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AFC: Wildcard: Jets vs Bengals- Bengals win 17-10 Ravens vs Patriots- Patriots win 27-24 Divisional Round: Bengals vs Colts- Colts win 24-21 Patriots vs Chargers- Chargers win 34-20 NFC: Wildcard: Eagles vs Cowboys- Cowboys win 17-13 Packers vs Cardinals- Packers win 38-35 Divisional Round: Packers vs Saints- Saints win 31-27 Cowboys vs Vikings- Vikings win 27-21 AFC Championship Game: Chargers vs Colts- Chargers win 30-17 NFC Championship Game: Vikings vs Saints- Saints win 28-27 Superbowl: Saints vs Chargers- Chargers win 34-31

No word yet on coordinators, probably learn more at today's presser.

Found this on Jim Trotter twitter "be careful charlie weis: one of the bears' fired assistants just told me that jay cutler is a "coach killer". " Sour grapes or truth.....

As you know, I try to remain an optimist when it comes to the Bears. Here are a few thoughts that may help you remain one too. So, have at it, I'm not happy with what I've seen from these guys for the last few years either, but here are the things that keep me hopeful for next season... We needed a new OC. I don't think anyone here was in love with Turner. Now we'll get one. And hopefully whoever it is will be able to make the best of our new QB. Cutler seems to be involved in this process. This can be a good thing or a bad thing. You don't want the inmates running the asylum but he did seem to be right, all along, about DA. What the heck, let him pick a…

http://www.chicagonow.com/blogs/daily-chic...rs-defense.html

It is official. Now we have a passing O in Chicago.

Since O-Gun has a broken leg and will take some time to heal and for him to get back to form,Brown is older and the steady DE. Anderson is not the answer do you take a shot at Peppers? We have no first or second round pick to spend big money on so why not go after Peppers? I think with Peppers and Harris it could be another situation like it was in Tampa with Sapp and Rice coached by one R Marinelli. If not Peppers then Kampman from GB

Passing Yards: 4400 Passing TDs: 35 Interceptions: 18 Completion %: 62 Long: 90 Sacks: 38

Sorry for the non-bears post, but crap. Snow is fun. We got a freaking foot of snow in the last 24 hours, and my kids are having more fun that I can explain. I am not sure I have ever seen more than about an inch of accumulated snow in Dallas, but we got 12 inches! I have to go back 30 years to when I was in Chicago to remember similar. And the best part. Tomorrow is supposed to be upper 50s, maybe 60, and sunny. Yea, that's right. We get a great snow day, and two days later can go golfing.

I personally see the Bears signing two starters on defense, both with the potential to be high impact guys. I'm thinking safety and De are the positions they target and the team will get one of Kapman/Peppers. On the offensive side of the ball, I see the Bears doing very little (Cutler and our young wide-outs should all get better), but they will sign an above average back-up running back who could start (ie, LT/Vikes Backup/Jamaal Lewis, etc). To me I'd be really happy if we did that.

I really love this guy. Hope we have a shot It seems to me that he has absolutely no comprehension of the word "Can't" and refuses to fail at anything Also, I think we can re-establish a little bit of the respectability we have lost over the past few seasons with idiots like Cedric Benson, Tank Johnson, Ricky Manning Jr (Denny's Bandit), and mostly just the overall feeling of loosing and mediocrity http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=880DxfiJU88&feature=fvsr http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHOlDZO1ksQ (late second to fourth round range)

8 keepers from this lot, who would ya keep?? Ryan Doumit (Pit - C) Derrek Lee (ChC - 1B) Ian Kinsler (Tex - 2B) Edwin Encarnación (Tor - 3B) Stephen Drew (Ari - SS) Adam Dunn (Was - 1B,OF) Andre Ethier (LAD - OF) Ichiro Suzuki (Sea - OF) Paul Konerko (CWS - 1B) Jason Kubel (Min - OF) Adam Lind (Tor - OF) James Loney (LAD - 1B) Ian Stewart (Col - 2B,3B) Josh Beckett (Bos - SP) Dan Haren (Ari - SP) Carlos Zambrano (ChC - SP) Phil Hughes (NYY - SP,RP) Francisco Liriano (Min - SP,RP) Brandon Morrow (Tor - SP,RP) Rick Porcello (Det - SP,RP) Chad Qualls (Ari - RP) Joe Saunders (LAA - SP) Bobby Seay (Det - …

So it looks like the Jets are going to ask Thomas Jones to take a pay cut. If he refuses and is cut would it be worth giving him an offer to be our #2?

http://www.nypost.com/p/sports/jets/jets_a...LPbOr7uPJ4GY3LI Pretty good article about how once again Thomas Jones is getting another raw deal. I would be more than OK if the Bears wanted to bring back Jones to finish out his career. He easily has another decent 3-4 years in him. They guy has only rushed for at least 1,000 yards the last 5 years (to include his last 2 for Chicago). Jones is one of those consummate professionals who I really never understood his being released from Chicago, especially since the Benson experiment never worked out.

http://www.suntimes.com/sports/jensen/2078...-sean02.article Per Sean Jensen of the Times, Angelo has been given permission to spend around $25m in "up front" money this offseason. As the report says, that number could climb w/ the release of Pace which saved a bit under $4m, and some other potential moves/ restructures. Also as the report says, that likely will not be enough for Peppers. That number should be more than enough for Kampman, but a key issue is that we have many holes, and if we blow all our money on one player, we would be severly limiting in plugging the other holes. Still, $25+m is a pretty solid amount to have to play with. It likel…

Since it was reported that the Bears are out of the race for the high priced Rolle who should we go after either Atogwe from the Rams, Clark from the Steelers or even Sharper from the Saints. Who would you pick for the upgrade?

Wilson seems like a good fit for the Bears. Or can we go with Clark from Pittsburg or Atogwe from the Rams

I pretty sure on the Monday night game vs. Minnesota game that we started D Manning at SS and Craig Steltz at FS. The first half was our best defensive performance of the year. I'm wondering if this combination might work for a couple different reasons: 1. D Manning has bad instincts and is slow to make reads. This makes him bad a FS, even though he has ideal speed. But he's explosive and he's a solid tackler. If we keep him closer to the line to be a disruptive force, this might be more ideal. 2. We mainly ask our FS to not give up big plays. Steltz appears to have good instincts, he'll be at the right place at the right time, and he doesn't miss tackles. H…

Per the Bears' website, Earl Bennett is changing his number from 85 to 80. Apparently he wanted to go back to his college number (10) but the NFL won't let you switch from an 80-89 number to a 10-19 number. Seems like a dumb rule to me. However, he's now got 80, Berrian's old number. The superstitious part of me thinks that could be a good thing. The article also lists the new rookies' numbers, and there are a couple of other familiar ones: Earl Bennett: 80 (Bernard Berrian) Al Afalava: 46 (Chris Harris, Doug Plank) Mike Rivera: 59 (Rosevelt Colvin, Ron Rivera) Derek Kinder: 83 (Willie Gault) D.J. Moore: 30 (Mike Brown) ...then again, Rashied Da…

Now that we have the next coming of Sid luckman in Jay Cutler who is going to make the roster out of our WR and be the man? Who will step up and who do you think we will keep? We have 10 WR on the roster. Devin Aromashoud 6'2 201 ?????? Earl Bennett 6'0 203 John Broussard 6'1 176 cut Rashied Davis 5'9 187 ????? Devin Hester 5'11 190 Juaqin Iglesias 6'0 210 Derek Kinder 6'1 210 Johnny Knox 5'11 185 Eric Peterman 6'1 200 PS Brandon Rideau 6'3 198 ??????