2014 Chicago Bears Offseason Thread

[jersey cubs fan]

Our safeties were terrible last year and safety is still the easiest spot to hide a weakness while strengthening elsewhere. These can both be true.

 

I think LB is much easier to hide your weaknesses. The Giants won a SB with nothing but street garbage playing LB.

[Guest]

i said for months that the bears would lose to their rivals in the most awful and heartbreaking way ever because that's what always happens. i have little doubt that we will get beaten in a similarly tantalizing way again next season, and then again the next. we will never win and have any kind of satisfaction from this team because it is cursed and my teams never win.

 

why did i choose to let football back into my life? just remember, the most awful and heartbreaking, the absolute worst way to get kicked in the nuts in the most important time. how many things had to go wrong for the bears to lose the division? HOW MANY [expletive] THINGS HAD TO BOUNCE AGAINST US FOR US TO [expletive] LOSE THE MOTHERFUCKING DIVISION HOLY [expletive] I HATE FOOTBALL [expletive] EVERYTHING AND [expletive] ALL OF YOU. I WILL KILL REFEREES IF THEY MAKE ONE [expletive] CALL AGAINST US

[SpongeWorthy]

i said for months that the bears would lose to their rivals in the most awful and heartbreaking way ever because that's what always happens. i have little doubt that we will get beaten in a similarly tantalizing way again next season, and then again the next. we will never win and have any kind of satisfaction from this team because it is cursed and my teams never win.

 

why did i choose to let football back into my life? just remember, the most awful and heartbreaking, the absolute worst way to get kicked in the nuts in the most important time. how many things had to go wrong for the bears to lose the division? HOW MANY [expletive] THINGS HAD TO BOUNCE AGAINST US FOR US TO [expletive] LOSE THE [expletive] DIVISION HOLY [expletive] I HATE FOOTBALL [expletive] EVERYTHING AND [expletive] ALL OF YOU. I WILL KILL REFEREES IF THEY MAKE ONE [expletive] CALL AGAINST US

 

nah man we're in a good spot. emery and trestman is a top 5 brain trust in the NFL

[jersey cubs fan]

i said for months that the bears would lose to their rivals in the most awful and heartbreaking way ever because that's what always happens. i have little doubt that we will get beaten in a similarly tantalizing way again next season, and then again the next. we will never win and have any kind of satisfaction from this team because it is cursed and my teams never win.

 

why did i choose to let football back into my life? just remember, the most awful and heartbreaking, the absolute worst way to get kicked in the nuts in the most important time. how many things had to go wrong for the bears to lose the division? HOW MANY [expletive] THINGS HAD TO BOUNCE AGAINST US FOR US TO [expletive] LOSE THE [expletive] DIVISION HOLY [expletive] I HATE FOOTBALL [expletive] EVERYTHING AND [expletive] ALL OF YOU. I WILL KILL REFEREES IF THEY MAKE ONE [expletive] CALL AGAINST US

 

nah man we're in a good spot. emery and trestman is a top 5 brain trust in the NFL

I hesitate to go that high, but they are good.

[Guest]

don't let hope in because then youll die a million times

[JonJayCutler]

Hey now, losing the division propelled us up 7 spots in the draft. You know SF would have sharted all over us the following week.

[jersey cubs fan]

what is dead may never die

[Guest]

Hey now, losing the division propelled us up 7 spots in the draft. You know SF would have sharted all over us the following week.

 

ah now that feels better

[Guest]

Our safeties were terrible last year and safety is still the easiest spot to hide a weakness while strengthening elsewhere. These can both be true.

 

Crap, I agree with Kyle. I'm going to need a shower.

[jersey cubs fan]

Dan Jiggets does not look like a healthy man.

[Soul]

Fuller will learn from one of the best, as well. Better to bring him in now while Peanut is still here.

Really? You think Tillman will teach him how to take his job?

He's on a one year deal, yeah I assume Tillman isn't long for the Bears, and he knows that

[Soul]

Our safeties were terrible last year and safety is still the easiest spot to hide a weakness while strengthening elsewhere. These can both be true.

Yep

 

Those horrible, horrible safeties looked serviceable just one season earlier.

 

The difference was DLine.

[Guest]

Adam Hoge on the Fuller pick: http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2014/05/09/hoge-meet-kyle-fuller-charles-tillmans-replacement/

 

So where will Fuller play in the secondary?

 

To start, he’ll play all over.

 

Emery said he saw Fuller play in person against Georgia Tech this season, a team that runs a unique triple-option that can be difficult to prepare against.

 

“They lined him up as a inverted safety and ran him through the A-gap against an option team to crash the mesh point between the quarterback and the fullback. And he repetitively did that,” Emery said.

 

...

 

“My ability to be versatile — being able to play corner, slot. My ability to tackle. I feel like I have a good knowledge of the game. And then, overall, just my ability to make plays for my team,” Fuller said Thursday night.

 

The tape backs up both his and Emery’s claims about being able to line up all over the field. Press-man, off-man, slot, deep-middle, box. Fuller really did line up everywhere in the secondary for the Virginia Tech defense.

