I am just wondering if anyone has thought about Vasher at FS? He is such a ballhawk, he might be better than anyone we have there now.

None of these guys in the secondary have been in football long enough to be randomly mixed and matched thru out the secondary. Two maybe three have a good understanding of their own position but that’s it. Good secondary play is like good OL play. You have to know your duties, what your going to do And Then; dovetail that with what everyone else is doing, … and then you add about a thousand reps of this!
The old, "whose got who? AND for How Long. When to release? When to Break off?
The reason the Bears where always so good whenever Mike Brown was on the field was not only the energy and physical presence he brought but the Knowledge of the (entire) Secondary he brought. He was another coach. But even better, he was a coach on the field of play. He was there in Real Time moving the young guys around; he was there in Live Time calling the overages as the play developed. He could recognize it just as fast or faster than the guys on the sidelines or up in the box AND there was no lag time or pipeline distance the info had to travel. He barked-out the coverage’s instantly as the play unfolded. This ongoing problem of constantly moving guys around has already been touched on by a few of the above posts, and that is … how to interact with your teammates when your not sure what you should be doing let alone being confident about what they are doing. Who’s got who? For how long? When do I hang and when do I release, and if I do release, Where do I go? What’s my next area/player of responsibility?
Another issue. We have over the last few years, been drafting guys on the basis of buffed/athletic “Potential”. Who cares if he’s, in the words of an old passed-on Bear Scout, “Dumber than a Board”!
Maybe you can get away with that at the college level, but Pro Ball is so much more cerebral and faster, that the “intellectually challenged” are toast.
It matters not how big you are or how fast you are, if you have no idea where the F*ck you are?!?
Hey! It’s no secret! Most all those 1st Rd. busts are not because they can’t run 4.39 or Vertical 39" or put up 39 reps, … they Can! It’s not because they don’t have the Tools, it’s because they don’t have the G2, the FBI, the Smarts.
And last but not least. The fact that Lovie bought in a bunch of cronies with ZERO Pro NFL Coaching experience was a guaranteed recipe for the failure of the last few years. Even if we did get a potentially good player, in some/many cases the good experienced coaching wasn’t there to develop him. Look at all the guys we cut that went on to be “Starters” elsewhere!!!
Mix and match = Major Screw -ups
And that Ladies and gentlemen concludes my Doctoral Thesis on: The Chicago Bears during the Lovie Years. LOL!!!
NOTE: the current shake up and new acquisitions in the coaching ranks of Experienced Coaches, might be an indication that they may just have figured this out?

I’ve heard many arguments that “Peanut” Tillman is to blame for not making the playoffs. His penalty cost us the game against Tampa. Some are arguing that is our one game we needed. Now I’m not subscribing to it, but it’s an interesting concept. Thoughts?

Kevin Payne too, seems like he was all over the field last season. I’m excited to see how much he’s improved all around. Yes, the pass rush (if that’s what you called it) was the main problem on Defense.

Winfield has shut down contract talks with the ’queens, maybe JA will make him an offer (jest)