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MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL
Coverage: ESPN/WatchESPN
8:30 PM ET, October 22, 2012
Soldier Field, Chicago, IL 


Detroit Leaders
Passing: Stafford - 114-173, 1182 yds, 3 tds
Rushing: Smith - 29 car, 115 yds, 1 td
Receiving: Johnson - 29 rec, 423 yds, 1 td

Chicago Leaders
Passing: Cutler - 90-156, 1209 yds, 7 tds
Rushing: Bush - 58 car, 206 yds, 3 tds
Receiving: Marshall - 35 rec, 496 yds, 3 tds

The Lions looked terrible coming off their bye week for 3 quarters. I like the Bears to have a solid victory off their bye.

Thats a great picture

Stafford looked pretty impressive with 311 passing yards though. Leshoure wasn't horrible either.

Last year, the Bears offense looked a lot better after the bye-week, and before Cutler and Forte got hurt. This year we've had a new offensive coordinator, a new QB coach, a new offensive line coach, and a new set of receivers. I've very hopeful that our offense improved a lot this bye week, and our offense should get a good test going against the Lions front 4. I know that the Lions defense isn't the best, but neither was the Packers. We have the defense and special teams to be the best team in the league, it all depends on how much our offense can improve.

So pumped for thsi game. I see the Bears coming out VERY strong after the bye. Easy win here.

JDRochholz wrote:So pumped for thsi game. I see the Bears coming out VERY strong after the bye. Easy win here.

Easy is a bit of an exaggeration. If they play like they did in the 4th quarter against the Eagles, it'll be a very close game.

Grantland has the Bears as the #1 team in the NFL:
http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/850 ... eek-6-news

Our special teams is better than theirs.
Ours defense is better than theirs.
And yes, our offense is better than this.

27-13 Bears Win

Division games are usually tough. Hopefully we don't play around and think that Tillman or Jennings can cover Johnson without serious help. But, at home, with over 2 weeks to prepare on a Monday night where Jay's got a nice record going: we'll take this. Whether we win by 1 or 100, it doesn't matter, just win.

Cliff Levingston wrote:Division games are usually tough. Hopefully we don't play around and think that Tillman or Jennings can cover Johnson without serious help. But, at home, with over 2 weeks to prepare on a Monday night where Jay's got a nice record going: we'll take this. Whether we win by 1 or 100, it doesn't matter, just win.

Tillman locked Johnson down in last year's second game

Cliff Levingston wrote:Division games are usually tough. Hopefully we don't play around and think that Tillman or Jennings can cover Johnson without serious help. But, at home, with over 2 weeks to prepare on a Monday night where Jay's got a nice record going: we'll take this. Whether we win by 1 or 100, it doesn't matter, just win.

Hopefully, we give Megatron the Randy Moss treatment.

Jake0890 wrote:Stafford looked pretty impressive with 311 passing yards though. Leshoure wasn't horrible either.

Most quarterbacks that throw the ball 45 times in a game will go for over 300.

bjam12 wrote:

Jake0890 wrote:Stafford looked pretty impressive with 311 passing yards though. Leshoure wasn't horrible either.

Most quarterbacks that throw the ball 45 times in a game will go for over 300.

Very true.

Basically, these guys shouldnt be able to block the Bears.
Secondly, they shouldnt be able to cover them as well.

Imo, if the Bears protection holds up (as it has improved) the Bears should be ok in this one.

The last time the Bears played the Lions at soldierfield, the Bears dominated.< understatement.
This Lions team is as undisciplined as there is in the league.

I couldn't agree with you more, adonis.

I couldn't agree with you more, adonis.

Just putting this out there. Mitt Romney is from Detroit

patryk7754 wrote:Just putting this out there. Mitt Romney is from Detroit

So we are either going to get killed (first debate) or win by a field goal (second debate).

Crazy wild work week this week boys, couldn't do much with the game thread. Sorry. Back with a vengeance next week!