How good is this team going to be once Dorsey and Albert get acclimated and the lines start to gel? Talk about STOKED… I feel like a 16 year old kid who just got his first testosterone headrush!

Franklin looks good and considering he’s a rookie, I think this kid could be great. Letting Franklin, Darling, Webb, Price, and Sippio battle it out for the last 2-3 spots will be interesting. I’m really pulling for Sippio..Say what you will about his speed, the guy will catch everything in his direction..Why can’t we atleast just put him in the first string and see what he does..Regardless I think this offense will surprise people this year and is going to be quite good..We’ve got much better WR corps and with Jamall Charles and Cottam our offense just seems sooo much better than last year its ridiculous..If we had jared allen right now, I would expect the playoffs..

But seriously how much better is our offense than last year..This past draft and addition of undrafted free agents rookies is looking more amazing by the day..We didn’t just kick ass, we stomed on every other teams balls in this years draft

One thing I’m abso-fucking-lutely STOKED about was seeing FOUR WIDE RECEIVER SETS WITH ONE MAN LEFT IN THE BACKFIELD! I’ve been begging for this since 2006. LJ had TONS of success when we spread our offense out, and let him run against a spread D. He simply just owns defenders one on one. When we tried doing the ‘power run’, or in our case last year ‘cupcake O’, we got shut down 9/10 times. We saw a LOT of 3-4 receiver sets, and I can’t get enough of that. Imagine D-Bowe, Franklin, Sippio and Tony G out on the edges, LJ in the backfield. Who are you going to cover? If you play it safe against the run, one of these guys will get open. If you double cover Tony, one of these guys will get open. If you protect heavily against the pass, LJ can and will catch a short dump pass and turn it into something nice. There are so many more possibilities that have a favorable outcome when we run these sets. We didn’t see much of it with Solari.

I also liked seeing our offense convert so many 3rd downs. 5 on the opening drive, are you kidding me? I remember games (most notably against the Colts, in our last playoff appearance) when we didn’t have a 3rd down conversion until after half-time. That was pathetic. And we showed promise. For how low the Bears’ D ranked last year, they are still a force to be reckoned with, especially when their guys (most notably Tommie Harris) are healthy. It isn’t etched in stone that we are a good offense yet, but it’s definetly a huge step in the right direction.

Sorry to hear about your days in purgatory south of the Frost Line. I was stationed in Key West for 5 years, so I’ve spent a fair amount of time in Miami as well – though I prefer the Florida panhandle… Orange Beach… Perdido Key, Gulf Shores… even Pensacola over the southron hinderlands of Miami.