With the NFL Playoffs drawing nigh, I wanted to take a real quick look at the Bears–Eagles playoff matchup to see how it shapes up. With the Bears coming off a 5-11 record the previous season, being a home favorite for this game is a great reward for a huge improvement year. As a Bears fan, I am very excited and hopeful about how a dominating defense should combine with home field advantage to bode well for my team. Hopefully something like this is an accurate metaphor for the game:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-Yceex2ae8
Anyway, TO THE MATCH UPS:
| Bears | Eagles | BFC Insight | |
| Quarterback | Shane Matthews and Jim Miller | Donovan McNabb | Are two heads better than one? No. Having one signal caller/leader who can step up to carry the team can make the difference in the playoffs |
| Running Back | Anthony Thomas | Duce Staley | The Bears have a tendency to be a little too predictable on the running game, but a lack of talent isn’t their problem. |
| Receivers | Dez White, Marty Booker, David Terrell Fred Baxter | James Thrash, Todd Pinkston, Freddie Mitchell, Chad Lewis | Big plays are key here, as is finding ways to get the tight ends involved for quick gains |
| Defense | Brian Urlacher, Mike Brown, Bryan Robinson, Jerry Azumah, et al | Brian Dawkins, Hugh Douglas, Jeremiah Trotter, Troy Vincent, and more | Defensive scoring may very well be the path to victory for the Bears |
| Special Teams | Paul Edinger, Brad Maynard | David Akers, Sean Landeta | Excellent punters on both sides; the Bears have to overcome unconventional kicker |
| Coaching | Dick Jauron | Andy Reid | Who’s the offensive innovator and who’s hungry enough to win? |
| Intangibles | Home Field, BFC Attendance | Momentum, Confidence | Is Being a Huge Home Favorite good or bad? |
Shit, that was January 2002, when the Bears won the Division and were the NFC #2 seed after a garbage previous season and still got blown the fuck out by the Eagles at Soldier Field. I was at that game, was miserable, and flying to and from wasn’t worth it for that ass-kicking. Not flying back to Chicago for the redux, so let’s hope Trubisky is more capable than Shane Matthews/Jim Miller and Khalil Mack and company can shut down Big Dick Nick where Urlacher and company failed to contain Donovan McNabb in the playoffs. The Eagles are after all the defending champs, so respect is due. But lifting the playoff curse of BFC should help.
So, I guess I’ll stop living in the past and just say Bear Down!
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Oh yeah, give me some FredEx!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDg1iiKcYIQ
— No. 6 Philadelphia at No. 3 Chicago, 4:40 p.m. ET (NBC)
I think the Bearz D wins this one, but a couple Truthbiscuit mistakes make it closer than it should be.
If Truthbiscuit were in the future and visiting Mars, he’s never leave.
*he’d
I want to pick the Bears, but I think the Iggles are going to win an ugly, low scoring Game.
How ugly? Like, post-facelift Mickey Rourke ugly?
Somewhere, Jeff Baca just felt a tingle run down his spine.
Somewhere else, Ryan Shazier didn’t.
If Carrot-Top keeps going he’s gonna end up as a panelist on The View.
This World Juniors coach for Switzerland is… intense. Like, Frank Martin-level intense.
He’s funny. He seems like a good guy
That was a pro-level chewing-out he gave that kid.
He’s a Pierre Maguire look-alike with actual coaching talent.
He tells it like it is.
+1 Deep dish with D Cells baked in
I always felt that McNabb deserved better than he got. Never understood the hate for him
He’s not Ricky Williams!
Are you sure?
–Ricky Williams
“Just take a look at an unretouched photograph of him, then listen to my show every day for ten years, and it will all make sense.” – Rush Limbaugh
Is Todd Pinkston still 73 pounds?
https://youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=ls794MhIkU4
Either never saw that or don’t remember it. Amazing.
lol I didn’t even need to watch it to know this was the “flee in terror” play against Washington
FOAR Midterms!!
Man, those Philly teams were stacked! I can’t believe they didn’t win at least one championship.
Only one man was hungry enough, and he always used up his time at the all you can eat sushi eating the edamame. He could never get to the sashimi.
That’s surprising. You wouldn’t think Andy would go for the greens.
The “Coaching” had about 3 games in them and then they just forgot how time works.