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Some take-aways from the game: 1. Worst play call I have ever seen, was that Trestman or Lovie? Their luck ran out after the Kearse catch. 1a. Looked like a Cutler throw, I still feel Wilson is overrated. Can't throw a pick from the 1 there. Horrible throw. He only makes plays when the plays break down, can't live by that type of play. 2. Seattle lost a lot of respect with those antics at the end, no class. Hilarious to see all the smack talking and taunting and you lose. 3. Hard to argue with Brady as best of all time, Manning no longer in his class. Now between Montana and Brady only. 4. Dallas gets penalty picked up against Detroit, Bryant no-catch against GB, GB implodes against Seattle, then Seattle blows it from the 1 yard line. Crazy NFC. 5. We need a speedy WR with hands, Edelman played awesome.

Right now Ray has the lead, with Shelton second. I would honestly be happy with either.

If Tillman can give us 2 productive years, that would be huge and one less hole to fill at least this year. We can reduce the need for CB's by one, which the way we have to fill holes, is a big deal. I trust Fox/Pace to get this right and I am good either way, but if Tillman just wants to retire a Bear and isn't asking for a lot of money. Signing him to a short/low cap hit deal would be beneficial for both sides.

One of my biggest complaints last year was how our defense always seemed to be out of position. Either they lined up wrong, were out of position to make a play (and had to recover) or completely played the wrong gap; it was a like a guessing game and we always lost. The units also seemed disjointed. The DLine, LBs, and DBs were never on the same sheet of music. We would blitz and the CBs would be 10 yards off, or Safeties would come up and the CBs would expect support of the top. This occurred on every play. We only tackled the other team by accidentally running into them. The entire defense looked confused pre-snap too and then we were just chasing players on every play. This is all on Tucker. It will be a complete 180 this year with a real Head Coach and real Defensive Coordinator. Players will know "their job" on every play and know where they need to be. The Bears were the best Cover-0 team in the league (covering open space) last year. In a weird way, I think the epic fail of a defense negatively impacted our offense. The offense would fool our defense with plays that would fool no one else, we telegraphed every play, yet our defense was so bad it got fooled. So our offense was under-prepared to handle real defensive schemes and how to counter various pressures. Our offense was built to beat the Cover-0 and we were the only team playing it.

I think SMC was stunted by his position and Mel Tucker's lack of coaching. Just read some of the comments on him from draft analysts before the draft: http://blogs.thescore.com/nfl/2012/04/16/d...shea-mcclellin/

Just holding players accountable is going to have a huge positive effect on this team.

Hard game to pick, I don't like either team but my logical side wants to pick Seattle 24-20, but my gut is telling me NE 27-17. What do you think? Also, with the news about the Lynch extension, do you think Seattle can extend Lynch, make Wilson the highest paid QB, extend and give a raise to Wagner, and somehow resign Maxwell? To me Maxwell seems like the odd one out.

He is what he is but I still think he can play better. There were clear disconnects from the entire team last year. 2013 was more in line with where I believe we can be offensively. Cutler can improve and he will need to or he will no longer be on the team. Older players can play better in their 30's, Gannon and Young both figured it out in their 30s.

That is sort of my point. Here are all the QBs available via trade or free agency; are any of these better than Cutler: Sam Bradford, Nick Foles, Jake Locker, Brian Hoyer, Kyle Orton, Matt Moore, Michael Vick, Christian Ponder, Blaine Gabbert, Jason Campbell, Tavaris Campbell, Ryan Mallett

The only way I would trade/cut Cutler is if I knew who was replacing him. I feel like the defense was so bad the last few years that we wouldn't have done much better with anyone else anyway. So gaining cap space is great, but that doesn't guarantee anything. One crazy scenario I thought about has us in a 3 way trade with Philly and Tennessee where Philly drafts Mariota, we get Foles, and Tennessee gets Cutler and some picks.

AZ, Yeah I didn't list players that were off the board on majority of the mocks. I left Mariota, Winston, Williams, Gregory, and Cooper off the board.

There really is no wrong answer, but the only player on the list I would pass on would be Parker. As a secondary question, if Winston or Mariota drop to #7, would you pick either of them?

We are on the clock at #7, these are the players on the board, with no trade partners, who is your pick?

I like the first two, but don't think we can go past the 4th without a Safety. I would like to see DE/LB, ILB, S, OL, CB, QB.

Another cool fact with our coaches, we now have 30 years of DC experience (Fangio-15, Donatell-8, Fox-7).

I really think Fuller was hindered by Tucker's horrible coaching and scheme. Fuller actually got worse as the season went on. I would rather have Tillman and Fuller starting, bring in a free agent that is starting caliber, and draft one within the first 4 rounds. We now have Fox, Fangio, and Donatell overseeing the Secondary compared to Trestman, Tucker, Hoke.

I would be more curious to see how many are still on the team that drafted them, how many pro bowlers, starters, and busts. All I know is we really can't draft much worse. Here is a good summary of drafts over the past 5 years: http://q.usatoday.com/2014/05/07/nfl-draft...gland-patriots/ Basically NO, SF, and DEN have all been great drafting teams, and we have been the worst. We are in a unique category with Jacksonville and no other team is even close to as bad as we have been. The chart says it all:

I saw him on NFL Network yesterday and you could just hear the excitement in his voice. Even if he doesn't return, it nice to see players excited about the team and football again. I would sign him to a 1 or 2 year deal, the triceps injury was a freak injury, and with the missed games, he has that much more left in the tank.

It was really bad if the kicker saw that. Now the only things to add for context, we had just lost to Detroit, were 5-7 and essentially eliminated from playoff contention. Two games later Cutler was benched for Clausen, and then we played Minnesota. So I can see how there would be even less leadership visible at that point as we all were just trying to get the season over with. When Urlacher was not re-signed, this was mentioned, he was the leader of the team and rallied the troops. Cutler just doesn't have that in him. He has shown it more on the field, but obviously he doesn't do it in the locker room. The positive out of that article is that even Feely acknowledged that we are "loaded with talent".

Everything is a gate nowadays. So I guess it was a water scandal in the 1970's. The Blount thing is crazy. So you purposely get released by a team to go back to your old one without any repercussions? They should prevent this from occurring in the future. The Blount-Rule to prevent a Blountgate.

Cody Prewitt looked pretty good at Senior Bowl.

His attitude and dedication really soured on me over the past year, and I was always a huge Briggs fan. To me it would come down to pay as I think he can still play at a high level.

Which makes it way less of a big deal because 1 psi is close enough to be within the margin of error when you account for the weather conditions. However, it seems like they may have been doing this for a long time: http://www.wsj.com/articles/patriots-alway...ball-1422054846

I want nothing to do with anyone from that defense now. I will pass on Collins at 7.

I like Shelton too, my only issue is that we just drafted Sutton and Ferguson, but if he is the best player at #7, then take him.