Thread: Time for Davis to put up some numbers

I've watched Davis practice at training camp, and he looks incredible as a receiver. He has great hands and runs sweet routes. He is a HUGE target for Cutler with a monster catching radius.

But Martz didn't use him much as a receiver.

Got rid of Olsen too - who will probably be a Pro Bowl TE this year. Madness. Utter madness. Hopefully Emery will bring sanity to the Bears.

Kellen Davis is a lot like Gronkowski, except bigger, and stronger, and faster.... Watch some footage from last year, you'll see him swatting line backers away like annoying little flies, trampling his way through the 2ndary to the end zone. He caught my eye last year in the 1st game of the season when jay dumped the ball off to him 5-7 yards behind the LOS. He fought to with in 2 yards of the line of scrimmage, but to do it he broke 3 tackles and it took 6-7 defenders to bring him down. The comment from the announcer, "About half the Falcons' defense brings him(KD) down.."

He's shown a lot of potential but it seems like every time he made a spectacular play or a TD catch Martz went right back to ignoring him again. That was one of my biggest gripes about Martz. If something worked that was against his ideas of how the game should be played he stopped calling that play. Then he calls that stupid backdoor pass to Davis that got intercepted and returned for a TD in the Oakland game. I swear there were times I believed he was intentionally trying to make Hanie look bad and lose games.

Davis at 6'7" with his rare mixture of size and speed will stun fans in 2012!

LINK to the article

Kellen Davis could become the matchup nightmare for Jay Cutler.







For months the talk has surrounded the shiny, new Bears receiving corps led by Pro Bowl talent Brandon Marshall and second-round pick Alshon Jeffery. Together with sure-handed Earl Bennett and the speedy Devin Hester, Chicago suddenly has an array of different talents that could cause problems for even the great defenses.

Lost in that shuffle of speed and size is a young player who has flashed signs of both but until this season hasn't put them together. Kellen Davis could have left the Bears in free agency for the Dallas Cowboys, but instead the 6'7", 267-pound tight end came back to finish what he started.

Most fans in the Midwest know Davis as a blocker who might catch a pass once or twice a game, usually for a touchdown. Of the 28 passes he caught last season, five were for scores. Now fourth-year man finally has an offensive coördinator in Mike Tice who will shape game plans around throwing him the football, something Mike Martz didn't do.

Quarterback Jay Cutler said he likes throwing at big targets, which explains why the Chicago Bears front office went after Marshall in free agency and Jeffery in the draft. However, it's Davis and his rare mixture of size and speed that will stun fans in 2012.

I think he has more tools than Greg Olsen had. For one thing he's a much better blocker and much harder to bring down with just one guy and I really don't see much if any difference in their speed an ability to run deep seam routes. Just his size alone will make him tough to cover.

The Bears have structured this passing game so that every pass play someone will have single coverage and that's where Cutler can burn them. Why JA could never see that he had a tremendous talent in Cutler but a lousy supporting cast. You have to wonder if JA was still around would he have stepped up and matched or bettered the Cowboys offer?

So yea pretty much everyday I start looking more and more forward to the season, like Ric said he could be better than Olsen, but also just generally how much potential this team got if everything goes in our path.
I feel like this season is so much more hyped than last year, ofcause I won't here last year, but I just have a feeling this season is way more hyped, and for good reason.