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Originally Posted by Sylvanfan
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.
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.
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That's the biggest problem. Every player on the Bears' sideline has defended him, and Caleb Hanie was backing him up and saying that he played a big part in how Hanie performed coming off the bench the way he did. Problem is nobody saw it so they all make assumptions.