Detroit Lions (4-0) vs. Chicago Bears (2-2)

Tonight the Detroit Lions will host the Chicago Bears.  This will be a heated match up given last year’s “Calvin Rule” that prevented the Detroit Lions from winning the game.  It was also the Bears who knocked Matthew Stafford out for much of the season.  The Bears and the Lions do not need any added incentive to hate each other, it  one of the best division rivalries in the league.  This will be the first Monday Night football game for the Detroit Lions in this millennium.

What’s at stake?

This early in the season it is hard to say there is too much…however, in a division game every game counts.  If the Bears win they can go to 3-2 and stay in the NFC North race.  If not, they are in danger of falling out of the race before the halfway point.  For the Lions a 5-0 start would keep them tied with the Packers.  A loss would simply make them 4-1 and still in the heart of the playoff race.

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Mr. Jones sure didn't look like a wide eye rookie in his first preseason game. Jones might end up the steel of this years fantasy football draft. (Picture source: profootballzone.com)

I wasn’t going to do this, but since I seen three of my fellow writers did, I thought I jump in and join the party. NFL Mocks had it’s Fantasy Draft this past Tuesday. It is a 12 team standard draft with  two flex positions. One was a W/R and the other was a W/T/R. This totally changed my mind set and how I was going to draft. I was going to target RB’s, and target them hard, then draft WR’s later. I had the 4th pick in the draft.

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Truth is Chicago was forced to given Benson every chance to succeed. Thomas Jones had a terrific 2006 season but Chicago had already drafted Cedric Benson as their longtime answer at running back and given him a huge rookie contract.

So Chicago released Jones.

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Featured Player: RB Matt Forte - NFL Mocks - NFL Mocks - Covering the 2012 NFL draft, Mock Draft Database, Scouting Reports, and Fantasy Football