jason

Excellent post. Nailed it from top to bottom.

You know I'm on board. I think it should be: OT x 2 DE x 1 DB x 2 QB x 1 Great OL = More time for QB in pocket & bigger holes for RB I don't think LB is that difficult to fill when you draft to fit scheme. Basically you just need one of those football guys with great football minds (i.e. Zach Thomas). One of those guys is available every year in the 4th/5th round.

I know there would be some here who would hate it, but the dude wins games. He'd be better than Clausen immediately. Even if he didn't know the playbook. I'd like the signing.

No. I think Long is the RG of the future. A HOFer at that position. And where he should play. The Bears need to draft a RT and move Long back to his dominant position.

I feel the same way. It's the point of my recently made thread. Waaaay too many holes to fill.

Cutler is probably done. Forte is on the back end of his career, but Langford is here. WR is obviously set. TE is set. RT is iffy at best. RG is good, for a few years. C looks good with Montgomery and Hronis. LG looks good if Long moves back there. LT is bad. So, that means on offense the Bears need: QB, RT, RG (future), LT. On defense, the Bears need 3-4 personnel, which means DEs and OLBs that fit, ILB's with range and intelligence, DBs who can cover, and Safeties who don't suck. So, that means on defense the Bears need (at least): 1 OLB, 1 DE, 1 ILB, 1-2 DBs, 1-2 Safeties Wow

Silver Lining: If the Bears actually suck this bad, and have this many holes, it will be like getting two first rounders next year when Kevin White is back. Hopefully.

Would it kill someone on the Bears defense to turn their head and look for the ball? Is that too much to ask? At this point the Bears have needs at nearly every position. It's sad.

Clausen is horrible. This team is in serious trouble. No respect, they'll dare us to throw, load up on run-defense, and watch Clausen lose the game.

1. The Bears won't have the #1 pick. 2. No

This offense with Clausen is in trouble because the Cardinals don't respect him at all. They are diving forward on pass plays like they are run plays.

JARED MF ALLEN!

I'm one of the biggest Cutler supporters on here, because I think the OL has been a mess for so long, and the OCs have been horrible. He's been set up for failure over and over and over. That INT was horrible, however, and it sucks that he hurt himself diving for a tackle. You'd think he would have learned from the play in Oakland. Having said all that, even if you hate Cutler, you can't want Clausen in there. He's horrible all the time.

Honestly, I don't know what to make of the Bears yet. In previous years, under previous defensive schemes, this would be one of those games for which we have high hope, but inevitably we'd encounter disappointment as Carson Palmer became the reincarnated Joe Montana. 5-15 yard passes over and over and over, and there would be nothing the Bears could do about it. I think this game, however, is an unknown. The Cards D vs the Bears O seems like a pretty even matchup. The Cards O vs the Bears D is something I don't feel great about. But as chitownhustla just said, Palmer is not Rogers, and those perfect passes that Rogers threw will have a little more air, or will be off by a yard one way or another. Those are the opportunities the Bears' D needs to grasp, and whether or not they do will be the difference in the game.

It's not the biggest issue, and he may have a good history, but man he looked slow. If he continues to look slow, I hope they just give someone fast a chance to return the ball. Great field position - we learned from Hester days - is a HUGE difference.

I usually rip Lovie when people bring his name up with revisionist history. Same with Shoop.

Well, he looked horrible in the actual game. He looks like he must have been on a serious dose of xanax or something like that, because there is no way his 5.0+ speed should be returning the football in the NFL.

I didn't count them, but does anyone care to watch a replay and count the drops? The one I remember the most is Forte, for the sure-fire TD.

Agreed. It was disappointing. I've said several times I'd rather be blown out than beaten at the end. It's easier to take (and yields higher draft picks). That's why Lovie's M.O. of 8-8, 7-9, etc. always pissed me off. So, yeah, the INT was very disappointing, but he didn't exactly make a horrible throw, or one into double coverage, or the typical throws people have ragged him over in the past. He made a throw to a player who was definitely open, and one of the best LBs in the NFL made an incredible play on the ball.

Quit talking about the past. The game yesterday had one mistake and it was more Matthews doing great than Cutler doing poorly. Should we ignore the dropped, sure-fire TD pass? Or the fact that it was OBVIOUS the coaching staff went into the game with a very conservative approach intended to limit Cutler's production? He looked a lot different yesterday, period.

Long story short, Rogers made a few incredible plays, two pin-point accurate passes that were virtually indefensible. Take away the fact that he's one of the top couple QBs in the NFL, and the Bears likely win that game. It doesn't help when the Bears have a turnover on downs near the GL, and get nearly no pressure on the opposing QB.

Seriously...it's not even worth looking up this bums name. Who the hell is he? Why is he starting? And why did he look slower than Jamarcus Russell, post-weight gain, running on the beach? No way in hell that guy should be the starting return man. All joking aside, I think there is a good chance several people on this board is faster than he is.

This whole thread is bullshit. Did he throw an INT at a costly time? Yes. But was it a bad pass? A horrible pass? Absolutely not. It was a SUPERB play by one of the best LBs in the NFL, a guy with incredible range, good hands, and atrocious hair. The Bears lost the game because, as MadLithuanian said, the red zone calls were bad, and the defense couldn't stop Rogers from throwing anything downfield at all. What I don't understand is how Rogers stands in the pocket all day, and when he is pressured he is able to simply step forward into a gaping hole. Meanwhile, that virtually never happens for Jay Cutler. When HE is rushed, there rarely appears to be an avenue for him to step into or escape.

Pretty much. I'd don't care how tall, fast, strong, etc., some one is...I want WRs who get open. Wes Welker gets open.

I don't see why there can't be offensive alignments with two "slot" receivers. X______XXXXX_______X __X______X______X _________X or X______XXXXXX __X______X______X _________X Having two little pin-ball receivers who have great hands, precise routes, and seemingly are always open, is very hard to defend.