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Not a big Anibal fan but 5/75 is a good deal

Reports have his pad levels too high at POA but they also say he is not shy at sticking his nose in there. Do you think there's a chance Otten falls to the 4th rd? As of now, yes. But he has potential to be a combine stud, and boost his stock.

Ogletree would be perfect for the pass coverage part of the D. Worry about him at the POA.

Kaepernick v NE or Schaub v Indy Ridley v SF or Moreno v Balt Hilton v Hou or Sidney Rice v whoever Seattle plays

Is this the same Jerry Franklin who went to Arkansas? I watched him at Arkansas in 2010/2011. I was surprised that he went undrafted. Yeah, Franklin can play, IMO. I liked him as a 5th or 6th rounder last year.

Jake Long is starting to deteriorate. He hasn't been "the best" LT in the league for 2-3 years now. He's been playing or missed time with a ton of injuries too. But he's not Orlando Pace out there yet. He's still an above average LT. I actually think he is about as likely as any FA OL the Bears could get. I think you can give him a deal similar to Forte's. 4-5 years, but guarantee the money for only 2 years. At that point, probably going to want to cut him loose and hopefully get another 1st round LT in there the following year. I think Albert and Clady get franchised. I think Vollmer stays in NE. Duane Brown isn't going anywhere (he may have been signed already). The Bears have come up with some big offseason prizes recently (Cutler, Peppers, Marshall) and now it's time to come up with one on the OL. Everything else will fall into place if you get stuff worked out up front. At this point, I really don't care about defense. If the offense is good, the defense just has to be passable. The Bears still have enough talent to be much better than passable even if they take a step back from Urlacher at LB, Tillman and Jennings don't have probowl seasons again, or Peppers doesn't come out of hibernation (or whatever the hell he's been doing this season).

Melton isn't leaving. Worst case, he's franchised. I don't think him leaving is even an option at this point unless the Bears are stupid. He's one of the best at his position in the league. Can't afford to lose him.

I've played out this scenario a few times. I'd take Thomas or Fluker in the 1st because of the desperate need for OL, but there's a decent chance one will be there when the Bears pick in the 2nd. And even better chance guys like Warford (who I like a lot) and Aboushi would be there. Ogletree though, looks like a SLB to me, at least early in his career. I guess Briggs could call the D, or you could bring back Roach at MLB for a year or two though. And despite the obvious Mich ST. comparison, Sims seems an awful lot like Kellen Davis. Both huge monsters known more for blocking coming out of college. Sims may have a better resume in the passing game, but I agree, it scares me too. There's a couple small school TEs that are interesting in the mid rounds, but I don't know that the Bears can wait that long to get a legit starter.

Need 34 tonight from Schaub, Ridley and Hernandez. Sucks because had I started Kaepernick and Moreno, I'd have won already.

Gotta win or lose with your best. Rodgers hasn't really had many great games against the Bears but he's not going to put up a complete stinker either. Worst case u get 180 yards and a TD (run or pass). Dalton is likelyto do better than that but Rodgers is fully capable of 340, 4 TDs while andy is not.

Yeah, the Bears will be alright if they lose next week. At least mathematically. I don't know how much the team would have left in them though. That would mean losing 5 of 6 games. It would mean losing out on the division. With the injuries this team has suffered, it's a tossup as to whether they can beat the Lions in Detroit in a must win game to end the season. They couldn't do so against a similar Houston team a few years ago.

As a 16 seed! Of course not the same as basketball, they were basically the last of the 1-4 seeds with a 1st round bye. IU soccer is back! Believe they won 1 and were runner up in 2 cups when I was in school. Haven't done much since then.

Yes, tons of more deserving teams with a worse record. How does this make any damn sense?

if he has a concussion, season over. 2 concussions in 4 games, he's done, Bears are done.

I'll take that half, all things considered. This effing team is dropping like flies though. The offense can move it. The defense can stop the pass. I refuse to believe Peterson can beat the Bears by himself. I don't think they can score more than 1 more TD, that's not field position aided by a turnover or a special teams play. I think the Bears can put up a couple scoring drives at least. The Bears can't shoot themselves in the foot anymore. Can't afford to turn the ball over anymore. Can't afford penalties.

