Coughlin got an up-close look at Hester last season. When the Giants tried a 52-yard field goal that missed, Hester caught the ball in the back of the end zone, hesitated for a couple of seconds and then unexpectedly brought it out. He raced down the sideline 108 yards past the lumbering Giants.

“You know if you kick a long field goal you don’t have the idea it’s going to be in the field of play. You might miss it, but you don’t except it’s going to be short. You might miss right, you might left, something like that. He certainly makes you think about everything you are going to do,” Coughlin said.

And if the Giants do kick it away from the Bears’ star, it could change field position on a day when rain is forecast.

“I think everybody knows the quality of the return man and he’s exceptional. It’s just a question of whether you want to take it at the 40 by kicking it out of bounds, or what are you going to do? You got to roll the dice,” Coughlin said.

Bears special teams Pro Bowler Brendon Ayanbadejo doesn’t expect Hester to get too much action Sunday, maybe for the rest of the season.

“That’ll mean we’re probably going to get the ball at the 40 every time, so the offense only has to have a 60-yard drive instead of an 80-yard drive. Or, it’s a Devin Hester touchdown,” he said.

Hester, a second-round pick out of Miami in 2006, also set a Bears club record for kick return TDs, passing Hall of Famer Gale Sayers, who had eight.

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“I’m not really into breaking records right now,” he said. “I’m just trying to finish out my career and when it’s over, then I’ll look back and see what kind of records I broke.”

If he continues on his present pace, there will be quite a few.

So, would what Devin Hester do? Would he kick the ball to Devin Hester?

“I don’t want to answer that question,” he said with a smile.

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