Adam Hoge's Ten Things

[Otis Day]

They were saying on the radio today that his 1st and 3rd qtr stats/splits are much better than his 2nd and 4th qtr. I have not looked to see, but it would not surprise me.

[wab]

I'm not entirely sure what people were expecting... I mean no one on this board thought the Bears were anything but an 8-8 team. Few if any of us thought this team would make the playoffs, let alone make the super bowl. Was it the addition of Mack that made everyone forget that it would take time to get the offense right?

All the hand wringing is surprising and ironic.

[Boris13c]

I'm not entirely sure what people were expecting... I mean no one on this board thought the Bears were anything but an 8-8 team.

yeah well, this particular Kool Aid quaffing poster said 10-6

Few if any of us thought this team would make the playoffs, let alone make the super bowl.

I also said a Wild Card spot

Was it the addition of Mack that made everyone forget that it would take time to get the offense right?

I figured if the offense could be competent, the team could be as well, and regular competence enough for playoff caliber improvement ... and that was before the addition of Mack

I'm sticking to that as I see enough improvement already ... hell, just that opening drive against Goon Bay was better than anything we've seen over the past 5 + years, and that is with Trubisky still having the training wheels on

All the hand wringing is surprising and ironic.

screw everyone else, I'm still pumped about this team and firmly believe Trubisky's issues will dissipate as the season goes on, and by the time that Wild Card round comes around, there will be no more training wheels and the Bears will be a truly dangerous opponent

[malk]

I'm not entirely sure what people were expecting... I mean no one on this board thought the Bears were anything but an 8-8 team. Few if any of us thought this team would make the playoffs, let alone make the super bowl. Was it the addition of Mack that made everyone forget that it would take time to get the offense right?

All the hand wringing is surprising and ironic.

Yeah, I had us as playoffs without Mack and 12-4 with. That's back to 11-5 with the GB debacle and the Fitzmagic is making me think about whether we'll be able to beat the Vikings, Patriots or Rams to stay there.

This year is about getting the offence right, and I'm still hopefully for this year, but I want to see a reasonable improvement in, particularly, TD%. Trubisky was 31st last year which I put down to Fox/Loggains and a lack of weapons, in addition to him being a rookie. This year he's got more experience, weapons and a system. Yes he needs time to learn the system but that can't be an excuse to stop him from getting out of the bottom quartile of QBs.