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Previous Seasons
This off-season the Bears knew they needed to make a number of moves to help elevate their team to the level they were playing at the last time they were a good team. This proud franchise is synonymous with football greats like Mike Ditka, Gale Sayers, Mike Singletary, George Halas, Dick Butkus, and Walter Payton and cannot endure another season where the team finishes 5-11. Granted, it was an improvement from the 4-11 record the team put up the two years before, but it’s still a far cry from where they need to be. Much of the sentiments for the team’s improvement were passed onto head coach Lovie Smith, who is the head coach of an NFL franchise for the first time. He had spent most of his time as a defensive coordinator and a linebackers coach before landing this job with the Bears.
The moves Smith’s team made were pretty big and focused a lot on improving the worst rated offense in the NFL in 2004. He went out and signed former Carolina Panther’s, Pro Bowl wide out Mushin Muhammad. Muhammad led the league in receiving yards and touchdowns last season. He put up numbers like that in spite of seeing double teams all season long, because the main receiver on the other side, Steve Smith, went down in week 1 of the season. They also brought in right tackle Fred Miller who was formerly with the Tennessee Titans. Miller has been a solid starter since 1999 when he played with the St. Louis Rams and won a Super Bowl with them that year.
In the draft, the team did all they could to fill the gaping holes that were very easily seen last season. Their first three picks were devoted to improving the offense. With the 4th pick in the draft the Bears selected Texas running back Cedric Benson. He’s the kind of runner that wears on teams. At 222 lbs. he can deliver the punishment just as well as he can take it. Benson is the kind of runner that could carry the offensive load for the Bears over the next few seasons. With their second pick, the Bears grabbed Oklahoma receiver Mark Bradley. He has good size and is a good vertical threat. Bradley could be a great compliment to a number one receiver like Muhammad. With their third selection, which came in the 4th round, the Bears picked up Purdue quarterback Kyle Orton. The team was elated to get someone with the talent that Orton has so late in the draft. He has all the physical skills to be a successful quarterback in the NFL. The only thing holding him back is getting used to making his adjustments
under center. At Purdue, the offense is run almost exclusively out of shotgun and it has proven to be a tough adjustment to make by San Diego’s QB and Purdue alum Drew Brees. It took Brees three seasons to get acclimated to the NFL game.
2007 Chicago Bears
The 88th season for your Chicago Bears began with a close 20-19 win over the Houston Texans leading to a three game win streak in the preseason. The loss in the final preseason game to the Browns was a sign of things to come. The Bears began the regular season’s first eight games 3-5 and the season didn’t progress much further than that.
In the offseason, the Bears waved oft-troubled Tank Johnson as well as RB Thomas Jones (traded to the Jets), Todd Johnson, Justin Gage and Cameron Worrell went in search of greener pastures. Not only did major changes take place on the roster, the coaching staff went through an impromptu overhaul as the team refused to resign DC Ron Rivera. He was replaced with Bob Babich, who left the Rams with head man Lovie Smith to join the Bears. The replacements would continue as the team lost five assistant coaches to other teams with QB coach Wade Wilson being the biggest loss.
The Bears finished in 4th place in the NFC North and did not qualify for the playoffs after playing in the Super Bowl the prior season.
2008 Chicago Bears
Although the Bears completed the season two games better than in 07, the franchise was still not satisfied with a 2nd place finish in the NFC North and the failure to make the playoffs for the second consecutive year. In an effort to shake things up, the Bears released former UT Star Running Back Cedric Benson who had produced little for the Bears after three years in a Bears uniform. After two alcohol related arrests, the team parted ways with the oft troubled back. The team also released Mushin Muhammad, Fred Miller Darwin Walker and Ruben Brown. QB Brian Griese was traded to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers for a sixth round 09 draft pick. The team re-signed Rex Grossman and extended Kyle Orton for another season while picking up Vanderbilt OT Chris Williams with their first pick in the draft (14th overall). They also picked up Tulane RB Matt Forte, Vanderbilt WR (and Williams teammate) Earl Bennett.
The team had no first or second round draft picks and with their first pick of the draft selected DT Jaron Gilbert out of San Jose State University. Five other picks were defensive and the team also picked up three wide receivers and a tight end.
2009 Chicago Bears
Former Head Coach Rod Marinelli joined the Bears coaching staff as the Defensive Line Coach and Assistant Head Coach, shifting Bob Babich back to the linebackers coach replacing the fired Lloyd Lee. After a host of free agent defections, the Bears managed to keep CB Marcus Hamilton, RB Kevin Jones and LB Nick Roach. The Bears added some offensive help in the form of WR’s Rudy Burgess and John Broussard, OT Cody Balogh, TE Fontel Mines, QB Brett Basanez and TE Michael Gaines. The team also acquired QB Jay Cutler through a trade with the Denver Broncos, giving up their 09 first round draft pick, the 09 3rd round pick, their 2010 1st round pick and QB Kyle Orton.
The Bears have great confidence in QB Jay Cutlers abilities and got a glimpse of what is to come in the first two preseason games this year where Cutler has gone 13-23 for 185 yards and 2 touchdowns.
