Now that preseason is really over I'm ready to start talking Bears, Sunday night, September 13th, Lambeau Field.

I'm looking to watch what we do against the two new OTs for the Bears, Pace on the left and Chris Williams on the right.
Pace had serious problems with Dumervil's size, granted none of our pass rushers on the edge will be as short as Dumervil, unless we blitz Bigby or Collins. I like Woodson coming off that edge against him. It's like me watching Clifton, I'm always waiting to see him get beat by a quick rusher.
Chris Williams has been highly praised this offseason and has looked darn good. I don't know if I'm going to expect too much pressure from Kampman on that side of the line. Will be a good, physical battle to watch.

Maybe not the most exciting match-ups in the game, but I believe they will impact the game greatly.

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Not sure if there is really an individual matchup to key on.

I hope Capers throws something unexpected at them like we did last year, when we played nickle basically the entire game.

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I hope Pace sucks as bad as he did against Denver the other night. He looked slow. Maybe the Rams let him go for a reason. The nice thing about the 3-4 is it allows the Packers to match a bunch of different guys up against him, and maybe one of them will have success. I don't have any faith in Poppinga as a pass rusher, and Jeremy Thompson did absolutely nothing against the Cardinals. I'd like to see Clay Matthews give it a go over there--young and fast vs. old and slow.

I haven't seen much pass rush from Kampman in the preseason, but he's one of those players who saves his energy for the regular season, so that could change against the Bears.

Greg Olson will provide the most difficult matchups for our defense. They better cover the middle of the field better than they did against Arizona. Desmond Clark is a good TE as well. Our CB's should be able to handle the Bear WR's.

EDIT: I should've mentioned that at times, Cullen Jenkins will probably be going against Orlando Pace.

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Wait, the preseason is over? Damn you, I was afraid I'd missed a game for a minute there. :P

As for the subject at hand, I've never been much of one to pay attention to anything but the most obvious of player matchups, I prefer to look at units as a whole (or at least in clusters, DL, LBs, DBs). The most specific I can get here is making sure Kampman and Poppinga start either becoming incredible pass defenders, or start making some problems behind the line of scrimmage.

I'll give you my top two match ups for week one:
1.) Matt Forte vs. LB core
2.) Greg Olsen vs. LB core

I think Forte will do alright on the ground -- that's not what concerns me. I like how our DBs match up against Chicago's WRs (although don't expect the same ol' Bears -- Cutler is for real). That said, Green Bay's LB core has struggled against RBs and TEs in the passing game. I wonder how much of that had to do with scheme. Often times our LBs were stuck playing match defense underneath (as I understand it, a type of man coverage that takes into account pre-snap motion and alignment of the backs and TEs). This left many of them on an island with a shift RB -- think Desmond Bishop's first play in for Barnett after the injury at the Dome last year. Bishop got caught having to cover Chester Taylor and the play resulted in a TD reception.

Forte is a TALENTED pass catcher. Cutler will throw to he and Olsen often. And in truth, a TE like Olsen is as much a headache for our DBs as he will be for our LBs.

If we can reign in those two I think we'll be able to put up enough points to walk away 1-0.

Sorry for the novel.

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I'm looking to see if we CAN NOT throw an INT to Urlacher this season. Seems to happen every year!

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Im waiting to see our D harass Cutler all night long so when they go in at halftime,he can throw his whiny fits and piss off the team.... 🙂

Greg Olsen is definitely the guy to watch on offense. Covering TEs has been our Achilles heel on defense. Brandon Chillar helped with that last year, but we still weren't that good.

I don't think Chicago has the talent to cover our offensive playmakers. I'm looking forward to ARodge to pick 'em apart. Man, the addition of a legit TE talent makes me giddy to see this offense rolling in the regular season.

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it was said earlier and i agree that the main matchup will be our LBs trying to contain Forte on the receiving end. Our d-line is stout enough i think (lol it seems weird to say) to stop his running game. we did it pretty well last year i believe until one large run but he killed us on the receiving end.

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i agree the best matchup will be with Greg Olsen VS the pack LB, after that one game when James Jones had 2 fumbles right after the other and Desmond Clark/Greg olsen smoked the LB's i really want to see that matchup

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