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Thats where I think the biggest improvement needs to come from.In the Super Bowl year there was pressure off the edge up the middle and not much blitzing. Since that year there has been more blitzing from LBs and DBs trying to create pressure because the front four hasn't been getting it done. First and foremost a healthy Tommie Harris will be the key. when he is right he can change this defense. The other key is the guy who lines up next to him. I think the future of this team at the position is on the roster with Harrison and Gilbert but Adams should be on the field on first down. Why? The Bears run defense has been a little suspect since the Super Bowl year.Adams IMO was the best at run stuffing last year and when he and Harrison were on the field it was not bad. I figure Harrison will only get better. If the Bears can get the run stopped with 6 of the front 7 that leaves Urlacher free to roam that short zone in the middle and lay some hits on the guys who come across and try to find the opening in the zone. I hope that he can do more of this. I don't care if he leads the team in tackles. I think Urlacher is at his best when he can make plays in space.

You're right Hester does a lot of body catching and it is too late if you let the ball get that close. Comments about Cutler's arm are similar to Farve and Elway when guys first played with them.

Bennett interviewed said " Idon't know what he has been doing but, he is throwing much harder than in college.

I believe none of these stats are going to matter in Nov and Dec when the wind is howling on the lakefront. You better be able to complete a 10 yard pass. And as hard as Cutler throws its going to matter during the cold weather.

NFL Network showed video from MC and A lot of balls from Cutler was bouncing off everyones hands. I think I saw Forte have the most bounce off him.

What awesome safety tandem? The Bears haven't played a full year with Brown at safety since before Lovie got here. I agree getting rid of Chris Harris was a mistake since he along with Tillman were notrious for stripping balls from opponents. What I have a problem with is that if you want to put young players on the field you have to live with them making mistakes. That was the problem with Harris with Manning and now with Payne and Steltz. How many guys have played the deep safety for both Tampa and Indy? I can think of John Lynch as the strong safety with Tampa but there have been quite a few FSs in the mix. In Indy it has been Bob Sanders and a few there also. We might be wasting our thoughts on this since it seems the other teams playing our scheme can't seem to keep a tandem together either. Why is this? Its simple college teams don't play as much zone as the Bears do and the one team that does is Oklahoma and we haven't drafted one DB from there but we have drafted 2 DTs from there.

I too am huge critic of Darryl Drake and not just because of what he has worked with here but wasn't he early on involved in the development of Roy Williams at Texas when he was there? I also believed that maybe Moose had a hand in on helping Berrian develop. I can remember Moose in his last year telling Hester what the plays were and where to line up when he was first switched to WR. Before Moose arrived Berrian didn't do much and was similar to Bradley and Bennett in terms of production early on. This was while Terry Shea was the OC and Craig Krentzel was the QB with Chad Hutchinson and Jonathon Quinn. His second year Turner, Moose and Drake both arrived and Orton was the QB and he still was limited because of injury and Turner's conservative calls. It was not until they started Grossman and took some shots down the field that he started to show some skills. Was it because Turner's calls,Grossman starting, Moose starting opposite him or Drake's coaching? All I know is that out of all the WRs that have been drafted by the Bears and released by the Bears under JA's tenure only Airese Currie and Jamin Elliott are no longer in the league. Bradley,Wade,Gage and Berrian are all stilll making contributions to NFL teams and we need WRs.

DBDB doesn't it seem like there is a little unhappiness with the CB play and Safety play at work here. In the last 3 years there have been a lot of bodies brought in to supposedly upgrade depth or whatever. There has also been a lot of turnover in DB coaches under Lovie also. Most people keep pointing at just safety but that Atlanta game showed me something about the CB depth also. McBride, Graham, Payne,Bowman, Stelz,Manning, Moore and Alfalava all have been drafted within the last 4 years along with bringing in West, Manning jr,Archuleta, Earl and Bullocks off the FA pile. I think somone is on notice to step it up.

Mad L you know I try to be a realist about things but I have seen this pattern with Turner and because he is a media darling he seems to get a pass. I believe that he has total control over the offense because Lovie is a defensive guy and if he had known more about offense he would never have hired Terry Shea at first who is nothing more than a QB coach. Right now Turner has arguably the best young RB and QB he has ever coached. This ain't Steve Walsh and Raymont Harris.

