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Kruetz has clearly been our best olineman this year. He's gotten absolutely no help from the guards since 06. He's mediocre now, but I really feel if we upgrade both guard spots, we could see Kreutz play raise up a notch. Its clear he is no longer the player he used to be, but he's only 32, still has some years left, and actually seems to give a damn.

Its really not that crazy. I dont want to start a race debate and Lovie obviously is not a racist, he has a white wife. However, he has the attitude that minorities need more help and should be handed things. This is the same attitude the President of the United States has, and hundreds of thousands of other people, black and white. Just look, this nation uses affirmative action for deciding who gets hired or accepted into college. I won't say its racism, cause its not. However, Im a firm believer in everyone is equal, no one should be handed anything because of anything. The most deserving and best for the job should get the job. And the thing that really pisses me off is that this is in sports. Now, sports should have ABSOLUTELY nothing to do with race. 99% of the time, race is the last thing anyone on the team or coaching staff cares about, winning is the priority. Well, I guess we now know where Lovie's priorities lay.

He actually plays with some emotion it seems like. Looks like someone who should be a keeper on special teams.

On one hand, a chance is a chance and you never might know what happens with that shot... However, on the other hand, no big deal. Gaines Adams is god awful and I'd pretty much expect him to do what he's done his whole career thus far, and be a blocking dummy for opposing offensive tackles.

The organization is loaded with money. Firing Lovie and spending another 5 million a year on a coach is nothing for the family. They're just extremely cheap.

I wonder if all bridges have been burned with Ron Rivera or if we get a new front office and coaching staff, maybe we could get him back. Its become evident that the dominant defensives of 05 and 06 we had were the result of Rivera, not Lovie. Plus, Rivera has been doing really good with San Diego and his versatility in basically 3 different schemes (blitz heavy man-to-man 4-3 under Jimmy Johnson, Tampa 2 with us, and now the 3-4 with San Diego) could lead him to really becomming a dominate defensive coordinator. My dream scenario for next year is: New Front Office HC: Mike Shannahan OC: Jeremy Bates DC: Ron Rivera (could also make him assistant HC)

If we keep getting embarrassed like this week in and week out, the org will have no choice but to fire lovie. At that point, its not a question of being cheap, but rather being extremely dumb.

lol, you cant single out practically half of the guys out on the field for a lack of success on offense?

haha, yeah. The 5'6", 175 pound twig was bound for greatness... if only we gave him more carries. Im sure Dan Bazuin would be an elite pass rusher right now if we let him make the team. I actually dont mind Garrett Wolfe, but he was never worth a 3rd round pick and will never be anything more than a special teamer and backup.

The Bears eating the rest of Lovie and Jerry's contract would be like us losing a 5 dollar bill. The Bears and the ownership are raking in money every year. Selling out every home game with tickets that are well overpriced, being in the top 5, if not higher, in NFL merchandise sales, probably paying a sweatheart deal for Soldier Field, etc. The issue is the owners are cheap pricks. Hopefully people in ownership step up and smell the coffee and turn this team back into a football first franchise, not a cheap franchise. We will be raking in money every year, this is a given. We can bring in even more money if we focused on becoming a dominate franchise like the Colts, Patriots, etc.

For me, film sessions usually take an hour. On average you have 60 plays to break down. Now, that is just for the OL. If you were to analize both the line and skill players, 2 minutes is all it should take on average for a play. Good plays are the easiest to break down cause it usually meant that most everyone did their job. Its the bad plays that keep getting played over and over in the film room.

not to get into the specifics of the play, but i would kill myself if it took 10 minutes to break down every single play.

I haven't worn a cup since Grade School. Some players prefer to wear cups, but most prefer not. Wearing a cup feels restricting and limiting to movement. Even in baseball, the only guy that probably still wears a cup is the cathcer.

I agree to a point, Im not giving Cutler a free pass at all. But in all honestly, at some point you're gonna have to throw it up and force something to try and make something happen. Taking sacks and losing yards was not going to help us win later in the game.

I'd have to say Ed Reed is the best. But otherwise, I don't disagree with you about the fact that our drafting has sucked with Angelo and Lovie. Think about it, this is a team that has spent a 1st round pick on a guy with back issues a year ago, has used 2nd and 3rd round picks on guys who never even made it to the 53 man roster, and used plenty more on guys who should have never been picked where they were (Key example, Garrett Wolfe).

Its impossible to say who played the least bad last night on the OLine.

Id hardly call Polamalu the best safety since Lott... Polamalu isn't even the best safety in the NFL right now, IMO. However, that's all I gotta say.

Cutler had to try and win the game single handedly, he had absolutely no help. The OLine is beyond awfull, and the receivers couldn't get open if they had all day. Running the ball was obviously not an option. The only thing you need to look at and see why we lost this game is the stat that we threw the ball over 50 times. Unless you're the freaking Patriots from 07, that simply will not cut it. There is absolutely no balance with the offense, and we don't have the talent from our receivers or the protection to be passing the ball 50+ times a game. Unfortunately, we don't have an OLine that can consistently get us even at least 3 yards per carry. As for the picks by Cutler, the first one was god awful. And the last one was forced, but I can see why he would force it with time expiring. As for the others, Hester fell down, miscommunication between Hester and Cutler on the other one. And the one that really irks me is Kellen Davis playing like a little girl out there. Are you kidding me Kellen Davis? You're 6'7", 260+, and you get knocked out of the way like nothing? Come on now, play with some desire and fight for the ball. Soft, that's the story of the team. It's embarassing to watch football and see only a hand full of players playing with emotion and an intent to win. It's sickening. My only hope is that we replace the whole coaching staff and front office for next year.

Once the play began, there was only 8 seconds left on the clock. He's going off of a mental clock, not looking at the scoreboard. If he threw the ball away, and time expired, he'd be getting ripped on for not trying to at least force one. Also, dont forget, there is always a 1-2 second run off. The clock doesn't stop automatically once the ball hits the ground or sails over the endzone.

It's an easy adjustment in the offseason, but it's tough to do mid-season. Playing on one side, you get into a groove. The main adjustment is with your stance and especially with your kick-step. At tackle, your kick step is your most important tool, and when you switch sides, you are all switched around and your kick step will be much less effective for a while. If you make this move, I'd rather see Shaffer go in at RT, let Williams work at LT during scout for a couple weeks, then bench Pace.

Garza is done, his knees are shot. I haven't seen anything out of him. Also, considering Kreutz plays the much more important spot on the line and is an undisputed leader on the team, I'll take him.

As someone who has been through this, it is not a wise move to switch a tackle from right to left and etc. in the middle of a season.

Kreutz has arguably been our best Olineman thus far. We wont get much for him via trade, and he is still a solid player (obviously not the player he used to be). We should worry more about RG and RT (shift Williams to LT) and not adding to the holes by getting rid of Kreutz.

No argument here. However, I get the feeling some people are gonna be expecting the OLine to play awesome right away, but I highly doubt that will be the case.

I agree, there really is no metric for this stuff, you gotta go with good scouting IMO. Does this take into account different schemes? Does it adjust to specific types of blocks? It seems very flawed to say the least. My concern with the OLine this year is that we will have 3 or possibly even 4 new starts on the line (I don't care what the stats say, it should be a tight competition between Garza, Shaffer, Beekman, and Buenning for the RG spot). When you adjust the line that much, with a completely new left side, its gonna take a while before the whole line has the scheme down and are all on the same page.