[CBFF] Afraid of the Lions! (shudder)

[mom2iancal]

I thought I read that Briggs was out for 1-4 weeks??

teri

~A Morning  Without Coffee is Sleep~
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ross McCoy" <ross.mccoy at amd.com>
To: <post at chicagobearsfanforum.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2007 12:36 PM
Subject: [CBFF] Afraid of the Lions! (shudder)


>I haven't said that for a LONG time, but with our current injury situation 
>and
> lack of production on offense, this could be a blow out (especially if you
> look at worst case which I can't seem to avoid thinking about):
>
> Defense:
>
> IR: Brown, Dvoracek
> OUT: Tillman, Vasher, Harris
> UNKNOWN: Briggs, Ogunleye, Archuleta
>
> Now I know there is talk about how deep our 53 man roster is, but take
> 8 starters (including 5(6?) former pro bowlers) off of any team and you 
> are
> going to be very vulnerable. Especially with Detroit being a primarily
> passing team this year.
>
> Offense:
>
> UNKNOWN: Miller, Brown, Peterson
>
> Obviously our offense hasn't been to impressive this year and I have to
> believe that the starting offensive linemen are better than their backups,
> so this will no help.
>
> GAME OUTLOOK:
>
> I don't think Detroit is a very good team, but I expect we will be an 
> average
> to below average defense this week which will be VERY vulnerable to their
> passing attack. Our best hope on defense will be to get a lot of pressure
> from the front line to minimize our DBs exposure. This will likely have to
> include lots of blitzing to maintain pressure (and hopefully knock Kitna 
> silly
> so we can face JT O'Sullivan or Orlovsky).
>
> Offense is going to have to find a way to score points to win this game as
> we will not be able to keep Detroit out of the endzone like we have grown 
> to
> expect out of the D. I expect we will need to score at least 28 points to
> win this game and that is if the defense plays well as a unit with the 
> backups
> in place. If thing went the wrong way with the defense and Detroit was 
> trying
> to score points (rather than running out the clock with a big lead), I 
> could
> easily see them scoring more than 40 this game.
>
> Hopefully, I am just being grim, but this is not going to be a pretty game 
> and
> if we don't win this one, GB afterward could be a real slaughter.
>
> Ross
>
>
>
>
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