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Suddenly I'm not really feeling that confident in Sundays game. Not sure how the line will hold up missing one of their guys, and I'm not sure how Corey Graham is going to do in place of DJ Moore. This could be your typical trap game that the Bears always seem to fall in to atleast once or twice a season.

Never trust Jerry Angelo drafting an offensive lineman in the first round ever again. And what the hell is with the injury? He's missing the entire season because of a partial dislocation?

Sure, but they haven't played below average football since Week 5 at Detroit. Since then its been quite a bit better and the important thing is that its happening NOW. I say this with kindness and Im not trying to be an ass, but I don't really care nor do I base any of my opinions off of someone else opinionated grades . Come on now. Okay? So what? Why are you using a fan's opinion like it's circumstantial evidence? I could make up a few grades right now if you'd like me to. Would you take those numbers as factual information as well? But upgrading at OL still doesn't mean our receivers are suddenly going to start learning how to catch balls. It's still not going to change the fact that none of them have the ability to adjust on the fly to a ball that's not thrown perfectly, like the Larry Fitzgerald's or the Calvin Johnson's of the world. All it would do is give the receivers more opportunities to get open, which helps but it still doesn't discount their deficiencies as a group. Yeah, they've done it so much that Devin Hester and Johnny Knox have a combined 1 total touchdown of a play greater than 30 yards. Fast doesn't necessarily = down the field play maker. Somewhat. In reality, there aren't many teams that routinely give you the 7 step drop anymore, because this league has become a shotgun oriented league with the spread it out, air it out type of offense. Or its the West coast style. Martz has called a smarter game by limiting these plays to a smaller degree, and that will help any offensive line. Why ruin a good thing if it's working? Just because you aren't running plays where you drop the quarterback back 7 steps doesn't mean you can't throw down the field. There are ways around it and it's why you design roll outs to get the quarterback out of the pocket a bit. You can go more shotgun, throw in a few screens here and there to keep the defense off balanced, all the while mixing in a few 7 step drops every now and then. As long as Martz doesn't abuse it, it will work.

Without looking at who's playing well for the other teams, Garza's name should be getting some major consideration as a pro bowl center.

Yep, according to this we are 4th worst with 20. http://stats.washingtonpost.com/fb/tmleade...FL&rank=232

Well for the record, I've never said one time that the offensive line doesn't need an upgrade. I believe we need to add quality depth to insure ourselves Frank Omiyale never steps on the field ever again. We need to draft and develop a young center to take the place of Garza, who's surprisingly played at a Pro Bowl level for much of the year despite never playing the position before. It also would be a good idea to have another guard and tackle to, like I said, improve our depth and maybe at some point step in as future starters. Right now, taking away from Chris Williams injury, this line has played decent to above average football over the course of the last 4-5 weeks. There was a bit of a slip up against Detroit but it wasn't anywhere close to being a disaster like it was from the Week 5 matchup and weeks prior. As long as this line can play average football, we should be able to be a respectable offense, but until we get Cutler some quality WR's, we'll never be an explosive, multi dimensional offense. 10 weeks into the season, I think its fairly obvious to me that the offensive line is not the worst part of this team. Early in the season it was a disaster, but that had more to do with Mike Martz being an ass clown, and it took Jay Cutler and others to finally get it back into his head that we aren't capable of running the greatest show on turf. As the season has unfolded, Martz has tightened things up a bit, (I still would like to see more). There are a number of things you could point to for the turnaround. Just off the top of my head, there are a few that comes to mind.. - More chip blocking coming from the TE's to help the tackles - Designing plays that allow Cutler to get rid of the ball quicker - The occasional rollouts - The removal of Frank OMG - Running the ball more Each of these changes have, in some way, helped improve the offense. But there comes a point in games where you need your play makers to make a big play. Matt Forte and Earl Bennett are our two best play makers on the team (Excluding Jay) but Earl isn't a dude that is going to take the top off the defense, and he does most of his damage as the slot guy. Teams are now going to start learning how to take away some of Bennett's effectiveness, and when that happens, what receiver can you trust to get open and catch a pass? All you really need to know is this group is among the league leaders in dropped passes as a team, and our two starters each have 5 a piece. Throw in Sanzenbacher's 6 and Knox's 2 and you have a big problem.

Well I could sit here and explain myself yet again as to why you are wrong for thinking what you think, but that's no longer an option with someone that's so close minded, such as yourself.

Edwin Williams will start atleast until Carimi is healthy. Then I'd be interested to see if they move Spencer over to LG and Louis back to his RG position so Carimi can remain the teams RT. We will see. I Just hope we never have to see anymore of OMG because that means we're either tanking or the coaches just aren't very smart. I think it was pretty clear that he has no place in the NFL.

The offensive line wasn't all that bad but they were no where near as good as they were against the Eagles but who was really holding them to such a standard? They played okay, and as long as they can atleast play average football we should be in good shape. Mike Martz still is calling too many 7 step drops (Even in the game against the Eagles) and wasn't calling as many roll outs as he did last week, granted we played "run the clock out" the entire second half but I'd like to see that Eagles offensive approach in every game the rest of the way.

That's a good question. Some of these guys just get in because of how good there teams were. That's why I say, it's not the Hall of the really good, its the Hall of Fame and should be treated as such. Unfortunately you can't go back and revoke someones position but its something I wish you could do, because there are some head scratchers in there for sure.

Maybe an even better question is, how has he never made a pro bowl yet? I think he should be well on his way to making his first if he continues to play well this season.

Yep, right after a WR.

I guess, if anything, LG is generally your least important position on the offensive line so I think we should still be able to manage for a couple weeks with Edwin Williams in there. But I would hope that Carimi can come back in say 2 weeks and step back in at RT so we can move Lance Louis back to RG and slide Chris Spencer over to LG.

Well this sucks.. Looks like he's going to be out a while if he's already having surgery now. Didn't see the play he injured it on but now with Carimi out for atleast the next couple weeks, it looks like its Edwin Williams or bust..

Here's an idea. Let's maybe try to stay away from the guys that already have been injured multiple times in the knee area..

Yeah I don't get why they didn't accept it. It's 15 yards!

Damn, this offense just sucks. We can't generate anything.. Can't remember the last time we got a first down. It shouldn't be that hard considering Detroit already folded the tent.

Now the officials are just looking to throw flags on the Bears. This is ridiculous.

WOW, What a bull shit call by the referee. Stafford's not ejected but Moore is??? Pathetic.

I might think about putting in Caleb Haine at this point. Just run the clock out. I don't want another cheap shot on our QB.

Even Stafford is a cheap shot artist. I'm beginning to think this team is more dirty than their own city. Meanwhile, why is their idiot coach challenging this down 31? Lol?

My god Detroit is such a freaking dirty team. I can't stand them.

WOOHOO!! Fat Matt with another pick 6!! Hahaha I love it!!

Fat Matt with a pick 6! I'll take it but I still would like to see us get something going on offense.

This game is really starting to piss me off.