Thee quick notes heading into tonight’s tilt …

+ After giving up 182 yards to the Cardinals’ 31st-ranked run game on Sunday, the Bears’ defense now ranks 21st in the league in run defense. So what should Bears fans be most concerned with heading into tonight’s game in San Fransisco? Frank Gore. He’s good. Real good. If the Bears have trouble containing him, and he runs all over them tonight, my fantasy team will be off to a nice start, but that’s about all I have to look forward to with that.

The Bears have had trouble containing playmakers all season. Will tonight be any different?

+ Ladies and gentlemen, 49ers tight end Vernon Davis:

I think we can destroy their front. The guys up front, I think we can destroy them. I don’t see anything spectacular about their front line. Their linebackers, I think we can handle them pretty well. I like (Adewale) Ogunleye. I like the way he’s playing up front. He’s about the only player I like on their defensive line. I think he’s doing a good job.

The Bears will surely use this as motivation. But the last time someone dumped on them — Chad Ochocinco said he was going to torch the secondary — it came true. So yeah, maybe Davis is right. Or maybe the Bears will rise to the occasion and shut him down. Or maybe we shouldn’t take so much stock in what guys are saying before the game.

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This, friends, is a collection of 195 Cade McNown football cards. It’s the second-largest McNown card collection, second only to that of the city dump, and it belongs to this gentleman.

I made this video because I felt that Cade McNown is still one of the best Quarterback ever in NFL history but NFL teams don’t see something in Cade McNown. I saw how good he was but I blame the receivers for not catching balls from him.

Irony? No? No? I’m running with it.

McNown was driven out of town before he was able to build on his career 3-12 record as the Bears’ quarterback, and the Bears have suffered for it ever since, choosing to put their offense in the stewardship of limp-armed quarterbacks such as Jimmy McVerb and Benicio San Adjective.

But McNown and his No. 1 fan will have the last laugh. One day eons from now, when a future civilization stumbles upon this UV-coated, foil-embossed, non-biodegradable collection of Cade McNown cards, historians will deduce that McCown was a leader of men and a legend in his time. That’s how it works. After all, Alexander the Great was merely a Mediterranean journeyman quarterback, and look what we’ve turned him into.

Imagine, if you will, that you are a member of the San Fransisco 49ers. (You’d probably need to grow five inches and put on 100 pounds in this scenario.) Mike Nolan was your coach just a short time ago, and he had a penchant for sharp suits on the sideline. He looked smooth, suave, debonaire. Then the 49ers fired Nolan and hired linebackers coach Mike Singletary. He acted a bit off-kilter at his postgame press conference Sunday, but that was AFTER HE DROPPED HIS PANTS FOR SEVERAL MINUTES IN THE LOCKER ROOM.

At halftime of that game, Singletary called for the attention of his players.   He then dropped his pants, turned around and pointed to his backside.  He used this occasion and that visual to describe what happened to his team in the first half.

A NFL source inside the room confirmed the story with my radio partner, XTRA 910 football guru Mike Jurecki, and added that Singletary then addressed the team for 3-4 minutes with his pants around his ankles.

Mike Singletary is kind of like that crazy uncle that shows up at Thanksgiving every year and makes a scene over how undercooked the chicken is. And I love it.

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