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finish 3rd, the loss of Orton is really going to hurt us, I guess.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/preview09/team?team=chi

Not surprised. They've had their Vikings kneepads on ever since they signed Favre.

I'm tired of all this easiest schedule talk we are getting, no sh*t the lions were 0-16 and we play them twice that's why are schedule is the easiest. Take out our division opponents and I"ll bet it changes.

Pitt
@Sea
@Atl
Ari
@SF
Phi
@Bal
2 with GB and Min--They are so great according to ESPN.
Those are pretty tough, it's Det and GB winning% last year that screws us up.

Only the NFC West is equal to us in wins for the bottom two teams.
Seattle 4-12
St. Louis 2-14
6 Wins

Detroit 0-16
GB 6-10
6 Wins

It also hurts we get the NFC west but Seattle is supposed to play better, Arizona went to the Super Bowl and San Fran played better down the stretch.

Not the easiest schedule if you look game by game I bet.

mattbulls wrote:Not the easiest schedule if you look game by game I bet.

We really don't know yet. The NFL is such a fickle league; a team that was great last year could fall on it's face, and vice versa.

As an aside, Cliff Levingston isn't surprised that ESPN is predicting a 3rd place finish. For one, they hate all Chicago teams. A nice example of that provided this morning on their bottom line. The White Sox beat the Red Sox 5 to 1, yet when showing individual stats, they only showed what Ellsbury and Youkilis did; not what anyone on the White Sox did.

Also, our division has improved. Cliff Levingston really does think we could finish 1st or 3rd in the division pretty easily.

I'd rather not have espn picking us. I've grown to hate them & their BrettFavreRomoNFCBeastCowboysGiants love so much I don't really know what I would do if they picked us to be anything more than 9-7. 8-8 is what Golic said at one point on Mike & MIke. I guess we did a little subtraction by addition by adding Cutler and others this year.

The Bears not only have an easier schedule than last year, but they're a better team. Not sure how the Bears finish with a worse record this year.

Eh, it's ESPN. They get **** wrong all the time.

On second note:

http://espn.go.com/nfl/powerrankings?season=2009&week=1

We're eleventh in the power rankings this week ahead of Green Bay but below the Favre lovefest.

Minnesota better hope AD puts up 190 yards and 2 TD's every Sunday, because old man Favre has looked even older this year. There's also the fact that Favre over the last 2 seasons has been a horrible 2nd half player

Cliff Levingston wrote:

mattbulls wrote:Not the easiest schedule if you look game by game I bet.

We really don't know yet. The NFL is such a fickle league; a team that was great last year could fall on it's face, and vice versa.

As an aside, Cliff Levingston isn't surprised that ESPN is predicting a 3rd place finish. For one, they hate all Chicago teams. A nice example of that provided this morning on their bottom line. The White Sox beat the Red Sox 5 to 1, yet when showing individual stats, they only showed what Ellsbury and Youkilis did; not what anyone on the White Sox did.

Also, our division has improved. Cliff Levingston really does think we could finish 1st or 3rd in the division pretty easily.

Icness would love to spend an evening at a sports bar with Cliff Levingston. Very well said