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Holy shit, dude. Who pissed in your cheerios this morning?

The way Fuller has been playing this season, it's pretty obvious that he's in line to receive a big payday from somebody at the end of the year, providing he can maintain this level of play throughout the season. One of the cardinal rules in team building is to not let your young talent go in free agency to let other teams reap the benefits. Pace has already let that happen once with Alshon Jeffery. Although, it is fair to point out that Jeffery didn't want to be in Chicago, although I suspect some of it may have had to do with the rocky relationship he had with Fox. Not sure where Pace fits in with having influence there, but regardless, the same thing applies now to Kyle Fuller. He's another young and talented player that the Bears absolutely cannot let walk in free agency. My concern isn't so much that they would be unwilling to pay him, but that the Bears certainly haven't done themselves any favors by the way they've tried to portray Fuller over the last couple of seasons in the media: which is basically that he's soft and lazy/not serious about football. For a roster already devoid of so much talent, it would be a major setback to let a still young, up and coming CB walk when you have so many needs elsewhere on a roster that you have to figure out how to improve. Is anybody else worried that deja vu will strike again in the off-season, because I sure am. Like Jeffery, I wouldn't be at all surprised if Fuller wants nothing to do with the Bears in the off-season. I don't think not picking up his option was the wrong move, but I'm sure that couldn't have made him feel any better about his situation with the Bears that was already rocky to begin with.

I pondered this question when the injury happened. His injury wasn't something that should have been season ending. As far as the normal recovery timeline for the type of injury he had is roughly 6-8 weeks. It's already been 5 weeks, which means the earliest he'd be able to return would be week 8 of the Saints game, but more likely not until week 10, which is the Packers game. Even if his recovery took a bit longer, there's still 7 weeks of the season to go after that Packers game, which would have been a full 8 weeks since the injury. So, unless he's an incredibly slow healer, or he had some complications that we don't know of, it would be really odd for him not to be able to come back and play this year. Ryan Pace needs to know how good this guy is before deciding on whether to pick up his option at the end of the year. If he can play, he absolutely should play.

This was the best defensive performance the Bears have had under Fangio since he got here.

Dowell Loggains continues to be one of the worst play callers I've ever seen.

By the way, dumbass Loggais is too much of a moron to realize you could run a simple read option play on that 3rd and 1 and probably pick up the first down.

The Bears keep inventing new ways to lose games. Fire everybody.

Kyle Fuller is ballin' today. That pick 6 play was allowed to happen because of him. Got one back after the Ravens fluky return TD. Now, put this game away.

The Bears are about to ruin another good defensive performance because of a fluke play and an offense that can't get out of their own way.

Don't worry, he will be.

Listening to Olin Kreutz on the radio, and he brought up a great point. Jordan Howard averaged 7 ypc last year running out of shotgun formations. To my knowledge, there haven't been many instances, if any, this year where Howard has ran it out of a shotgun formation. Really speaks to the inability of this coaching staff to formulate a gameplan using this information that is available to them. There is no reason in the world why the Bears aren't running more shotgun/read option stuff with Trubisky right now. The Texans have been doing this with Watson to keep him comfortable, and by god, it seems to be working for them..

Trubisky looked fine to me. I'm not worried about the mistake at the end. He'll learn. He just has zero talent to work with, especially if they can't run the ball. If this were Madden, I'd simulate the season already and move onto next year. It's going to get real ugly now, especially as the injuries continue to pile up. Also, Ryan Pace sucks as a pro scout. Outside of Aikeem Hicks, his free agent acquisitions have been horrendous. That, and a continued cycle of bad drafting is keeping the Bears from making progress as a franchise. Of course, a lot of this can be expedited if Trubisky turns himself into a star, but it's going to take another year before we find that out.

Oh. The Bears find a new way to lose, via penalty. Bears are most penalized defense in the league on 3rd down, if I'm not mistaken.

Harrison Smith is so freakin annoying. He always does this to the Bears.

Keenum leaeding MIN to a game ending drive here, running out the clock would be so anti-climactic.

Whitehair with another terrible snap. He's really starting to piss me off. Also, in the 4th quarter, and terrible receivers, Trubisky needs to start using his legs more to pick up these 3rd downs, especially if MIN is in man coverage.

I take back what I just said about Loggains. Hell of a play call on that 2pt conversion!

Dowell Loggains can leave this team at any time. Zero imagination as a play caller. You can't continue to run these generic short yardage plays and hope to be a competent offense. At some point, you have to throw the ball downfield, regardless of the talent on offense. Get a PI call or something. Jesus.

Much better than his punting ability.

Leave it to the defense to have yet another embarrassing gaffe for the highlight reels. Good for at least one every game.

10-2 feels like 50-0. This is setting itself up well for a multiple turnover game by Trubisky, playing from behind. This is beyond frustrating to watch. He's getting zero help from anybody.

Defense getting gashed by Keenum to start the half.

Lol, that's probably game over.

First bad decision/throw by Trubisky. That ball needs to go past the first down marker on 3rd down. All MIN needs is one TD and it's going to feel like an insurmountable lead, based on the way things have gone for the Bears offense tonight.

This team has no discipline. Too many negative plays and penalties, shooting themselves in the foot against a team begging you to beat them.