[cubbyvirus00]

FWIW

 

In Nolan Nawrocki's NFL Draft 2014 Preview, Fuller was the 31st-ranked player overall, the fourth-best corner and sixth-best defensive back.

 

Overall I feel "meh" about this pick. Really surprised Emery had the balls to bypass Pryor and Dix.

[rawaction]

FWIW

 

In Nolan Nawrocki's NFL Draft 2014 Preview, Fuller was the 31st-ranked player overall, the fourth-best corner and sixth-best defensive back.

 

Overall I feel "meh" about this pick. Really surprised Emery had the balls to bypass Pryor and Dix.

 

I love Fuller, but it would have been hard to pass up Pryor because you had to know none of the top 4 safeties would make it to 51. But can't blame Emery for taking what he had as the better talent. And you should take BPA rather than anticipating who's going to be there a round later.

 

FYI, I called Fuller on my blog. See Sig.

[Mark Priors Calves]

Dan Jiggets does not look like a healthy man.

posts from 1993

[Banedon]

Dan Jiggets does not look like a healthy man.

 

They told him he could be anything, so he became a hot air balloon.

[Banedon]

FWIW

 

In Nolan Nawrocki's NFL Draft 2014 Preview, Fuller was the 31st-ranked player overall, the fourth-best corner and sixth-best defensive back.

 

Overall I feel "meh" about this pick. Really surprised Emery had the balls to bypass Pryor and Dix.

 

Ok, well Mayock had him as his 13th overall pick, his top CB and top DB.

 

Matt Miller had him 18th overall, 2nd ranked CB (behind Gilbert who was gone) and 3rd ranked DB (He had Clinton-Dix two spots higher).

 

Nawrocki had him lower than just about anybody else I've seen.

[apete6]

FWIW

 

In Nolan Nawrocki's NFL Draft 2014 Preview, Fuller was the 31st-ranked player overall, the fourth-best corner and sixth-best defensive back.

 

Overall I feel "meh" about this pick. Really surprised Emery had the balls to bypass Pryor and Dix.

 

Ok, well Mayock had him as his 13th overall pick, his top CB and top DB.

 

Matt Miller had him 18th overall, 2nd ranked CB (behind Gilbert who was gone) and 3rd ranked DB (He had Clinton-Dix two spots higher).

 

Nawrocki had him lower than just about anybody else I've seen.

 

I don't have a problem with the Fuller pick in a vacuum. He got picked at about the right place in the draft, will probably be a starter in the league for 10 years, and will be fine.

 

I DO have a BIG problem with them having the worst safeties in the league and passing on the top available guys while KNOWING there was a very good chance that the top 4 would be off the board before their 2nd pick and that there is no one worth taking until the 4th round after those 4. Really pissed about the lack of awareness. Pryor/Dix in the 1st and any one of a number of corners with 2nd round grades would have been fine. [expletive] Emery always trying to prove people wrong.

[tfarks]

Fuller looks the part to do it all in the secondary. I don't doubt he starts day 1 in the ever present nickel formation. And they're in good position to land one of Nix/Hageman/Jernigan.

[Banedon]

Lots of outrage on the ol' talk radio this morning about not getting Clinton-Dix or Pryor.

[Guest]

Fuller will learn from one of the best, as well. Better to bring him in now while Peanut is still here.

Really? You think Tillman will teach him how to take his job?

 

Peanut doesn't exactly strike me as the kind of guy who wouldn't help a young player on his team get better just because he plays the same position as him. Especially at this stage of his career.

[jersey cubs fan]

I feel like this was a bit of a safety pick. Fuller seems to fit the part of a guy who can play in the NFL and hold his own, but he does not look like a difference maker. Kind of interesting to me that Emery took a guy that does not have impressive measurables, given what many (including myself) interpreted as an obsession with stand out physical presence. He likes 'em big and fast and while this guy isn't small, he's not a beast and he's not fast. I guess the ability and willingness to tackle is what stood out the most.

 

I can't bemoan "missing" on a safety. Outside of the very few elite, those pieces are interchangeable. And as others have pointed out, improvement on the line will make the safeties less of an issue.

[Banedon]

I feel like this was a bit of a safety pick. Fuller seems to fit the part of a guy who can play in the NFL and hold his own, but he does not look like a difference maker. Kind of interesting to me that Emery took a guy that does not have impressive measurables, given what many (including myself) interpreted as an obsession with stand out physical presence. He likes 'em big and fast and while this guy isn't small, he's not a beast and he's not fast. I guess the ability and willingness to tackle is what stood out the most.

 

I can't bemoan "missing" on a safety. Outside of the very few elite, those pieces are interchangeable. And as others have pointed out, improvement on the line will make the safeties less of an issue.

 

Yeah, after two first round "risks" the last two years, he might've felt like he needed to play it safer this year.

[Guest]

Fuller might not be big and fast but he's long and lengthy, nice physical attributes for a corner. And he's versatile, a definite Emery buzz word.