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

[mom2iancal]

who is this guy??? I"ve never heard of him...

Put him in the ranks with Mariotti??!!  what an idiot

teri

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Behrens" <steve.behrens at gmail.com>
To: "CBFF" <post at chicagobearsfanforum.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2007 12:49 PM
Subject: [CBFF] Behavior analysis: Bears already done as '07 contenders


> (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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