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The bad news is that barring a trade Youth Gale Sayers Jerseys , Ryan Pace will not draft until the third round, and the Bears have a number of big contracts coming up. This means that options for the Bears to improve are suddenly limited. To that end, Windy City Gridiron has been discussing what the top priorities for the Bears should be between this season and next. For first part addressed lesser priorities.Now it’s time for what the contributors and the community identified as the real problem areas. Before going on, however, it’s necessary to quote Lester Wiltfong to get some perspective: “In my opinion the top 3 priorities for the Bears aren’t very critical to the team’s success. This is a young team that is still ascending, and as long as they continue to draft and develop well, they’ll be able to overcome any free agent losses.”With that context out of the way, here are the top two priorities for the Bears to be able to sustain their success. #2: Defensive BackThis was an unpopular choice among the community Gale Sayers Jerseys Stitched , with cornerbacks and safeties together garnering only 5% of the vote. Part of that probably has to do with the quality of the secondary as it exists. The problem, of course, is that it might not exist on that level for long. This might be why it was one of the top concerns among the contributors.Concerns over Adrian Amos and Bryce Callahan both being free agents next season jumped this position group into second place as a priority. Here is what we had to say about the position.Lester said this about what he called the top priority for the team in the offseason: Callahan is undoubtedly one of Ryan Pace’s best finds, and the fact that he was brought in as an undrafted free agent makes his addition to the team all the more enjoyable (and finding him all the more impressive). Many agreed with Lester, and Erik offered the following analysis: This lead him to assign the defensive back position the second-highest priority overall.Meanwhile, WhiskeyRanger disagreed, but not when it came to priorities. Instead, while he felt that cornerback was the second-highest need Youth Leonard Floyd Jerseys , he offered this bit of wisdom:Andrew Link, on the other hand, thought that the secondary was the single most important area of emphasis. I like the secondary the Bears have put together, and simply keeping it together should give them a solid foundation for the future.#1: Offensive Line60% of those polled felt that either tackle or guard was the spot that most needed attention in the offseason. Most of the contributors felt that one of these two positions (or some other area of the line) was one of the top two priorities for the team. In other words, there is general agreement that the O-line needs work soon.The man who writes Sackwatch offered the following thoughts: Like Lester, Andrew Link thought that the O-line was the second-highest priority, although he chose to focus on the right side: WhiskeyRanger was even more worried about the line, calling it the top priority: It is probably not surprising that our resident optimist Leonard Floyd Jerseys Stitched , ECD, thought that the line was at a lower priority, and he provided reason for hope: Those are our thoughts on the what the Bears need to sustain their success. What are yours? Former NFL coach John Fox took the Panthers and Broncos to the Super Bowl. He didn’t have quite the same impact on the Bears, and a couple of notable Bears from past years are glad Fox is gone.“Thank God John Fox’s ass is out of town,” Hall of Fame defensive lineman Dan Hampton said during a weekend event held in connection with the team’s 100th season celebration, via the . “Thank God.”Former Bears safety Gary Fencik was slightly more measured and diplomatic (but far less fun).“What I find refreshing, I liked John Fox, but John Fox didn’t treat fans with respect Youth Jonathan Bullard Jerseys ,” Fencik said. “And I’m a [Bears] fan. I’m a season ticket holder. And it was kind of like, ‘You don’t deserve to know,’ or ‘I’m not going to give you a lot of information.’ What I really like about Matt [Nagy] is I think he recognizes and respects that the fans aren’t idiots.”Fox definitely adopted a far more guarded approach when he landed in Chicago. That works when you win. When you lose, it greases the skids to unemployment.The Bears now have a winner in Nagy, and for the first time since the mid-1980s reason to believe that the team will be in the mix for postseason appearances not once every few years but consistently.