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I'd have been happy with Carimi, Bowers, or Austin. I even would have been ok with Jimmy Smith (who went 2 picks earlier). I'm a happy camper. Carimi should be a maller and should play on our line for a long long time. I expect a dtackle with our next pick and if Austin slid I could even see us move up to get him.

Fairley makes that dline even scarier. Vikings...ROFL. Never in my wildest dreams did I think Ponder was going #12.

Agree with you both!

How does it work? Does the entire first round not occur today?

I know a lot of people don't like Baldwin, but he seems like a big, physical receiver that Cutler would really benefit by having. The hard part is, we also need oline help. However, I could live with Baldwin. The question is going to be whether he's fast enough to get open and what his work ethic is. The size and physical skills appear to be there. Can he become a polished route-runner, have great hands, and create enough seperate, time will tell. The one key is, only one of those things requires physical ability (seperation), the rest is all about how much time you put into your craft.

Its kind of weird. But with the lockout looming and there being so little "real" NFL news I haven't paid much attention to thinks. Completely forgot the draft starts up tomorrow.

I wonder if we'd end up getting dissapointed. He's had one really good year and it was with a kick ass Favre at the helm (no denying that 2 years ago, Favre was really really good).

I'm ok with all of the above.

Makes a lot of sense. He's a quality veteran and a good guy and I think he'll have a rebound season. Plus at 1.25M there is just no risk to keeping him.

I don't quite see why we would cut him. He's a classy guy that had a down year, but I'd say I like his track record and think he has something left. Plus, we have him at a bargain rate.

Very cool stuff.

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I'm ok with that. Lovie is a good solid football coach and I think he's capable of bringing a superbowl to Chicago!

I want to add in a random fact. Type 1 diabetics are told they should not(only in a worse case situation would they) take cortisone shots. A local radio show out here had a doctor on talking about it. Geeze, guy goes out and plays 3 series on a torn MCL (grade 2 sprain) without any pain killers. Thats a f***ing man!

And why wouldn't you want Manning back?

I actually thought that was a beautifully thrown ball by Cutler given he was already suffering his knee injury. Single coverage, one on one situation and he put it where Knox should have got to the high point and make the catch. Instead Shields made an absolutely beautiful defensive play, one only a converted wideout could make (at least the pick part of it), imo.

Where did you here this?

Amen!

Slight Correction (to add to his toughness). The man tore his MCL and played in three series after the fact before the doctors determine him medically unable to return. That is pretty tough to me and great post, completely agree.

Do people realize that when you have tough man Olin Kreutz and Urlacher behind you it should tell you a lot. Especially since Urlacher didn't always like Cutler. Clearly Jay had won over the lockeroom this season. How about we talk about that.

The National Media is so embarassing here, as are some of these arm-chair NFL players tweeting, and of course many Bears fans!

The Bears shit the bad. They should have had him in the lockeroom instead. But you know what, Jay tried to give it a go and couldn't plant at all (which was pretty evident watching him throw). They had no shot with him in the game.

He is terrible, horrible, and awful all rolled into one. He won't be back, but we at least know Hanie is a solid potential backup. Now lets hope Jay can get healthy and we can add some weapons on offense and find some young blood for our defense and get back and win it all next year!!

Question a torn MCL. What a bunch of idiots out there not realizing that Jay has done nothing but been tough his entire career.

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/...r-has-mcl-tear/ Maybe all of you people calling him soft can apologize? Cutler can get bashed for a lot of things, but "soft" isn't one of them. Oh and the national sports media doesn't like to talk about how right after Cutler's "No comment" in regards to NFL players questioning his toughness, he turned around and started to cry.