Needs More Ditka

The Chicago Bears missed out on the playoffs last year. This is a fact. A sad one for Bears fans, but a fact nonetheless.

Lovie Smith is on the hot seat. Jerry Angelo can’t get a seat at any restaurant. Needless to say, the Bears need to have a winning season.

That won’t be easy though. The Bears lose several key components, components that might not have been obvious to the casual viewer, but key to the knowledgeable Bears fan. How they replace these players will define how their season goes.

Let’s take a look at what the Bears need to address this off season

Wide Receivers
The Bears have always had trouble at wide receiver, and this year they are trying to pass off Devin Hester, who is not a wide receiver, as their number one option out wide. The Bears should abandon that tall tale quickly, as there is no way that Devin Hester is the number one wide receiver on any SEC or Big 12 football team, much less an NFL team.

In a wide receiver heavy draft, the Bears would be foolish not to pick a wideout in the first round. Their seventeenth pick could bear (no pun intended) plenty of fruit.

Michael Crabtree will be long gone, as he is by far the best wide receiver in this draft. But factor in the depth of this draft at the position and the bust potential of any one player and it would be foolish for the Bears to trade up to get Crabtree.

Jeremy Maclin on the other hand, might, that’s just might, fall to the Bears at number 18. If Maclin runs a weak 40 yard dash time, there will be many question marks surrounding the Missouri speedster. The Jets could snag him up right before the Bears at pick 17, but if Maclin falls to 18, the Bears must take him- no excuses.

Maclin might go in the top ten though, so the Bears should not count on him falling. The Bears will have at least two of five possible first round wide receivers on the board when they draft. Including Maclin and Crabtree, the other three are Percy Harvin, Darrius Heyward-Bey and Hakeem Nicks.

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