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IMO Tice's main deficiency is that he hasn't done enough to emphasize the run. It started in week 2 against the Packers and has continued off and on throughout the season. We don't have the best Oline but we aren't that bad in run blocking, at least some aspects of it. Results have been far lower than I expected considering the addition of Marshall to what is basically the same offense as the year before.

Seeing what we have in place to determine the value of Hester for next year.

The only thing Know was close to is 170lbs. He is nowhere close to being ready to play in the NFL. First he has to learn how to run again.

This proposed 4th and 15 rule is interesting. It still keeps the excitement and quick strike capability of a kick return as part of the game and we need that. 4th and 15 gives reasonable odds to the offense to try to keep the ball if they choose. The story is wrong about losing a kickoff specialists as you still need to kick FG and I can't think of any teams that have a kicker just for kickoffs especially with today's rules.

With an average offense I might agree but with two new OG, and bringing in a 3rd new guy (Brown), who was a UDFA and had never seen game action, is not an Oline I have confidence in on a 4th and short situation. At this point in the game we hadn't done much in the running game and were only moving the ball passing. What did Lovie see that made him feel these guys could push the Seahawks for a yard? Statistics as cited in another post about league-wide success rates and more points scored on balance are not relevant without context. For that stat to be valid it would have to include all populations of offense versus all defenses (good to bad versus bad to good). More simply put: Do you really believe the AZ Cardinals would have the same success rate against the Steelers D on 4th and 1? How many times would they try that from the 10 yd line versus taking a FG? Then on the other side of the coin is New England with the leagues best offense going for it. Their team is not concerned that they'll struggle to make points during a game like we are. They can go for the quick kill because they know, and you know, you have to keep up with their offense all game long. Even so, does Belicik go for it against the Ravens? Or does he go for it against the Saints who have the worst D in the league? At the game I was surprised we were going for it. Mostly I just didn't like the opportunity for a momentum swing it provided their team. You always have to consider the downside risk when gambling and I felt and still do that having two scoring drives early in the game went in our favor far more than any confidence gain our Oline would get from Lovie supporting them on a 4th and short even if they failed.

Don't like the 4th down play simply because we had a makeshift line in there. You just put a couple solid drives together take the points, build the momentum and confidence of the Oline. Instead we came out with the opposite. The D is definitely feeling the loss of key players to injury. There is a big dropoff in speed from Conte to Steltz, Peanut battling a bone chip, lost Jennings (who is very fast), Briggs battling injured ankle. Urlacher is just slow these days and watching him in person at the game it was even more obvious. Time to draft his replacement. The only D line who had the ability to worry Wilson when he scrambled was SMC and he wasn't on the field enough IMO. How slow is Izzy chasing down Wilson? Seahawks new it and used our personnel groupings to their advantage on the called QB runs. Late in the game when he did put SMC on the field I didn't like Lovie/Marinelli using him just as a spy, at least not with that deep of a drop. If we were going to shadow Wilson he should have done it closer to the LOS instead of dropping 5-8 yards deep.

Cutler flips a football at a defender and is fined $10000. No injury whatsoever there. Jared Allen intentionally leaves his feet on an illegal blindside block and drives into the head of his opponent with his helmet, giving him a concussion and tearing his knee apart in the process. Punishment for this is only twice as much as flipping a football at someone: $21000. Nonetheless I'm off to get my flight to Chicago and will be at Sunday's game against Seattle. Thankfully the forecast says this Arizonan will be in 60 degree weather.

Would you prefer tangled-Webb?

Time to send him a message early in the next game.

I like this signing. Gurode says he's been working out 5 days a week all season waiting for a shot. Of course that's not game shape but it does show his professionalism. Can't see him being worse than E. Williams. If it means Gurode plays C while Garza moves back to RG that's ok by me.

I missed the game but saw the video replay of the hit Allen put on Louis. In today's game that's a BS play intentionally leaving his feet to hit him head high while he's looking the other way. Time to send him a message early in the next game and I won't mind the drive killing penalty.

Tillman has played through a lot of injuries. I still remember him finishing that one season when he needed surgery to reconstruct his shoulder. He couldn't lift his arm but never quit. There is no doubt that if he can play he will.

Absolutely we sign him. Louis is starter material, still young, still improving. We can't afford to let him go we have to fix too many other holes on the line without adding to the problem.

We win with Cutler....a lot! I've given up on the media and the vast majority of fans that demand someone to be something they themselves most likely never were and never will be.

I'm happy with Alshon Jeffrey versus what I've seen from Michael Floyd, including Floyd's lack of work ethic in the offseason. I think we'll come out ahead long term on this one.

I'm coming to Chicago for this game. Got good tickets and now have tailgating setup. I won't mind at all if two of their players are suspended for cheating.

It isn't just you...I've seen him miss some big holes too. He spent plenty of time conditioning and tweeting this past offseason but he didn't spend a lot of time in the playbook or practicing. I'd think by now he'd have it all figured out now but then you have to add in an Oline that's inconsistent in their blocking. For the most part I think it's his tendency to navigate his way through the line rather than accelerating through the hole but he's not been a very good navigator this season. All of this we knew about and it is the #1 reason he is not our primary short yardage back. Maybe he found it all easier when the job description was to simply follow the FB into the hole. If Clutts went the right way Forte went the right way.

After watching him run off the field with a slight limp I don't think Carimi has ever been 100% this season and the wear and tear have only made him regress since game 4. In camp he routinely had to take plays off to rest his leg and that lasted well into the preseason games. Bench him, let him watch and learn while he gets some rest for his right knee. He'll need a full offseason of workouts (he missed much of them last offseason) to get into shape again then we'll see how he performs. I don't think Emery is going to wait on Carimi to fix the Oline. He was very aggressive in what he did last offseason with largely positive results and with a full year of his system in the scouting department for both pro and college players I expect a solid plan (he loves plans). In other words I expect real competition for both OT jobs in camp next year.

Not a chance at all. Kaepernick had all day to throw, easily having 4 sec per pass attempt, so nobody knows how he performs under pressure.

Reported as arthroscopic but no details on severity yet. Is he headed for IR? Offense is headed from bad to worse. http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/footb...0,3093433.story

This is all very true and it does work the other way....west coast do not fare well in the early games on the east coast. While I can understand all this it doesn't explain a team that was seemingly unprepared for the offensive plays the 49ers ran. Nor did our offense look prepared to take advantage of the 49ers weaknesses on D. I've seen the 49ers play a bit here and there throughout the season. We made them look more dominant than any other time I've seen them this year.

Can't argue this, the Bears as a whole looked totally unprepared for the 49ers on both sides of the ball.

"Can he run check-down routes?" J.C.

We need Oline help but separate from that how does a weak-arm QB improve our team? Now granted, the guy is big and he can run and considering you don't want to improve our Oline that would be a good thing to have in a QB. Leaving Oline out of the discussion (Jason will never do this) we need to pass on him we have far greater needs especially at LB and CB.

Hello Rodriguez?