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Impressive drive! wow

The nickel package with Izzy on the inside should be something to watch as well. Supposedly it's been unstoppable in camp when they use it. But then again, it's the Bears line they're going up against.

The thing is, we don't really see what Emery truly has to offer, in terms of drafting, until next season. He was drafting mostly with Jerry's guys if I'm not mistaken until he got his own scouts a month or so after the draft.

Can't wait to see Jay and Brandon together in a game for the first time since their Denver days. Hoping the starters at least play the 1st quarter, hopefully into the 2nd, but I also am anxious to see Alshon Jeffery again and the other two receivers in Chris Summers and Joe Anderson. On the flip-side, I'm interested in getting an up close look at Griffin III. After all, I did draft him in my fantasy league to be my #1 QB. Looked good in the first pre-season game. This time teams game plan a little bit and the starters play into the 2nd quarter most of the time, so it'll be interesting to see how he does with a slightly more directed approach against the likes of Julius Peppers and the Bears cover 2.

https://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=...video_processed Jay's a pretty good actor! haha

Going to temper my expectations because he is a rookie WR after all, and in most cases, it takes at least a year for them to show their true potential. But Jeffery should be an asset when it comes to redzone targets and big play ability when Marshall is double teamed. I'm excited to see Cutler and Jeffery on the field together in pre-season game #3, if not game #2.

On the D Line, I thought the first team was really bad. I'm not sure if they employed the "Get blown off the snap" technique or not, but if they did, they certainly got that part of it down. Manning had a day and a half to throw. Obviously Peppers was out and it is pre-season, but I was not impressed with the 1st team defense at all in that game. McClellin looked good though. Had a handful of good plays and a few bad plays, including the penalty and him getting ate up on the goal line for a TD run.. Other than that though he looked really quick, took good angles with great closing speed.. pretty much everything you'd want out of a 3-4 LB, however, playing DE he's just not even close to strong enough to help in run support. He's likely to be a pure pass rush specialist in his rookie season until he puts on more muscle or he develops better technique to support his run defense. The O-Line looked equally as bad as the D-Line did for the majority of the game. Webb up to his usual tricks of false starting, Edwin Williams is not a center, and Chris Williams left a lot to be desired with his play.. Didn't notice Lance Louis a lot, so I guess that's a good thing. Spencer had one rough moment but overall I thought played okay. I have to keep reminding myself its PRESEASON, and they did run a lot of vanilla offense, but so far I haven't noticed that much of a difference between the Martz offense and this one. I noticed there was a roll out called during one of the series Cambell was in. All in all, you can't really take too much away from pre-season performance. I think Zach Zaidman tweeted it earlier, the Bears pre-season has never been an indicator of how the Bears season will go. Cutler better play in this next one though. I want to see him in there for a couple series with Marshall. Cambell made Kyle Orton look like Dan Marino throwing the deep ball with how many check downs he threw in last night's game.. Stretch the field some! That offensive performance was tough to watch. Highlight Players: - Shea McClellin - J.T Thomas - The D Lineman with the weird name (Otegwu ?) - Alshon Jeffery - Chris Summers

Blanchard's got a nice arm, and what a catch by Summers.

This is bad offense even for preseason Game #1 standards.

O-Line still a major problem. Looked terrible so far tonight.

THROW THE BALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Cambell looking like crap so far. Would be nice to see him throw the ball more than 3 yards down the field. Also Webb picking up where he left off..

Shea!!

lol Major Wright injured already. Who woulda thought? Can't stand that guy.

Too many run plays. Throw the ball!

He's there and dressed. I'm confused.

Wow what the hell? No Jay Cutler tonight? Why??

I hope to see a lot of Alshon Jeffery tonight. Also Jason Cambell, I'm interested in seeing how he does with the 2nd unit. He could be a #1 for a lot of teams right now so I expect him to peform well in this preseason. It will be funny to see Haine go up against the Bears defense in the 2nd half!

Agreed, but it's easy to make predictions on paper. As we witnessed last year, that doesn't always translate to on the field wins. Most assumed the Bears would be able to beat the Chiefs or the Broncos last year, even with Haine, and.. Yeah.. Didn't turn out so well. There are still some question marks with this team though that concern me a little, particularly Urlacher's injury. How quickly will the Bears offense really start to gel? Are we going to be able to get a pass rush this year? I've got to see some flashes of it before I start to believe it.

Terrell Owens, at age 38, is still in better shape than probably 3/4 of the guys in this league right now. He is a physical freak of an athlete, as is Moss, but in a different way.

Can't say anything about our team until I see a couple pre-season games and a few in the regular season. Pre-season stuff is usually filled with a ton of vanilla sets both offensively and defensively. Nobody wants to show their hand early and there is little to no game planning to make it feel like a real game. The Monday Nighter against the Giants should be a vague indication of our team when the starters play their 3 quarters, but you still won't know the real Chicago Bears until at least week 4 or 5 of the regular season.

T.O or Moss were two guys I would have been okay with if we lost out on the top FA WR's this year like the Marques Colston's the Vincent Jackson's etc.. Little did I know Brandon Marshall would become available and once we got him to come over there was no need to bring in Moss or T.O. After Marshall we needed a young receiver to groom as the #2 guy opposite of Brandon. We got that guy (we think) in Alshon Jeffery.

No real surprises. Thought maybe Chris Williams would have been at LG from last year, but seeing as how he's been practicing at Left and Right tackles this offseason I guess it shouldn't be a shock to see Spencer ahead of him now.

They may decide to keep Blanchard as their developmental QB if he out performs McCown in the preseason. Otherwise you might be able to hide him on the practice squad.

Tells me they probably don't want Sanzenbacher considering he's not a special teams type of player.