Official Chicago Bears (0-0) vs Atlanta Falcons (0-0) Week 1 Game Thread

[Scoot26]

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Team Stats - Team Stats​

Location: Soldier Field, Chicago, Illinois

Time: Sunday, September 11, 2011 12:00PM CDT TV: Fox Radio: WBBM 780​

Opening Day Starting Lineup
Offense:
QB: Jay Cutler
RB: Matt Forte
FB: ?????
WR: Roy Williams
WR: Devin Hester
TE: Matt Spaeth
TE: Kellen Davis
LT: JaMarcus Webb
LG: Chris Williams
C: Roberto Garza
RG: Lance Louis
RT: Gabe Carimi

Defense:
LE:Israel Idonije
DT:Anthony Adams
DT:Matt Toenia
RE:Julius Peppers
LOLB:Nick Roach
MLB:Brian Urlacher
ROLB:Lance Briggs
CB:Charles Tillman
CB:Tim Jennings
FS:Major Wright
SS:Chris Harris

Special Teams:
K:Robbie Gould
P:Adam Podlesh
KR:Johnny Knox
PR: Devin Hester


2010 Stats
Team Ranks
Offense YPG - 30th
Passing YPG – 28th
Rushing YPG – 22nd
Points Scored – 21st
Turnovers - 22nd

Defense YPG – 9th
Passing YPG – 20th
Rushing YPG – 2nd
Points Allowed – 4th
Turnovers - 3rd

Bears Offensive Leaders
QBs:

Jay Cutler
261/432 60.4% 3274 yards 23 Touchdowns 16 Interceptions 86.3 QB Rating


RBs:

Matt Forte
237 rushes, 1069 yards 6 Touchdowns
51 Receptions, 547 yards, 3 Touchdowns


WRs:

Johnny Knox
51 receptions, 960 yards, 5 Touchdowns


Defensive Leaders

Tackles

Brian Urlacher
125 Tackles

Sacks

Julius Peppers
8 Sacks

Israel Idonije
8 Sacks


Interceptions

Chris Harris
5 Interceptions


Opening Game Notes:
-The Bears are 3-4 in the opening regular season game under Lovie Smith
-The Bears are 5-2 in their home opener under Lovie Smith



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[Uman85]

Great IGT, Scoot. Can't wait for Sunday.

 

[Sunbiz1]

Bears 26
deadbirds 13

Who is this Julio guy again?, oh yeah...the one they mortgaged their entire franchise on.

 

[bionicbelly]

Is it Sunday yet?!!!!?

 

[waldo7239117]

Bears 26
deadbirds 13

Who is this Julio guy again?, oh yeah...the one they mortgaged their entire franchise on.

Very true....that trade shocked me during the draft on how much they gave up.

 

[Capt. Serious]

Falcons win..not predicting a score.

 

[Sunbiz1]

Very true....that trade shocked me during the draft on how much they gave up.

2 first, a second, and 2 #4's ought to be the next Jerry Rice.

 

[GaelicSoxFan]

Falcons win..not predicting a score.

BTW, nothing says boring 1970's eyesore like the Helvetica font.

 

[Capt. Serious]

What? Matty Ice will carve up the secondary if the D-Line gets no pressure on him.

Last I checked the Falcons are a damn good team.

 

[Sunbiz1]

What? Matty Ice will carve up the secondary if the D-Line gets no pressure on him.

Last I checked the Falcons are a damn good team.

Last I checked, they were carved up for turkey before the Packers came to town.

Updated prediction:

Bears 34
deadbirds 20

 

[nwfisch]

It's gonna be close. I see Tim Jennings getting burned the first weeks of the season.............

 

[TopekaRoy]

What? Matty Ice will carve up the secondary if the D-Line gets no pressure on him.

Last I checked the Falcons are a damn good team.

I heard their starting center and one of the guards is out for Sunday. Our front line may be our biggest strength on defense this year. I think we'll get plenty of pressure.

Home field advantage.

Bears 23
Parakeets 20

 

[BigP50]

Itll be interesting to see how the Falcons use Jones and White and how well the Bears can defend that duo.

 

[marky mark]

What? Matty Ice will carve up the secondary if the D-Line gets no pressure on him.

Last I checked the Falcons are a damn good team.

last i checked Peppers and Idonije where the definition of pressure on a QB.


To Rory:
Julio Jones is a rookie, who knows how well he will do, and in case you forgot, the Bears run a cover 2, so if he does burn Jennings, we have a safety there covering the deep zone. They will game plan to have one of the safeties cover a sort of man on Jones while still keeping zone, because they will be assuming Tillman can hold his own.

bears have the matchups, and they will win

 

[waldo7239117]

2 first, a second, and 2 #4's ought to be the next Jerry Rice.

Yeah, all I can say 'ridiculous'.

 

[Capt. Serious]

I picked the Falcons & i'm negative?

What's the point of a poll if you only pick the Chicago team?

 

[tbo41fan]

Football!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[marky mark]

I picked the Falcons & i'm negative?

What's the point of a poll if you only pick the Chicago team?

not sure if that is directed to me, but i didnt see anyone call you negative......but your stats are odd, saying matty ice will carve up the D if we get no penetration. Thats a big if considering how good out D is, especially at rushing the QB

 

[nickofypres]

It is going to be close regardless. Falcons and Bears are two of the better teams in the NFC.

 

[nickofypres]

wins.