Originally Posted by Ambulance Chaser
Well they were going up against the Redskins' secondary, so they are not as good as they looked.
That said, I think the Bears are the second-best team in the NFC. Cutler is a very good QB, a step below the top QBs (Rodgers, Brees, Brady, E. Manning, Roethlisberger) and probably somewhere in the 6-10 range.
Dilfer has drank the Koolaid
It's not something anybody's had any real practice doing, talking about the Bears' offense in superlatives. To say it's a first might not even be an exaggeration. At the end of a conversation the other day with Ron Jaworski, who has been paying close attention to the Bears for 40 years, the first 15 as an opposing NFL quarterback, I asked him the last time he recalled the Bears' offense being this potent. Jaworski paused, laughed and finally said, "You're taxing my memory."
It's a season that will begin like few, if any, others ... the defense likely pretty good but the offense, even with questions about the offensive line, a monster, a powerhouse. Trent Dilfer, like Jaworski a quarterback-turned-ESPN-broadcast analyst, said: "We're going to be talking about the Bears' offense a lot. They'll be on everybody's radar, a hot-button topic. They'll do some awesome stuff, probably roll some people. Seriously, I think they'll run some people over."
Like everybody else who has paid a speck of attention to the Bears this summer, Dilfer and Jaws see Brandon Marshall, Earl Bennett, rookie Alshon Jeffery and Devin Hester as being about the best group of pass-catchers the team has had in forever. And it's not only the addition of Marshall and Jeffery, but re-casting Hester from a No. 1, which he surely was not in this day and age, to what looks to be a change-of-pace defense wrecker. How many defenses are even capable of covering Marshall, Forte, Hester and Bennett if Cutler has time to find them?