The Chicago Bears should start Nathan Enderle now

of some of the young guys – not necessarily to see what they do, but to prepare them for next year. Sanzenbacher will see more reps, Bell and Barber should be getting 30-35 carries for the next two games whether Enderle plays or not (and he should), and the plethora of defensive youngsters need to see some time as well. I hope to see Graham back, personally, on a new 2-yr deal, along with Okoye for 2-3 years.

Enderle probably gives the Bears the best chance to win… I mean… Could he possibly be any worse than Hanie? (yes he could be Collins), but from what I’ve seen of Enderle in college he’s a great talent who could have gone in the 2nd or 3rd rounds if it wasn’t for him being slow as molasses , though I’m not sure if he’s Peyton Manning slow.

Yes.

I mean, there’s rationale to keep a majority of the starters in the first half. If we can compete with GB (wait, did I say that?)… Might as well.

But I’d still like to see DiCicco in there, I’d like to see Merriweather Starting. Enderle, or Josh McCown coming into the game in the second half if Hanie puts up a stinker.

Reduce some of Peppers snaps too, while you’re at it.

On an off topic – How many Williams do we have on the Bears? Is there a record for the number of players with the same last name? Do the Bears lead the league in at least that one stat? There’s Edwin, Chris, Roy, Jabara,… anyone else?

Although there is one upside to keeping Roy Williams out there – he can get a little more practice at defending himself from the “big brown thing” that keeps trying to attack him.

And I would be 100% shocked ! if Enderle starts. Or any of the players you mentioned for that matter. I don’t see Urlacher and Briggs sitting out, either. I’ll bet that a lot of them want to play and win and are hoping to extend the season.

As much as I would really like to see the question marks at different positions get some PT, I don’t think it’ll happen. More than anything else, it doesn’t seem like Lovie’s style. I hope I’m wrong.

Yet I still don’t understand why Lovie isn’t placing Cutler on IR. Is this suspicious to anyone else?

Hanie almost got us to the Super Bowl! Hanie played with more heart than that quitter Cutler, CUT CUTLER NOW! HANIE FOR STARTER! RABBLE RABBLE YADA YADA YADA!!!!!

I agree with this post. Let the backups play and see how they do.

McCown is more mobile though so that could help with the O-Line.

As for getting the young guys out there, yeah need to see what some of them can do.

Put in Enderle and get Hanie off the field. He has no future here after his performaces in the last 4 games. Sad but true.

And for god sakes do not let Cutler play against the Packers. It’s too soon and I’d rather he be 100% next year then really screw things up with his throwing hand.

I agree with the post, even with Enderle playing poor we would have a chance to see if can at least read a blitz. On the other hand , there might be a little fire started under someone’s arse, for what is going on right now with the team. Nobody thought this would happen , and the front office had no contingency plan. Someone will pay at the end of the year, most likely Martz, or the QB coach , although Martz kept on hinting to Hanie’s suckage, or inability to play .

Please no Cutty , and no Forte, enough ugly, already. We lost the season, we don’t need to jeopardize the next one.

Flop: Caleb Hanie, who serves as another example of why you can’t take one quarter of action very seriously. In last year’s playoffs, Hanie came in after Jay Cutler got hurt and Todd Collins 0 for 4 performance basically signed the death warrant on his own career. The Bears took Hanie’s play as a sign that he was ready to be Jay Cutler’s primary backup, and while he was an upgrade over the atrocious Collins, he’s not an NFL quarterback. After his latest start, Hanie’s thrown 102 passes and completed 51 of them, for a completion percentage at an even 50 percent. He’s thrown nine interceptions, producing an interception rate of 8.8 percent. Nobody has thrown interceptions that frequently over 100 or more pass attempts in 23 years! Steve Grogan narrowly beat it out in 1988. After you adjust for the era Hanie plays in, pro-football-reference.com suggests that Hanie’s been worse at avoiding picks than anybody in NFL history since the merger. Hanie’s also been sacked on a whopping 14.5 percent of his dropbacks. PFR suggests that only three players since the merger, after adjusting for era, have gone down more frequently. Bottom line: Caleb Hanie might be the worst quarterback to throw 100 passes since the AFL merged with the NFL. If Chicago’s backup had merely been below average, their defense would likely have been enough to get them into the playoffs. Instead, they will spend their January on the finest golf courses in America.

I wouldn’t be surprised if we play this season out with all the starters. And they seriously need to put Cutler on the IR. It’s making me nervous to think that they’d be stupid enough to trot him out there sometime these next 2 weeks.

I doubt Cutler will be ready, and Hanie had his chance and has done little to warrant another chance.

Put some distance between us and Cleveland for “most different QBs to start a game since 1999” – that record is our birthright as Bears’ fans, dammit.

and I tend to agree for the most part. But as i read this post I realized most of the idiots and morons who I blame for creating this mess are the ones doing these evaluations. Does it really matter what Martz and JA think of Enderle? I can envision many situations where Martz leaves and JA has proven he couldn’t evaluate the quality of of any athlete even if his job depended on it, which it should. It will be nice to get some tape on the young guys, but with JA likely being retained (I just threw up a little), this team will not have any better success next season. There is a deep and fundamental lack of talent at too many key positions and short of a wholesale change in coaching staff and FO (total house cleaning), the Bears will be an also-ran for the next few seasons because of the miserable job JA has done. Think of him as the gift that just keeps on taking!