Jack's Jock's Jot
Welcome to the first ever, “weekly” (because sometimes it may not be) edition of Jack’s Jock’s Jot. Why on Tuesday? Because the Jock has to sleep off his weekend sports euphoria first. Plus, Tuesday doesn’t have too much going for it, and the Jock doesn’t think that’s fair.
In this week’s Jot, I hope you’re ready for some football. Because one team that is definitely ready is Da Bears.
Chicago had a rough summer with both of its baseball teams. After winning the World Series just last year, the south side boys let both the Tigers and the Twins take over the AL Central. And the Cubs… well, what can we say about the Cubs? We love the Cubs. We love Wrigley. We love Cubby blue. But it takes the Cubs’ bigger & badder brothers the Bears to give Chicago something to really cheer about.
The Bears are now the only team in the NFC with a perfect (4-0) record, and only the third in the league next to the AFC’s Ravens & Colts. But they have more than a winning record going for them as they exit the first quarter of this year’s NFL season. The Bears have been in control of each game they’ve played. Look at the numbers as they battered the hapless Seahawks. Zero turnovers, a pair of TDs on a solid game from Rex Grossman, more than half the game’s time in possession (35.5 minutes, to be precise), 143 yards on the ground, five sacks and Hasselbeck’s two interceptions.
But it’s Grossman who has really been all that and a bag of chips. He’s accumulated over 1000 yards already, and his completions are over 62%. His mistakes are few, he has the balance between the long and short game, and he knows when to throw the ball away to avoid trouble. It makes the preseason clamoring for Brian Griese look ridiculous and seem thousands of miles away.
The Bears have had the defense for several years. What’s different in particular from 2005 when the team had the number two defense in the league is that this year the defense isn’t being made to win games alone. So I say to the Bears of Chicago, “Make Ditka proud!”
Labels: Jack's Jock
posted by Anonymous at 8:43:00 PM
8 Comments:
ah, the bears. A football fan's football team. What's not to like? Tough and fast on defense with a great bench and a quarterback who is getting his act together despite the fact that his name is that of the family dog. Here Rex-ie! Here boy! *dog whistling noises*
Seriously, I like the bears. They would be my favorite NFC team if not for my favorite quarterback, Donovan mcNabb. But I can't like the Bears for this weekend. I can't even pretend to like them.
This weekend:
Bills 20 Bears 13
for our many non-sportsy readers the following decoder.
Donovan Mcnabb plays for the Eagles which is my favorite NFC team.
The NFL is broken up into to 'conferences', the National Football Conference (NFC) and the American Football Conference (AFC). The former conference contains some of the oldest franchises (Like the bears and packers, the latter is largely composed of teams from the old American Football league (AFL) which was incorporated into the National Football League (NFL) years ago.
Everybody knows the AFC is the much stronger conference and that the Buffalo Bills are the greatest team in existence. Soon they will redeem all of their past almost championships and beat all of those teams who have shamed them in the near past while doing so. Teams like the Cowboys, Giants, and Redskins. I would include the Titans in this mix but I feel that Tennessee and Buffalo are fairly balanced in football karma seeing as the former has the Music city Miracle and the latter has that ridiculous 35 point play-off comeback.
The quarterback of the Bears I so recently poked fun at is named Rex Grossman.
enough jibber-jabber.
Also on a completely unrelated note:
Yankees suck.
dude! the yankees totally suck. i mean... i'm a red sox fan, so that's like, "the sky is blue," & "waffles are great at any meal." but i'm glad to say, the yankees do suck & please oh please let the tigers shut 'em down.
and perhaps each week you can provide the context jot to each jot. well done, dougO.
but call me crazy. i think if anyone can shut down the bills, it's urlacher and briggs.
i'm calling:
bears 24 bills 17
and curiously, it was 1991 with mike ditka that the bears had their last 4-0 start.
oh, and as a native nashvillian... how bad are the titans this year? face stomping bad. and if you get that joke, then you're probably dougO.
i know nothing about any of this so all i can do is channel the full power of my olinely youthful exuberances and chime in to enthusiastically, avidly, whole-heartedly, completely, utterly agree: the yankees suck.
Oline, i'm glad you agree that the yankees are beyond reproach.
as for the Titans, ouch. I feared the Bills might win 4 or 5 this year and unless something goes horribly wrong they'll top that mark. But the Titans seem to be struggling to find themselves. which is understandable seeing as they were an old team just a few years ago so now must be a powerful mixture of youth/inexperience and ancient/over-the-hill-ness.
But lets not hate. i like the titans fine (face stompong aside), its not like they are the cowboys or the dolphins.
also i do very much realize the bears will probably not lose (see how hard it was for me to write that? how many unnecessary words can a fella throw in before he gets to his point?) but I think it won't be a rout. which would make the Bills better than the defending NFC champs.
at the very least, good sir - this weekend's matchup bears vs bills will be a good one. sadly, i'll be at a wedding in kansas (yay for seeing friends... boo for freaking kansas) and will totally miss this game. i'll be stuck w/ the SportsCenter condensed version.
and i of course love the downtrodden titans. they're my hometown team. but it is an ugly year for the music city boys. my dad's been telling me people just aren't talking NFL in TN. it's all "go big orange" or "go commodores!" -- for TN, it's all about the college ball this year.
alas...
i think i read somewhere that the Vols regularly out-draw the titans even on years when both teams are competetive. I just have never existed in a College minded football part of the world. Places like Michigan (Lions? eh. Wolverines? aaaAAA-Roooo!) certain regions of the the South (Tennessee, FSU, Bama), and the midwest (Nebraska, Oklahoma, etc.). Yes, I grew up in western new york with the UB Bulls, the laughingstock of Division I ball. Even Syracuse is in disarray (though they kicked ass back when I matriculated... McNabb, Marvin harrison, Bullock, etc).
alas
Post a Comment
<< Home