You have to have a defense to win games. Not to disappoint but I just don’t see the Bears being able to be consistent. They gave up over 30 points, most weeks you will lose when you do that. Even worse was that the Broncos were using their 3rd string running back.
PS. How about my Vikes? (its the one time I can talk about them, so give me a moment in the sun)

Tyler,
Vikes looked good today; I saw bits of that game.

The Broncos are driving me crazy this year!! Up by two touchdowns, and then…

Vikes look great!

I couldn’t believe it when I heard someone say that the Browns may have the best kick returner in the NFL. Better than Hester? Now that would be amazing.
But I’d never kick to him, or do everything I could to avoid that, if I were coaching an NFL team.

Mike Shanahan was my position coach at the University of Florida back in the early ’80′s… he is one of the smartest human beings I’ve ever been around, yet for the life of me, how could he continue to kick to Hester!!! I’m a Bears fan only because I root for Grossman, even though he plays “gross” sometimes… What a game today.

Scot,
Maybe I came off a bit strong. Hester was pretty unbelievable today, and he is clearly a difference maker. Without him that game wasn’t close. My point was merely that you can’t expect him to dominate every game and I don’t think the Bears are showing a defense that you can count on either. But really….this is sports. Being a Nebraska fan has really shown me how unimportant it is to live and die for teams…because I’d be dead.

Trust me. Us Chargers fans became instant Bears fans there in the fourth quarter. Thanks for the help in our division, we needed it…
I’m with you, why would you even kick to the guy? Shanahan in his post-game conference admitted to the mistake. His thinking was that if they did their job on special teams, they could stop him. Guess that didn’t work out to well…

I’m with Fred and Mike on this one. Why does anybody at any time kick to Devon Hester by mistake? They know the threat. How could it be a mistake? Did they think it was somebody else? Denver’s special teams wasn’t ready for him…period. So I ain’t buyin’ what Shanahan is sellin’.
My call is Bears win only 2 more games and finish the season a paltry 7-9.

It was painful! Ouch! I am a Colorado native at heart, even though I now live in the heartland. I will cheer for Chicago when they aren’t playing Colorado. But I grew up in Orange Crush Colorado and stay loyal to Denver no matter what. I was feeling good until about 3-4 minutes left, when Chicago starting coming back. Oooouch! Make the pain go away!

There are all sorts of reasons why athletes get strong (some legal, some not so much). What are the reasons that coaches get stupid?

Only 37 more days and the PGA begins again. Ahhh civilzation.

So why did they kick to Hester anyway???
Somewhere in Denver…an assistant is trying to answer that question right now.