Daaa Bears!

I thought up a joke sometime last week to tell my fellow Cub fans:

"At least we have the Bears."

Get it? I did! At least until the first half of yesterday's game was over. Against the Packers' offense the Bears looked like warm butter, allowing over three-hundred yards total. A team like the Bears, with a 1-3 record, looked by halftime a team that deserved a 1-4 record. They played scrappy though, and the Packers looked out of gas by the half. Final score Bears 27, Packers 20. Some notes:

1. The Bears always play Green Bay tough; it is not sure they are going to play anyone else so, but
2. as other teams' players inevitably drop mid-season, the Bears' injured players will return, likely effecting a later-in-the-season streak, although
3. How the Chicago Bears could do that with so clear a bust at halfback as Cedric Benson is unknown to me. Still,
4. their budding corps of tight ends, including the rookie Olson, is going to make Griese look very experienced.

The bottom line is that the Bears will assuredly have good field position after every punt or kickof, in every game; Devin Hester will never see another ball on special teams. Ron Turner needs to develop a human imagination to keep them from being three-and-out, three-and-out with that blessing.