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Great Move... Will give Wright leadership for his rookie season and moving Manning back to Nickle will improve the whole defense. Keep afalava and payne, Chuck Bullocks for another trade or release him outright and the bears have a deep secondary with players that can get turnovers and cover. Let DJ Moore compete with manning at nickle and if the kid (moore) wins out trade him ( Manning) for OL help. Best scenario for the Bears yet.

http://www.chicagobears.com/multimedia/ind...amp;play_clip=Y Very matter of fact dude. Says enough to make ya realize he is all about buisness.

I think you are all drinking the anti JA koolaid. The pick makes sense in being the best player available. If we picked OL they felt would not make the team then why pick him? There was opening for a 3rd QB. Martz loves his Quaterbacks. Iam of the mindset that this will be taking care of through FA as undrafted FA's. There are some still out there. And if we dont pay a ton for em thats even better.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/footb...0,7705008.story cant beleive they would trade in thier division, but it happened

right now we have 5 guards on the roster, with only 3 tackles, Shaffer Williams and Marten. Marten has been inactive his career so far except for one game. I see more a need for tackle at this point.

Plus the Kid is smart as hell, Rhode scholar is nothing to sneeze at and half the battle is learning the position, we know at least he would have a understanding of it quicker then it took Manning to learn it. Oh wait he never did learn it .

no to TO and walker , shoot we shoulda hung on to Lloyd then , about the same.

Whoa, well it is one them cases where I think we got the best outa him, his first 2 years were great but after that it fell off, Better to cut bait then to hang on to that contract.

If they were truly serious on keeping a fullback they should kept that Pilot kid that came through camp a year or so back, But it is great news Mckie is gone. Dedication to the martz system will be interesting to watch.

Cant see AP going anywhere, His value on ST is absolutley what will keep him, Jones is gonna be gone, But AP will linger again for this year unless they find another ST monster to replace him.

I disagree Terra, Vandenbosch still has a good motor and great leadership. But Burleson I have to agree with ya, but he can catch and with johnson getting duble teams he will be open, If Stafford can unload the ball his way he will make a fool out of a secondary.

Urlacher will shore up the middle of the field for sure. His range was missed sorely last year. As for Peppers, His prescence will only expose weather Harris is back to his old self. His big deal has always been his durability. If he at all can get back to 75 percent of what he was it will be huge improvement. He flashed that at the end of the season. Also the rotation of DE's with Peppers will extend his playing time. I see him having mucho energy toward the end of the game, which will bode well for more pressure at the end of games with tired lineman across from them. Now for Safety its another story. Browns release was way to soon in my opinion. He payed for first time all season I beleive. I maybe wrong on that but he looked good in KC. We have not been able to fix that since he left. This draft is suppose to be heavy in DB, OL. just so happens we need both. unloading Olsen could give us a second rounder to get a quality FS and the rest of draft centerd on OL. Center and guards are in desperate need.

what gets me is he was quick to say Url was out of line, Thats crap someone had to say it, why was it not JA, I really dont see the why Phillips dont fire him and Lovie. Please for a Xmas present Hire Shanny and lets be done with it.

