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Fair enough. If Flacco doesn't have a career year, ipso facto he's a petulant jerk with absolutely no heart, who stopped caring and trying. And probably never did.

Thought experiment: What happens if a Cutler-led Bears team experienced all of the above misfortune in an NFC Championship game, and lost in OT?

Broncos 2015: More kicking. More screaming.

Cutler for QB/HC/GM

It's obvious that the Sun Times has an agenda It's obvious a lot of reporters in town have an agenda. Wittenmeyer's agenda is just more obvious to many because it goes against the zeitgeist. I look forward to one day reading "Despite titles, Cubs formula still all wrong" with his byline.

I have to imagine he was outed but maybe he just felt remorse about all the uproar this story caused and decided to come clean. If it's the latter, he committed career suicide because of guilt. He's killed any future OC or HC possibilities, but he'll definitely land on his feet as a OL coach. I do think he was outed though, but guilt/pride would be the only other possibility. Like "your saying there's a chance" possibility. Key pieces of evidence in Rapoport's original report were: 1) frustration with Cutler's play within the organization, 2) including the specific about his refusal to check out of "bad" run plays, 3) and consideration was given to benching Cutler at halftime of the TB game. Assuming all three have a basis in fact, there'd have to be a somewhat limited number of suspects, no? #1 is common enough to be anyone, but I imagine management knows who are the most frustrated. I think it's unlikely that a Long or Forte would vent #2 to a reporter after a game, though I suppose it's possible. But if #3 is true and there was a discussion about sitting Cutler during a game, Trestman for one would presumably be part of the conversation, along with offensive coaches--and Kromer was plausibly even the one who initiated and argued for a switch--but the whole locker room wouldn't know. (If the D-line was clued in, this really is a cluster.) You'd expect the GM to be at least peripherally aware that the coaches could go to Plan "Pull Jay" if the offense sputtered (since at the time, they were still "fighting for the playoffs", yippee). I'd certainly think that he'd be informed/learn after the game that they had considered it. So I suspect the FO recognized right off that it had to be one of a couple of coaches. If Trestman were confronted and adamantly denied, and Cavanaugh did same, Mr. OC would have nowhere to hide. At any rate, I wish Mssrs. Kromer and Tucker best of luck in their future endeavors. It's been real.

I feel kinda bad for Rodgers. So much time on the sideline in the second half, and it's Green Bay so you know it's Chris Berman frozen tundra cold.

Hey, Bears won the quarter.

Honest question: Does McCarthy have one eye on 73-0 at this point?

See, not having a punter active is going to hurt GB here! What? Oh.

Sadly, if the roles were reversed, I have a feeling this Bears team would have backed off at 14-0.

Every play the Packers fail to score is a moral victory at this point.

Theo: "To our fans: we hope you understand" Yessir. All good here.

Then I'll guess that you're not responsible for this:

Ha, would've been one of the most memorable plays in WS history, one way or the other. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

A couple of bad Cutler INTs against Buffalo and Carolina and the Bears are 5-3 Yeah, playing the "what if" game is actually a positive for the Bears. They really should be 5-3 or even 4-4 if you want to give the 49ers that win. Meh. On the whole I think a 3-5 record is a pretty fair reflection of what they've accomplished thus far, good and bad. My "what if" was to imagine the angst among Bears fandom if that game had finished like it started -- say 32-7 or 49-7 again -- going 0-2 en route to 2-6. They avoided that fate, thankfully, but as this season's best outcomes narrow to running to running the table or a near-miss on the playoffs, perhaps it would have been better had the reckoning come sooner. All that said, I don't think they're truly as bad as they were yesterday, or as in the first 28 minutes @SF. They are, however, giving ample reason to think they're not as good as expected.

This was the steamrolling that the 49ers game was shaping up to be. But for the late hit, some helpful SF play calls, and Colin Kaepernick, the Bears could easily be sitting on 2-6.

Uh what

No fire. Not enough grit. Terrible w/ RISP.

While we're at it, how about a scarlet "L" on the shorts if the franchise has ever led the league in losses. The possibilities are endless.

And Norris Cole. And they're going to "make Haslem whole" after opting out. WHITE HOT

Wade alone in Miami? Awesome. Miami should be just fine if they keep resting Wade on B2Bs and managing his minutes. McBob can shoulder some extra load.