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They'll both be gone.

Take it for what it is worth. Also indicates that they think Jim Bob Cooter (Lions OC) will be near the top of our list.

Didn't know where to put this...but classic Fangio and why I am such a big fan of him. He better not be going anywhere anytime soon. Kevin Fishbain ‏@kfishbain 2h2 hours ago Vic Fangio: "The group we inherited wasn’t built for the 4-3, either ... They weren’t built for anything, so we had to start at ground zero"

Time will tell, but no way he goes top 10. The football people that get paid to watch on a daily basis know how flawed his game is.

Peppers is more likely a second round pick vs. a top 5 pick and realistically, he probably is somewhere in the 20's to early in the 2nd round. He is so freaking overrated.

I've been having the same thoughts, that said, here is a good piece from Greg Gabriel of the Bears talking about why he isn't a starter and to be frank, why he doesn't even know if he is a backup. I don't quite agree with the backup aspect, since the reason he looked so bad with the Bears was probably due to the fact that he didn't even have preseason / training camp reps in this offense. http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2016/12/12/gab...fl-quarterback/

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Hanie was god awful with the Bears. He had a half that he wasn't terrible and then when he was forced into action the following season, he was about as bad as I've ever seen any QB.

I want us to be in all of these games. I think it says a lot for our team. If we get whooped, that is a bad way to finish the year and leaves a really bad taste in everyone's mouths (vs. having ending the season on a positive up). We've done a lot these past few weeks to reinstill faith in what the plan is, I don't want it to all come crashing down with three blowout losses.

Barkley's arm may not be the strongest, but damn is he accurate. He's thrown a ton of balls to the right guy in the right spot. His poise and decisiveness have been great too and for a guy who doesn't have a big arm, I've seen him throw a lot of downfield passes with the right precision and accuracy. I guess my point is, as someone who was a huge Barkley basher, he's done nothing to show me that he can't be a long-term option as a starting QB. This was a guy who had he gone pro at the right time, would have likely been a #1 overall pick (and at the very least top 10). And he would have been a 1st round pick had he not hurt his shoulder severely at the end of his final season at USC. General rule of thumb is it takes 4 games on film for the NFL to adjust (for a recent example...look at Wentz who went from awesome to crap after the league got enough film on him). These next few games will be telling, but I've been really impressed (especially with the drops, etc). He should be 2-1 and if it weren't for those holding penalties, could be 3-1 for all we know. More importantly, I'm getting excited for our defense (please oh please don't leave Fangio). So much development going on. We need to identify a corner (seeing Jenkins play last night was a thing of beauty). We need the next Peanut. I like our chances at filling the depth at CB, but I think we need to either use a pick or FA money on a top CB and also need to find a playmaking safety. Again, I trust our depth to fill the rest, but I think if we added a playmaker at both spots, that would be a huge help at turning our defense into a lethal attack (pass rush seems to be there...although I'd love another pass rusher...you literally can't have too many, especially in this era of throw the ball all the time). Howard / Whitehair / Floyd all look like total beasts of picks by Pace.

Ragland was drafted in the 2nd round. Who are we comparing Ragland to? I'm quite happy with Whitehair and Floyd, who were the only guys we picked above him. Whitehair was selected 3 picks before Ragland? Amari Cooper would have been the Bears pick....unfortunately Raiders took him before we could.

The hard part is, it is going to be really difficult to solve that QB situation.

Brown has made some nice catches. Like this guy. The nice thing about Sitton is, there will be pressure for him to play. Whitehair is supposedly a better guard and we will have Grasu back. Who knows if Grasu is anything, but he's still young and was athletic (pre-injury) so another guy who could push. Nice to have depth. We could definitely use an elite LT tackle (then again, so could most teams).

I kind of like Pace, so I don't want to mess with that, but do like the idea of having a football president. Timing of this is ass backwards though, cause it is just Pace's second year and he is coming off a pretty stellar looking draft (Floyd / Whitehair / Howard all look like real keepers).

Haha...I was about to post this as well. When I saw he was elevated, the first thing I thought of was your post Jason. Good call. Hopefully he shows something.

I think the record you are showing is our opponents that we have played to date (and is not factoring in who we will be playing the rest of the season). Where as Haugh's record is showing the current winning percentage of our opponents we have played thus far as well as the ones we are scheduled to play from here out.

Bears have 2 wins, niners have 1. If we lost on Sunday, we would likely hold the tiebreaker, however the strength of schedule can be volatile.

No way should we have him as a starter (or at least not yet). But I am interested in seeing how he plays out the rest of this year. At the very least, he could prove worthy of being a capable backup. I was generously pleased with how he performed (turnovers were too many) given how inexperienced he is. Part of that might be because I expected far worse.

My favorite read on a Monday morning is his ten thoughts about the recent Bears games. Always some really good / interesting nuggets in there (and it is exactly where I got that info).

Head to Head play has no bearing on which team picks higher vs. the others. If you have the same record, the first tie-breaker is opponent winning percentages. Teams with the worse opponent winning percentages pick higher then those with higher winning percentages. I would imagine we will be favorites on Sunday (especially given we are the home team).

Late wishes but Happy Turkey Day everyone. Hope everyone and their families had a great time.

I would be fine with that deal. I would like us to get Jimmy G.

I would like Mike McCoy to come in and help Fox. To me the real question is what is our strategic plan. Do we intend to go with a young QB that we draft? If we do, are we committed to Fox for the next few years (regardless of what happens a year from now) and do we think we have the right OC here long term to be that person? If not, we need to move Fox now, because if the thoughts are we draft a young QB and throw him to the wolves while expecting Fox to contend, we are setting ourselves up for a carousel of coaches and coordinators under our new QB. I am personally okay with being patient as long as Fox makes the right move on an OC and we feel we have the right person to groome the young QB. If we are going for a veteran and a young QB (basically buying time), then I am absolutely fine with Fox and if we stink next year, we can move on. Only way I get rid of him now is because we go out and land Harbaugh or something and then draft a young QB who Harbaugh grooms.

Incredible that he played the second half with a torn labrum. While Jay didn't bring the championship I expected him to bring to Chicago, he always played hard and tough. Obviously he didn't get it done and there are many reasons for that, some of which are Jay's fault and others of which are on the front office. I wish him the best in his next voyage because he gave it his all with us. IT wasn't good enough, but it is unfortunate that even to this day there are meatheads that think he is soft. Jay is a lot of things, but soft and don't care are not on that list. You don't play through that type of shoulder injury if you are soft or if you don't care.

I don't know that anyone will jump for Jay and no one is going to give us anything for him. If he played well down the stretch, maybe we get a late round pick. I said all along we should have traded him to the Vikings when Bridgewater went down. No one in the league is going to give us anything for Jay (maybe we get a conditional pick or something). Very high probability he will be released.