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Sounds good. So we would have glennon at qb and a mediocre record and be wondering how are we ever going to get a QB. No thanks...I’ll take the shot at Trubisky. Bout time we had a gm with the courage to go get the guy he wanted to be our franchise QB.

Toub would be a good head coach. Would be curious to see who he would bring in as coordinators.

I would be all over Bill O’Brien. That would be a hire.

Fuller is having himself a game. He isn’t a number one, but I would pay him.

Josh Gordon would be a guy I would consider taking a chance on. That said he could turn into a disaster.

Pace has drafted quite well. White was a disaster but I can’t blame a guy because of injuries, but other then that he’s found lots of quality players in the draft. We are a good offseason away from being a playoff contender.

Our oline is basically on IR. What do you expect. We don’t have a backup with any experience. Long, Sutton, Compton all out. Massive hurt in the game and obviously Kush hurt in preseason.

He's still a physical freak and his ankle should keep getting better. Glad we shut him down and hopefully he gets to play for a winning team next year (and that winning team is the Bears)

He is gone and pass rushing OLB is high on the list. That said, I'm totally down to bring Houston back as a depth move.

Just an outstanding post. I also want to give kudos to the players and coaching staff for having these guys playing hard in what could have easily turned into a disaster. Of course I'm one of the few here who doesn't think Fox is just a total idiot (you don't luck your way into two superbowls with two different teams as the head coach; nor do you luck your way into the playoffs with Tim "freaking" Tebow.

Fuller had about 2 games in this whole season where he wasn't good (missed a few tackles and just didn't play well). Outside of that, he's been really really good. Wish he'd hold on to some of those picks though.

Echo those exact sentiments. Fantastic post.

I thought it was widely reported that Pace doesn't want Fangio? At least those were the first reports...so if anything, I would presume Fangio came out subsequent and pretended like he isn't interested. The reality is, Fangio is not necessarily the most well-liked guy and a lot of teams have questioned whether he could actually be a head coach (doesn't mean those teams aren't wrong...just something worth pointing out). I think he's a good DC...I don't have any interest in him as our HC.

It could be we have guys who are injury prone; It could also be that football is a violent sport and sometimes its just bad luck and you get more impacted some years (vs. other years).

Prosinski and Houston both got a ton of reps and weren't on the roster the week before. The fact that the middle of the field was wide open on numerous occasions shouldn't really shock us.

I don't think that changes things...actually makes them worse. A new GM and we'd be on our 3rd GM in a very short order (and that is extremely uncommon). That literally puts us in the same spot as the Browns.

As this could help the Giants get a late win or two and possibly enhance Bears draft pick. We are likely to get a top 5 pick, but in a pretty tough spot since we will likely beat the Browns. Hard to do much better then 5 or so, unless we lose out. There are a lot of really bad teams.

Remember that we had a ton of issues in the middle of the field, given injuries / new guys playing. It shouldn't be shocking we had breakdowns in coverage. Houston played a ton of reps and he wasn't even on our roster a week ago. That in and of itself means we are going to have "breakdowns". We had safeties involved who hadn't played in forever, etc.

We are going to have a hard time finding someone when we get rid of Fox. Way too much instability in this organization and that is not attractive. There are going to be some openings where the head coach can bring in his own QB (vs. being fed Trubisky). It is going to be interesting to see what the market entails.

Love it. Love Gould...glad he kicked our asses this week.

If fire Pace, we might as well just call ourselves the Browns. We are already close enough to it given how many coaches we've went through in the last 5 years.

Agreed; he should be viewed purely as a depth guy (i.e., a 5th wideout and nothing more). To be honest, we kind of have to think of Meredith similarly (given that he is bouncing back from injury). We have to add 2 wideouts (probably one relatively early in the draft and another via FA).

And yes...I fully agree with your assessment of the wideout position.

I completely agree with you that his footwork has been mediocre to bad (that has been consistent all year) and it has definitely impacted his accuracy. I haven't seen this Bears staff make a lot of excuses for Trubisky though (they've told him publicly he needs to be better and he's never shied away from that fact either) so I think there was some merit to the comment. This was by far his least accurate game of his career. I've long said we won't be able to evaluate him until he has gotten comfortable running the offense and is able to decently read defenses. Right now everything is still moving too quickly and with that his timing is going to be off and naturally that will impact his footwork, etc. How well he can read defenses, etc, is a whole nother story. The nice thing is I've seen him throw guys open more the past couple weeks then the first few weeks and he has also gone through multiple reads quicker, etc. Very positive signs. I actually look forward to the next couple weeks where we should be in competitive games to see if we see more growth.

I didn't realize Amos hamstring injury was that bad. Bummer cause he was playing much better.