adam

Add Gould to the list for cap space, there is no way in hell we can pay him $4.1 to miss FGs and to not kick balls out of the back of the end zone next year. I would rather use the $2.9mil on a rookie kicker and another position of need.

Yeah, nothing new all year, we have been snakebit by officials all year, either non-calls against opponents, or phantom calls against us. Has literally cost us 3 wins.

After a loss, I was hoping we would at least gain some draft position, but nope, we are still locked in at #15 with the toughest SoS out of the teams not in the playoff hunt (only KC is even close). So essentially that locks us in at the bottom of teams with the same record. W L SOS 1 CLE 2 10 0.527 2 TEN 3 9 0.505 3 SD 3 9 0.519 4 DAL 3 8 0.530 -------------------------------- 5 JAX 4 8 0.495 6 BAL 4 8 0.490 7 SF 4 8 0.524 8 STL 4 8 0.526 9 DET 4 8 0.527 10 NO 4 8 0.528 -------------------------------- 11 NYG 5 7 0.438 12 MIA 5 7 0.470 13 OAK 5 7 0.479 14 PHI 5 7 0.514 15 CHI 5 7 0.562 -------------------------------- 16 ATL 6 6 0.421 17 TB 6 6 0.470 18 HOU 6 6 0.540 19 BUF 6 6 0.545

I would cut Gould.

Overpaid kicker

Gould really?

f#*k these refs, seriously. He wasn't going to the ground until he was getting tackled. Then everyone who is tackled within 3 steps is going to the ground? The most ridiculous rule ever.

Now if this gets ruled an incompletion, I am going to be pissed, he took 4 steps and then a knee down.

Yeah, was never going to be 49ers ball. Weird part is you get the ball where it was touched, but Patton touched it in the end zone, so it would've been a touchback anyway?

What the hell, why were any Bears within 10 yards of that ball?

This defense is so random. We shut them down for negative yards on multiple drives, then allow a long TD drive with a bunch of first downs.

Yeah, that is great to see. That is now a couple of runs with him breaking tackles and getting yards after contact.

On the INT, the WR's can't let a DB get to that spot when you know the play, that was ridiculous. Someone missed the call.

Pretty hard for the defense to start any better. 2 SF drives, 0 first downs, -5 yards.

Looking at current contracts by position, I can see Jeffery getting something around 12mil, SMC around 3mil, Mundy the same 1.5mil, Porter maybe 3mil, then guys like Jenkins, Acho, Unrein, Miller and Prosinski about 1-2mil. That would be $30mil, leaving $30-$40mil before the rookie pool. Also, totally off topic but related.....for the longest time, I thought the site was sportrac, and it is actually spotrac.

With some expected cuts (Bushrod-$4.3/Rolle-$3) and potential trades (Bennett-$5.2), we could be over $70 million if we want to be. Either way, some nice flexibility. I would also have to think free agents will be more inclined to sign here with the new regime compared to Emery/Trestman era.

I was talking to a friend about this the other day, but I think it take a few more variables, something like: (talent x effort x scheme & coaching + teammates) = performance which can be weighted with (length of time in same scheme or under same coaches) So you can be extremely talented but lack effort and you won't be very good. You can have a lot of talent and have good effort, but are in the wrong scheme and you will be inconsistent. You could have everything, but be on bad team. For Cutler, for the first time, it seems like everything is in place. The previous inconsistencies and erratic performances were due to his attempt to overcompensate with his own talent, which could only be increased so much to overcome deficiencies in other areas (bad teammates, bad O-Line, horrible defense, brutal coaches, etc).

Detroit got conservative, but GB got gifted another game from the officials.

That loss would've been huge for us. I can't believe some of the calls or non calls against GB. Sickening to think we would have been only one game back with a win on Sunday.

Rodgers throws a pick and Lions score on next play. Sweet justice.

Lions up 10-0 in the 1st quarter against GB.

Here is what he said about shaking out the leg: I would say this is fairly normal and something that will go away with more use.

Yeah makes sense, Gould had a bunch of misses that were uncharacteristic of him, and he had a duck snort XP that almost missed as well. Supposedly, the long snapper is supposed to snap the ball in a way where it is only rotates a certain amount (like one turn) and it is much harder to catch and get laces out if ball is spinning more.

Kevin White doing individual drills: http://espn.go.com/blog/chicago/bears/post...lls-at-practice

Using DVOA, Cutler is 6th in the league, behind: Dalton, Palmer, Brady, Big Ben, and Carr. http://www.footballoutsiders.com/stats/qb