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Oh and do I need to mention how the brilliant Jets want pretty much nothing to do with Joe McKnight who they took around the same time as Iglesias/Gilbert. And he was drafted this year. I think its actually better that we are cutting our losses immediately and I think part of it is because we now have better offensive coaches (Tice and Martz are elite). My biggest fear is that our offense makes strides throughout the season (it will start slowly) but they'll end up getting outsted when we bring in a new coach and will have to start all over (because as a whole we will not be very good). I really like what we have on the offensive side of the ball from a coaching perspective.

So we have shitty WR's or thats what you are saying, yet that crap was still apparently better than Iglesias. And you know what, I got a feeling that Mike Martz knows a whole hell of a lot about offensive talent so I'm going to have to take his word on things and trust that a bulk of the offensive decisions (cuts/kept) were made by him and his coaches (including a very much respected Mike Tice in regards to Beekman). I'm incredibly dissapointed that we missed on so many 3rd round picks as of late, but we hit on Knox late and that works. And at the time, people were happy we get Iglesias since some places had him projected as a 1st rounder. Turns out he just wasn't able to pick up things that quickly in Chicago. Maybe in time he develops elsewhere, but I can't fault our staff for dumping him. Most of the beat writers said he didn't look that great in camp, etc.

Hey Chile. I think I'm going to have the package this year and I believe they are giving me the ToGo thing for free. I will be using it for a few weeks, but when I'm not, I'd be glad to let you have access to it. I don't have any of the info yet, but when I do I'll reach out to you. There will be about 4 weeks where I'm out of the country for business where I will be using the access, but outside of that, I won't ever use it.

I was so unimpressed with LeFevour. He was warming up on the sidelines and throwing the ball errantly as well. Hanie made a moronic decision, but it happens and they are adjusting. THe thing I liked most was whenever the offense was off on the sidelines, you would see Tice around the whole group of olineman coaching them up, working with them. I also saw him at numerous times chatting it up with Chris Williams. The big thing was, you could just tell that Tice commands respect. DA needs to start. The guy is just a rock and Knox is so much better than Hester it isn't even funny.

Hopefully everyone stays healthy. I just picked up some tickets for the game so I'm hoping to see a Cutler TD!!! Don't get the opportunity to see the Bears out here, so I figured the 22 bucks I dropped per preseason ticket was well worth it.

I'm not all that concerned. Our top 4 WR's are all going to see significant action and we pretty much will have 3 starters the majority of the time since we'll run a lot of 3 WR sets, imo.

In two more seasons. If he does well, the Bears should make him coach out his contract and than do it.

Trib seemed to hint that he could be a guy the Bears look at. He was once a heck of a player, not sure what he has left in the tank. Tribune specifically mentioned the Bears will be looking for a lineman and a cornerback as players get cut.

Congratulations!!!

I don't think he would have chosen the Bears over the Cards. In Arizona he will be joining his former oline coach from his Steeler days.

That is a really good pick-up for the Saints. I'm really going to miss Brown. The guy was just a rock solid veteran and an above average (albeit, not elite) defensive end.

The only way the Bears should move up is if they are dangling players to move up. Do not trade current or future picks to move up significanlty in this years draft. We need to have a full stock-pile next season cause I'm certain we will have some serious needs to address.

Melton/Gilbert apparently will be playing at tackle so that shouldn't factor into why the Bears cut Brown. Clearly they did it to save money and there is no denying that after what the Bears spent, 5.5M is a substantial savings. At the same time, we still have substantial holes and I hope the Bears use the money saved to address those other holes (specifically safety and the oline). If they do that, than I think it was a smart move to cut Brown. I also think Anderson has earned another opportunity to show what he can do, but I really don't think the Bears have much any depth at DE. Idonojie is our #3 DE and after that I dont' even know who the hell we have now that Gilbert & Melton are at tackle.

I supposed Harris is younger by age, but the guy has the knees of a 50 year old man.

Pompei's one of the best in the league, so if he says its a good idea, I am behind him. Sounds like Simms is a physical guard and that is something we could use in the trenches when it comes to run blocking. It also gives the Bears more depth if Kreutz goes down (Beekman at C) and would allow Omilaye to move to what is supposed to be his best position. To be honest, I have no idea how well that line would do, but I do feel that the line would have some potential (it could also end up being freaking terrible).

Agreed. I wish we could have kept him around, but I understand the rationale behind the move. Anderson was improved last season and we have to hope he gets better. I do think Brown would have done some good things having a guy like Peppers opposite him. The one thing that concerns me is the Bears basically picked between Harris/Brown and opted for the more upside guy, but also the bigger primmadonna and trouble maker. With Harris you never know how motivated he is, yet Brown was a professional. Harris sure has gotten away with a lot all from his couple elite seasons he had early early in his career.

Thats a pretty substantial savings. I'm curious to see if the Bears utilize some of that savings on Atogwe eventually. I think they are going to literally stay on the sidelines and wait that whole situation out, but by opening day he'll be a Bear.

That was probably me, LOL.

I can point you to a great Sox page, but I got nothing for ya on the cubs. I think bleedcubbieblue.com used to be a site. Don't know if it is still around.

Lions are continuing to improve and Schwartz seems like a good hire. I like what they are doing (wish they weren't doing it though). The NFC North is going to be one tough ass division.

One important thing to remember is that the club is adding in two perennial pro-bowlers. Brian Urlacher and Julius Peppers. That will make a huge difference to our D or at least I expect that it will.

He's not just some NFL Network guy though. He was spot on and the first to report all of the Bears major news recently, so I think he's got a pretty good source within the org.

The ESPN talking heads all basically said how the Bears failed to address WR and Oline which were the teams two biggest needs. Well, I think they are sleeping a bit on the wide-out position and at the same time I think us as Bear fans are a little overly optimistic as to our talent. Clearly we could use an elite #1 wideout. Yes, we all hope DA is that but it was just a few games. And clearly the oline needs to get upgraded but those takling heads seriuosly need to shut up. We didn't have anyone out there to go after on the oline that would have been a significant upgrade and our oline did get better as the season went on. Which you would also expect given how many changes there were to our oline last season.

Playing in Chicago is going to be a huge change from Carolina and I think he'll thrive. He knows if he puts up big numbers in Chicago he has a chance to go down as one of the all time greats. In Carolina, he just couldn't get that sort of notoriety. I think he'll win at least 1 defensive player of the year award in Chicago. We all know he has the capabilities.

We have to remember if we made that deal, we would not have a draft pick until the 5th round. You just can't do that. I also think the Bears are saving there available resources for safety. The Rams safety would cost a lot and the Steelers safety won't come cheap either. And those are just flat out bigger need positions.