| 13 September 2009
I have sifted through a bunch of websites today sporting news, fox sports, watched the fox sports pre-game show and everything is certain. The Bears have no shot tonight to beat the Green Bay Packers at Lambeau field, they shouldn't even show up onto the field and compete because Aaron Rodgers is more than just the second coming of Brett Favre he's the first coming of Aaron Rodgers. If you saw the pre-season games this year in which the Packers played you'll know why the Bears have no chance, Rodgers is the MVP of the season already because he led the league in touchdown passes in the pre-season.
Based on this alone the Bears won't be able to stop Aaron Rodgers no easier than the defending NFC Champion Arizona Cardinals were able to. Never mind that the Cardinals were 9-7 last year and old man Brett Favre threw for six touchdowns in the game against the Cardinals last year. No the Cardinals have the best secondary in the NFC because they made it all the way to the Super Bowl.
You don't understand and neither do I, but because the Cardinals made it to the Super Bowl last year, they were the best team in the NFC. By virtue of being the best team in the NFC this means the Cardinals had the best of every position on the field in the NFC.
This isn't the case for real, but it seems to be the case when the NFL talking heads break it down. The Cardinals are a good team, Aaron Rodgers threw three touchdown passes in the first half against this good team, therefore the Bears have zero chance.
Why? Well by Joe Theisman's logic on the NFL Network NFC playbook segment, it's because Jay Cutler is a 50, 50 passer. He throws a good throw on one play and a bad throw on the very next play, and this is what you're going to get from Jay Cutler on a weekly basis. To prove Theisman's point he pulled out the tape of the first pre-season game against the Buffalo Bills in which yes Cutler did struggle. No it doesn't matter that Cutler excelled in the next two pre-season games and didn't have a poor throw the rest of the pre-season, what matters is the first game of the pre-seaon.
Also nothing matters as far as the Packers having a bad defense last year. By the simple fact that they switched to the 3-4 defensive scheme, the most dominating defensive scheme in the history of the NFL, the Bears won't be able to score. No you can't make the point, nor does it matter that the Packers don't have the personnel to play the 3-4 defense the same way the Pittsburgh Steelers do, it's all in the defensive scheme.
Aaron Kampman has 35 sacks over the past three season in Green Bay so he's automatically going to be a dominant 3-4 outside linebacker just by virtue of that statistic. It doesn't matter if B.J. Raji doesn't play today, nor does it matter that the rest of the Packers' defense remains essentially unchanged from a year ago the scheme is what matters. Every team that runs the 3-4 defense now, automatically has a good defense by virtue of the complexity, innovative nature of the defense. The Bears' defense will be just as bad in 2009 as it was in 2008 because they have the same personnel. No this doesn't count for the Packers, because as you seem to forget all the Packers had to do was change the defensive scheme they ran and they immediately reverted to a Super Bowl winning defense. It is a Super Bowl winning defense because the Steelers won the Super Bowl with this defense a year ago, and now because the Steelers struggled against the team with the best record in the NFL last year, they won't repeat as Super Bowl champions.
The defense though is not the key, it's Aaron Rodgers who moon lights as Joe Montana and Rodgers' receivers who are as good as Jerry Rice and John Taylor from those dominant 49er teams of the 80s. That's how powerful this Packer offense is with their receivers and their QB.
Even though Aaron Rodgers himself said they don't award MVPs for pre-season games, he's wrong because every NFL analyst in the country has awarded Rodgers the MVP for pre-season 2009. This means that Rodgers is poised to have the same level of production and success in the regular season. Even though Rodgers faced the same vanilla defensive schemes that the Bears faced in the pre-season what matters is that he was successful and Jay Cutler wasn't.
Yes Matt Forte scored more touchdowns and had more yards than Ryan Grant, but Ryan Grant's QB and offensive line are better than the Bears so Grant will have a better season than Forte. You need to realize this fans of the Chicago Bears, because this is the only logic that makes sense. Not factual logic, like the pre-season never matters nor does it matter that the Arizona Cardinals have always had an anemic pass defense nor does it matter that the Bears have always matched up well versus the Packers' all-word receivers, Aaron Rodgers led the league in touchdown passes in the pre-season.
Basically what this prediction of the Bears having no chance in this game comes down to is Aaron Rodgers' pre-season six touchdowns and the Packers switching to the dominating 3-4 defensive scheme. I don't know why I didn't see this so clearly before, every NFL analyst made this pick against the Bears using virtually the same reasoning.
Yes the Bears have Matt Forte, Greg Olsen, Jay Cutler and Devin Hester, but the Bears don't play the 3-4 defense. If the Bears had simply switched to the 3-4 defensive alignment during the off-season (no the personnel is not required to make the scheme work) they would have returned to the same dominating defensive form they had prior to the last two seasons. So don't bother to watch tonight Bears fans, Aaron Rodgers won't be pressured, he won't make a mistake and the 3-4 defense is impenetrable. Even if the argument used by all these so-called experts, is easy to punch through with facts and logical arguments.
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