CrackerDog

The guy in charge is still named Polian. And I'm certain the Polian Team was involved in every personnel move that was made.

According to what I'm reading, Lovie is safe. Based on the results of the last two seasons and what they got out of that O Line, despite injuries and lack of talent, I can say Lovie deserves another year. I know that sentiment isn't generally shared here but it is what it is.

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One of my buds is a serious Colts fan and he'd agree with you on this. I'd think Polian would be an upgrade over Jerry myself but Polian's drafts, according to my buddy, haven't been very good. When your team loses a QB and you go from Superbowl contender to 2-14, I think the rest of the team is a little suspect. And that's Polian. We'll see. Historically I've been a big JA defender here but gave that up a few years ago when it became apparent JA and I didn't view the importance of the O Line the same way. He's ignored it for too long for me to be sad to see him go.

I agree with everything Mad and Connor say above. It's been so frustrating these last three weeks. I thought Hanie showed enough in the first game he played that with a little growth we'd be fine until Cutler got back. Unfortunately he regressed a lot. I think I was so pissed yesterday I would've cut Barber. After calming down I realize he did some good things yesterday too and we need him at least for the rest of the year. As a change of pace to Forte he has value next year too. Fact is this team was rounding into a pretty good squad and I was looking forward to running into the Pack in the playoffs. Not saying we'd beat them but I'd relish the opportunity. Doesn't look like that dream is going to come true.

I'd sign Orton in a heartbeat. Why would I care about the McCaskey's money? If we have the cap space, spend it! Just our luck, we'll drop Enderle to pick up Kyle and the Packers will put him on their taxi squad and the guy will turn into some wonder-stud in a few years...

OAK is a possible L KAN is a probable W DEN is a probable W SEA is a possible W GNB is a probable L MIN is a probably W I'd say the math adds up to 10-6, 9-7 at the worst and 11-5 at the best. I'll go with 10-6 just because it's in the middle. That puts us in the playoffs with a possibly healthy (but rusty) Cutler. He'll be well rested though. This could still be an exciting year. I'm not giving up.

I hate it when they find shanks in the turf that could've injured someone. And I hate it when the turf freezes and looks like green/brown concrete in December. But I LOVE when a player comes up with a wad of sod in their facemask. With that said, field turf is an obvious move the Bears and PD should make.

I agree with you on the football gods. However, I was calling for them to run the damn ball at that point of the game. The only thing that could've gone wrong, did. With that said, the execution was perfect, as you said, except for the slip. And I'm not displeased. Shit man, the Bears are 7-3 with a shit O Line and an aging D. I'm f'in beside myself happy except for the flurry of injuries. No, I'm just suggesting Bears4ever use some of that pent up angst where it might do some good. His early posts in this thread sounded like he wanted to kick some poor reporter's ass because he did his job and reported the news.

Amen Maddog. And even if we go down, let's go down fighting! Defeatism never helped a cause. Not one.

Dude, you're going to have to "live" with whatever happens. If Jay's doctors tell him to stay out for longer it'll be done. This is sports, not life. Hopefully he will beat the 6-8 weeks but there are no guarantees. If you want to get upset about something, write a letter to the Bears about how Martz called a pass play in that situation at all. Or to the Park District for once again giving us a field players are falling down on all the time (although it looked great to my eyes yesterday.)

I think everyone needs to take a deep breath and relax. Not saying we're going to kick everyone's ass here on out but Caleb didn't look bad with no prep against the Packers and they won the Superbowl. Just sayin' Don't put away the koolaid yet boys.

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I haven't bought it in years. With me being 46, my son has taken the gaming mantle from me and he's not into NFL football enough yet to want to play it on a gaming system. He's playing it outside which is a lot better! I always found the commentary monotonous after you play it a few times. They just don't have enough variety in the dialog to make it sound fresh. And the bugs in each year’s games piss me off. It's like there's no quality control at EA at all! If they ever get it right they'd just need to send you an online update each year (which they could charge for) which would update rosters and give you new commentary to fit the player names and it would be a permanent game on the console. Until they get to this point, I'm not tossing $60 a year at it.

