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Anyways if you support a one year punt, the best option would be keeping the coaching staff, or at least Trestman. Emery ain't gonna screw up the personnel portion this offseason, but if he sticks with Trestman there's a decent chance 2016 is the new regime. Could we go for it then or will we have to concede 2016 so the new regime gets their obligatory tank job out of the way. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Why is this? As doom and gloom as everyone is on this staff we should have even less wins if there was no talent base on the roster. Punting in the NFL is just hardly ever advisable. Realistically who are you giving up for 2015 who wouldn't also help you if the goal was to compete in 2016? Only guy that really pops into my mind if Forte and I don't think you'll get a great return for an aging RB. You could not use all your cap space... But I'm not sure what that accomplishes. As long as you don't leverage future space too much being aggressive in FA is good. Overall I just don't see where punting now helps down the road. NFL should basically be always "dual fronts" to steal from Theo and you don't have to take from one side to accomplish the other. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk There's nothing wrong with one off dump jobs and they often happen when front office and/or coaching staffs overhaul. You can't be duel fronts every year. Can you show me where a one off dump has really helped turn the tides? Because I can show you where a new regime utilized the existing personnel and did same year turnarounds. Probably best recent example being the Chiefs who looked pretty dire, but sure enough actually had a pretty solid base that they made the right moves to (a huge part of that being bringing in the right coaches). Not every turnaround is going to even be that quick and successful, but if you stepped up to 8-8 and then made a second year jump, how would that be different that a dump off that tanked a year first? Now taking all that into consideration can you name who these players are on the Bears who would return a good value and are not likely to help in 2016 but would in 2015? One year dump offs can be advisable but usually it's the case with an aging team with cap problems. This is not the Bears of 2015. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Not saying you are wrong, but if you strongly feel Emery isn't the future like I do, then you are hoping he makes as few moves as possible. Especially moves with long term consequences. I can appreciate that, but he's going to make your picks no matter what. He hasn't shown a propensity to make risky long term bets on free agents. This isn't MLB where you'll get sacked with a 5 year guaranteed deal. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Why is this? As doom and gloom as everyone is on this staff we should have even less wins if there was no talent base on the roster. Punting in the NFL is just hardly ever advisable. Realistically who are you giving up for 2015 who wouldn't also help you if the goal was to compete in 2016? Only guy that really pops into my mind if Forte and I don't think you'll get a great return for an aging RB. You could not use all your cap space... But I'm not sure what that accomplishes. As long as you don't leverage future space too much being aggressive in FA is good. Overall I just don't see where punting now helps down the road. NFL should basically be always "dual fronts" to steal from Theo and you don't have to take from one side to accomplish the other. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Next up on my offseason plan is HC. Previously : Bill Polian -pres; Tom Heckert - GM. And rounded out the FO. I think there's some strong choices here and that will be the case even if we don't revamp the FO. In the current plan we're in an interesting place because with the FO turnover we may be behind other teams with vacancies. While that's not great it may mean we get a crack at current coordinators who will be busy with playoff runs and skip available earlier interviews. I narrowed the large field down to two DC. One a former HC and the other a first timer. Both would be good hires, but I'm making the call to keep the theme of experience going. The runner up is Dan Quinn, DC of Seattle. Trying to copy cat the Seahawks D is tempting, though that's not necessarily working out for Bradley. The winner: Jack Del Rio. Overall he posted a losing record in 9 seasons with Jacksonville that was particularly bad near the end. He coached two real good squads in particular though and they were not Defense only teams. So he's being brought in not just to fix the D but be a CEO type coach. He fits that mold of basically John Fox type who gets a second HC chance. The number of successful defensive background head coaches coaching teams with good offenses is interesting indeed. He'll have to bring in strong coordinators, which will be my next topic. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Agreed, but there are too many teams that are only a serviceable QB away from the playoffs that the Bears would only be compounding their incompetence by not at least fielding offers for him. Emery (assuming he keeps his job) should be on the phone with StL, Buffalo, or Houston ASAP. And Tennessee, Washington. The problem with that is if not Cutler. ..... then who? Not picking high enough for Mariota or Winston. Absolutely nobody else in this draft class is worth a top 10 pick. And only Hundley is worth even a roster spot in this draft IMO. If u sign a QB (from a weak FA class as always), then you are paying Cutler 9.5 mil to go away (dead space from trade) AND another QB to play, which would probably end up eating up a lot of the money you save (12.5M) by cutting him if you want someone worthwhile (Bradford, Sanchez, Hoyer, Mallett). Not to mention, you are taking a step back in talent from Cutler to any of those FAs, any draft pick or any reasonable traded QB. Yea I agree with most of this. I think Cook if he declares is worthy of a late first pick but looking doubtful he does. Not a great draft to get our next QB. I didn't think Cutlers cap hit would be that big in a trade though, I think just the pro-rated portion of his 5M signing bonus. The timing likely won't work out well anyways though. Very likely a trade occurs after FA so you can just roll savings into say Suh. Definitely like Hoyer the most of the FA class. Overall though it is a tough situation to deal Cutler and still put a decent foot forward for 2015. You're basically on hold until you get in the right spot to draft a guy where the road is littered with Brady Quinn's and the like. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Gotta get Washington and NYJ on the phone too. I trust those organizations to help drive up the cost if we're dealing Cutler. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Hey if the McCaskeys can get out of a couple contracts free of penalty that may give them the bump they need to clean slate. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

could use a fresh coat of ms paint. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

