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Yeah, Greg Jennings came back from the same injury last year and wasn't the same player. Amendola this year has sucked after coming back from a torn groin. My initial reaction to the "4 weeks" news was relief, but it is very possible that he's not going to be nearly as effective when he does come back. The only positive is that it wasn't a complete tear that would have required him to miss the rest of the season + part of next year, which could have ruined his career.

The Bears have many different ways they can approach the offseason, but I've condensed it down to 3. #1- Partial rebuild - Keep offensive personel the same - Use draft picks to rebuild the defense - Cut ties with Melton and Peppers to free up a little money to franchise Cutler and perhaps re-sign Jennings and Tillman to modest deals. - Compete next season #2- 3/4 rebuild - Cut ties with Cutler, Melton, and Peppers - Draft a QB in round 1 - Use the rest of the picks for defense - Attempt to compete next season with a young QB, expect growing pains (fringe playoff team with the arrow pointing ^^) #3- Complete rebuild - Cut/trade everybody (Briggs, Tillman, Jennings, Melton, Cutler, Peppers, Marshall etc..) - Stockpile draft picks - Draft a QB in round 1 - Suck for another year, but use two drafts to brighten your future with young, talented players.

That is much better than what I expected. If he only misses 3 games with that injury, I don't know how you can be anything but relieved. I was thinking he'd be out bare minimum 8-10 weeks.

Interesting.. I hope it's Mel Tucker, but I seriously doubt it.

The good news is that he doesn't require surgery, but the bad is that the Bears will be without their best LB'er for atleast a month. This hasn't been a good last 24 hours for Bears fans.

I like the idea of a safety, but if the Bears choose to let Cutler walk, a QB is a MUST in round 1, assuming the ones available are worth taking in the 1st round.

Combination of good play calling, terrible defense, and lack of preparation for a Josh McCown lead offense, as opposed to a Cutler-lead one. I still think McCown can be serviceable enough to win a few games, but I don't see him replicating his 119.6 QB Rating many more times the rest of the year once teams start preparing for him.

He played okay in Mike Shanahan's west coast scheme. Brett Favre thrived under Mike Holmgren's WCO as a renown gunslinger. Hell, Cutler was playing the best football of his career before going down with this injury. I don't think the scheme is a problem. I actually think it's ideal for him, because it encourages him to get rid of the ball quicker and establish a rhythm instead of throwing down the field so much and taking more chances with interceptions.

Prior to this most recent injury, I was leaning towards that way. I, personally, have never been sold on Cutler as a franchise quarterback, but I've always said you might as well keep him around until you can find a better alternative. If he doesn't play another snap the rest of the year, that changes things dramatically because the Bears will be drafting inside the top 15, which gives you a better opportunity to draft that potential "Franchise" QB.

They signed him like 5 seconds after the game got over today.

Bridgewater, Boyd, Hundley, Manziel, Mariotta all look like first round picks right now. Bridgewater probably goes #1 or #2. If the Bears could get one of those guys.. I also like the Price kid from Washington as a prospect later in the draft.

I though Bass had a few nice pressures, but other than that, they got man handled by the read option and Jordan Reed in the passing game. In my opinion, this was their worst performance on D, followed by the Lions game.

When would that be? I thought it was easily their worst defensive performance of the year.

The offense did seem to open up a lot more with McCown at QB over Cutler, which seemed odd. They ran more screens today than they have all season combined. I don't know if that was the plan going into the game, or because they didn't want McCown to have to throw the ball down field like Cutler is capable of doing.

I agree. If he's done for an extended period of time, it might be time to move on to somebody else. Can you really re-sign him to a long term deal after coming back from a serious injury (hypothetically speaking)? I don't think you can. I don't know if a franchise tag would even be worth it at that point. He'll be 32 years old after next season, and is now building up a history of injuries. The thumb, the concussions, the knee, and now the groin. I think they should draft a young QB early in the draft anyways, regardless of this injury, but If the plan is to move on from Cutler, you really need to draft one in the 1st round.

With the news that they already have signed Jordan Palmer, you have to believe the outlook for Cutler's injury is not good. They are saying he was moaning in pain, and couldn't even walk to the locker room when he got into the tunnel. If he's out for the year, what do you do next season at quarterback?

You really think he can hold that up week after week after teams get more film on him? They also won't be playing the Redskins defense every week either, so I have to take that into account.

Both safeties aren't very good. Conte is the worst of the bunch. Maybe Tillman is a better option next year to make the transition.

Redskins are trash. They are lucky they won. Injuries + bad defense + awful 2nd half officiating = win for them. But wtf was McCown doing checking the ball down on that 2nd attempt? You have one timeout left. THROW THE BALL DOWNFIELD. You have three receivers over 6'3. You probably aren't going to win anyways, but at least give them a chance. Horrible job at the end to take a sack. If there is one thing I know now after this game is that the Bears are either a really really bad team w/o Cutler or they are, at best, a one and done playoff team with him. The defense is bad enough as it is, but the injuries make them one of the worst, if not thee worst, D in the entire league. Bottom line, as I said at the beginning of the season, they had the talent to win 10 or 11 games this year if they stayed healthy. With injuries, they might be an 8 or 9 win team. It sucks, but that's the NFL. It takes a lot of luck, and the Bears just don't have any.

All they needed was one stop, and they couldn't get it. Offense did it's job.

Defense can't stop anybody. This would be a bad loss against a bad team, despite all the injuries.

Referees really screwing us over right now. How that was not a hold is beyond me. Unacceptable to miss these calls.

I normally don't say this about other players, but I would not care one bit if that idiot tore his knee up. Absolutely no reason for him to be head hunting the way he does. It's ridiculous.

That call was so bad. Should be Bears ball.

Finally a big run. #ForteTD