I don't think anyone would ever argue against spending significant picks and FA acquisitions on the line. That would be like arguing that football isn't about two basics things, blocking and tackling. But there are those of us, you and I specifically, who've been sounding the alarm for years on Angelo's apparent lack of interest in this part of the team. And you and I rarely agree on anything! Anyway, I was MIA for a while too and still don't get much time to spend here either. Life is funny. But no matter what, I always enjoy when I can breeze through the board and toss out a barb or two myself. And having you around makes the experience a whole lot more enjoyable.

Knox was in my starting line-up as WR3 each and every week last year in fantasy football. And I made it all the way to our superbowl where I lost, once again. But I'll be a fan of Knox until he proves to me I shouldn't be. All the guy has done is kick ass and take names. If our damn O Line could give Cutler time in his 7 step drops, we'd have guys open deep all over the f*cking field.

This post and the one above about the silver backed gorillas are pure gold. Thanks for the laugh and the common sense.

And all the talk out of camp about how awesome Cutler has looked... Please... He looked like Jay Cutler as I've seen him before. He's a good solid QB but I've seen nothing this year that suggests the camp talk was anything other than them building up his esteem after all the attacks last season.

Hey Connor, I don't know about you but I expect a season to forget this year. I'm not usually a downer but I'm just not loving this team right now. I guess if the line gels in time to not get Cutler killed, Jay shows a lot of leadership, the D youth movement saves us from dreaded injuries... I suppose we could do OK. We sure didn't look like much last night.

I don't see it having anything to do with Jay. It was about AR and a little awkward. I don't know if I'd trade those two guys straight up. Keep Jay on his feet and give him real WR's and he might surprise you.

Good to see this board hasn't changed a bit since last year. Looks guys, I've been bitching about the O Line for pretty much the last 6 seasons and we've won the division half that time. The line still looks like a weakness but hopefully the new kid will bring some much needed piss and vinegar. Tice has proven himself to me. As to JA, no comment. I've been a pretty big defender of his over the years and after all this time (and reasonably good success) he still rightfully takes criticism. Now let's hope we don't lose to the f'in Packers in the playoffs again this season. Sheesh! I'm still not over THAT.

I'm usually on the side of labor in any dispute but not here. I disagree with Grizzly and his comment that labor unions are whatever he said they are. I've never been in one myself but they serve a purpose. Without collective bargaining, many large groups of people would be exploited in this country. Guaranteed. With that said, I'm sick to death of the damn players protecting the absolute WORST in human behavior. Intolerable shit that the union defends at all costs. I'm sick of owners too, holding towns hostage to gain stadiums, but much of the push to get new stadiums was related directly to the need for new sources of buckets of cash so team could pay huge signing bonuses, again, to players. In this case, I think the team owners deserve to be making a larger annual profit than Peyton Manning makes in salary. An owner put up hundreds of millions of dollars as an investment and deserves a return on that investment. There's a big difference between these a-holes and a couple thousand average joes getting together and demanding a reasonable wage from some douchebag fatcat Walmart exec. At least thats the way I see it.

I'm not sure that's what would happen given this judge's ruling. The actual penalty may be a fine for dealing in bad faith. I'm not certain the judge will throw out only that portion of the TV contract. We need a lawyer here...

Why does everything have to get so crazy here any time someone brings up Lovie or Jerry? Words like man-crush and talking about dating dogs start to fly around. Why? It's really simple, I think Lovie earned the additional years with taking this team to where he did given the talent level. With that said, I wouldn't have done it since we have another year on his contract and we've seen this pattern before. Besides, he lost to the PACKERS in the deciding game which I'll always now hold against him. With that said, I expect lining Lovie up with JA made sense to the Bears execs and so it is now so. End of story. No need to talk about anyone's mom, wife or girlfriend from my perspective.

A Vikes fan I know says he's referred to as Cindy Rice up there. Supposedly the guy is soft and hurt a lot. Proceed with caution.