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He gone. To the Dolphins per Schefter.

That only works for head coaches (if at all), not for an OC getting a promotion to head coach.

Thinking out loud: Gase is hired in Cleveland, laying the ground work for a trade of Cutler to Cleveland for a 2nd & 3rd this year, a 1st next year, and Manziel/McCown.

All these guys want to be back but want to be paid a certain way to come back, which just doesn't fit with the economic reality of the situation. The Bears drafted Langford specifically because they knew Forte was going to be a free agent and there's nothing about Langford's performance this year that should dissuade them from that strategy. If he wants to come back on a very friendly deal, that's fine with me, but when he steps on the open market and someone decides to throw him an offer that's $2 million over the Bears' offer, I wonder if he will still be talking about his desire to come back.

While it might be overreaction, it's hard for me to see Pace taking Jack or a Smith, guys who will be coming off injuries, after enduring a season where his first pick was injured all year. I'm in the Ragland camp, though if prefer to trade down to get him. Given the disastrous history the Browns have had at QB and top draft picks recently, I really wonder if they might give us a decent package for Cutler.

I think he's fine as the 5th receiver on your roster, but if he is your starting slot receiver, you aren't a very good team. Assuming the Bears keep Jeffery, they are looking at Jeffrey, White, and Royal as likely having guaranteed roster spots next year (like it or not, Royal's staying). I would like to see them bring in one speed receiver/return man from the draft. Marquess Wilson and Cameron Meredith are still under contract, I think. But if Mariani wants to come back on a minimum salary, it's fine with me.

I'm currently partial to Ragland or Smith for our first round pick, mostly because I think there is a big drop off at ILB after that and we need a quality leader and producer at ILB.

Impressed: Leno. He looks like a starter at tackle, even if it doesn't end up being LT. Who knew he would be the bright spot on the line? Disappointed: Ratliff, for obvious reasons.

Hard to believe at this point in the season our best offensive lineman is arguably Charles Leno. We really need to get a starting RT in the offseason so that Long can go back to guard. It's early, but it would be hard for me to pass up Reggie Ragland if we are drafting the middle of the first round. The Bears have a glaring ILB need and the success rate for ILBs high in the draft seems pretty good.

Tackling was really bad or the game might not have even been that close. I understand that it was rainy, but you got to get those guys down. Though there weren't many holes, when they were there, Langford hit them and Forte did not. Maybe he's just rusty, but I think this team clearly moves on from Forte.

I'm certainly not in favor of "tanking", I just think when I see a flawed team that's going to in all likelihood miss the playoffs, I recognize the value in losses from a draft pick standpoint. Remember, the last two years has seen Aaron Donald and Leonard Williams go in the picks immediately before ours.

With all these Bears using performance enhancing substances, you'd think our performance would have been enhanced somehow . . .

So was Jalen Saunders, who is on our practice squad.

I almost posted during that last Chargers drive "it's going to be hard to win this game without any impact defensive plays" because at the time the Bears had 0 ints, 0 TFL and 0 sacks. Good on Hoiston to step and Aldo not get injured during his celebrations.

Wonder if the Pats could be convinced to trade for Bushrod. With Nate Solder out for the season, maybe they give up a late draft pick, we pay some of Bushrod's salary?

Those who watched the game, how did Leno look at LT? Sounds like he got blown up a couple of times, but so did Bushrod.

Pressures sound great, but really just means "didn't get a sack" to me, and none of the QBs seemed to have much problem handling the Bears' "pressure."

Hard for me to praise the play calling too much when we have four plays inside the GB 6 in the 4th quarter and throw all four times. That's straight from the Trestman playbook. Our CB play is not good. Ball and Fuller both got burned pretty consistently, although the lack of pass rush did not help. Aaron Donald going one pick before us last year and us taking Fuller is going to hurt for a long long time.

Omameh started all 16 games last year at G and Jones-Quartey played CB and some safety in the preseason. I figure they drop Callahan and maybe Fales to add those. I hope they don't drop Fabuluje to add Omameh - Tayo had a quietly good came against the Browns and while he needs some conditioning and work sustaining his blocks, when he gets his hands on his opponent, he looks real good. If I was to guess at the practice squard, I would quess Terry Williams, Kyle Woestmann, Matthew Wells, Michael Ola, David Fales and either Gannon Sinclair or Bear Pascoe, plus either Rishad Lawrence or a WR on another team, a RB, a DE, and whichever DB they drop to add Jones-Quartey.

I see Antwan Goodley, a first year WR from Baylor, got released by the Cowboys. I liked him coming into the draft as a speed/return guy and wouldn't mind giving him a look.

Dockett hasn't played in a regular season game since 2013. I can't believe I'm saying this, but I'd rather see what Will Sutton can do.

Let's calm down a bit. I'm sure the draft pick is conditional on him making the team.

Grasu's lack of strength right now is glaring - he gets consistently pushed back. I don't see how anyone can see him as a starter this year unless there's an injury. I also haven't been real impressed with the starting ILB play. Mason Foster is outplaying both Jones and McClellin from what I've seen.

https://cbschicago.files.wordpress.com/2015...-3-51-57-pm.png Some things I notice: - Guard depth does not look good, with Ducasse and someone named Jason Weaver the current backups, though I understand that Ola can play there as well. - Kadeem Carey has an uphill job making this roster with Rodgers and Langford ahead of him. This fits with what I saw last week when I was at training camp. They obviously had a plan with Rodgers and even Langford (saw him out wide blocking on WR screens). Not sure where Carey fits right now. - I like what I saw from Cameron Meredith last week and it looks like right now he's the most highly thought of under the radar WR. We'll see how he performs in the games, but he might be ripe for a practice squad spot, particularly if they keep Mariani and give him WR reps. - I'm pretty surprised that they have McClellin and Jones starting ahead of Foster and Bostic. I figured It would be the exact opposite. - I'm also surprised to see Tracy Porter ahead of Sherrick McManis on the CB depth chart. McManis had apparently been impressing in camp, and I haven't heard much positive about Porter.

I'm going to practice on Thursday and will report back with anything of note.