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  1. UMFan83
    Welcome to the Trestman regime Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaat? But Kaplan and his sycophants were crowing about how the other players must appreciate that there's finally some accountability! How many defensive players have been benched due to poor play? To be fair we are really exhausting the depth chart at LB and in the secondary. I think Shea is the only Week 1 starter that you can say should be benched. There's really no other options at Safety and CB (plus you want Fuller to keep getting reps).
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    Pete Prisco is sounding so dumb on twitter saying this is the dumbest move ever. I'm not saying it is or isn't but he's defending that by pointing out Cutlers TD passes and completion %.
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    Alex Smith is a tough comparison because he was younger, with a relatively cheap contract (I think?) and was coming off a season where he had a 104 QBR (albeit was benched halfway through the year) Does anyone in the NFL still think at age 32 they can harness Cutler's talent? Maybe? I guess all it takes is one team with a bad QB situation and a coach that needs to win now to gamble on Cutler.
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    Emery knows he can't get rid of both Trestman and Cutler without losing his job too Exactly. If he cuts Cutler and fires the coaching staff he's basically throwing away like $20-25m of the bears money next year and getting nothing in return. In addition there is a $15m hole in your salary cap next year making it hard to turn around quickly. You can suck at your job but if you cost the mccaskeys millions of dollars you might be getting fired.
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    So it looks increasingly possible we are back to where we were from the 50s-2008....how do we get a franchise QB? Outside of the 2QBs at the top is there anyone else worthy of drafting? Obviously they don't believe Fales is the guy or if he is they don't think he's ready Clausen cannot go into next year as our starting QB can he?
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    I doubt this I don't doubt Marc might be trying to prove it. I hope it works in an odd way some other team gets duped by him. Gotta keep the competition down. Crap I totally misread that. I read it as the Bears FO was trying to show that Trestman wasn't to blame so they can retain Trestman
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    I doubt this
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    Could the bears just say they don't want cutler to play in meaningless games so they are seeing what they have in Claussen? I could see the bears spinning this so that it doesn't look like they are giving up on Cutler. Or obviously if they let Trestman and maybe Emery go they can say they didn't support benching him. I think it would be a bad idea to just cut cutler after the season. Doesn't help us at all next season unless they are just going to punt it and go through a rebuilding year.
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    Terry Boers is such a goofy looking dude
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    Minor league related but since I posted a tidbit from the same interview:
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    I heard on the radio that Fuller is Pro Football Focus's lowest rated CB from week 4 on. There are a lot of reasons for that...he's faced some great WRs (Nelson, Megatron, Bryant, etc), he's been injured, the secondary around him is in shambles, etc, so I'm not going to be too down on him but man that is a shitty stat.
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    I have never seen anyone in my life abbreviate Houston as "HST"
  13. UMFan83
    I think this is the part where Sneaky comes in with a bunch of metrics showing how Cutler isn't close to Stafford. eh, the QB stat i place the most value in just ranks Stafford 13th (min. 12 G) this year i'd mention Cutler's ranking, but that would probably be construed as trolling Hey with a couple of good weeks to close out the year he might be able to leap over Cousins and Stanton and secure a spot in the low 20's
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    http://bigstory.ap.org/article/7f7f6bba9d934897a07b09039fd25e38/ap-source-cuba-releases-us-prisoner-alan-gross I wonder if this will open up the floodgates to Cuban baseball talent.
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    Interesting, I thought given the stretch of starts he got, they favored him over Raanta. Does Raanta have a 2 way contract? I know he was sent down briefly, but that was to get him playing time, likely something he agreed to.
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    They're pretty good at hockey
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    Is Hedges going to Tampa? Interesting stuff.
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    yes ones with promising play by younger guys, but the games blown because of [expletive] ups by the veterans with no future in Chicago
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    I am not sure how this type of information is allowed to leak out. Especially if it was the ownership group having a meeting...who in the McCaskey family would leak that info out unless there is an adgenda. Is it possible the Bears leaked it to give potential coaching candidates a heads up that the position will be open in 2 weeks? I really don't think the Bears are high on Harbaughs list, but its possible they would make an offer that gives him full control of football operations to entice him to come here, hence why Emery's status is 'undecided' I'm not even sure I'd want a GM/HC anyways even if it was Harbaugh. I also think he'd be a better fit at Michigan but that's besides the point :)
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    Joyce to the Angels apparently
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    With my luck it was probably Bum, erik and deucebaseman under dupe accounts
  23. UMFan83
    So Keith will be out tonight and it's believed he has the mumps. Not confirmed yet though. If so,ugh
  24. UMFan83
    *terrible joke alert* Reportedly the Bears are trying to convince the Lions to play next week's game during Thursday afternoon's practice.
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    I think they can only clinch if GB loses to Tampa Bay. Yup but can clinch a playoff spot with a win.
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