Why are you guys shocked about a Florida QB not making it in the NFL? Steve Spurrier,George Mira,John Reeves, Doug Johnson,Jesse Palmer, Danny Wuerful, Shane Matthews,Rex Grossman and Chris Leak. Whether its been the 60's, 70's, 80's 90's and now the Florida QBs and to some degree the WRs have had minimal success on the NFL level.

My take on the availabilty of Burress is I don't have an opinion at all because right now he is not available. If we are going to speculate about veteran WRs that are available with some baggage Matt Jones and Marvin Harrison can be had right now. Just to name a couple of the many guys that are still available. Why not take these young WRs we have and play with them. Who did Cutler have last year? Brandon Marshall and Eddie Royal with Tony Schefler at TE. How much experience do those guys have. Green Bay two years ago lined up with Donald Driver, Greg Jennings and James Jones as their WRs. Both Jennings and Jones are very young and now they have added Jordy Nelson. This tells me that you can play with young WRs and compete well. They don't all have to be 1st rounders to become number one WRs. The guy that we have been rumored to have been after Boldin was a 2nd rounder. Berrian who we missed last year was a 3rd rounder. Just think we could've been playing with Berrian,Gage and Hester at WR last year if things had worked out differently. I'd take that over Booker, Lloyd and Hester. The one thing I liked back when Gary Crowton was the OC is that all the WRs got a chance to shine with Curtis Conway being the veteran and Marcus Robinson,Marty Booker and even Dez "Stone Hands" White getting a chance to play. WRs have always struggled under Turner early in their careers even when we had Ivan Fears and Todd Haley as WR coaches. Lets face it we have to watch how Turner handles this whole situation because this is the best QB prospect he has handled ever and no matter how young the WRs are they need to get on the field now. We all saw Berrian,Bradley and last season Bennett spend significant time not playing early on in their careers. Why? I like our two TE set but it has become too predictable. With Cutler I would love to see at least two 4 WRs sets per half just to put it in the opponents minds. Lets imagine 4 WRs with Forte in the backfield, I think their is a mismatch somewhere on the field. Even 3 WRs with Olsen can do the same thing. Turner just seems to complicate things for young WRs. There was no reason for Earl Bennett learn several positions instead of starting off as a back up at one spot.

The rules for signing players from another teams practice squad make the signing significant alone. You must sign them to the 53 man roster so why would Seattle waste a roster spot on a guy they didn't value? Haas played in the PAC 10 and maybe the Seahawks scouts thought he could add something to the mix and Mike Holmgren at the time was the coach and hye has developed a WR or two in his time. The word potential could be tied to everyone of the draft picks that all 32 teams just made.BTW keep in mind that Keenan McCardell was once a Bears' practice squad player after originally starting in Dallas' camp as UFA.

The Cutler trade was spurred more by Denver missing the playoffs than the Bears. Denver losing games down the stretch allowed the Chargers to reach the playoffs subsequently getting Shanahan fired and McDanials hired. The Bears took adavantage of an opportunity that presented itself. With Orton on a one year deal it could have been possible that the Bears may have pursued a replacement or a young QB to groom this year.

Your right Mad L being the QB for this franchise that requires a big sack and the last time we had one with that we won the super bowl.

This just tells me this jerk is quitting when he doesn't get his way. This is reminiscent of Michael Jordon playing in Washington for the Wizzards when he couldn't get the deal he wanted to run the Bulls. If this turns out in a similar way I like where this is going.

Thats pretty intense and I as a Bill Parcells hater think that language is a little strong and actually takes away from his pretty good vent.

What you said and the fact that they miss John Gilmore more than they are willing to admit. In essence they chose Davis over Gilmore.

