Hot! Matt Forte Vs

By Mark Potash mpotash@suntimes.com

Bears jogging again Matt Forte . M. Spencer Green AP

Bears running returning Matt Forte is definitely sixth inside NFL inside hurrying yards for every online game (96.0, 672 total) as well as first concerning jogging backs in yards coming from scrimmage (1,091). He vertisements over a schedule for 1,536 rushing yards which in turn would be the many by way of a Bear because Walter Payton around 1985 (1,551) and also a franchise-record 2,494 yards coming from scrimmage.

He ersus recently been known as the MVP involving the team, one of the best operating back in the actual NFL, actually the most effective player with this NFL, by means of teammate Brian Urlacher following a triumph on the Buccaneers with London.

But Forte most likely are not the best working back for the field Monday night against the Philadelphia Eagles. Or essentially the most underrated as well as underpaid managing back, either.

The Eagles LeSean McCoy has a number of pretty reasonable qualifications of his own. He qualified prospects this NFL by using 107.7 your company yards per game, 5.6 yards per carry plus eight hurrying touchdowns.

He s approaching away from a career-best functionality from the Cowboys on Sunday. Facing the No. 1-ranked your company protection within the league (69.7 yards per game), McCoy possessed 30 carries for 185 back yards and a couple touchdowns within the Eagles 34-7 rout. He included 15 meters on not one but two receptions intended for a level 2 hundred meters through scrimmage. He gathered 76 meters with his primary half a dozen carries in the initial district in which verts greater than that Cowboys allowed, on average, inside a great entire game.

Forte provides faced three coaches and teams at this time inside the top rated twelve inside hurrying defensive from the NFL this specific season the particular Vikings (No. 5), Falcons (No. 7) as well as Packers (No. 10). McCoy has challenged three with the top eight the 49ers (No. 1), Cowboys (No. 4) and Falcons (No. 7).

So the idea ll be an appealing matchup Monday nighttime at Lincoln Financial Field Forte vs. an Eagles safeguard placed 29th while in the NFL in hurry yards per carry (5.0); McCoy vs. a Bears defense which position 28th (5.2). Here vertisements the way the idea figures up:

EX-BEAR OF THE WEEK: Brandon Lloyd

Three weeks since the get started involving instruction camp, Jay Cutler is just right now receiving a think intended for Roy Williams. But Brandon Lloyd by now seems to have an association using A.J. Feeley fewer as compared to not one but two 2 or 3 weeks immediately after getting started with the St. Louis Rams and Feeley isn capital t even this Rams usual starting up quarterback.

Lloyd, bought through the Denver Broncos on Oct. seventeen for your conditional sixth-round pick, trapped six passes regarding 53 back yards plus a touchdown from the Rams 31-21 worried on the New Orleans Saints with Sunday throughout St. Louis. His eight-yard touchdown catch by using 17 just a few seconds quit within the earliest 50 % gifted the actual Rams some sort of 17-0 lead. His snorkeling catch to get a 16-yard obtain upon third-and-five with 4:10 to learn helped clinch the particular victory.

Lloyd, who performed for the Bears within 2008, had half a dozen receptions to get 74 yards against the Cowboys past week. In a couple video games with all the Rams, they offers twelve receptions for 127 meters just one pick up less than Williams (13-190, one particular TD) features throughout six game titles using the Bears.

SECOND-HALF STAT TO WATCH: Forced fumbles

Forced fumbles are generally an unofficial rating involving the way tough the Bears defense is definitely playing. The Bears usually acquire nearly all of their fumbles if they re also swarming on the basketball and gang-tackling. That azines been a new property of the defense within Lovie Smith. The Bears come in the top personal trainer inside NFL within fumble recoveries throughout a number of belonging to the preceding all 5 seasons No. 1 last year (15) and 2006 (20).

But that will ersus also been a missing component for your most part the following season. The Bears, that forced 37 fumbles final time (second-most in the NFL driving your Giants 42) and also hauled 15 (fifth-most in the NFL), possess pressured just eight fumbles from the very first eight games and retrieved a number of none of them previously four games. Even cornerback Charles Tillman, who includes 27 career compelled fumbles, hasn capital t experienced one in the past all 5 game titles once getting one particular each and every contrary to the Falcons plus Saints.

In fact, given that Week 4 of last season, that Bears have retrieved merely eleven fumbles in his or her very last twenty one games. They acquired recovered 74 while in the preceding 70 game titles through 2006-10.