behrens <steve.behrens at gmail.com> wrote:
> > (I hate this guy.... He's such a frick'n putz....)
> >
> >
> >
> > Behavior analysis: Bears already done as '07 contenders
> >       May 17, 2007
> > *By Clark Judge <http://www.sportsline.com/columns/writers/judge>*
> > *CBS SportsLine.com Senior Writer*
> >
> >
> > Remember that hex the Super Bowl puts on losing teams the following
> seasons?
> > It's alive, well and living in Halas Hall.
> >
> > There you'll find the Chicago
> > Bears<http://www.sportsline.com/nfl/teams/page/CHI>,
> > last year's Super Bowl losers and the first club to be DQ'd from this
> year's
> > NFL championship game. Normally, you wait until November or December
> before
> > telephoning the league coroner, but the Bears will spare you the
> trouble.
> >
> > Make that call now.
> >
> > It's not that the Bears don't have the talent to win. They do. It's not
> that
> > they made dumb offseason moves, either, because they didn't. It has
> nothing
> > to do with the draft or with Rex
> > Grossman<http://www.sportsline.com/nfl/players/playerpage/396159
> >imitating
> > the Venus De Milo or with a division that is barely visible in the
> > rear-view mirror.
> >
> > Nope, this has to do with the Bears' behavior. It stinks, and, yeah, I'm
> > talking about Lance
> > Briggs<http://www.sportsline.com/nfl/players/playerpage/395932>,
> > Alex Brown <http://www.sportsline.com/nfl/players/playerpage/301991> and
> Tank
> > Johnson <http://www.sportsline.com/nfl/players/playerpage/492969>.
> >
> > Once they couldn't stop making plays, fixtures in the NFL's toughest
> > defense. Now, they can't stop making news, with Brown stepping forward
> this
> > week to announce he asked the Bears' permission to seek a trade.
> >
> > Not because he's unhappy. Not because he becomes a free agent next year.
> Not
> > because he doesn't like the coaching staff. But because "I just want to
> see
> > what else is out there," Brown said on Sirius Radio.
> >
> > Swell.
> >
> > No, I don't get it, either. But what I am beginning to understand is
> that
> > these Bad News Bears look more like a bunch of misfits than a football
> team,
> > and that's not how you overcome the post-Super Bowl blues.
> >
> > Lest you forget, teams that lose a Super Bowl one season typically go
> into
> > the jar the next. Five of the past six, in fact, not only failed to
> reach
> > the playoffs the following seasons; they couldn't win more than they
> lost.
> >
> > Seattle broke that skid last year when it won its division with a 9-7
> record
> > before losing to Chicago in the playoffs.
> >
> > So at least there's hope for the Bears, especially when you survey the
> field
> > in the NFC North. But football is a team game, and if you don't behave
> as a
> > team, you don't go far -- which Chicago seems intent on proving.
> >
> > Earlier this week, I was talking to an AFC offensive coordinator when
> the
> > conversation turned to the Bears, and it wasn't long before he started
> > wondering how a club this dysfunctional survives the season. When I
> reminded
> > him they play in a division with the Packers, Vikings and Lions, he
> stopped
> > wondering.
> >
> > "Still," he said, "I can't see them doing much."
> >
> > I can't, either, and that's not a knock on general manager Jerry Angelo,
> > coach Lovie Smith or Smith's assistants. It's an acknowledgement of a
> > disturbing trend involving Super Bowl losers, as well as disturbing
> behavior
> > by some of Chicago's top defensive players.
> >
> > At the head of the class is Briggs, who rebelled after he was designated
> the
> > team's franchise player -- demanding a trade and insisting he won't play
> for
> > the Bears again. That means he doesn't show up for training camp, which
> > means training camp just got a whole lot more interesting.
> >
> > Look what happened with Dallas last summer when then-coach Bill Parcells
> was
> > barraged with Terrell
> > Owens<http://www.sportsline.com/nfl/players/playerpage/1290>questions.
> > First, he bristled. Then, he just stopped answering. But at least
> > T.O. was there. What do you think happens when Briggs pulls a no-show?
> >
> > And he might not be the only one missing from the lineup. Johnson met
> with
> > commissioner Roger Goodell this week after Johnson spent two months in
> jail
> > on weapons charges. Johnson appealed for leniency, but I don't see how
> it
> > happens. I mean, Jamal
> > Lewis<http://www.sportsline.com/nfl/players/playerpage/187391>did time
> > in the big house, too, and he was suspended two games by a
> > commissioner more lenient than Goodell.
> >
> > Plus, the timing is all wrong for Tank. He comes along when Goodell is
> > determined to clean up the NFL's Guys Gone Wild and after the
> commissioner
> > brought down the hammer on Pacman
> > Jones<http://www.sportsline.com/nfl/players/playerpage/552555>and
> > Cincinnati's Chris
> > Henry <http://www.sportsline.com/nfl/players/playerpage/412641>.
> >
> > The prevailing opinion is that Johnson sits down, with a half a season a
> > possibility.
> >
> > Then there's Brown, and don't ask me what happens there. The Bears don't
> > have to budge, and they won't. I don't know what that does to Brown, but
> I
> > have a pretty good idea what it means for team chemistry.
> >
> > Give me that pen. I need it to delete Chicago from the Super Bowl.
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