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My favorite read on a Monday morning is his ten thoughts about the recent Bears games. Always some really good / interesting nuggets in there (and it is exactly where I got that info).

Head to Head play has no bearing on which team picks higher vs. the others. If you have the same record, the first tie-breaker is opponent winning percentages. Teams with the worse opponent winning percentages pick higher then those with higher winning percentages. I would imagine we will be favorites on Sunday (especially given we are the home team).

Late wishes but Happy Turkey Day everyone. Hope everyone and their families had a great time.

I would be fine with that deal. I would like us to get Jimmy G.

I would like Mike McCoy to come in and help Fox. To me the real question is what is our strategic plan. Do we intend to go with a young QB that we draft? If we do, are we committed to Fox for the next few years (regardless of what happens a year from now) and do we think we have the right OC here long term to be that person? If not, we need to move Fox now, because if the thoughts are we draft a young QB and throw him to the wolves while expecting Fox to contend, we are setting ourselves up for a carousel of coaches and coordinators under our new QB. I am personally okay with being patient as long as Fox makes the right move on an OC and we feel we have the right person to groome the young QB. If we are going for a veteran and a young QB (basically buying time), then I am absolutely fine with Fox and if we stink next year, we can move on. Only way I get rid of him now is because we go out and land Harbaugh or something and then draft a young QB who Harbaugh grooms.

Incredible that he played the second half with a torn labrum. While Jay didn't bring the championship I expected him to bring to Chicago, he always played hard and tough. Obviously he didn't get it done and there are many reasons for that, some of which are Jay's fault and others of which are on the front office. I wish him the best in his next voyage because he gave it his all with us. IT wasn't good enough, but it is unfortunate that even to this day there are meatheads that think he is soft. Jay is a lot of things, but soft and don't care are not on that list. You don't play through that type of shoulder injury if you are soft or if you don't care.

I don't know that anyone will jump for Jay and no one is going to give us anything for him. If he played well down the stretch, maybe we get a late round pick. I said all along we should have traded him to the Vikings when Bridgewater went down. No one in the league is going to give us anything for Jay (maybe we get a conditional pick or something). Very high probability he will be released.

If you cut him, you have a minimal cap hit. If you trade him, you have no cap hit and the other team could eventually cut him and pay the cap hit we would have, or they could pay him his current contract or obviously they could renegotiate the contract. Problem is, Bears will have little leverage, given how Jay has played along with the fact that he now will be coming off a labrum surgery and everyone on the planet knows we plan on cutting him. Going to be hard to get much anything for him. I do think he will go somewhere and end up playing, but he might need to wait a while until a QB gets hurt late or something along those lines.

More likely, he or Barkley could be our saviors in getting us a top pick and maybe getting lucky on whichver QB we take (I'm not convinced any of the top 3 guys are worthy of being taken in those spots), but if we pick them, I hope they go down as an all time great. Either way, I hope these guys lead to helping us get our franchise QB!!!

Our backup would be some undrafted guy from Liberty that I've never heard of. Maybe that will be our savior though...and they will go on to make a disney movie about him!!!

At somepoint in yesterday's game he injured his shoulder and early reports have it being a serious with the expectation that he will be out for the year. With Matt Barkley, that game against the Niners becomes critical for the who will get the #2 overall pick. Unfortunately, I can't see the Browns and the #1 pick factoring into anything, because they have a tough remaining schedule and limited talent themselves.

This is just laughable.

The fact that Miller was as healthy as he had been was what should have surprised us. But I do agree the hits keep on coming and this is a tough loss, because when he's healthy, he is a good player and by all accounts he's a great teammate, etc. Get better Zach.

Some rumors that the Bears are one of two teams who would likely make a push for Romo this off-season. As a two year stop-gap, while we develop a QB, I absolutely would be okay with the move. We have tons of cap space and a defensive arrow that is pointing up. I don't love any of the QB's who we may not even have a shot at with our 1st round pick and this would allow us to take someone and develop them without the immediate pressure of needing them to come in (and if we misssed, we could take another one while still having a good QB...cause Romo is good (if he's healthy). Of course as everyone on this board knows, I'm also fine making a push for Jimmy G (cause I think he's better then the top 3 QB's on the board and we could likely get him for a 2nd rounder and a future pick).

Yes. Have you all seen what teams give up for #1 overall picks? Not guys like Jay Cutler who are worthy of a 4th or 5th round pick at best. In what world do those two people equate to a #1 overall pick. Maybe we could get a 1st round pick packaging them together, but I believe most reports had Jeffrey maybe worth a 2nd round pick. #1 overall is giving up a massive amount of haul. If we were at #5 and traded our #5, Jeffrey, and Cutler...maybe we could get to #1 and even then I don't know that the Browns would do it.

Wait are you serious. #1 overall pick for Jay & Alshon? No freaking way would Browns do this.

Wow...didn't see that coming. Should hinder his free agent value a bit, but also will hinder his trade value, etc.

AZ, I always look forward to these reads. I don't have anything to disagree with and think you summed it up excellently. I'm with you in the sense that I am very happy what I've seen the past few weeks (in the sense we are seeing a young defense emerge, as well as some potential keepers on the defensive side. We've also seen improvement / things to look offensively and I agree with you Loggains seems to be finding a bit of a rhythm. Plenty of football to play and with the Packers and Vikings losing again, things just get more interesting (especially since we have plenty of divisional football left).

Their offense just got going, but they had two games where they really couldn't do much offensively at all.

I was annoyed at the penalty, but I presume he thought the play was dead and was hustling out for the punt? Definitely a bad penalty though. In general, a thorough beating. We looked like a superior team (no smoke and mirrors in yesterday's game). Its unfortunate we lost some winnable games. Outside of that Dallas game, we could have won any game and should at least have a few more wins (and could have been in a position to make an actual run). McPhee helps this D, but, it really helps that Floyd and Hicks have generated some real pass rush these past two games (to go with Willie Young).

I honestly think he wasn't used to having the ball thrown with that velocity. Looks like he was caught by surprise, but he adjusted nicely in the second half.

This years draft looks good. Floyd was dynamic. Drew a hold, constant pass rush (plus the sack). Showed great motor. Yes, it was again a weak oline, but something I like to see. Two straight games where he has been making plays, which is fantastic to see. Howard with his best game yet, very dynamic and just some great reads and runs (plus some nice catches). Add to that Whitehair is looking like a legit player so those are all major pluses. I don' even know who our secondary is, but some of these young guys are doing solid. The addition of Hicks also looks really solid, which is nice to see. This was a really really fun game to watch. We took it to them at all levels and our young players contributed nicely to the win.

Fox outrighted denied it after the game (not really sure why he would be the person who would comment on it though). The top of the organization should have immediately came out (as you mentioned). I presume they are being coy because it has more to do with their longer term ownership interest / plans (especially how they hold the team / manage through estate tax, etc).

Supposedly the particular eye was on that of Fox, which could make some of the reports that Pace never wanted Fox to begin with (and they don't see all that eye to eye) as being accurate. Remember, lots of reports that Pace wanted Bowles. No idea how much Fox was forced cause it would have been Fox was a 1B vs. 1A, so while Pace preferred one, if everyone else was on the other side, he might have said, okay lets go. My view is, you can't ever succeed in rebuilding if you don't have the patience to actually go through a rebuild. If we change every few years, we'll never build anything anyway (cause you'll never have enough time to see if you have a Picasso or a piece of crap).

Yep. Last year he tried to get Mariotta. Clearly willing to be aggressive and I would be okay if we had either of those guys long-term (still early on both of them, but potential certainly there).