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Nice one, but only if Orton played for Trestman. I just feel like they wanted to see another QB and we actually released Palmer early enough to do so. He obviously didn't pan out in his limited time there.

Probably because they told him that he could potentially start, which he was not going to do in Dallas.

Yeah, I mean during the season, I don't want any kickoffs taken out of the end zone.

I don't know what our average starting position was last year, but I would take all the touchbacks I could get until we actually have someone who is capable of breaking a long one. The only way I return one is if they don't kick it into the end zone.

Who is our KR/PR going into this season? Kind of odd seeing Hester and Weems on Atlanta's stat sheet.

MadLith, you can't just get one starter from a draft. Regardless of how good Alshon is/will be, that draft is pointing downward fast.

D-Line should be much improved with a very solid rotation (which will be a strength late in games). Corners and Briggs are good, so everyone else just needs to play average and not be a liability. The soft zone also needs to hit the road.

To it is crazy to see who was drafted immediately following SMC: Kendall Wright Chandler Jones Brandon Weeden Riley Reiff David DeCastro Dont'a Hightower Whitney Mercilus Kevin Zeitler Nick Perry Harrison Smith A.J. Jenkins Doug Martin David Wilson That was the rest of the 1st Round. We essentially could've had any of those guys, Coby Fleener or Janoris Jenkins.

Bears cut Isaiah Frey, James Brown. SMC and Alshon the only 2 players left from the Class of 2012. Emery's first draft ends up pretty weak.

Cutler seems concerned: http://espn.go.com/blog/chicago/bears/post...bills-not-ideal

I don't see TE as a need right now with Bennett signed through 2016, as bad as our LB and S play has been so far, we have to get that right. I would go LB/S/CB with our top 3 picks. Even with Fuller, we still need to find a replacement for Tillman before Bennett.

2 more to go before 4pm tomorrow.

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Wow, that would be unheard of today.

Does it really matter at that point? How good is any #3 QB going to be anyway. Season is basically over if your #2 goes down, so no point in wasting a roster spot on one.

I wouldn't be surprised if that was the case with Trestman. Why show your hand early? Everyone is expecting a vanilla defense, so give them what they want and have them game plan for that.

This is the conundrum, what can you actually take away from the preseason? There have been teams that have looked like Super Bowl contenders in the preseason, running up the score on everyone to end up 4-12 in the regular season. Even though everyone says Week #3 of the preseason is the most important, not every team that makes the playoffs plays well in the preseason or in Game 3. I took a look back at some preseason to regular season records. From 2009-2013 (last 5 years), SEA was the first SB winner who went undefeated during the preseason. The 3 winners before them went 2-2 in preseason, and NO was 3-1. For the SB losers, 2x were 3-1, 2x were 2-2, and one was 1-3 (IND). Now if I looked at teams that were 0-4 or 4-0 during the preseason, there was a pretty big constrast: 2013 - WAS 4-0 pre, 3-13 reg 2012 - PHI 4-0 pre, 4-12 reg 2011 - STL 4-0 pre, 2-14 reg 2010 - CHI 0-4 pre, 11-5 reg; SF 4-0 pre, 6-10 reg 2009 - MIA 4-0 pre, 7-9 reg; ARZ 0-4 pre, 10-6 reg Right now I don't know what to think. I would've like to have seen better production overall, but we actually had success against Sherman which is promising.

https://www.profootballfocus.com/blog/2014/...-chicago-bears/ Pretty good read. Some interesting stats I was not aware of (Forte bad at pass blocking).

That is crazy if true, an hour after inking a deal, he is out practicing. Nice to see that he has some explosiveness too.

Seems like a great signing. He is only 30 and played with horrible QB's since leaving Pittsburgh, so it is no wonder his numbers dropped.

That is a 2 hour flight, not a big deal.

McManis and Washington stood out on the defense, Draughn had some nice runs on offense, and O'Donnell looks to have the punting wrapped up. Carey had 1x 15 yard run and was 12-21 otherwise, which is brutal. Weems is worthless and there are still concerns about the LB's. I heard on the radio that teams will just run more base packages with RB and FB or 2 TE to keep SMC on the field vs Fuller. Which makes sense from a strategy standpoint.

Wow did Weems look bad, I would take my chances with touchbacks every time than chancing a turnover that deep in our zone. Weems not only failed on ST, he didn't do anything on offense either. Washington really stood out, he seemed faster than everyone and was making some great plays.

Yeah, this sucks. We were about to have a formidable pair of TE's and this happens. This guy can't catch a break. Either he has bad genes, luck, or roided at some point.

If the Jags offensive line was any good, we would be down 21-0.