Thursday, January 20, 2011

Through the years - Looking back at quarterback for the Chicago Bears

Chicago Bears is one of the most traditional franchises in NFL history. The team was at the birth of the National Football League, and although it has experienced and identify the stages of success and failure is always been one of the most popular teams in the league. The Bears have had some of the most famous players in the league in its history, Gale Sayers, Dick Butkis, Walter Payton, Mike Singletary, Richard Dent, Brian Urlacher, and more. One area, however, that the Bears ever they fought their quarterback is the starting point. Bears quarterbacks over the years with varying success, but his greatest success the team has rarely had a quarterback who could be described as a superstar in the league.

In terms of individual success, the quarterback was the most successful in the history of the Chicago Bears Sid Luckman. Sid Luckman left Columbia University in 1939 and proved to be worthy of support from fans over his 12 year career in the NFL. Would be the end of his career that the league in passing yards and touchdown passes in three different occasions led. Although his life was sometimes in question, there was only one season in which he started every game the team played, his game never was. With Luckman at the top, the Chicago Bears, won four league NFL. Today it is the leader of the Chicago Bears in most career passing categories.

Then Sid Luckman was hard work and the work fell on the shoulders of Johnny Lujack. Lujack was only in the league for four years and was only the beginning of the Bears quarterback, three of them (1949-1951). In his first full season as a starter for the bears that tried the league in pass completions out, passing, passing yards and touchdowns. Three years later he was out of the league, and the next was the future Hall of Fame George Blanda. Blanda would play 26 seasons in professional football, but only the next two quarterback for the Bears.

The bears will get a bit more stability at the quarterback position when in 1955 the reins to Ed Brown were handed over. Brown is the most important quarterback of the Bears for six seasons before he left the Pittsburgh Steelers in 1962. Although Brown was used in six seasons, the seasons were far from the most successful in franchise history.

Chicago was the top of the league after this run of bad luck back at work a trade with the Rams from Los Angeles who would quarterback Billy Wade in the Windy City. Wade would be the quarterback for the Bears for four seasons, but in 1963 would help the team achieve a record of 01/02/1911 and win the championship of the league.

In the next seventeen seasons, from 1965 to 1981, that bears not someone as its primary starting quarterback for more than three seasons. The list of quarterbacks from that would go through the door Bukich Chicago Bears tour includes Rudy, Jack Concannon, Virgil Carter, Bobby Douglass, Gary Huff, Bob Avellini, Mike Phipps, Vince Evans and. This long period of instability at the quarterback position, the long-term inefficiencies of the devices to be repeated in this period. For seventeen years this route bears had only three seasons with a record of 0.500.

The 1982 season began with a series of changes the team was now led by head coach Mike Ditka and starts at the quarterback position was once the legendary Jim McMahon. The Bears recovered from unnecessary and 1985 flirted with a perfect record until the last game of the season. Although McMahon never led the league in major categories of road was an integral part of the team and helped a little attitude, which made them one of the dominant team in the 1980s. In the 1980s came to an end, would the Bears starter Mike Tomczak backup in a year to move the team before handing over the position of quarterback Jim Harbaugh. The first two seasons with Harbaugh at the helm, saw the Bears back-to-back records before collapsing 5.11 to the stations back-to-back in 0500th

According to Jim Harbaugh time as a starting point for the Bears quarterback, the team would repeat its previous pattern with a seemingly endless cycle of putting quarterbacks in the role of team leader. Starting the game for them in the position of quarterback in the next two stations is Steve Walsh, Erik Kramer, Dave war, Rick Mirer, Steve Stone electricity, Moreno, Moses, Shane Matthews, Cade McNown, Jim Miller, Chandler, Chris Henry Burris, Kordell Stewart, Chad Hutchinson, Craig Krenzel, Jonathan Quinn, Kyle Orton, Rex Grossman and Brian Griese.

Review of the history of Chicago Bears quarterback is easy to see that your time is the most successful team in the subject of the rows in which there was relative stability in the QB position. It is not necessary to win in the NFL for a superstar quarterback, but easily able to be a quarterback who has experience and is within the system tracks equipment are a necessity. From now on, follow the Chicago Bears look for stability in the position of quarterback.

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