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San Diego going to Chicago in Nov is money! Chicago easy!

QUOTE(#4):

Originally posted 05:32 PM ET  11.16 by Badger Pete

Talent doesn't help if they lack team chemistry. Maybe the communication between the players and the coaching staff is lacking.

Maybe it's the coaching staff in general.

QUOTE(#3):

Originally posted 03:43 PM ET  11.16 by -ripper-

People will say "next to Philly this season, the Chargers are probably the most underachieving team in the NFL." Every year it is said that they have all this talent but they just underachieve. I'm wondering whether they actually have "all this talent." You don't have talent if you don't play as a team. you might have speed, great hands, elusiveness, a good arm, etc., but it's not talent unless iit works for you. And in the last few years, it has been broken for large spells during each season. Re health, the O-line is breaking down, particularly with Dombrowski taking over for LT McNeill when he suffered a stinger against Oakland. If McNeill can't go, watch out Rivers' blind side. RG Vasquez is in a walking boot and LG Kris Dielman is still out with that nasty concussion he suffered in NY. Friggin' MASH unit, but honestly i'm not sure it would matter if they were all healthy. Rivers hasn't been "right," Gates has seemingly lost a step, Floyd, Tolbert and Mathews are all hit or miss with injuries, and VJ decides when he will play and when he will frolic through the meadow picking daisies while the world passes him by and the ball sails past his head (ok, unfair, slightly, but it all comes back to . . . discipline, or lack thereof).Bears are playing great. I really hope the Bolts can put it together and win, but damg it's hard to have ANY optimism about this game at Soldier Field. Heck, even the prospect of beating Cutler doesn't come with the huge incentive it once did, now that he's out of Denver. Urlacher and the Bears D haveta be licking their chops watching tapes of Rivers this season. No real analysis here today re how the Chargers can or will beat the Bears...haven't figured it out yet, if there is one besides "luck." Maybe I'll have an epiphany before game time which I'll share if it occurs. But lacking that, I refuse to fold. C'mon Chargers, rise up! Beat those Bears! Haha...arghhhhhhhhh. I can't even convince myself. Chargers need this win, badly. Maybe that, coupled with a "little left to lose" attitude, will provide some incentive, since Norv apparently cannot identify anything for them in that regard.

I think the Charger problems start at the top, that team needs some new blood.

To get so close year after year and rarely even get to the AFC Championship game must start to wear on the vets on that team.

After a while the veterans are not going to continue to buy into Norv's speeches and pep talks and that is when a coaching change is needed.

Must be tough to be on that team and watch last Monday nights game, seeing a team that has figured it out. The Chargers should be where the Packers are at, but they are going in the opposite direction in 4th gear.

Bears have a VERY favorable schedule from here on out, and are a lock for the 5th seed but will not be able to finish any higher than that. They will either play at the Saints or the Giants in the opening round of the playoffs depending on who lands the 4th seed.

QUOTE(#7):

Originally posted 07:16 PM ET  11.16 by Badger Pete

The Chargers made a mistake when they traded Drew Brees.

Agreed.
but
if you recall Drew was coming off surgery in the off season and they could not afford to keep both.

As JoePa said "in hindsight I would have done more" and surely (with hindsight) the Chargers would have traded Rivers.

But then if any of us had hindsight we'd be a Gazillionaires.

Even though the Packers are 3 games up on the Bears and Lions with 7 games to go, I'm not ready to give them the Division championship yet. As Rogers himself said this week, "Everyone is going to be out for them since they are undefeated." They have to play Detroit twice, at NY Giants, and us (DA BEARS!!!) in GB. Along with three "trap games against the Bucaneers in Tampa this week (It could be very hot!), Raiders, and Chiefs in KC. All of those teams are at least respectable and deserve to be respected!!! Definately not an easy last 7 games!!! So if they win the division they will have done it the old fashioned way, "They EARNED it."

Stranger things have happened, so until they win it I say, GO BEARS!!! Even if they do win it though remember what they did as the 6th seed last year and the fact that the playoffs are a whole new ball game, GO BEARS!!!

I take back everything bad I said about the Bears and the coaching staff. They have done a tremendous job of turning this whole ship around and getting back to basic black and blue football, Bears style... so much so that I believe they have a great, solid team to go all the way to SB all in a matter of a couple of weeks to boot, amazing!

I think that Lovie has done a great job at fixing the major flaw in their offensive line, they are protecting Jay and are creating huge holes for Forte, c'mon the guy's a monster, unstoppable, and of course when your defensive doesn't have to spend 90% of the the time on the field they are in turn fired up and actually can score the points on turnovers to win games, on their own! I also would would like to tip my hat to Lovie for making Hestor special as in special teams, this guy was born for that position not WR.

Way to go Jay. YOU will go down as one of the greatest QB to play the game, forget Brady and Rodgers, what you need to do this is a pair of tall recievers with good hands. But I will settle with what we got now. Know this, that they are in the presence of a Future Hall of famer, as soon as they appreciate that they will motivate themselve to do better...

