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Bears waive Tre McBride

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I wouldn't pretend to know if he's the answer, but WR still scares the ish out of me going forward.  Trading KB- whatever, we got what we could since we weren't going to keep him next year and the coaches obviously thought Funchess could do better in his spot and he has.

Losing Curtis Samuel sucks b/c he looked like he could have actually been a threat across from Funchess.  

Shepard is a massive disappointment- no getting around it.  I think Clay and maybe even McCaffrey got more reps at WR last week.  I really thought he could be a good #3.  He's been a ghost except the one awesome catch Week 1.

Clay should be our PR going forward, but he's not going to scare anyone as an every down receiver.  He's Ted Ginn with less explosion and worse hands.  That doesn't mean he's useless but he shouldn't be an every down WR.

Bersin is a #4/#5 WR who can move the chains.  He knows where to be & plays hard, but no one else has touched him during the several times we've cut him- enough said.

Byrd is a complete unknown.  He did bulk up from last year, and maybe he can fill in where Samuel was slated to.  Still, there's no history to make you think he's going to be a major contributor.

If Olsen can't come back, and it's not looking good for him to be fully healthy this week, our receivers are a massive question mark.

Our offense is basically Cam, CMC, and Funchess.  Stewart is basically last year's Tolbert at this point.  He's good on the goal line and still runs hard and can't break the first tackle, but he doesn't have breakaway speed anymore.  OK- he's not as bad as last year's Tolbert but you get the picture.

Bottom line is we desperately need Shepard to do something, Byrd to be a factor, and Olsen to hopefully be able to play more than a half.

It's a LOT to ask this late in the year.  I try to be a homer as much as anyone, but our offensive firepower is by far the least amount of anyone that would currently be in the playoffs in the NFC.

The wildcard is Cam as always.  He can single handedly change games with his running and passing when he's on.  Much like Russell Wilson in Seattle though, it's tough to sustain or count on that week in and week out.

I hope I'm wrong, but it will take the MVP Cam to win more than 2 games over the last 5 IMHO with our schedule.  Even still, we might make the playoffs at 10-6, but it's hard to see how we can go far into them.  

All that said, I still want to believe.  If there is anyone at this point that could help, though, I hope the coaching staff is looking at all possibilities.

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