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#Bears and #Ravens will play in Hall of Fame Game Thursday, Aug. 2 at 7pm in Canton, Ohio.

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The Bears get a 5th preseason game...
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Obviously commemorating week 6 of the 2017 regular season, when future hall of famer Mitch Trubisky dominated the Ravens!
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UOK wrote:@AdamHoge
The Bears get a 5th preseason game...
And an extra week of practice compared to the rest of the league, which will be nice for a new head coach installing a new offense.



Fun fact: The last time the Bears were in the Hall of Fame Game, Rex Grossman broke his ankle.
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An extra pre-season game, not really what this injury plagued team needs. Hate this game. Way too early and it is worse than the usual first pre-season game.
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Wounded Bear wrote:Fun fact: The last time the Bears were in the Hall of Fame Game, Rex Grossman broke his ankle.
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Otis Day wrote:An extra pre-season game, not really what this injury plagued team needs. Hate this game. Way too early and it is worse than the usual first pre-season game.
I don't think any of the starters should play ... they'll have, what, a 90 man roster at that time? where you have duplicate numbers assigned to a player on offense and a player on defense? play all the duplicate number fringe guys and anyone else who looks to have the proverbial snowball in hell chance of making the roster
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UOK wrote:@AdamHoge

#Bears and #Ravens will play in Hall of Fame Game Thursday, Aug. 2 at 7pm in Canton, Ohio.

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The Bears get a 5th preseason game...
So we have an extra game to find out which fourth stringers are worth keeping? Oh wow.
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Wounded Bear wrote:Fun fact: The last time the Bears were in the Hall of Fame Game, Rex Grossman broke his ankle.
Bears played the Dolphins in the HOF game. Grossman broke his ankle in the second preseason game at the Rams.
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RING4CHI wrote:
Wounded Bear wrote:Fun fact: The last time the Bears were in the Hall of Fame Game, Rex Grossman broke his ankle.
Bears played the Dolphins in the HOF game. Grossman broke his ankle in the second preseason game at the Rams.
Yep. Read that and just carried on my way.
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Well that's what I get for repeating what I read on Comcast SportsNet, who has since corrected the article. Damn you, Comcast, my nemesis...
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OMG can we just have one discussion around here that doesn't veer into Rex Grossman talk?!?!?
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:rofl:

But we love all of our ex-QBs.
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Grossman, Cutler... Wounded Bear clearly doesn't discriminate with lightning rod QBs.

Looking forward to your first Steve Walsh post
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Otis Day wrote::rofl:

But we love all of our ex-QBs.

me thinks you have a strange concept of what "love" is
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G08 wrote:Grossman, Cutler... Wounded Bear clearly doesn't discriminate with lightning rod QBs.

Looking forward to your first Steve Walsh post
Say what you want about Steve Walsh, but that noodle armed bastard filled in admirably for Kramer in 94.
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BR0D1E86 wrote:
G08 wrote:Grossman, Cutler... Wounded Bear clearly doesn't discriminate with lightning rod QBs.

Looking forward to your first Steve Walsh post
Say what you want about Steve Walsh, but that noodle armed bastard filled in admirably for Kramer in 94.

then Wannstedt ditched them both because Rick Mirer was the apple of his eye ... and all the pieces were in place ... for 4-12 ... in consecutive seasons
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I think this is a good thing. It gives us extra practice time and as already mentioned this is a plus for a new coach. I have never seen an analysis that shows this extra game creates more injuries. My thoughts are the opposite; extra conditioning may reduce injuries once the season starts
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I *hate* the HOF game and preseason in general. It's a rip for the league pump these up as real games and it's an extra 4 (or 5) games of wear and tear on bodies.

Cut preseason to 2 games or increase rosters. Your doing no one favors besides the owners.
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I should've known better not to bring up Grossman's name. Still too soon for Bears fans.

I guess there goes my thread on Curtis Enis and James Allen....
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What about the mad doper Rashaan Salaam?
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Wounded Bear wrote:I should've known better not to bring up Grossman's name. Still too soon for Bears fans.

I guess there goes my thread on Curtis Enis and James Allen....
Oh, c'mon.
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What about all the pain in this picture?

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BR0D1E86 wrote:What about all the pain in this picture?

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Oh yeah, how painful can this thread get?

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lol!!! i don't know. we could talk about cutler! :frustrated:

i hope zero starters play in this game. i guess the nfl has to create some fanfare around the induction ceremony.
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MrPrettyBoyFancyLad wrote:lol!!! i don't know. we could talk about cutler! :frustrated:
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MrPrettyBoyFancyLad wrote:lol!!! i don't know. we could talk about cutler! :frustrated:
You are totally allowed to talk about Cutler. It's fine. Talk about whatever you want, so long as it's applicable to the thread's subject.
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It's on my bucket list to attend the Hall of Fame enshrinement ceremonies. Might make it happen this year and take in the football game. Sure, it's a meaningless preseason game, but tickets would be on the very cheap and could make a long weekend of the trip.
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RING4CHI wrote:It's on my bucket list to attend the Hall of Fame enshrinement ceremonies. Might make it happen this year and take in the football game. Sure, it's a meaningless preseason game, but tickets would be on the very cheap and could make a long weekend of the trip.
That's what I'm thinking.
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Eh... positives don't outweigh the risk of injury to me. However, at the end of the day, it is pretty irrelevant.
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