Mad L got me to the podium as a Parcells hater and I stand here now to vent my disdain for what I think is an over hyped windbag so here goes; Hi My name is Lemonej Iam a Parcells hater(pause)(applause). With my confessing of this hatrid I hope to feel cleanse but I still need to vent. Bill Parcells had these HOFs in his group plan Belichick, Lawrence Taylor and Harry Carson. Maybe Ty Law and Jumbo Elliott. George Young acquired his talent at NY and he has only been able to identify one positon in the draft better than everyone else and that is rush LB. LT, Willie McGinest and DeMarcus Ware says he knows this position but his lack of patience for WRs and QBs lead me to believe he doesn't really get this whole thing other than what he brings to the table. He licked out by taking Bledsoe instead of Mirer, he flip-floped between Hofstetler and Sims and then benched Bledsoe for Romo in Dallas. I also think there was a Drew Henson experiment in his past. Why does he remind me of Phil Jackson in the NBA? I believe because he has been on the scene at the right time for success with the help of a budding superstar and some incredible luck. So thanks for letting me stand before you as a confessed Parcells hater and may the healing begin(Not!).

Mad L I got to say I like how you stick to your guns but using your Vegas analogy, what do you think the odds were for Arizona winning the NFC and the Dolphins winning the AFC East last season? I would guess that they were similar to what Detroits odds are for winning the Super Bowl. Add Turner to Lovie and we can agree they both are on display. We just added to this team the best QB that he has ever coached. For the record I don't like Parcells or anyone from his tree because they all seem to think they are genuises.

Both you guys are right and right now he is the toast of the town and he will put pressure on Turner to adapt his hard to figure play calling to his talent.

You were right about this jerk. Now reports say he is sending exrays to the Minnesota to determine how damaged his shoulder/arm is. The condition is if he needs major surgery then he will stay retired but if this can be taken care of with a simple procedure(When its surgery Brett there's no such thing you moron) then he will unretire again.

Just so you know where I stand I hope you are absolutely right. I hope that the whole division sucks but I know with the talent that the Vikings have and "May" acquire they are a playoff caliber team. Parcells aside what I'm saying is that this team could rise up since it seems everyone in our division has what is deemed an easy schedule. I also think the Lions have acquired some decent talent that can compete if the games are not shoot outs. History tells us otherwise but this new mediocre NFL tells me they could make the playoffs with the right bounce of the ball. Now lets talk about Parcells, his rise to prominence came in the mid to late 80's as the coach of the New York Giants who had George Young as his GM. That is who acquired talent for him in his successful years there. He also had a certain young defensive coordinator named Belechick who handled that championship caliber defense. His next stop was at New England where he got his first shot at "Buying the Groceries" and coaching he picked some nice players but made it to the Super Bowl only to lose to the Packers. He leaves that franchise and goes to New York but this time his safety net doesn't go with him and he names Al Groh his coach and he bolted after a short tenure for Virginia where he seems to be producing some decent NFL talent. He leaves that job in a huff and does the analyst thing for a year and then joins Dallas with the idea that he was going to be running the show but we all know that Jimmy Johnson showed us that isn't the case with the Cowboys. He leaves that job in a huff and now he is with the Dolphins and in their first year they had big success just like the Cowboys did their first year under his tenure and now is when we will know if he can sustain some success. Bill Parcells is following the same path that a lot of the former Super Bowl winning coaches have gone down moderate success as talent evaluators but nothing sustained enough to win Super Bowls. Guys like him, Holmgren,Ditka and Shanahan all seem to think they are directly responsible for team success and we all know that the players decide things and that acquiring players takes some skill but a lot of luck. No matter how hyped up Parcells is as a talent evaluator, the talent he has acquire over the years have made it to one Super Bowl the same as Jerry Angelo.

Thanks Pix I was just getting started for next year with QBs.

Did Parcells ever run the Dallas Cowboys? The Jets? How did that work? Its not about Parcells its more about their coach Sporano? Who new that Atlanta could make a big turn around with a rookie QB, new coach and schemes? What I'm saying is that it is possible for them to have a turn around similar to the two teams I stated. Bill Parcells wasn't running the Falcons and they did pretty good also. Parcells has yet to win a Super Bowl when he has bought the groceries.

I agree and when he was asked directly he said," We probably wouldn't pursue Simeon at this time." At his best Rice was one dimensional and that spells Mark Anderson to me who is younger and playing for a new contract. I also think its a little creepy the way Simeon Rice talks about himself in the third person