After a visit which Orlando Pace’s agent Kennard McGuire called “very good and productive,” the Bears are actively trying to come to terms with the future Hall-of-Fame tackle.
The kicker, per the Chicago Tribune, is that Pace would become the team’s starting left tackle, sliding would-be incumbent Chris Williams to the right side.
Suddenly, there is life in Halas Hall. Better late than never.
From the Suburban Chicago News
Just when you thought it was over, the Bears have brought ex-Ram and seven-time Pro Bowler, Orlando Pace, in for a look-see. By it, we mean, of course, the free-agent frenzy that never really started.
Pace is 33 and, after enjoying a relatively injury-free career, has had rotator cuff, knee, thigh and quad issues in recent years. Last season, he did start in the 14 games he played in, but the Rams also surrendered 45 sacks.
Still, a healthy Pace would be the early favorite to start at right tackle. It’d be enough to make you ask, “Who’s Frank Omiyale?” For the second time.
The hardcore, older generation of football players can’t stand how soft the game they once played — with the barest minimum of regulations — has become.
A group of these old-timers, including Mike Ditka, Jack Youngblood and Jim Hart, recently expressed their frustration over the NFL’s decision to adjust an existing rule — unofficially coined “The Brady Rule” — to make it illegal for defensive players to go after the quarterback once they’ve been knocked to the ground.
And, let me tell you, it was enough for one man to see red. Or, at least, get more red in the face. (more…)
In the spirit of the phenomenon that is live-blogging, and in taking advantage of it’s current, and likely fleeting popularity, Blog Down, Chicago Bears will be live-blogging the first day of the 2009 NFL Draft — well, actually, twittering.
We’re inviting all Bears fans, Bears bloggers, NFL Draft enthusiasts, and people with an abundant amount of time on their hands — in that order — to follow along and put their two cents in via our Twitter page: http://twitter.com/blogdown. Because, let’s face it: there’s a lot of damn time to waste between picks, and watching Todd McShay and Mel Kiper bicker loses most, if not all, of its entertainment value around pick four.
The live-twitter will begin Saturday, April 25th at 1:30 pm CST, or about an hour and a half before the draft begins.
You thought a Super Bowl loss for your favorite team just meant a major hangover the next morning, unnecessarily yelling at your loved ones, and broken living room furniture. Well, think again.
Researchers at USC have found “the emotional stress of loss and/or the intensity of a game played in a high profile rivalry such as the Super Bowl can trigger total and cardiovascular deaths.”
That explains the significant population decline in Buffalo from 1990-1993.
I know, I know: We’ve talked up Maryland’s Darrius Heyward-Bey for the better part of ’09, but we’re going Mizzou wide receiver Jeremy Maclin at No. 18 in MVN’s NFL Outsider Mock Draft.
See the rest of the mock right here.
Leave it to Lovie Smith to compare the incarcerations of Michael Vick and Martha Stewart. More so, he does it with the same easygoing demeanor that makes you wonder if he isn’t really in a coma.
For the record, I’m against Vick ever playing pro football again, let alone, for the Bears. In fact, I might prefer to resort to watching the UFL , or electrocuting my testicles.
TOMORROW’S HEADLINE: A new segment of Blog Down. Aimed at predicting the ridiculous and inevitable; tomorrow’s story lines as a result of today’s news.
A day after Yahoo! Sports writer Charles Robinson wrote that the Bears had, at the very least, made one inquiry into the status of disgruntled, sugar-sensitive Broncos quarterback Jay Cutler, Kyle Orton has formally divulged his displeasure with general manager Jerry Angelo and head coach Lovie Smith.
“I thought I was their guy,” Orton said, while tying little knots into his bushy, gruesome neckbeard. “Obviously, by them [calling the Broncos about Cutler], it sends the message, loud and clear, that they don’t want me on their team.”
Fellow former Bears, and enormous disappointments, Cade McNown and Curtis Enis are back at the forefront of ire for anyone who had to watch them play in the NFL.
Starting today, one can materialize their distaste for absolute horrid draft picks, and vote in the Worst Man Drafted Tournament hosted by NFLMocks.com.
Our new-found friends — and first-round losers to us in the Best Sports Blog Name tourney — Bear Goggles On, devised this incredible plan, allowing for these two losers — and 62 others — to once more, feel the painful sting of failure.
I bet if the Bears knew their No. 1 receiver was off flying in crazy, acrobatic death machines, they might shit their cheap pants.
Well, actually, they do know, but — sarcasm alert – it isn’t worth the headache trying to save your only proven wideout from certain death.
Four years removed from the devastation that was Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans is thinking Super Bowl. Contingent on the resolution of a pending long-term lease agreement between the Superdome and the state of Louisiana, the once-ravaged city could host the big game in 2013.
Bears owner/chairman Michael McCaskey all but gave a ringing endorsement for the city of boobs-for-beads, and I’m sure it had nothing to do with fonder memories of yesteryear. (more…)
