Removing only Turner won't do Cutler any good

So you want a new offensive coordinator.

OK, let's say the Bears bring in that new guy in 2010, and let's also assume for a moment that head coach Lovie Smith keeps his job and then gets whacked at the end of next season.

At that point, the 2010 offensive coordinator also would be a goner.

And you think Jay Cutler's a mess now?

That would mean yet another offensive boss for Cutler in 2011, giving him a grand total of four offensive coordinators in four years.

Yeah, see where we're going with this?

Unless there's a total housecleaning in January, it might do more harm than good to replace Ron Turner because you're not doing much to help Cutler in the process.

And this is all about Cutler now.

Whether you think Cutler is the future is irrelevant. The Bears do, and they invested another $50 million in him two months ago.

He is the supposed savior and - we were told when he arrived - the greatest quarterback who ever lived.

That being the case, and considering the disaster that he is today, it's not in Cutler's best interests to fire Turner, unless Turner is swept out with all the rest.

So a smart ownership would have to make the determination that a cosmetic change might make the problem worse.

It's pretty much a total housecleaning or not much of anything.

Smart ownership, however, is rarely something with which the McCaskeys have been associated.

Catching on

Not many GMs would have had the vision to take the best return man in NFL history and turn him into a second-rate wide receiver, thus destroying their best weapon in the process.

But instead of finding the receiver they needed in the usual fashion, this is what Jerry Angelo has accomplished with Devin Hester, a true difference-maker who got them to the Super Bowl and was rewarded with a big contract and a position change.

So what's it tell you that with Hester out of the lineup Sunday, the Bears' receiving corps looked sharper than it has all season?

Just wondering

How long did it take the Bears to find the back-shoulder pass?

Just coaching

A few weeks ago it was Jeff Fisher sitting LenDale White for a game because he was late to a Saturday walk-through.

Last week it was Bill Belichick sending home four players who were late to an 8 a.m. meeting after getting stuck in a blizzard.

And then you have the Bears, whose history suggests that in the same situation, they would pat the offending player on the back, give him a raise, and buy him a limo because it wasn't his fault.

Just one more item that makes Bears fans nuts.

Old school

The Bulls have suffered a few insults of late, and one led TNT's Kevin McHale to recall how his Celtics would have handled LeBron James' dance routine.

Said McHale: "Coach would come over and say, 'Who's got the fewest amount of fouls of my big fellas?' If you raised your hand, he would say, 'We will let him drive and then we will throw him on the ground.' When he is laying there we would say, 'Do you feel like dancing now?' And that pretty much solved the dancing problem."

Just asking

Doesn't the failed Mike Lowell trade open the door for the Cubs to move Milton Bradley to Texas?

Just shocking

Hard to believe the Nationals have non-tendered Mike MacDougal.

Ivan Boldirev-ing

Gurnee e-mailer Joe Pomis: "Nickname for Antti Niemi: The Finnish Fortress."

Best headline

Sportspickle.com: "Brian Kelly fired after 'five-minute plan' fails to deliver results."

Slip and slide

Dan Daly of the Washington Times, on Jets QB Mark Sanchez hurting himself even after a sliding lesson from Joe Girardi: "Sanchez didn't show much improvement - which really isn't that surprising. Girardi, let's not forget, stole just 44 bases in his 15 major-league seasons and got thrown out 41.3 percent of the time."

And finally -

S.F. Chronicle's Scott Ostler: "How will all the fuss affect Tiger Woods' endorsements? No. 1, who gives a flying fig? No. 2, how much more money does he need?"

brozner@dailyherald.com