The parallels are similar but its a totally different ballgame with the cap. Teams dont stay bad for long periods of time. Look to New Orleans, the Carolina team that went to the superbowl, the Bears, whoever. It takes a couple decent drafts, maybe a decent qb, and a couple FA signings.

Biggest difference between that 87 era team and this team is that team had alot of aging players. You are on point as far as the offense goes, I cant argue there. Everyone says Urlacher may look mortal, but the same was said when Warrick Holdman and Rosie Colvin left and a young guy named Briggs started as a rookie.

Again, the main difference is who is drafting the players. Angelo and Smith have an outstanding relationship, Ditka and McCaskey had the worst relationship.

I believe Fencik and Wilson retired. Marshall was the only one that was lost. It was a big loss but if you look at the 86 Bears without Marshall, they were better than the 85 team. All teams get old eventually, the Bears got old and they had McCaskey putting the replacements out there, not Angelo.

Dikta always struggled with personnel too, I mean come on, hes the only person to ever trade his whole draft for 1 player. [img]/LDPforum/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/getsmile.tmp008106164.gif[/img]