The Bears are 6-1 at Giants Stadium in the regular season and 5-2 in their last seven games at Soldier Field, counting playoffs. So much for home-field advantage.
Will playing at Giants Stadium two weeks in a row against the Giants and Jets help them?
As coach Lovie Smith said, they will know where the visitors’ locker room is.
Why does that help so much?
Think about it. If you don’t know where the locker room is, you have to ask. It can become a distraction.
Are the Jets as good as the Giants?
According to their injury report, probably better. The Giants were a depleted group last week.
Are the Jets as good as the Patriots?
They beat them in Foxboro, something the Bears would like to do next week, so maybe the Jets will turn out to be the toughest test on the three-game trip.
Who are these guys, anyway?
They have two rookie first-round draft choices starting on the offensive line in left tackle D’Brickashaw Ferguson and center Nick Mangold and four first-round draft choices on their front seven on defense–linemen Shaun Ellis, Dewayne Robertson and Bryan Thomas and linebacker Jonathan Vilma.
Like we said, who are these guys?
They’re really pretty good, but you don’t hear much about them because they play in New York.
Is their coach only 35 years old?
It’s true, but what people forget is that Eric Mangini had more head-coaching experience than many of his counterparts, including Lovie Smith. He was head coach of the Kew Colts of the Australian League in 1992, when he was 22.
How did that help him?
He found his punter, Ben Graham, who has a strange and effective way of kicking.
How so?
Mangini tried him out in a cow paddock in 1997, but Graham didn’t sign until last year.
No, what’s so strange about his punting?
He kicks it so that it takes funny bounces, away from Devin Hester.
