Camp Lovie-Bear, Darwin Walker, and More

By Mike Maguire | Jul 30, 8:20 AM

From everything I've heard concerning the early stages of life in Bourbonnais, the Bears offense hasn't had much trouble moving the ball against the team's vaunted defense. Devin Hester has been electrifying, Rookie Greg Olsen seems to be as good as advertised, and Cedric Benson's performance has kept the chatter about Thomas Jones to a low roar.

While it's always nice to hear about the Chicago Bears moving the football… I'm not sure if I should be overly excited about the Bears offense or concerned about the defense.

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Much like Tank Johnson's career in Chicago (and spot on the Gurnee PTA board); the Chicago Bears depth issues at defensive tackle are now a thing of the past. The Bears made a trade with the Eagles to acquire the services of DT Darwin Walker on Sunday. Walker, who has spent his entire career in Philly, is strong against both the run and the pass and should wind up starting opposite Tommy Harris on the Bears line. There is no doubt that Walker's addition will make the Bears a deeper and more talented football team, and his presence will give Bears fans and sportswriters alike one less thing to worry about.

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The Sporting News recently published an article ranking the difficulty of NFL training camps. Under Lovie Smith, the Chicago Bears were rated as having the easiest training camp to endure in all of football.

Lovie was criticized last year for running a light camp and the Bears went to the Super Bowl 5 months later. All I have to say is that if the Bears win again this year, I don't care if Lovie wants to have a Texas Hold 'Em tourney on the 50-yard to open training camp in 2008.

Does anyone really feel like the Bears don't come out prepared and play hard on Sundays for Lovie? I say, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it".