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Mike Martz named new offensive coordinator for Bears.

Ugh.

Happy New Year fellow sufferers!

I thought this would be a good time to start a fun thread. And, a New Year's List! How cool is that?

Who do you think will be DeAngelo's biggest screw up next year, roster wise. Let's look ahead, shall we?

In other words, we know he's gonna cut somebody loose. Is it gonna be Kreutz? Pina? A colada? What will be the worst move there? He's made so many it should be easy for us to predict the next one.

Who?

If you're really bold, and you know what's shakin' in the possible free agent market, who do you think he'll not sign. Please don't say Chester Taylor cuz we know he is not smart enough to pick him off the pile. Right?

Go!

It's good to live in Texas, sometimes. Because here, they know good football, and even if the Bears game had been the primary Fox game, here in Texas, they would have found a way to black them out.

I didn't see the game. I have no idea why the Lord above saved me from it, but He did. That's Texas speak, btw, and it feels just right, just right now.

What I could tell from the line score was that my earlier defense on this blog of Cutler may have possibly been premature, but that, for sure, my disgust with the Pits was right on target.

For those unfamiliar with the term "pit", it's the term football coaches use for the front line. Both sides. It's a mash pit, and, generally, whatever team wins in the mash pit, on any level of play, high school, college, or NFL, wins the game.

There was an article I saw yesterday in the Trib about how Cutler was, statistically, in better shape than almost all the other QBs in the league in terms of sacks.

I guess the article writer hasn't noticed the pressures. Do those get recorded? Oh, yes, they do. And last I saw, Cutler was number two in the league in pressures. In other words, if he doesn't pass as soon as his hands touch the ball he's in deep shit.

Cutler is not Grossman. Cutler is a QB sitting behind a paper bag offensive line. If he takes them out to dinner, I recommend a really  bad restaurant that makes them all sick for the rest of their lives.

Ugh.

I apologize to my TCR brethren for not coming up with something to read this week end while TCR is down. But jeebus the last thing the Bears need right now is a game up in Minnesota.

Instead of watching this massacre I suggest you do the following things this Sunday at 3:00 pm Central.

-Get to know your family

-Christmas Shopping

-Take a walk, its 55 degrees here in Chicago on Nov 28!

-Make a diorama out of your Thanksgiving leftovers of the Bears beating the Cowboys 44-0 in a 1985 game

Ok? We will survive this.

I miss the Bay Area. The place I worked at was across from a Whole Foods and I fattened myself up every morning on their hot bar. Yum.

While I lived in the Bay Area, I grew to sort of enjoy the 49er football legend. Not that I had a choice. If you're into sports in the Bay Area, you either fall in love with Bill Walsh or get your ass kicked onto the pavement of the Bay Bridge.

Am I crazy or was it just last year that the mainstream media was bitching about the lack of QB talent?

Now, we have so many that I can't even count.

Just go here and you have to get to number 17 before you think there may be some suckage

And 17 is Shaun Hill,  who replaced a high draft choice (not that I remember that high draft choice's name, although I think his name was Alex something. Smith? Smit?).

A year or so ago there was this massive refrain from the mainstream media that the QB situation was bloody awful. Today, Jay Cutler is ranked 9th in whatever the hell this poll is. The point is not to argue about where our new multimillion dollar god should be in these rankings. The point is that suddenly, there's a bunch of good looking gun slingers in the NFL, and they are changing the game.

Out of this group, I would probably choose Matt Ryan as the next QB to worship. Cutler could challenge, too, since he's so good at killing the linebacker zone. But Ryan seems to just get jizzed whenever he sees a situation he objects to. He's like a good general. I have to admit the only time I've seen him play is against the Bears, but he flicked off our defenses pretty well for a kid with 1 year under his belt.

Cutler, too, is a dude to watch. Which is nice since he's a Bear for the next few years. He reads defenses well and is one of the best pocket QBs I have ever seen.

But read through the list and you will find a QB that ignites your passion, unless you're weird. Name yours.

Jim Hendry, I mean, of course, Jerry DeAngaHendry watched Cutler throw ridiculously insane passes across his body (remember when we all hated Rex Grossman for trying to do that?) and has decided to give the new QB god a new contract.

Of course, unlike Hendry, DeAngelo has found a true star, and it's hard to argue with his decision to wrap him up.

His next decision, though, may be a lot tougher. Because Matt Forte can't seem to get out of the backfield.

Normally, I would say Forte's troubles are on the line. I've played enough football to know that the game lives and dies on the front 4 or 5, but he's getting hammered behind the line of scrimmage, and no really good back lets that happen on a regular basis.

Once or twice, maybe, but he has no power through the 2 or 3 hole, like he did last year.

It's not that I miss the running game, and yearn for a QB that can run the game ala kyle orton.

What frustates me is that we have a great QB who can slice linebackers up while in the pocket, and now we have no running game. What the hell is with that?