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Old 03-04-2009, 09:07 AM
 
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The Bears were 9-6 in 2008 in games Orton started. 2-1 in 2007. 10-5 in 2005.

Aaron Rogers was 6-10 in 2008 in games started.
The Bears will always be mediocre with Orton at the helm. He represents "settling", and not really striving for any sort of future greatness. Being 9-6 in the hapless NFC North represents mediocrity. Jerry Angelo should be fired (or the McCaskey's should open their pocket books).
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Old 03-04-2009, 09:15 AM
 
Location: Chicago
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The Bears were 9-6 in 2008 in games Orton started. 2-1 in 2007. 10-5 in 2005.

Aaron Rogers was 6-10 in 2008 in games started.

Yes, although you can't pin all of a team's successes (or its failures, for that matter), on the performance of the QB. Green Bay's 6-10 record was largely the result of the collapse of their defense during the second half of the season. Rodgers' performance was superior to Orton's.

Rodgers: 28 TDs, 13 INTs, QB rating of 93.8 (third best in the NFC)

Orton: 18 TDs, 12 INTs, QB rating of 79.6 (thirteenth in the NFC)

Granted, Orton was injured, but he still started 15 out of 16 games, certainly not enough to account for the disparity in performance.

Having said that, it's certainly possible to win a Super Bowl without a dominant QB. The best, most recent examples include the 2002 Tampa Bay team with Brad Johnson and the 2000 Baltimore Ravens with Trent Dilfer, both of which had punishing defenses.

But one need look no further than the Steelers this year to see how defense can supersede dominant QB play (questionable calls in the Super Bowl aside). Rothlisberger's regular season stats weren't so different from Orton's...17 TD's, 15 INT's, and a QB rating of 80.1.

The bottom line is that if the Bears' defense can return to its dominance of a couple years ago, a Super Bowl berth with Orton at the helm is certainly plausible. Unfortunately for them, some of their key defensive players are getting a little long in the tooth and/or are battling injuries. Plus their problems on the O-line need to be addressed...you can have Orton throwing to Steve Smith, Andre Johnson, and Larry Fitzgerald, but if he's on his back for most of the game, it's still tough to score.
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Old 03-04-2009, 09:23 AM
 
Location: Chicago
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...Being 9-6 in the hapless NFC North represents mediocrity...
Thus being 6-10 (The Packers) in the NFC North means your team sucks.
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Old 03-04-2009, 09:29 AM
 
Location: Chicago
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... Rodgers' performance was superior to Orton's.

Rodgers: 28 TDs, 13 INTs, QB rating of 93.8 (third best in the NFC)

Orton: 18 TDs, 12 INTs, QB rating of 79.6 (thirteenth in the NFC)

Granted, Orton was injured, but he still started 15 out of 16 games, certainly not enough to account for the disparity in performance...
The Packers WR's are far superior to the Bears. They do not drop the amount of passes that the Bears WR's do. That is the main reason for the difference in stats.
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Old 03-04-2009, 09:29 AM
 
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Being 6-10 (The Packers) in the NFC North means your team sucks.
Any team that can't win the NFC North sucks. This is a division that saw the Lions go winless, and the eventual-champion Vikings display an offense so one-dimensional a high school coach could have developed a sound game plan against them.

Although I think the Vikings aren't that far from being a really good team, especially now that the T.Jackson experiment seems to be over. They still have a sound defense and the best RB in the NFL. Tough combination.
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Old 03-04-2009, 09:34 AM
 
Location: Chicago, Illinois
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Yes, the Vikings clearly are the front runners. However, how good can a team be when they wear purple? j/k as the Ravens are purty darn good but they sport mostly black opposed to all that purple jazz that the Vikes wear. Seriously though, the Vikings are supreme choke artists and have never won anything. Even if they somehow got Cutler over Rosenfels, I still think they'd find a way to choke down the stretch like they usually do.
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Old 03-04-2009, 09:36 AM
 
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The Packers WR's are far superior to the Bears. They do not drop the amount of passes that the Bears WR's do. That is the main reason for the difference in stats.
Although I think the Packers' receivers are superior, they tend to drop their fair share of passes.

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Old 03-04-2009, 12:55 PM
 
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Thus being 6-10 (The Packers) in the NFC North means your team sucks.
Yep, they sucked it up last year. But Rodgers sure looks promising! In spite of the bad record, I have to say I like our future prospects. Meanwhile, the Bears are showing no hope of improvement, and seem to be a team on the decline. They'll have to get very lucky in the draft to turn it around (and you just never know what treasures may pop up from the lower rounds).
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Old 03-04-2009, 12:57 PM
 
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The Packers WR's are far superior to the Bears. They do not drop the amount of passes that the Bears WR's do. That is the main reason for the difference in stats.
The Packer's wide receivers are better. And so is their quarterback. The rest of the team? Well, maybe the secondary is somewhat decent...

My money is on the Vikings this season.
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Old 03-04-2009, 01:03 PM
 
Location: Chicago--Bucktown
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I'd still have to pick the Packers. Rodgers does look to be a very good QB pretty soon. The secondary is alledgedly really good (though they looked pretty weak at times, especially against New Orleans). I don't think the Vikings are all that good, and I'm still not too impressed with Peterson as a running back. He gets bottled up at the line too easily, doesn't seem to effectively make the first guy miss.
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