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Minnesota has a weaker strength of schedule so they would be ahead of us in the draft order. We gotta lose next week! Pissed me off that they choked away the game against Miami. It's almost like they are actively tanking out there. Damn near lost to the Jets too.

Oops I meant they'd be drafting behind us. :/

Carolina is going to draft ahead of us regardless of next week's outcome. They would be 6-9-1 at worst. You're right about the first part, though. We need Atlanta to win and take the division as well as New Orleans to beat Tampa Bay in week 17. We'd be at #9 then. Hell, the way the Eagles are playing the Giants could pull an upset and finish 7-9, which means the Bears would go from #7 to #8 with a win. That's the best case scenario if we win.. A tie with Minny would keep us at #7 I believe since we'd still only have 5 wins.

Is there a site that shows strength of schedule? I can't find any statistic that shows it.

Wow, the Vikings are so damn bad. Completely choked against the Dolphins down the stretch. No way the Bears lose to them next week. They have got to be the worst 6 win team I've ever seen.

Jeffery played like he wanted to get out of the game healthy. Not a very good season overall for him. He has to be near the league lead in dropped passes, especially after today. I counted at least 4. Also, really great week for our draft position with this loss. Atlanta wins, Carolina wins, and Minnesota is winning late against Miami.

Typical Bears winning games they need to lose.. Nobody better in the league at it. They'll probably finish 7-9.

Hideous throw by Stafford.

This rumor appears to have some legs. Ian Rappaport reporting that the Titans are currently doing their homework on Cutler to prep for a possible deal in the off-season. http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap300000044...jay-cutler-deal

Don't think he was ever going to be fired, but it doesn't mean they won't find a replacement for him in regards to football decisions. Boers and Bernstein said last week that Ted himself wouldn't mind somebody doing the football stuff. He'd rather stick to business.

Yeah, no way the Bears would be dumb enough to throw in a 2nd or 3rd round pick just to get rid of Cutler in a trade. If they wanted him gone bad enough they could just cut him. I think giving up a pick to get rid of a player is unprecedented in the NFL. Don't believe it's ever happened.

More at link http://chicagofootball.com/2014/12/18/hub-...-list/akjn3ia/# A lot of us have been asking for a football czar. Didn't think it was possible that ownership would be smart enough to recognize this, but apparently the chatter has already started. Holmgren was pretty much a disaster with Cleveland though as their President of Football operations man, so I don't really like hearing his name. Still, hearing this is at least a step in the right direction if they have finally figured out that something like this needs to happen.

You know it's bad when he looks like the mature adult out of this group. The way things have been handled lately, you almost have to sympathize with Cutler a little bit.

Trestman is for sure gone, Cutler and Emery are question marks, though it would be awfully hard to keep Cutler at this point given what has transpired recently. If you were to ask me today, I think everybody is gone, but it wouldn't surprise me if Emery stays, Trestman goes, and Cutler is on the trade block, and the decision to keep or cut him will be made by the next HC.

I would lean closer to Trestman doing this on his own to try and save either his job here (unlikely) or to prove to the rest of the league that he can still coach quarterbacks if there was ever another opportunity for him to stay in the NFL. I think he knows he's gone, which is why I can't see him doing this to preserve Cutler's trade value (because why would he care at this point if he is not going to be here?) Although Mike Shanahan basically did this last year with RGIII even though he knew he was gone.. Idk. This whole thing is bizarre.

First of all-- This move makes no sense. Secondly, the only reasons I can even come up with at this point are: - They are protecting him from getting hurt badly in the final two games because they are going to attempt to trade him - Trestman is saying "F you" to his bosses and will ride with Clausen to prove to the rest of the NFL that he can still coach quarterbacks at this level, just not Jay Cutler

About this rumor though, why wouldn't the deal be RGIII for Cutler? Unless they are going to go trade RGIII in a separate trade, it'd be kind of weird to have Cutler and him on the same team.

I would never trade Cutler for Cousins with the thought in mind that Cousins is the starter. I would be comfortable with him as a backup, but nothing more.

I don't think that's accurate. Adam Schefter was on ESPN not too long ago saying that Cutler has generated some interest around the league and that the Bears could save like 12M or so by launching him to another team. I need to find the full quote. Here it is: http://espn.go.com/chicago/nfl/story/_/id/...ay-cutler-trade

Yeah I think they've got to go with a guy who's coached before on this next hire. Harbaugh would be 1st on my list, followed by Rex Ryan. Cowher has been out of the league for too long IMO, and Gruden just signed an extension with ESPN to stay on board until 2021, so he's not likely going anywhere. Saw this yesterday from a column written by Ray Ratto and got kind of excited..

Now wouldn't that be a great Christmas present!

Could be Forte too as he didn't even attempt to get in front of a couple blitzers in last night's game. He looked like he checked out of that one pretty early on.

As bad as we have looked I am still nervous as hell that we are going to beat Minnesota the last game of the year. I have no idea how they've won 6 games this year but they play like one of the worst 5 teams in the NFL. Their quarterback sucks, they have no run game, and they make stupid decisions on defense. I could definitely see the Bears winning that game and probably going from like 7th to 10th in the draft order because of it. I'll be so pissed.

Are we still at #9 now or do we leap ahead of either NY or ATL to get to #7 or #8?

Now we will put up points in garbage time, enough to make the loss not look as bad. The Bears can't even lose right.