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Interesting: Looks like it is going to come down to a final two brought back for 2nd interviews from the original 13. So we may know who that is if someone is back at Halas Hall this week. I figure we will know by Thursday, with the official presser on Friday at the latest, so the coach can go to the East West Shrine game on Saturday. http://espn.go.com/blog/chicago/bears/post...among-last-four

If coaches we interviewed are interviewing for lesser positions, it hard for me to believe that they have not been already informed that they are no longer being considered for the HC job.

Who said that? It is not all black and white, right and wrong here. Does Cutler have a personality that rubs people the wrong way, absolutely, but that should not take away from what he does on the field. The face of the franchise is normally the best player or the player most associated with that franchise. Megatron is more the face than Stafford, AP more the face than Ponder, etc, etc. What do you mean is he unable or unwilling to behave in a mature way Brady yelling at OC: Manning yelling at Center, but if NFL Network makes light of it, its ok:

Here are the remaining playoff teams: BAL: McKinnie (FA, Former 1st Rd pick) Osemele (2nd Rd pick) Burk (FA) Yanda (3rd Rd pick) Oher (1st Rd pick) NE: Solder (1st Rd pick) Mankins (1st Rd pick) Vollmer (2nd Rd pick) Connolly (FA) Wendell (UDFA) ATL: Baker (1st Rd pick) Blalock (2nd Rd pick) McClure (7th Rd pick) Konz (2nd Rd pick) Clabo (FA) SEA: Okung (1st Rd pick) McQuistan (FA) Unger (2nd Rd pick) Sweezy (7th Rd pick) Giacomini (FA) HOU: Brown (1st Rd pick) Smith (FA) Myers (FA) Jones (4th Rd pick) Newton (7th Rd pick)

Supposed to be Peppers, the table I copied from actually had Peanut on both teams.

Yeah, I mentioned a few posts earlier. I can't believe they did not game plan for that. GB might look significantly different next year.

Nice to see some validation for these guys. Melton was the only guy to drop off from the Pro Bowl roster for the Bears. First Team WR Brandon Marshall, Bears CB Charles Tillman, Bears Second Team DE Julius Peppers, Bears CB Tim Jennings, Bears http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap100000012...-headline-teams?

That would've been ridiculous. If he called out the fans for booing? I cannot even fathom the backlash that he would've received. They would probably ban him from the game and every Bears fan that doesn't like him would be calling for Sexy Rexy to come back to the Bears and throw some more picks.

They have to wait?

This is a great point, and often gets overlooked. How many times did we "just line up and try to beat someone", both on offense and defense. To me, that just begs to get beat by teams that are more creative than you. You don't let the other team dictate what you do, and you have to play to your strengths and to the opponents weaknesses. I don't know how often we did that. We really did nothing "advanced" on either side of the ball, it was the skill of our players that gave us our wins.

Absolutely, but I wanted to see what people thought from the information available. Maybe I will just make another one later in the week on who we want

Surprised to not see any McCoy votes.

Woodson said after the game that they did not plan for Kaepernick to run so much. Really? No wonder you got torched. They didn't have a spy on him. Seattle had the blue print for him, and I am surprised GB didn't follow suit.

Oh yeah, loving it. Rodgers running around like a little scared school boy.

Wow, SF and Kaepernick look good. Glad to see the Cheeseheads out of it. Now Clements becomes available, if Emery deems him worthy enough. GB doomed themselves by losing to Minny in Week 17. A win and they would've had a Bye last week and a home game this week. So much for Rodgers being the savior that can win any game on his own. Nothing can help a defense that bad.

Who calls the plays in SF, because it looks like Harbaugh runs the offense? Listening to the commentators, Harbaugh gets most of the credit for the QB development in SF.

Looks like we have 3 leading candidates.

Yeah, a bunch of Manning's throws were dying, you could see he has lost some arm strength. It was an exciting game nonetheless. Glad to see Ray Lewis gets another game. Now is GB, HOU, and SEA loses, we will have every candidate available other than Armstrong from ATL.

That seems to be his MO, I also picked Sullivan.

If one guy says that, it is one thing, but when it is corroborated with a 2nd person completely separated from the first, that basically confirms the information. and no, we never heard that about Angelo. Stuff like this really impresses me about Emery, because this type of execution breeds success.

This is not who you want, but who do you think Emery will select as the next HC? I an interested to see who the top 3 will be, and if it is in line with what I believe.

More on Emery, I didn't see this posted anywhere: https://twitter.com/AdamSchefter/status/290121495768870912 To me, this is like a breath of fresh air, it is such a nice change to hear things like this.

Or that he was faking it anyway. Cutler cannot catch a break, and it is sort of surprising coming from Bears fans who should know their QB better than the national media and audience. We watch every game, every news conference, and should have a better idea of his character and personality than others. I was pretty critical of Cutler early on, but he has grown on me over the last few years. It is nice to have some continuity at the QB position for the first time in a long time. Next year he will be the Bears all-time Passing leader in almost every single statistical category.

Ah, ok, makes sense.

7 days until Emery's deadline. We are in the final stretch, and may even know after this weekend's round of interviews and playoff results.