Chicago Sports Then and Now

Cedric Benson throttled his former team for 189 yards on the ground.

I went to a sports bar and was very excited to eat wings and watch my Bears play some competitive football for the first time all season.

I soon realized that competitive was not in the Bears vocabulary.

I watched as the Bears quickly got demolished by the arm of Carson Palmer, the hands of Chad Ochocinco and the legs of Cedric Benson.

The Bears offense was unable to score a single point, until they got a field goal late in the second quarter to go into the half trailing 31-3.

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Matt Forte must pick up his game against the surprise Bengals run defense.

Overview: Both the Chicago Bears and Cincinnati Bengals are coming off losses and need a win to stay in contention in their respective divisions.

Last Week: The Bears fell just short in a 21-14 loss to the Atlanta Falcons. Chicago had a chance to tie the game at the end, but were unable to convert. Jay Cutler passed for 300 yards and two touchdowns, but the rushing game continued their season-long struggles.

The Bengals had a rough second half in a 28-17 loss to the Houston Texas. Leading 17-14 at intermission, the Bengals were unable to score in the second half while surrendering two scores. They allowed Texans quarterback Matt Schaub to pass for 382 yards and four touchdowns.

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Both Cedric Benson and Kyle Orton have their new teams in first place in their division.

Ex-Bears Kyle Orton and Cedric Benson were decent players with the Bears at best, but now they have entered the next stages of their careers.

Cedric Benson, who the Bears drafted with the fourth selection in 2005 was basically dumped by the Bears last season after he had off the field issues. The Bengals decided to pick him up about halfway through the season. This season the surprising 4-1 Bengals have Benson playing and looking like whole different player. Benson has 487 yards on 111 carries and is averaging 4.4 yards per carry through five games this season. Read the rest of this entry →

Cedric Benson believes the Bears will regret cutting ties with the former first round pick.

Cedric Benson has decided to talk trash about the Bears once again, here’s what he had to say:

“I’m sure they know they made a mistake [releasing me], after the way I finished last season. But I’m not worried about them. It’s in the past and I’ve moved on. I had a career-high in touches and yards in a little more than half a season, more than I ever had in Chicago. That tells you the story right there.”

The other RB when Cedric Benson was here, Thomas Jones, got into an on-field fight Monday in Jets’ camp.

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