13. Arizona's passing game was wildly productive last year. What is their biggest obstacle to repeating that success?

From Kent Somers, Arizona Republic:

Biggest obstacle to continuing passing success is health. Warner has to stay healthy. Coaches like Leinart but the offense will change if he plays, they'll rely more on the run.

14. How do you think the new offense and the addition of Glen Coffee will affect Frank Gore?

From Matt Maiocco, Instant 49ers, Santa Rosa Press-Democrat:

Since Gore carried a club-record 312 times in 2006, his rushing attempts have fallen to 260 in '07 and 240 last season. Gore is such a tough runner that the team wants to be careful not to work him too hard. That is why they want to institute more of a shared system at running back.

Coffee might get seven to 10 touches a game. Gore has never been great in short-yardage situations, so Coffee might get an opportunity to take on that responsibility. If Coffee performs as expected, he could end up with as many touchdowns as Gore with a lot few rushing attempts.

15. Do you expect Jay Cutler to continue to put up big numbers with the Bears receiver group or will they drag him down?

From Brad Briggs, Inside the Bears Blog, Chicago Sun-Times:

Without the talented receiving duo of Brandon Marshall and Eddie Royal, Cutler will not enjoy the same statistical success he had with the Broncos. That doesn't mean he won't put up numbers that look big in Chicago. While he is taking a definite step down in class with the receivers he is working with, Devin Hester started to come on at the end of 2008 and if Kyle Orton hadn't missed him on a handful of passes when he was open deep, Hester's statistics coming out of his first full season as a wide receiver would look much different.

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Earl Bennett and Juaquin Iglesias are unknowns for Cutler, but he has a proven pair of talented receiving tight ends in Greg Olsen and Desmond Clark, and they'll be featured significantly. Don't be surprised of Olsen becomes his go-to target. There will definitely be some growing pains for Cutler in the offense, but if he's as good as the organization believes he is, he's going to make the receivers around him better.

16. Ben Roethlisberger had a career worst YPA and threw 15 fewer touchdowns in '08 than he did in '07. Who is the real Big Ben?

From Rocco DeMaro, WPGB:

Ben's TD:INT ratio plummeted in '08 because he was running for his life for most of the season (he was sacked 46 times in 2008) behind a bad offensive line. He also didn't have the benefit of a capable ground game to open up play action possibilities. These are two very good explanations for the drop in big plays, touchdowns from the passing game.

The question, then, is what will change in '09?

With the same offensive line, the loss of their best downfield threat in No. 3 WR Nate Washington and no immediate help from the draft, I'm not sure we can expect much of an improvement in this area.

If you're the glass half-full type, Big Ben is entering his age-27 season. That's a very good age to be a professional athlete and many see it as the very middle of one's physical prime.

But taking a glass half-empty view, Ben relies on his youthful manuervability more than any QB in the league ... and age-27 magic or not, the 2009 season will be Roethlisberger's sixth in the league. That's six years of relentless punishment to his body, the last three of which have seen him sacked 46, 47 and 46 times.

Gun to my head, I'll predict 22 TDs, 17 INTs and yardage totals in the 3,000-3,400 range.

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