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Bears offensive coordinator Mike Tice says he loses sleep worrying about the offensive line protecting Jay Cutler, but that's probably not what will be keeping the Bears' quarterback up nights. "I've got a couple reasons to lose sleep; I've got a baby, I've got all kinds of stuff going on," said Cutler, whose son was born Wednesday. "But they're going to be fine. Protection wise, we're going to do what we have to protect myself or whoever's in there. "If we have to keep eight in there, if we have to keep nine in there, that's what we're going to do. We're not going to put those guys in positions where they're going to fail or I'm going to get hit. We would like them to step up and be able to block 4-on-4, 5-on-5, but we'll see how it goes."