Missed it, who kicked the PAT?

Wasn't that interference? Why was Jeffery on the ground?

My 3 also. But flip the first 2 and leave the (voted him @5) comment.

Cruz, Cobb, Hilton, Martin, Gore/Brown is a toss up. Brown has half 2 amazing games so far

Yep. Didn't really look like much. Planted and the knee never bent again.

My point is (without looking at stats) both teams do not have much in common. They are quite different. The Bears offense is particularly horrible. And who the hell said they had anything in common other than wins vs good teams at this point? You said the bears couldn't beat good teams insinuating that they aren't good because of that. I said the world champs from 2 years ago couldn't either and your response was basically....yeah but they were good.

The point was a recent Superbowl team was in the same boat as the Bears during their SB season. Why does the talent level or godliness of the QB have anything to do with it? Your comment made no sense.

Could have said the same thing in 2010 about the Packers and only beating the Eagles in Week 1. They didn't beat another team with a winning record until Week 16 vs. the Giants and a half-assed Bears team in WEek 17.

We know he's in the room and a very important voice. We know his system has dominated the agenda on draft day (safety every year, undersized defensive linemen, no offensive linemen, no quarterback, WR on occasion, emphasis on special teams, etc). We know he's had a few guy pushed out the door go on to success elsewhere. We know he and/or his staff have forced acquisitions of garbage veterans who got paid big money to do nothing and leave. We know they've had to go outside the organization to find the two most impactful players on the roster in recent years. No, it's not all on him and no he's not all bad. But his weaknesses have been exposed over and over and the same problems have been problems throughout his tenure. He took over with a LOT of a voice after the SB season. And frankly the 2007 draft set this team back probably 3 years (drafting no OL). Signing Archuleta, Manumaleuna, drafting Martz's handpicked QB hurt also. But the major things that have set the Bears back from acquiring elite talent was that 2007 draft. It forced their hand into drafting Chris Williams a couple years later. It forced their hand in trading a 2nd round pick for a DE who would die shortly thereafter. Then it was followed up by the 2009 draft which produced Melton, Moore, Louis, and Knox. But featured a trade down and busts for 1st 2 picks (Gilbert, Iglesias).

Really a double-edged sword here. Blame Lovie for the lack of talent and lack of offensive brainpower that he has employed over the year. But shouldn't he get a lot of the props for making this a mostly competitive team with those clear deficiencies? And honestly, I think I'd give him a pass on some of the offensive stuff. Ron Turner was his fault (though statistically he was easily the best OC in the last 20 years in Chicago, not saying much). Martz is on Lovie too, but a lot of that hire had to do with the lack of candidates available and willing to come to Chicago due to the fact that Lovie was perceived as a lame duck coach before the 2010 season, Bates obviously turned them down, they were denied the ability to talk to the QB coach from Green Bay. Tice is a product of Lovie's buddy system (failed to admit he hadn't done jack w/ the OL as they publicly touted). But I think the main reasons he became OC was to keep some continuity with Cutler (would have been 4th completely different system in 5 years w/ new OC) and Lovie again wasn't on very solid ground coming into the year with his GM already fired. I really like Lovie the person, motivator, player's coach, defensive mind. I don't really like Lovie the talent evaluator. His in-game decisions are baffling, but the only one that has cost the Bears anything was the Redskins game a couple years ago, and even then that had no bearing on the season as the Bears still wound up with a 1st round bye that year. But with Emery now in the fold, it may be for the best to go in a different direction if the Bears struggle to end this year and have an early exit from the playoffs. But then again, I don't know if Emery wants a clean slate in the organization. He's not a young, up and coming talent evaluator. He's an old scout getting his first run at GM. He cleans house, and it's his last run, especially if he does it this soon into his tenure with a team that is a healthy Cutler away from having 3 straight 10+ win seasons.