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Had his career maintained it’s trajectory before the knee injury, I’ll tell you where he’d be: in the HOF as a first ballot inductee. He was a shutdown before anyone knew what that was and he made a habit of shutting down HOF receivers.

Yep. And it really isn’t all that close. Nope, that would be Robert James. 1st team All Pro in both 1973 and 1974 seasons.

Well, there’s a reason why the CB section of the defensive playbook is the thinnest but, that said, McD’s zone coverage schemes are a tad more complex for CBs. But it ain’t rocket science regardless and I suspect it will be a fast transition for an experienced vet like Douglas.

Well done Bears. Now you get to lose an asset for nothing in free agency.

Whoever thought Surtain was gonna be easy to get is utterly clueless about what it costs to acquire a 1st team All Pro CB on his rookie deal.

Must have been the TOTAL LACK OF HUMOR in your post that threw me off. At least Sgt. Hulka was genuinely funny.

What else does the guy who leads the NFL in turnovers lead the league in since he got to the NFL?

Absolutely. And by the same token, the Bears risk losing him for nothing in free agency.

Best waiver acquisition in league history. For the $100 waiver fee we got a first ballot HOFer with elite athletic skills with PLENTY left in the tank.

That was certainly one of them as it immediately changed the power structure in the AFCE because it gave us the pass rush to impact Marino consistently. But I’d say the final moves to make us SB contenders were the addition of Thurman and the hiring of Marchibroda as OC.

The Hail Mary has it’s place, but I’d like to see some Our Fathers thrown in from time to time.

When offensive holding occurs beyond the LOS, it’s a spot foul and marked 10 yards back from the spot of the infraction. In this case, the holding occurred two yards beyond the LOS resulting in the 1st and 18 down.

A possible rumor? Would that be a rumor of a rumor?

The Stadium Wall gives me agita.

They needed another first down to clinch the game though. They couldn’t close it out with possession and had to punt it back. Good teams don’t do that; they close it out and never give the opponent another opportunity. I agree about the defense, but stupid penalties bailed out TB on multiple fourth downs and we gifted them with first downs. Should have been our ball both times. Jordan Phillips will never get out of my doghouse for one of the dumbest penalties I’ve ever seen.

Agreed. I have no problem with punting the ball up 14 in the 4th and making them face a long field. Nothing wrong with that. I have a huge issue with not being able to get a game clinching first down, which is a mark of a good team. Good teams close out games late when they have the ball. I don’t know how much of that is on McD or not. But if you’re gonna punt on fourth down anyway, then throw a four yard pass and covert a first down instead of running into the teeth of the D that is playing run all the way. But that’s not my main gripe tonight. Instead, once again, McD’s game management vis a vis those timeouts, left a lot to be desired. A HC must be a good game manager, period. And too often in his tenure, McD has shown he just isn’t up to the task. It’s quite maddening and it’s why I feel he lacks the chops to get us there.

I’m afraid McD is simply not the coach to get us there. Jordan Phillips is a stone cold knucklehead. That’s all I have to say.

That may well be true, but Benford and Jackson aren’t much, if any, of an upgrade over Wallace, either.

Josh needs to go on a vision quest with Aaron Rodgers, his spiritual adviser. Nothing that a few mushrooms and a couple days in soundless dark solitude won’t cure.

We don’t have a good enough O line, which was the key to our no huddle success with Kelly and Co. We also don’t have the same number of skill players to make it work, either. Outside of Josh and Diggs, we just don't have the K Gun horses.

Please take your condescending, disingenuous bullcrap someplace else.

No, because we were eliminated from playoff contention with today’s loss.