Losing Duce Staley was not something we wanted to happen, but I've always had confidence in Darnell Autry 's abilities. I watched him when he was at Northwestern and with all the things he was able to do while he was there, there was never a question in my mind about him. Everyone talked about how with Duce gone our running game was going to be diminished, but I've always thought that you have to give a guy the opportunity to prove himself. And Darnell definitely did that, which is a credit to him because he's a hard worker. The highlight of our win in Arizona last weekend for me was the offense continuing to build our chemistry and the fact that we're really clicking.
Some teams try to put eight or nine guys in the box to stop our run.
The Cardinals saw that we were able to run the ball so they started to put eight or nine guys in the box, which opened up our passing game where we were really in sync. Facing the Chicago Bears this coming weekend is a little different for me because I was a Bears fan growing up outside Chicago and there was talk last year that maybe I was going to be drafted by them. Even though that didn't happen, a lot of people are still talking about it. Also, last year I only had one play against them and that didn't go very well, so this year I have an opportunity to execute multiple plays well and have that on my mind for the rest of the year. We'll be studying films of them this week and we definitely have to watch out for Brian Urlacher .