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Per Leming: 2nd Rd'er OL Cody Whitehair's contract: 4/$4.2M. Cap hits of $768K, $960K, $1.15M, $1.34M. 4th Rd’er ILB Nick Kwiatkowski’s contract: 4/$2.915M. Cap hits of $594K, $684K, $774K, $864K. 4th Rd’er S Deon Bush’s contract: 4/$2.866M. Cap hits of $582K, $672K, $762K, $852K. 5th Rd’er RB Jordan Howard’s contract: 4/$2.588M. Cap hits of $512K, $602K, $692K, $782K. 7th Rd’er WR Daniel Braverman contract: 4/$2.4M. Cap hits of $470K, $560K, $650K, $740K.

Khari Lee was released to make room for Logan Paulsen. I think that's an upgrade and it is expected we'll put Lee on the practice squad so he'll still be around if needed, Braunecker too. http://chicago.suntimes.com/sports/bears-t...-logan-paulsen/

Looks like Gabriel, Nichols, and Larsen all practiced today. Trubisky threw and did not have a pitch count, so that's a good sign. Nagy didn't have much on Hicks, so I am assuming he is gone until mid-December at the earliest. Long definitely confirmed to be on IR for the season.

Just throwing this out there , it was mentioned on the radio the other day that Chicago is the only mega metropolitan area not to have a second team. The Halas family name carries weight in the league I believe as long as Virginia is alive I can’t imagine someone breaching it, but isn’t it time for a second team? Just some offseason scuttle butt to kick around.

Ok, so as long as I'm overblowing little things and reading too much into them, here's a good one about Desai. Jackson compared his style more to "Vic" Fangio than "Chuck" Pagano - seems to indicate that his responsibilities would be more similar to Fangio's defense than last year's. GOOD. If we field and explosive offense, then a gambling defense is a good pairing with that. No need to play it so safe. Maybe that's why the pass rush was kind of sleepy too. And he also said that Desai was being tough with the players. Also great to see. I like to hear this, getting Jackson back to prime form would be huge for this defense.

have links to watch the game thursday for out of towners?

He was a DB and KR/PR, so it looks like they are happy with what they have at those positions (which is a good sign).

Hats off to Eddie Royal! He is becoming a big part of this team this year. After last season I was ready to move on, but the way he has been performing, they are lucky to have him locked up. Royal and Z Miller are our TD mahines, Pace has a couple of gems here.

Damn I love watching the Bears! This is not going to be an easy game. I'd love us to start and finish strong. But, it seems we'll probably do what we've done. Start a little slow and then kick it into gear. We just need to keep Jay upright, continue to attempt to run the ball w/ Forte, apply pressure on their OL, and prevent the big play. Let's go Bears!

There are many reasons I love the hire of John Fox, but the way everything is occurring is what makes me enjoy this the most. We have already gained 3 people from 3 different respected teams. just think of the scouting expertise we just gained for pro personnel for free agency. Also look at the expertise we gained in scouting our opposition and the way they scouted us. There are other things I could say but gotta give you all a place to come in...

http://www.chicagobears.com/news/article-1...a6-53aecf7c37c1 Wilson is out again; I think this is it for him with the Bears. Also notable, Royal is out for the next game too. Like Royal, I say let him go.

That Collins INT on the 1 yard line was miserable!!!!!!!! Martz is good but that was crap!!!!!!!

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2016/...te-of-the-week/ Willie Gault, age 55, is USA Track & Field’s athlete of the week Posted by Michael David Smith on May 12, 2016, 10:19 AM EDT LOS ANGELES, CA - NOVEMBER 22: Willie Gault attends the 2015 USA Swimming Golden Goggle Awards at J.W. Marriot at L.A. Live on November 22, 2015 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Joe Scarnici/Getty Images) Getty Images As a Bears and Raiders wide receiver in the 1980s and 1990s, Willie Gault was one of the fastest players in the NFL. Now Gault is 55 years old. And he’d still beat a lot of NFL players in a footrace. Gault was named USA Track & Field’s athl…

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2016/...ck-at-practice/ At least players are starting to get healthy on this team.

http://www.spotrac.com/nfl/free-agents/2016/ Here is the list of contracts from last year. If we look at all the contracts over 7 mil per year average how many were successful? the list has 17 over 7 mil of those you would only consider 5 to be over whelming successful Vernon/DE Mack/OC Harrison/DT OsemeleOG Jenkins/CB another 3 you would say was worth it Brooks/OG McLeod/FS Irvin/OLB out of 17 50% stuck out out of our free agents Freeman - huge success Trevathan- jury still out Hicks- huge success Si…

So, tell me if I'm crazy for thinking this, but what if the Bears are actually benefiting from playing all of these games against zone-read teams with athletic QB's? They got a major taste of it with the Eagles and Seahawks in pre-season, and right off the bat in the regular season, they get the Bills, 49'ers, and Jets in back-to-back-to-back weeks. They've been awful at defending it up until this game. They still allowed like 120 yards on the ground today, but it feels different this time. Gore had 1 explosive run and Kaepernick got away from a few defenders that missed tackles to rack up some yardage late. The difference this time is the Bears were usually right there t…

ESPN (Kiper) Chicago Bears: Danny Shelton, DT, Washington Fox Sports (Schrager) Chicago Bears: Danny Shelton, DT, Washington http://www.foxsports.com/nfl/story/mock-dr...williams-020915 NFL.COM (Davis) Chicago Bears: Danny Shelton, DT, Washington http://www.nfl.com/draft/2015/mock-drafts/...es-davis/220601 CBS Sports (Kirwan) Chicago Bears: Danny Shelton, DT, Washington http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/draft/mock-draft Walter Football Chicago Bears: Danny Shelton, NT, Washington http://walterfootball.com/draft2015.php NFL Draft Geek Chicago Bears - Shane Ray, DE/OLB, Missouri http://nfldraftgeek.com/2015nflmockdraft.html …

We are in the quiet period of Bears talk since most beat writers are taking vacations while coaches and players are doing the same before camp. It is a good time to make your predictions on players who surprise or emerge in this new DA scheme. Let your imagination out and lets hear who your player is and some reasons why.