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Yes!!!!!!!!!!

Sounds like he's ready to play in an NBA game! Thanks. I didn't think anyone would make that joke now that Cuse isn't around.

That's why I picked Edwards. He's going against 2 guys (Almora and Soler) who each had about a 1/2 season of attrition last year. I'm not going to assume Edwards is going to get hurt until he actually gets hurt. And I'm not going to count the chance he gets hurt against him when comparing him to 2 players who have been hurt.

But he'll get a running start at SLB. I'd be more worried about who the hell he's going to be able to cover at TE.

Really surprised he picked them over the lions. supposedly we were adamant about staying in a 4-3, and location was also an issue for Whisenhunt He's an idiot then. They have 2 all-pro DTs and a future all pro at DE. It would completely ruin their D to go 3-4 at this point.

He has kind of a weird career. Did good work with Big Ben. Rejuvenated Kurt Warner's career and basically put him in the HoF. But he failed with Leinart and all those scrubs AZ had. It doesn't look good that Andy Reid was able to get Kolb to play like a stud at times, but Whis couldn't get anything out of him. I think he would have been a good fit for Detroit with an already established QB. But I wouldn't trust him to develop a QB. Just think there were other coaches I would have given a shot to before recycling him. Pretty much my feelings. I got to the point where I really wanted Zimmer and he appeared to be 2nd on the list since they didn't want to wait on Quinn to come available. Those Jay Cutler to Tennessee rumors from a few weeks ago seem a lot nicer now, too bad Cutler signed that extension. Apparently the front runner at the moment to be his OC is John McNulty, don't know much about him. Winston Moss, Keith Butler and Ray Horton have been mentioned as possible DCs - all 3 are pretty intriguing. I think those are all predominately 3-4 DCs too. I don't know much about Moss. I know he played in 3-4 most of his career. Butler and Horton are from the Steeler family. Butler is really intriguing. I believe the Steelers are holding the job for him whenever LeBeau retires, but that's probably never going to happen at this point. Not sure how close you guys are to being able to pull off a 3-4.

Probably Jim Caldwell.

He has kind of a weird career. Did good work with Big Ben. Rejuvenated Kurt Warner's career and basically put him in the HoF. But he failed with Leinart and all those scrubs AZ had. It doesn't look good that Andy Reid was able to get Kolb to play like a stud at times, but Whis couldn't get anything out of him. I think he would have been a good fit for Detroit with an already established QB. But I wouldn't trust him to develop a QB. Just think there were other coaches I would have given a shot to before recycling him.

He did have a bad knee when he did play, but was put on IR for an upper body injury.

Really surprised he picked them over the lions.

Hope that isn't his real birth year. Really putting my non-photographic memory to the test.....But Isn't that the number he wore during spring training?

FYI, Jorge Soler signed up for Twitter today. @JorgeSoler68

I don't think it was a bad idea of him keeping Lovie's D. We knew 2013 was potentially Peppers', Tillman's, and maybe even Briggs' last year. Melton also was a FA. Urlacher was either going to be gone or back for maybe 1 year. It was a great idea to not completely change both sides of the ball, especially when 1 side wasn't broken. If u would have told me the offense would be top 10 and 2nd in points, I'd have thought this team would win 12 games, easy. I expected some dropoff from defense, but I never imagined they'd be worse than the top part of the middle of the pack. As for the defense, yeah a lot of teams actually run a 1-gap 3-4 or hybrid defense. It's alot easier to transition too. You don't have to have 6'5", 300lb DEs. You can basically have the best of both worlds personnel wise. If you want a 6'5", 300lb DE, he can fit. But so can your 6'3", 270 4-3 DE already on the roster. So can your 6'2", 250lb standup edge rusher. I think a hybrid D allows Emery to draft how he wants, which is if he likes a player...pick him and not having to worry about how the defense is geared.

They did still give up almost 900 passing yards in the first 3 games. Granted, a lot of that came by Roethlisberger in desperation mode. But they did get eaten up by AJ Green and Christian Ponder threw for 227, which is probably unacceptable also. As for Tucker, part of the issue in Cleveland and Jacksonville isn't just finishing bottom 5-7 in defense....it's that they are constantly on the field in bad situations because they were bottom 5 in offense all of those years too. I don't mind giving him another shot. Honestly, the Bears talent on D probably won't be much better than what he had in those other jobs. But hopefully the offense being really good helps. Even the 20th ranked defense that isn't terrible at any phase (run D, pass D, pass rush) would be a huge difference.

The coaching changes makes me think they are doing what I suspected and going to a hybrid defense. The DL and LBs will have slightly different responsibilities in a hybrid. If no scheme change, then why not get rid of the DBs coach too? Though I do like Hoke, the safeties were a disaster without the injury excuse in their favor.

As of the #1 poll, I was dead set on picking Almora for #3. I couldn't pick Soler because he only has 85 ABs since mid June. But then I realized Almora barely has more ABs since both joined the organization, and none of his ABs have come at high A where the majority of Soler's came from. I'm still going to vote Almora over Soler (slightly), but I went with Edwards.....who for all the questions about his health, has never had health issues. And he gave up his 1st professional HR about 175 innings into his career. And he struck out like 13 people per 9 innings as a Cub. And his BA against was like .105. 3-4-5 really close for me, but went with CJ.

John Fox isn't going to let Manning throw is he? Worst coach ever.

People are posting Brady pics with a backwards hat on Twitter. And AND McCarron tats pics (he has a ton).

Who would be on the all-time "damn he didn't graduate yet? " Big Ten team? G Aaron Craft F Jess Settles F Trevor Mbakwe Would be 3.

LaGarrette Blount has 4 rushing TDs this game.....otherwise known as DOUBLE the number of TDs Walter Payton had in the playoffs. Patriots have scored 40 points, with no defensive or special teams TDs, or no FGs, and Tom Brady has 0 TD passes.

Yeah, that draft would be too good to be true.

hard to get a closer, more uncontested look than the tip nebraska missed at the end. http://gifrific.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Illinois-Tyler-Griffey-Game-Winning-Lay-Up-vs-Indiana.gif It's like porn With fat people.

I've always assumed Melton played his last down for the Bears when he went down. He never really complained about getting the franchise tag, but players don't typically take kindly to losing money because he got hurt the same year his team tagged him instead of signing him long-term. Plus, the Bears had a QB to sign this offseason. Once he got injured, the safe assumption for me has been that he would get either a long-term deal or a 1-2 year "prove it" deal with another team for more than the Bears would be willing to offer.

Love this! Instead of changing Pryor to Loston (who sucks), sign TJ Ward (over Byrd) at SS and Pryor for FS. I'd also take Pryor's teammate Marcus Smith over Jeffcoat, but I wouldn't complain about that offseason at all.

I don't like either of those picks.