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

Fri May 25 06:28:54 MDT 2007

As my ds would say... "WHATEVER..."    Like Steve said, the guy is a 
frickin' putz....

~A Morning  Without Coffee is Sleep~
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ryan Dietzenbach" <ryandietzenbach at gmail.com>
To: <post at chicagobearsfanforum.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2007 3:06 PM
Subject: Re: [CBFF] Behavior analysis: Bears already done as '07 contenders

> 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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