Look out Green Bay, we are coming to get you.....Chicago is going to strip that championship out of your hands!!!!!

I take back everything bad I said about the Bears and the coaching staff. They have done a tremendous job of turning this whole ship around and getting back to basic black and blue football, Bears style... so much so that I believe they have a great, solid team to go all the way to SB all in a matter of a couple of weeks to boot, amazing!

I think that Lovie has done a great job at fixing the major flaw in their offensive line, they are protecting Jay and are creating huge holes for Forte, c'mon the guy's a monster, unstoppable, and of course when your defensive doesn't have to spend 90% of the the time on the field they are in turn fired up and actually can score the points on turnovers to win games, on their own! I also would would like to tip my hat to Lovie for making Hestor special as in special teams, this guy was born for that position not WR.

Way to go Jay. YOU will go down as one of the greatest QB to play the game, forget Brady and Rodgers, what you need to do this is a pair of tall recievers with good hands. But I will settle with what we got now. Know this, that they are in the presence of a Future Hall of famer, as soon as they appreciate that they will motivate themselve to do better...

Look out Green Bay, we are coming to get you.....Chicago is going to strip that championship out of your hands!!!!!

QUOTE(#12):

Originally posted 09:31 PM ET  11.16 by AJ_1967

I take back everything bad I said about the Bears and the coaching staff. They have done a tremendous job of turning this whole ship around and getting back to basic black and blue football, Bears style... so much so that I believe they have a great, solid team to go all the way to SB all in a matter of a couple of weeks to boot, amazing! I think that Lovie has done a great job at fixing the major flaw in their offensive line, they are protecting Jay and are creating huge holes for Forte, c'mon the guy's a monster, unstoppable, and of course when your defensive doesn't have to spend 90% of the the time on the field they are in turn fired up and actually can score the points on turnovers to win games, on their own! I also would would like to tip my hat to Lovie for making Hestor special as in special teams, this guy was born for that position not WR. Way to go Jay. YOU will go down as one of the greatest QB to play the game, forget Brady and Rodgers, what you need to do this is a pair of tall recievers with good hands. But I will settle with what we got now. Know this, that they are in the presence of a Future Hall of famer, as soon as they appreciate that they will motivate themselve to do better...Look out Green Bay, we are coming to get you.....Chicago is going to strip that championship out of your hands!!!!!

You lost me when I hit the 3rd paragraph. Really???

The difference between these 2 teams is that Cutler has found a grove and Rivers is way off track, even when Rivers gets the ball to his receivers they drop half of them. Both defenses are rather old, but Chicago has a better group of oldsters. If San Diego loses and in an embarrassing way don't expect Norv Turner to be around next year.

QUOTE(#14):

Originally posted 08:40 AM ET  11.17 by narrator

The difference between these 2 teams is that Cutler has found a grove and Rivers is way off track, even when Rivers gets the ball to his receivers they drop half of them. Both defenses are rather old, but Chicago has a better group of oldsters. If San Diego loses and in an embarrassing way don't expect Norv Turner to be around next year.

Norv is on borrowed time but that assumes that the front office finally figures out what the problems are. A big IF!

QUOTE(#14):

Originally posted 08:40 AM ET  11.17 by narrator

The difference between these 2 teams is that Cutler has found a grove and Rivers is way off track, even when Rivers gets the ball to his receivers they drop half of them. Both defenses are rather old, but Chicago has a better group of oldsters. If San Diego loses and in an embarrassing way don't expect Norv Turner to be around next year.

The Bears D is old? seriously? Chicago is known for their Defenses! 10+ years doesnt mean your old in the sense you meant it, just mean they do a good job at what they do. did you watch peppers slam megatron to the ground? tillman run a pick 6? these guys arent old, they dominate!

I'm a little nervous, but after last Sunday not as bad.

QUOTE(#17):

Originally posted 11:00 AM ET  11.17 by OLD BEAR

I'm a little nervous, but after last Sunday not as bad.

Don't be. SD is without 3 of their o-line starters. Your D is going to have a feast early and often.

QUOTE(#18):

Originally posted 11:05 AM ET  11.17 by TxHeat

Don't be. SD is without 3 of their o-line starters. Your D is going to have a feast early and often.

The way the Bears moved Peppers around against Detroit's Oline should also be giving Oline men and Coaches nightmares around the NFL!!! All they have to have is one inferior Olineman and Julius can have a field day. With the Chargers having 3 look out!!! Go BEARS!!!

QUOTE(#19):

Originally posted 12:50 PM ET  11.17 by bearsfan6522009

The way the Bears moved Peppers around against Detroit's Oline should also be giving Oline men and Coaches nightmares around the NFL!!! All they have to have is one inferior Olineman and Julius can have a field day. With the Chargers having 3 look out!!! Go BEARS!!!

Hopefully get to see that happen. I get to watch the Jaguars and Falcons.