Bears Playoffs: Bring on Seattle!
Seattle won Saturday night on a botched FG snap by Tony Romo, and the Giants couldn't get past Philly today meaning the Bears' first round opponent is set: The Seattle Seahawks.
As we all remember, the Bears whipped Seattle's butts back in October. See my recap from the first meeting. Man, that seems like eons ago. Phrases like "no weaknesses," "perfect," "lethal", and "Miami." It's just ridiculous to review these words after the last two months. This is not the same team. Oh, sure, they may look an awfully lot like that team, but no sir, they're not the same team. Harris and Brown are gone, and well, you know the rest.
I'm not going to offer up my prediction today, but I stand by my statement from the other day. The Bears can win by 40 or they can lose by 40. It all depends on Mr. Grossman. Seattle doesn't scare me. In fact, I'm going to be one of those guys that quotes himself. I wrote this about Seattle the other day:
Let's be clear, I'm not scared of Seattle either. But there is the whole "twice in one season" thing, and they might be looking for revenge for that severe ass-whoopin the Bears laid on them in October. Oh, and they have a healthy team with a premiere running back in Shaun Alexander and veteran QB in Matt Hasselbeck. It's exactly the type of combo that could give the Bears struggling D fits. Then again, they were horrendous down the stretch. Can they even beat Dallas? We'll see.
Well, we found out that they can beat Dallas. They didn't look so hot doing it, though, and they should have lost that game. Not only because of the botched field goal, just they were outplayed in general. So no, I'm not scared. (Think I've made that clear, yet?) But it doesn't matter if I'm scared or not. What matters is which one of these guys are we going to see:
