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The Bears are going to have to pick up one big time FA Olineman on the market, potentially a 2nd quality one as well as spend picks in the draft this year and next year (and again in the future) if they have any remote shot at having a decent oline. The next question is whether at some point we see Beekman play at center to get an idea of whether he's starting material at that position (since Kreutz is aging).

Guys, I realize the hip thing to do is to rip on Lovie, but Rick Morrissey is a pompous jackass that makes Marrioti look like a great writer. I understand the grief over the Bears, but I'd like to hear why people are upset that our defense isn't playing stellar because I'd flat out point out that we have very little talent this year on the defensive side of the football. Now maybe that is reason enough to fire lovie and Angelo or maybe its just the reality of what happens when a defense ages and now needs a bit of a rebuilding. Bottom line, this defense doesn't have the talent to be a top 10 defense and probably doesn't even have the talent to be a top 15 one, so I can't really say that Lovie is doing a terrible job given what he has to work with on the defensive side of the football. I think if people want to complain and make a change, it should be in regards to developmental issues or something along those lines that is going on, because as a whole, I think the defense (sans the Cinncy game) has truly outperformed its talent levels and that in itself is a credit to the coordinator (or in this case Lovie). And while his quotes are what they are, I'd be hard pressed to fire a guy based upon the quotes he makes to the media. Ultimately I care about what he tells the players and that he holds guys accountable (and we can debate whether he does that or doesn't) but I honestly think this Smith is the worse thing ever speal gets really old.

We don't have a #1 Wr on the roster or anyone really with the tools to be that. We can hope we add one, problem is that ranks much lower on the list than other stuff. The WR's have been better than expected but they do have trouble getting open a decent chunk of the time (don't know if thats the play-calling, the route-running or what).

We can't keep letting our franchise QB taking a beating though. Hits add up. I got to admit, the guy has some big freakin stones and he's definitely stood in and made some great passes under pressure. But as we know, when you get hit and hit and hit, turnovers are going to happen too.

I think this is a new organization post-Cutler and if the GM thinks they need a new coach, the team will get a new coach. They need to handle it that way at least. In the grand scheme of thing, what is a wasted $10-12M for the coach when your one of the most popular franchises in America, one who has a QB that could not only be the face of the franchise but one of the faces of the NFL (if the Bears succeed). This is it for Lovie.

He's played through a hell of a lot and I can't even imagine what it was like to go through all that. Tillman really is a hell of a man and I hope his daughter continues to get better and I commend Tillman for trying to push to make this technology available.

Don't just win, win big. Make us forget about last week Chicago Bears!!!

Aside from last week the defense has played good enough for the Bears to win so I think Millen has a point over the whole season. Our offensive line has been abysmal and the team has been a one man show (Cutler and the WR's). We've had zero blocking, zero rushing, etc.

I think it shows you much more about Cutlers ability to get rid of the football and avoid pressure. He has been stellar at that, the problem is, there have been a good number of plays where he's hit as he throws the ball and while those don't show up in the stat sheet they lead you to throw inaccurate balls and picks, on top of it, they also force you to potentially rush future passes out of fear of the pressure.

Really a great piece by Mulligan.

It sounds like he's pissed off and IIRC a bunch of people were complaining as if Lovie doesn't get fired off. He's ticked that his team played like shit but doesn't want to publicly throw anyone under the bus but himself (which he's done in the past). Look, I've bitched and moaned about Lovie too, but some of you guys (not you Nfo), get on him for every little thing and its completely ridiculous.

It is a huge difference. The Browns didn't even tell the QB's who the starter was and who wasn't. Lovie has told the team whats going on, he's just not reporting it to the press and I don't have a problem with that. I'm very curious to see how Lovie responds to this adversity.

I realize Turner wants to get his guys back, but don't tell us they are playing well. Thats a bunch of horse-shit. By the way, I commend the Bears for going to Beekman, hopefully it helps.

Well Anderson has the worse QB rating in the NFL, so I'd have to think they'd bench him. All I can say is that if Anderson puts up good numbers, Lovie better hide, cause the city and the airwaves will be 100% after him (to get fired).

Browns announced Anderson will remain the starter for this weeks game versus the Bears.

Agreed NFO. I'm on board for all of those things.

I did mention that we needed new coaching too. I'm 100% on board the Lovie needs to go camp. And I'm not saying those moves make our defense a top 10 defense....but right now, we don't even have the talent of a top 20 defense to be honest. But if you can give Cutler a top 20 defense or just a solid one, and get a solid oline together, the Bears can win while they work on developing that defense again (cause right now we got an aging, mediocre defense without the players capable of running this scheme. The Cover 2 doesn't work if you don't have a dominant pass rush. If you have a dominant pass rush, the cover 2 works well, but than again so does pretty much every other scheme.

College is only 26 or so.

List of FA DB's that could interest the Bears if they wanted to go that route: http://www.footballsfuture.com/2010/fa/ol.html Dunta Robinson - Promised that he wouldn't be franchised by the Texans. Entering/In the prime of his football career. Probably commands too much money, although no denying we could use an elite CB. The question is whether he really is an elite CB. Anthony Bethea - Colts good safety Nick Collins - Packers good safety

Having a new coach will help, imo.

List of FA's on the Oline http://www.footballsfuture.com/2010/fa/ol.html Marcus McNeil is one of the most intriguing names - Stud LT whose young. San Diego might have some other pressing needs depending on what they ultimately do. Chad Clifton - Former Packer. Not an elite tackle, but he's 33, would be 34 and still would have a couple years left and be able to buy time until the Bears have a full arsenal of draft picks. Darryn College - Packer; Better than Clifton, but inexperienced on the left side. Packers will probably go all out to sign him. The better question is why with 2 good tackles is the Packers oline so bad, cause maybe that means this guys are over-hyped. Jared Gaither - Restricted FA. young, would be a great pick-up, but given the restricted tag we wouldn't have the ammo to get him.

Someone had a list of all the FA's and there are quite a few solid guys available and a few potential pro-bowlers out there. Again, sign one or two good guys (one being an older vet since the Bears won't be dishing out 100 million in contracts to two guys) and than hope Williams and Beekman improve and your alright. Use 2011's 1st rounder on an olineman and that continues to regrow things and use a couple 2010's on some guards and you might be in business.

I'm not saying next year fixes make us a Super Bowl Champion, but two good olineman would do a whole world of good to the offense. Not to mention a years more experience for Bennet, Hester and Knox is a plus and Forte will be fine when he gets healthy and has an improved line. Defensively the team is a middle of the pack defense and that should be enough with the weapons above playing well to win 9-11 games every year. If the Bears get development out of there younger players, add a safety and put themselves in a position where they could focus on best available on the olines and defensive side of the football in the 2011 draft as well as add another free agent or two, we could be looking at 2010 as a playoff year, 2011 as an above average, potential super bowl year and 2012 and beyond as hopeful superbowl years.

We might be winning, but I wouldn't say we'd be any closer to the superbowl. The reality is, great QB's win super-bowls. Very few average QB's win super-bowls and typically the teams that perennially contend for them have the top QB's in the league. The Bears went out and got that and while they could have maybe won a few more games this year by spending there draft picks on other guys, long-term they'd be worse off cause we'd still have a team built around the aging defense and a solid, but not great or special QB. We'd also still have a horrendous oline.

It says a lot that the Bears sat Harris. On one hand, we saw the performance without him, on the other hand, Lovie has watched him play and the fact that he could have played and didn't must be a testament to the fact that Lovie didn't think they were going to be effected much by his abscence. It didn't sound like his injury was tired and that more or less, this was a DNP due to soreness, which is pretty much nothing.