Chicago Bears

penban ::Da igraju Kalter i Brigs potpisao bih pobedu CHI protiv Sironja... Ovako GB nastavlja da reseta po diviziji

na Lambeau pobeda CHI?

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penban ::Da igraju Kalter i Brigs potpisao bih pobedu CHI protiv Sironja... Ovako GB nastavlja da reseta po diviziji

na Lambeau pobeda CHI?

A tamo se igra... onda X

When the Bears lost quarterback Jay Cutler for at least a month to a groin injury, receiver Brandon Marshall predicted Cutler would miss only two games. More recently, Marshall said Cutler will miss only one game.

Marshall may have been right on the money.

Via ESPNChicago.com, Cutler said Tuesday that he could return sooner than the stated timetable of at least a month.

“Yeah, that’s the goal,” Cutler said, sounding a bit like Tommy Flanagan. “Brandon is optimistic and so am I. We’ll see how it goes.”

Coach Marc Trestman understandably pumped the brakes. (Which is easy for him to do, since his groin isn’t injured.)

“Brandon is a teammate and he’s optimistic that his teammate will be back,” Trestman said. “He’s not the doctor. When I talk about a player’s prognosis to play, it’s not mine. It’s what the doctors have said is the normal. That doesn’t mean that Jay can’t beat the odds and come back quicker and again, he’s optimistic, you’ve talked to him, he’s optimistic, and we all are, I don’t make that determination, the doctors do. . . .

“What I’m saying is that I don’t decide when Jay comes back or when any player comes back. The doctors make that decision. What I was doing was reiterating the prognosis of the doctors. They’re not always right. It could happen faster. Jay’s optimistic; we all are. B ut I’m not saying we’re not bringing Jay back for four weeks. That’s what the doctors have said and we’ll work off that timeline. If it happens quicker, that’d be great.”

Cutler explained that, whenever he returns, he won’t play it safe because of his expiring contract.

“I’m not going to,” Cutler said. “Each game is valuable, especially second half of the season. So the sooner I can get back, the better I’m going to feel helping these guys out.”

That’s the right attitude to have. He’s not going to strike it rich by protecting his groin, or any other part of his body. He needs to get out there and let it loose, propelling the team to the playoffs and himself to the kind of payday the Bears would have no choice but to give him.

Eh, taj Katler.... ni sam ne zna kad je poslednji put pobedio GB kuci a kamoli na LF. Ove sezone lavici veca pretnja.

Quarterback Jay Cutler isn’t the only injured Bear who thinks he’s ahead of schedule.

Bears linebacker Lance Briggs, who was expected to miss four to six weeks with a shoulder injury, said he might cut those numbers in half.

“The way injuries go, the doctors said I’m supposed to be out 4-6 weeks,” Briggs said during his weekly television show on Comcast (via CSNChicago.com). “I feel more like I’ll be out 2-3 [weeks]. We’ll meet somewhere in the middle.”

Briggs was injured in the third quarter against the Redskins, and said it didn’t take long for him to realize the seriousness of the injury.

“I think the roughest part for me was when I went down and the guy was laying on me and my arm was separated,” Briggs said. “When I stood up I kind of knew something was wrong. I tried to get it taped up and come back out, but right before I was trying to come back on the field, I couldn’t put my helmet on. If I can’t put my helmet on, I don’t need to be out on the field.”

The Bears need all the help they can get on defense at the moment, and getting Briggs back in half the time he expected would be a bonus.

Opasan neki lik ovaj Briggs

Mnogo je opasan

 

The Bears are getting some help at defensive tackle.

Jay Ratliff, the four-time Pro Bowler who was released by the Cowboys last month, has agreed to a one-year contract with the Bears, according to Ed Werder of ESPN.

The Bears were one of three teams, along with the Chiefs and the Dolphins, who appeared to have strong interest in Ratliff. The Bengals also made a late run at him after losing defensive tackle Geno Atkins for the season on Thursday night.

Chicago lost its best defensive tackle, Henry Melton, to a season-ending injury. They’ll have to hope Ratliff can step in soon and make an immediate difference as they fight for a playoff spot.

Jay Cutler says he might not be out there against Detroit.

Ovo situaciju s nama mislim da će pre Detroit iskoristiti.

Videcemo vec ove nedelje
Nije se Megatron bas proslavljao protiv Cikaga... Ako Timlan odigra kako zna, moze biti dug dan za Lavice

Bears quarterback Jay Cutler will miss Sunday’s game against the Vikings, his third straight missed game as he continues to recover from a high ankle sprain.

