A Tale of Two Teams...

[dgack]

JLC took quite a beating for that post. Some valid observations there, but a lot of things conveniently ignored. The North has been a pretty soft division, really for about 5 years.

The Bears like their youth, sure, but they've had very little success building off that youth in their offense, relying on old guys like Muhammad and TJones who were both high-priced FA's, I might add.

Much like the comparison I made earlier today between the Skins and Dallas, the real standout here is the defense, and the D and ST of Chicago has really kept this team in contention for the past two years.

We thought we'd be bypassing the hit-or-miss problems of home-growing players via the draft by signing seasoned FA's who would make an impact immediately. We've had some really, fantastically bad luck with FA signings, to put it mildly. But honestly, if it weren't for the big contract numbers, I don't know that anyone would care or freak out so much about it.

We could just as easily have had a bunch of draft picks that slowly proved to be bad bets, too. Ol' 50/50 anybody?