They are doing a full Jim Hendry rebuild. I don't mean that entirely as an insult. Looks to me like they're essentially propping open the existing window for 2-3 years while they assemble something resembling a farm system. And there's really nothing wrong with that, as the alternative would be to shop Sale and Abreu, which would really bring in a hail, but decimate their fan base. As long as they have the cash from JR to do both at once, absolutely. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Next up rounding out the Front Office- Cliff Stein will be kept around being the lead contract negotiator. He'll get added administrative type roles, continue to work with the league office and be the number two man on most matters that aren't related to player evaluation. Long term he could be a president in the traditional set up where your president isn't involved with talent evaluation and personnel matters. Other FO positions are pretty hard. Sometimes hard to know who actually does well at what. One thing we know is in the NFL guys hire people they know: Director of Pro Personnel - Chris Polian. Would I hire him? No idea, but daddy probably would try and he does have experience. I'm putting my head in Bills head right now Director of College Scouting- Adam Peters, currently Assts Director of College Scouting in Denver after 8 years of scouting experience. Is he good? Hard to know, but he has a connection to Heckert and this is a promotion. Works for me. I won't cover any other FO positions. Scouts all stay, etc. So next up will be Head Coach... Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Next up on my offseason plan, GM. In part one I hired Bill Polian as President of football operations. Tom Heckert. Another former GM, now currently Dir Pro Personnel for Denver. Was GM in Philly during Andy Reid's best years, but also was not the final decision maker. Was a GM for two years in Cleveland. They didn't post a good record, but his work has laid a good foundation. Still young in GM terms (47) and he can eventually be the primary football decision maker as Polian ages. In the near term he'll probably be higher touch on smaller personnel decisions than the big ones like first round picks. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Even if we trade Cutler we should be striving for playoffs. We'd just be trying to get there with a different roster build. It would just be really hard for this team to punt next year on purpose and be really truly bad. They'd have to leave tons of cash on the table (for what reason I'm not sure) and/or keep the entire coaching staff in tact. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Since it'd be a promotion yes, but not sure I see the motivation from him- seems like his gig is a strong one and he can ride out his career with Rodgers. As my post said I tagged Polian as the President. If we are hiring a Pres to oversee football we should be able to promote a highly successful current or former GM though.

I'll have to break my plan down into parts. I'll assume the decision is a top down change like Sulley said with Phillips moving to a Kenney type role. Part One: President of Football Operations This one is going to be lazy for me. There's a highly successful GM with tons of experience who has built three franchises. Tons of SB appearances. Bill Polian. President of Football Operations. He's not without warts. But he would have to be one of the safer hires. He'll hire a GM but like Theo be the main decision maker still. It will be a six year contract. One of my biggest concerns is some recent negative comments he said about analytics, but in full context I think it's okay and his record speaks for itself. Next up - GM... Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Running every NFL team is a massive job. Every team is in a constant battle of attrition. The Bears climb is no more uphill than any other club of similar record. It seems near unanimous to me that we have a dreadful coaching situation. Everyone agrees it's pathetic. If there wasn't talent on this team I'm not sure we'd even have 5 wins. Coaching alone is our biggest area for growth. The personnel part is what it's been since Emery came on board which is trying to build sustained success through a strong player evaluation and development. A job that's usually several years in the making to catch up. Top 11 pick. Five other picks. Good cap space. Only one relatively important FA to retain. Punting 2015 for a strip down would be dumb. Not that we might not miss anyways but purposely stripping down wouldn't get us any closer for 2016 or 2017 either. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Don't take that as support of this team. They'd still be underdogs (and three weeks is a lot in NFL terms) but it's just the way the NFL is. Unless you're the lowest of the lows and mismanaged terribly (particularly cap wise) a tear down is unnecessary. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

An OT loss in Week one most notably. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

A tear down would be monumentally stupid. We're not in a cap crunch. No looking roster drain. Only missing one pick (a 5th). Whoever is in charge should be thinking playoffs. The team as it stands is a coin toss away from still being in the playoff hunt and with good coaching is probably sitting in the WC drivers seat. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

it seems dumb as hell but I don't see the "bugged" angle. wasn't it at the field? Yep after the Cowboys game. I, too, am very curious what drove Kromer to come clean. Anonymous quotes to reporters happen all the time. It's likely Kromer had done it before. So why reveal himself about this? The NFL Network's story with the quotes didn't come out until Sunday. Trestman said he knew about it the a Friday before. There's more to the story. Oh wow nice pick up. Yea this is weird Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Best option to guard the stretch fours? Not sure about that. Would be interesting if GarPax moved one of Mirotic/Gibson/Gasol for a wing upgrade. All of them look to be on favorable deals right now. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I could definitely see Emery turning over every stone, but not sure about bugging. Then again Pioli bugging wouldn't surprise me because Bellicheck bugging wouldn't surprise me. And Emery did work under Dimitroff too. Maybe. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I don't post gifs, but bravo treymon

I guess so. I'm young enough to have missed the Bears SB win.... Can't think of any teams that wouldn't have put their team through some lean years at some point. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I'd agree, they are a lot like us I'd definitely rather be a Bears fan than Skins. They've just been a series of high priced FA failures it seems like for as long as I've watched NFL football. The Bears have at least developed some young guys that created a NFC champ team. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk