Nov 03 2009
2 Big Thoughts on Tuesday
Okay now that I have digested the whole Walter Payton discussion in the media whether or not he deserves a statue outside “Soldier Field” I have come to a grand conclusion. Even though we gave a half time tribute to a man called “Sweetness” during the halftime show against Cleveland on Sunday this tastes bitter. Why is it that there are not more Bears statues? I mean Buffalo has a statue of Thurman Thomas outside their stadium not to take anything away from Thurman but this Walter Payton one of biggest icon’s in Chicago sports along with Michael Jordan, George Halas and of course the coach that coached Payton, Da’ Coach Mike Ditka. I overheard him say on radio this week “he is very pro for a statue at whatever cost.” I am not going to disagree with a coach that even he says to this day is “the best football player he has ever witnessed to play or coach.”
Here is a couple tributes to Walter and you tell me if he deserves a statue.
My second thought today is all you hear about is that the Chicago Bears offensive line is sub par and they can not run on anyone. Since we are talking about Walter Payton. Did he ever really have a line to block for him? Not really. Did Barry Sanders have a line in Detroit? Look I was a big fan of Matt Forte last year but this year he is putting soft in sophomore slump. Forte got some nice breaks against a Cleveland team that is really not that good and far away from the next opponent that Arizona Cardinals. The Cardinals can play defense when they show up for the challenge and seeing they got throttled by a good running team in Carolina last week you know they are taking extra classes on stopping the run this week. All I am saying is a average running-back makes and average offensive line even worse. The time is now for Mr Forte to have his biggest game of the year this week. Sure he has had glimpses this year but he has yet to take a game over and if you want to make a bigger impact on the playoff push in the NFC it need’s to begin against Arizona.
