Once again we sit here on the eve of the start of the 2007 campaign to Drive to the Desert! And once again, the feeling of uncertainity overwhelms me.

For the love of all things good, is it really that difficult to receive a snap from the center? Isn't that something learned while in Pop Warner football?

And have the Bears taken a page from the Cubs on their practice of misleading the public and their fans on the subject of injury? Don't have the head coach trot out and tell us Tommie Harris will be playing last Saturday, only to spend the game on the sidelines.

Lastly, what is it with athletes today? Why is it so hard to assume a level of responsibility towards their careers and their jobs. While most of us bite, scratch, and claw day to day to make a living, I find it sickening that a certain All-Pro linebacker who not less than 2 months ago was complaining about securing a contract to support himself and family finds it necessary to be out at several clubs at 3AM on a Monday morning? What good can happen at a club on a Monday night?

So while most Bears fans are puffing their chests out for this upcoming season, I look at uncertainity at a QB who has yet to show he can play consistently, a RB who has yet to stay healthy for an entire season, a Defensive Line that was average at best without Tommie Harris, and a team that is no more than 2-3 injuries away from looking up from the bottom.