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Originally Posted by dirk diggler
you are dreaming, the Packers have a ton of guys on IR, they are the team of the future in this division, not mopey Cutler and an aging defense in Chicago... the Bears beat the Seahawks in the playoffs... enough said
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Furthermore a lot of the big key guys in that Chicago front 7 are starting to get up there in age. Urlacher, Briggs, Idonije, and Peppers are 30 or older. They maybe have two more years before that defence starts needing some pretty significant retooling. They had no picks in the first three rounds of last years draft so it's not like they have depth in those positions to challenge the starters. In fact not having any significant injuries was the biggest reason that Bears defence was as good as they were this past year.
The way the Lions have progressed under Schwartz, I think that will be the team challenging Green Bay within a couple of years.
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Originally Posted by HOOT
To be fair to those players Cutler was just standing there at the sideline not something you do with a leg injury usually. If it was a serious injury you would think he would either be sitting, or working on it with the trainers and I didn't see either. My first thought was he just quit on the team like he did in Denver and I still believe that MCL injury and all.
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I don't doubt the injury, but in the late game I see Maurkice Pouncey in street clothes, on crutches looking absolutely distraught when the Steelers botched that snap and gave up the safety. That looked like an injured guy who wanted back into the game in the worst way. Cutler looked pretty ho hum there on the sidelines. Teams need their QB to be a leader, and to me it didn't look the Bears had a leader on the sidelines in Cutler.