Archive for October, 2009

The Bears head to Cincinnati for another road game.  Geez, when are they going to get another home game?  Only two home games before November 1st?  WTF?  The Bears are coming off an ugly loss to Matt Ryan and the Falcons.   It’s the second consecutive year that the Beloved come up empty in Atlanta in maddening fashion. Meanwhile, the Bengals come off a disappointing home loss to the Texans.  You would have to characterize the Bengals as a surprise team, as they sit atop the tough AFC North with a 4-2 record overall and a mind-numbing 3-0 record in the [...]

It’s old home week as the Bears prepare to face a couple of familiar faces in Bengals‘ Cedric (The Complainer) Benson and Tank (Guns ‘n Ammo) Johnson.  I had the chance to go behind enemy lines and lob some questions and answers back and forth with Bengals blogger Mickey from Who Dey Fans  this week.  Be sure to check out my answers to his questions by clicking here.  Here are my questions and his answers: Bears fans remember Cedric Benson as a bust in Chicago.  Is he for real?  If so, what have the Bengals done to get the most [...]

Warren Sapp has been waging a little personal war against the Chicago Bears own Jerry Angelo.  Angelo and Sapp were together in Tampa back in the mid 90′s when Jerry was the Director of Player Personnel and Warren was a young up and comer drafted by Tampa. Sapp appeared on his weekly Wednesday morning segment on the Mully and Hanley Show on 670 The Score.  Naturally, the subject of Jay Cutler’s contact came up and they innocently mentioned Jerry Angelo. Warren responded in typical Warren fashion.  Take a listen: I heard that and I thought, “Talk about biting the hand [...]

There is officially some room available on the Jets Bandwagon, Bart has jumped off. Another disappointing weeks for the Jets and I fell right into the trap. I’ll allow myself to make such errors when I win my other 3, bringing my season total against the spread to be 14-10. I really didn’t want to win with my Atlanta pick, but again, when “betting,” one must not use their heart, but their head. The Packers pick was a no-brainer coming off a bye going against the hapless Lions. Carolina won by a TD as I predicted, although it came a [...]

There is a light load in the NFL with 6 teams on a bye, so there will undoubtedly be a lot of activity on your league’s waiver wire as people look to fill out their rosters.  You should try to take advantage of this activity to either block your opponents who may be after someone and there are some quality pick-ups out there in case you are being hit with the bye week bug.  I will discuss that more below, but here are my opinions of some players not on a bye this week… Stone Tablet Locks – chisel these [...]

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It was media day today and players from both the Bears and Bengals sounded off in preparation for Sunday’s matchup that some are calling the Benson Bowl.  And Cedric couldn’t leave well enough alone.  He sounded off about how the Bears blackballed him after he was released in June of 2008 follow two alcohol-related incidents with Texas authorities. (For full disclosure, he was cleared in both instances, but it’s Texas, where he was a hero.  I’m thinking a little home cooking).   Here’s Benson on his alleged blackballing: “I heard all the rumors that were said coming out of Chicago,” [...]

Jerry Angelo has had a hole burning in his pocket ever since he brought in a franchise quarterback.   He spent some of that money on Tuesday.  Jay Cutler has signed a contact extension with the Chicago Bears to keep him in the Orange and Blue through at least 2013.  According to the NFL Network, the extension adds about $20 million in guaranteed money to the $30 million extension. People have been speculating about this extension ever since the Bears brought Cutler here in a trade from the Broncos back in April.  In the meantime, Eli Manning and Phillip Rivers have [...]