The Official NFL Thread: 2012-13 Season

barkingloud78 said:

Biggest Overhyped Bust of Year :   Cowboys (we can just ink this in every year)

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NAMOR said:

Style forum fantasy football league?

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jrd617 said:

Chicago WR corps is looking deadly and versatile.
-Big guys: Marshall and Jeffery
-Reliable slot: Bennett
-Blazing fast after the catch: Hester and Knox (if he comes back)
-Pass catching RB: Forte

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jrd617 said:

Tempting, but personally, I know the hours I'd put into it would be better spent on other things. You guys should do it though.

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Ambulance Chaser said:

Well they were going up against the Redskins' secondary, so they are not as good as they looked. That said, I think the Bears are the second-best team in the NFC. Cutler is a very good QB, a step below the top QBs (Rodgers, Brees, Brady, E. Manning, Roethlisberger) and probably somewhere in the 6-10 range.

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NAMOR said:

Style forum fantasy football league?

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bob_gnarly said:

I'm in if it happens

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deadly7 said:

The Pats got the Olympic gold medal sprinter (4x100) from UFL. If he can actually last in football (he's a bit undersized at 5'11" 190) he should be extremely fun to watch.

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Texasmade said:

He's more like 5'7" 175 and he only ran in the prelims for the 4x100 but still faster than like 99% of all football players in the NFL.

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Ambulance Chaser said:

Well they were going up against the Redskins' secondary, so they are not as good as they looked. That said, I think the Bears are the second-best team in the NFC. Cutler is a very good QB, a step below the top QBs (Rodgers, Brees, Brady, E. Manning, Roethlisberger) and probably somewhere in the 6-10 range.

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It's not something anybody's had any real practice doing, talking about the Bears' offense in superlatives. To say it's a first might not even be an exaggeration. At the end of a conversation the other day with Ron Jaworski, who has been paying close attention to the Bears for 40 years, the first 15 as an opposing NFL quarterback, I asked him the last time he recalled the Bears' offense being this potent. Jaworski paused, laughed and finally said, "You're taxing my memory."

It's a season that will begin like few, if any, others ... the defense likely pretty good but the offense, even with questions about the offensive line, a monster, a powerhouse. Trent Dilfer, like Jaworski a quarterback-turned-ESPN-broadcast analyst, said: "We're going to be talking about the Bears' offense a lot. They'll be on everybody's radar, a hot-button topic. They'll do some awesome stuff, probably roll some people. Seriously, I think they'll run some people over."

Like everybody else who has paid a speck of attention to the Bears this summer, Dilfer and Jaws see Brandon Marshall, Earl Bennett, rookie Alshon Jeffery and Devin Hester as being about the best group of pass-catchers the team has had in forever. And it's not only the addition of Marshall and Jeffery, but re-casting Hester from a No. 1, which he surely was not in this day and age, to what looks to be a change-of-pace defense wrecker. How many defenses are even capable of covering Marshall, Forte, Hester and Bennett if Cutler has time to find them?

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