Bear Fan says dont sleep on Bear offense.
I've heard this ... #1 scoring offense quite a bit...The Bears do score a lot. 26.7 ppg.
Hester has 5 TD's. Ricky Manning has 1 on D on a pick-6 (nice play).
6points X 6 is 30 points from non-offensive sources. You need to subtract 1.9 points from your scoring 'offense'. You're down to 24.8 ppg.
Don't flatter yourself, it wasn't that great.
Mikeeee
I know it's irrelevant, really, but, I thought this was interesting.
Team 1 (first column is overall rank):
Offense:
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</td><td>5199</td><td class="sortcell">324.9</td><td>1918</td><td>119.9</td><td>3281</td><td>205.1</td><td>427</td><td>26.7</td></tr></tbody></table> Defense:
<table class="tablehead" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tbody><tr class="oddrow" align="right"><td align="left">5</td><td align="left">
</td><td>4706</td><td class="sortcell">294.1</td><td>1590</td><td>99.4</td><td>3116</td><td>194.8</td><td>255</td><td>15.9</td></tr></tbody></table>
Team 2:
Offense:
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</td><td>5149</td><td class="sortcell">321.8</td><td>2223</td><td>138.9</td><td>2926</td><td>182.9</td><td>389</td><td>24.3</td></tr></tbody></table> Defense:
<table class="tablehead" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tbody><tr class="evenrow" align="right"><td align="left">4</td><td align="left">
</td><td>4536</td><td class="sortcell">283.5</td><td>1368</td><td>85.5</td><td>3168</td><td>198.0</td><td>258</td><td>16.1</td></tr></tbody></table>
Who are these teams? Team 1 is the 2006 Chicago Bears, Team 2 is the 2005 World Champion Pittsburgh Steelers. The Steelers went through the #2 and #3 offenses in the league. My point? There's a lot more to this game than regular season stats...maybe the Saints are the better team, but anything can happen in the postseason (we've already seen it in a couple of games this year), and I like the Bears' chances. We have the most underrated coach in the league, as well as the most underrated offense in the league (although he makes mistakes, Grossman is underrated, as well as both of our HB's)...they're going to surprise some people.