Coach Marc Trestman confirmed at his press conference today that Cutler is expected to miss at least another week. Trestman added, however, that he is “totally confident” that Cutler will play again at some point this season.

The good news for the Bears is that backup Josh McCown has played well in Cutler’s absence. In fact, McCown has a higher completion percentage and higher passer rating and is averaging more yards per pass than Cutler, and McCown has thrown just one interception.

So the Bears’ offense is in good hands while McCown fills in against the Vikings. The real problem for the Bears on Sunday will be their shaky run defense matching up with Minnesota’s Adrian Peterson. Trestman said linebacker Lance Briggs will also miss the game against the Vikings.

Kakva hrpa bednika

koliko potencijala u toj ekipi
ali bez tilmana i brigsa se ne moze... napad kako tako funkcionise

isto ja goreg goal line RB od Busa nisam gledao...

ne znam zašto ga uopšte uvode

Inače, jedinu utakmicu gde nisu uvodili Buša za to goal line lešinarenje Forte je imao tri TD-a.

Franšiza kao franšiza je bzvz. skroz ali Forte mi mnogo visoko kotira na listi omiljenih igrača, neovisno od toga što mi je no.1 uzadinica u Fantaziju.

Chicago Bears running back Matt Forte didn’t practice on Wednesday.

However, head coach Marc Trestman doesn’t view it as much of a concern for his availability this Sunday against the Minnesota Vikings.

According to Jeff Dickerson of ESPNChicago.com, Trestman is confident Forte will be available this week.

“I feel pretty good that he’ll start getting some work tomorrow. We’ll see where he is at, but I’m going in optimistic,” Trestman said.

Forte suffered a hyper-extended right knee last week against the St. Louis Rams but managed to finish the game. He carried 16 times for 77 yards and caught seven passes for 40 yards.

Forte has missed just five games over the course of his six-year career with the Bears.

 

The Chicago Bears don’t want to use the franchise tag on quarterback Jay Cutler. With Josh McCown playing as well as he is, the Bears may be able to pull it off.

While a talent gap clearly exists between Cutler and McCown, a performance gap doesn’t. And if McCown can continue to play like he did Monday night against a talented playoff contender with a small margin for error in Chicago-style December elements, the Bears would have an extremely viable Plan B.

Which could eventually become Plan A, if the Bears win the NFC North under McCown.

With neither Cutler (who is 30) nor McCown (34) the long-term answer at the quarterback position, the best move for the Bears could be to keep McCown and have him groom a rookie drafted by Emery and coach Marc Trestman in 2014 or 2015.

Bears fans won’t be picky. With precious few (arguably no) franchise quarterbacks since Sid Luckman, the name on the back of the jersey won’t matter, as long as the guy throwing the passes is completing them. That’s a far easier proposition with guys like Brandon Marshall, Alshon Jeffery, and Martellus Bennett running the routes.

The situation could make Cutler more eager to return from his week-to-week high ankle sprain that at one point had his lower leg in a hard cast. It also could nudge the Bears toward applying the 100-percent rule to Cutler, prompting them to wink-nod the medical staff toward not concluding Cutler is able to play for the rest of the season.

Speaking of winks and nods, a few of both could be necessary when it comes to McCown. He signed a one-year deal in the offseason under the minimum salary benefit, which allowed the Bears to pay him $840,000 at a cap charge of only $580,000. The Bears can’t re-sign McCown until he becomes a free agent in March. Technically, they can’t even negotiate with McCown until he hits the market.

If McCown carries the Bears to the playoffs, Chicago may have to pay McCown more than they’d want to pay a guy to hold the spot and mentor a rookie.

That’d still be a lot less than the $60-plus million over three years that the franchise tag would generate for Cutler. Which would give the Bears plenty of money to spend on positions other than quarterback. Which would be in capable hands in the short term with McCown — and over the long haul with whomever Trestman and Emery regard as the best guy from the current crop (or the next crop) of rookies to run Trestman’s offense for the next decade.

If they make the right choice, Trestman and Emery become much more likely to be employed by the Bears for most or all of the next decade.

nema govora da ce šećerko negde van čikaga

dr.dule ::nema govora da ce šećerko negde van čikaga

Nema ljubavi brate, posao je to.

pa oavj je poprilično star
a katler može još 5-6 sezona komotno

Po meni je Katler jedan od boljih qb-jeva u ligi... nije elita, ali je ok za tim kakav je CHI