Chicago Bears @ Tennessee Titans 08-27-2011
The Chicago Bears made it to the playoffs last season, even won a football game (though it was against the Seahawks), but fell to the Green Bay Packers in the NFC Championship game, a win away from the Super Bowl. Not bad. Yet most people don’t give the Bears the time of day when it comes to projecting possible Super Bowl winners in 2011-2012.
Sure, they don’t have a loveable quarterback as Jay Cutler’s smug look and his shaky injury questions from last season’s playoff loss leave a lot to be desired from the public eye. They also have Mike Martz as their offensive coordinator, who basically everyone dislikes at a strong level.
But Matt Forte is good, and they acquired a big target at WR in Roy Williams this off season. Jay Cutler has the talent to be a Top 10 quarterback in this league if he could even minimize his mistakes – something Mike Martz QBs rarely do, but still, the talent is there.
The Tennessee Titans have spent more time being in the news for Chris Johnson’s holdout and Kenny Britt’s legal woes than the projections of their season – but the latter isn’t too promising. Sure, they boast a great running back in Chris Johnson, and Britt is talented, but new QB Matt Hasselbeck is over the hill and they haven’t been an elite defense since Albert Haynesworth.
This game will be hard hitting, that’s for sure, but maybe it will show some offense from a Bears team that hasn’t had much to celebrate through the first two weeks of the preseason.
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