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Date: November 1st, 2009
Time: Noon Central
TV: CBS
Radio: WBBM AM 780

Bears will be wearing their orange jerseys (about as stupid as the Bulls wearing green against the Celtics)

Word is Frank Omiyale is going to be benched and replaced by Josh Beekman. 'Bout time.

BTW- the game isn't going to be on FOX. It will be on CBS because of NFL broadcast rules regarding interconference games (i.e. AFC home games broadcast on FOX; NFC home games broadcast on CBS; which is why last week's debacle in Cinci was on FOX).

Amen, about time. Now just put Shaffer in at RT and put Williams at LT and maybe this line won't be terrible. Still not good, but not terrible.

If we could bring in a stud RT and some interior depth (while dropping Pace), we could actually fix this line in one off season (assuming Williams progresses).

If they lose, it will be hilarious.

If they're going to wear the orange jerseys, they could at least wear the blue pants with them. Cliff Levingston hates tri-color uniforms (helmet one color, jersey another, pants another).

...and if we lose this game, we should just forfeit the season.

CBS announcers for Sunday:

Kevin Harlan, Solomon Wilcots

The only reason the Browns have any chance is that they do have a fairly competent defensive front. It didn't show real well against GB last weekend but they fared well against CIN and BUF. Cleveland also has exceptional special teams units and it goes far beyond Josh Cribbs.

Some random tidbits that should excite y'all...
Derek Anderson completes less than 30% of his 1st down passes on the season
Cleveland has allowed 23 pass plays of 20 yards or more, and just 10 of those travelled more than 15 yards in the air
The Browns have allowed 18 sacks, and Anderson ranks near the bottom in hits per dropback (he's 8 spots below Cutler)
The Browns have scored just 5 offensive touchdowns in their last 50 quarters
No team has allowed more opposing 1st downs via the run than the Browns (66, while the Bears are dead on the league average at 38)
If the season were to end today, Cleveland would have the 2nd worst offensive efficiency rating in NFL history for a full season, trailing only the 2005 49ers

Derek Anderson is going to look like Tom Brady against this secondary.

SportsWorld wrote:Solomon Wilcots

Who the hell is that?

WEFFPIM wrote:

SportsWorld wrote:Solomon Wilcots

Who the hell is that?

You've never ?

Kevin Harlan and Marv Albert sound exactly the same to me.

Icness wrote:The only reason the Browns have any chance is that they do have a fairly competent defensive front. It didn't show real well against GB last weekend but they fared well against CIN and BUF. Cleveland also has exceptional special teams units and it goes far beyond Josh Cribbs.

Some random tidbits that should excite y'all...
Derek Anderson completes less than 30% of his 1st down passes on the season
Cleveland has allowed 23 pass plays of 20 yards or more, and just 10 of those travelled more than 15 yards in the air
The Browns have allowed 18 sacks, and Anderson ranks near the bottom in hits per dropback (he's 8 spots below Cutler)
The Browns have scored just 5 offensive touchdowns in their last 50 quarters
No team has allowed more opposing 1st downs via the run than the Browns (66, while the Bears are dead on the league average at 38)
If the season were to end today, Cleveland would have the 2nd worst offensive efficiency rating in NFL history for a full season, trailing only the 2005 49ers

Thanks for the stats.

The Browns are really playing some treacherously terrible football.

With all this said....hopefully we will win...although nothing is a given with us.

I have the Bears this week in a survivor pool. How bad the NFL has been at the bottom has totally changed survior-type pools. I mean this year I have used only so far:
1 Seattle
2 Washington (developing a theme here)
3 Baltimore
4 San Francisco
5 NY Giants
6 Green Bay
7 New York Jets

Usually people are busting out an average rate, but you have so many bad teams that it makes it easier to pick winners.

this might be the single worst game in the entire league for the whole year. The Bears vs the Browns. yikes. As much as the bitter fan in me wants to predict a Browns victory, I don't believe they will beat us at home. Bears 24, Browns 17.

Cutler has a good game with 300 yards and 3 TD's.
Olsen finally breaks out and has 100+ yards receiving
Forte struggles again behind the non-existent OL

Derrek Anderson absolutely shreds the Bears DB's. Only through a few mishaps (fumbles, poor coaching decisions, etc) are we able to squeek out a W. Jamal Lewis resurrects a dead career with a 100-yards rushing in the first half. but incompetent Browns cannot close out the lackluster Bears.

Bears improve 4-3 to earn the right to get slaughtered by the Cards 48-10 (a game I will be attending too). We have 3 losses already and I don't see any scenario in which we beat the Eagles, Cards, or either game against the Viks. That's 9-7 right now....good bye LOVIE!

Just saw a stat. The Bears are 2nd worst in the league in points in the first quarter with 7. The Browns inept offense has more 1st quarter points than us. Unacceptable.

SpinninHouse wrote:this might be the single worst game in the entire league for the whole year. The Bears vs the Browns. yikes. As much as the bitter fan in me wants to predict a Browns victory, I don't believe they will beat us at home. Bears 24, Browns 17.

The Rams and Lions are playing today.

And this game begs to differ.

Heh. John St. Clair is on the Browns?

That's a pretty nice tackle by the kicker

Hester on has two enemies; his own feet and kickers who play like linebackers.

Encouraging first drive against the worst defense in the NFL.