Al Groh’s LB corps had a solid year on the field.

I will always have a particular and peculiar connection to linebackers. Something about the position just appeals to me. Maybe it is because the position can bring so much to the defense. Maybe it is because each of my sons seems to play that position.

Maybe it is some kind of cosmic connection based on the fact that I am a Bears fan, and the Bears are and have been a linebacker team from Bill George to Dick Butkus to Mike Singletary to Brian Urlacher (expect this to be the first of many – yes, many – Chicago Bears references in this article. Colts fans can feel free to stop reading now, if need be).

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