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Pretty good insite to what is holding back a winner. http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/chi-0...,6671947.column Dan McNeil 11:34 p.m. CST, December 3, 2009 E-mail Print Share Text Size As another year of the poorly produced soap opera "All My Bears" winds down, speculation on which cast members return for the 2010 season has been riveting. For the first time in a long time, the prospect of a new executive producer and director is real. Bear Nation is buzzing. Virginia McCaskey, nearing 87, can make her Papa Bear proud by pulling perhaps her last string to bring a precipitously sinking franchise back to respectability and regain the trust of a town that yearns to embrace her -- and its -- football team, because whatever changes, the Bears will remain Team McCaskey. Don't frown. Ask a Blackhawks fan when "Wirtz" still appeared atop the food chain after Big Bill passed. His son Rocky quickly resurrected a moribund franchise, transforming it into a Stanley Cup favorite. That can happen again. The chances of the Bears contending are much higher if Brian McCaskey gets the throne now occupied by Ted Phillips. Of the 11 McCaskey children, he possesses the best people skills, a prerequisite for the position. And he would stay in the background, delegating, letting football people do football jobs. Big brother Michael and Phillips couldn't resist meddling and bungled the hirings of would-be headmasters Dave McGinnis in 1999 and Nick Saban (Jerry Angelo's first choice in 2004) before the Bears settled on Lovie Smith. Brian has been an assistant trainer and director of player programs, a job that entails assisting players with their lives away from football. At the moment, he is the director of business development. You want the best reason to root for a new business card for the more youthful McCaskey? He would rescue Jeff Fisher from the sentence Fisher is serving in Nashville, where Titans owner Bud Adams can't keep his fingers out of the pie. After 16 years on Rocky Top, Fisher is burned out and would leap at the chance to return to Chicago. The smart money is on Fisher bringing with him a decidedly more qualified cast of wingmen, including McGinnis, defensive coordinator Chuck Cecil and offensive coordinator Mike Heimerdinger. If Heimerdinger, in mid-season, can rehabilitate the erratic Vince Young (on and off the field), imagine what he could do with a pure passer like Jay Cutler, who has gone backward under the direction of Ron Turner. Brian McCaskey would hire a proven director of operations without needing the input of a consulting firm, as Phillips did in 2001. The result? A questionably qualified Angelo getting the call. Angelo has taken many bows for assembling the core of the 2002 champion Buccaneers, but the truth is Gentleman Jerry was responsible for pro personnel, not pulling the trigger on draft day. It's easy, connect-the-dots math. Send the Three Blind Mice -- Phillips, Angelo and Smith -- on the run. Sweet Virginia, don't wait until next year. Jan. 3, 2010, sounds good, right after the Bears eke one out in Detroit to conclude their 6-10 season. If the Bears are going to remain a family affair, Brian McCaskey is the most qualified to value the most meaningful tradition -- a winning one. Just like Rocky Wirtz.

No as matter of fact how could I vote for someone that reached his term limits? Dont be an idiot, I voted yes and regret it everyday since the honeymoon ended, To have that guy running the Bears would be suicide for the franchise

So sorry , but obama has yet to make good descision since he been in office. Look at the health care stuff and to be honest comming from Chicago, I would never let a Illinois Politcian do anything for the Bears. They are way to crooked to trust. He is fan and thats good enough, no need to put his hands in the Bears franchise as well. He screwed up the Olympic bid as well.

First off , Hire Shanahan Let Shan hire his OC Keep Marinelli and Babitch as postion coaches Get Chico back as Defensive coord/Asst HC Replace JA with Lombardi or someother true GM A move like that would convince me they truely serious about forming a winner in Chicago. I truely believe that Shanahan would be awsome as a HC with play calling in sync with his OC and Cutler. As for Chico comming back I know its a wish list, but the D had attitude when he was DC, It was a big mistake of Lovie to let him go.

Lets hope with the way they went after Cutler, that mindset has changed.

Could not agree more. How about Keep Cutler but Hire Shany as our head coach and O coord. I bet we all be seeing something different.

I think its more how we play our safeties, We ask so much Physicallity at the line with them his body could not handle the punishment, if you watch a KC game look at how they play them well off the line and support CB's more. Last game I watched him he was rarely at the line like he was in Chicago.

Either way I would love to have Shanhan as coach then lovie. And Iam probably right in thinking so would Cutler.

Sterling Sharpe called oit the O line and Omlyea about play and he was right on, they had a chance to make a statement and did not, They suck and no matter the time to mature and Gel, they will still smell the same ....BAD

The release of Michael Gaines really proved to me that JA thought this out well, Instead of carrying 4 TE's now have a normal 3 like most years. Haines really never panned out for us like we thought, But having the extra DE will be a benefit come the playoff time.

Its a leverage move that can assist them this year in a additional Lineman. Leverage will be with Ogy, Look for a deal to come up with reduction in pay or a wave goodbye for Ogy. Brown and Anderson will be safe for the next year but the move smells like Ogy is Bye bye.