Tracer Bullet

hard habit to break. This seemingly came out of nowhere.

unless I missed something, not a single OL picked between the Bears 2 picks, but a couple WRs and a couple TEs go. Good move, JA.

so Cutler throws it as far as he can and Knox runs under it?

wtf

if he falls just 35 more picks...

Sorry Vance. Your voice just isn't being heard in the war room.

But isn't it likely they could get Melton in R5 (if not later)? Maybe there were a lot of other teams eying him, but still seem high.

Boys can take Sidbury here /vance'd

nice

I don't know this guy

Is it just me, or is Cleveland doing pretty well this weekend?

This has been a weird few months as a Bears fan, actually enjoying the moves they've made. I'm happy with our QB, RB, and first few rounds of the draft. That's never happened in my lifetime.

I'm no draft genius, but would it have really been that hard to move from 105 to like 95 to get Johnson and take a WR at 99?

touch of death. they are going in the next two picks. if that happens i'll stop talking for the rest of the day, haha um...

Well a pitcher does require a lot of body parts working in motion in order to throw 95 miles an hour with pinpoint control. If one piece isn't working, it can mess up everything else. same goes for a quarterback, but they play hurt. They also get pulverized by 280 lb. monsters every Sunday. QBs throw 90 miles an hour? I bet they could come close when throwing a baseball. Just because throwing a football wouldn't register 90mph doesn't mean they aren't throwing with the same explosiveness a pitcher does. Man, I don't know. Most pitchers throw with so much effort on each pitch. I just don't see the same with QBs (except maybe Favre a few times a game). But the differences aren't really close. QBs get hit, yes, but they're playing once a week for 16-20 weeks. And they throw what, 25 passes on average (really a guess)? And yes, they throw warm-ups, but they aren't nearly the same velocity. Pitchers throw 90+ pitches every 5 days for 6 months and that doesn't include warm-up pitches every inning. That's, what, 150+ pitches every 5 days, plus bullpend sessions in the middle. Though not every pitch is 90 mph, the 90 mph fastball isn't even the worst pitch for the arm. And if a QB is hurting, he might be less effective. But the precision required to get ML hitters out is much higher than the precision required to throw a pass that can be caught by a WR everywhere from his toes to 10' off the ground.

He wasn't worthless after April either.

Well a pitcher does require a lot of body parts working in motion in order to throw 95 miles an hour with pinpoint control. If one piece isn't working, it can mess up everything else. same goes for a quarterback, but they play hurt. They also get pulverized by 280 lb. monsters every Sunday. QBs throw 90 miles an hour?

Doesn't seem like the same person said both. No and I didn't suggest otherwise. I don't think meph posted those numbers to suggest mediocrity from Lee was a great thing.

so is it mediocrity or utterly worthless? Doesn't seem like it can be both.

Salt in the wound. Maybe we can get retroactive credit for Gaudin when we pick up Peavy talks again.

Honest (but maybe dumb) question, are you saying Reed's defense is so great (and/or Micah's so bad) that even if Micah could DH, Reed would be still more valuable overall? And what offensive numbers are you using for each guy to make that comparison?

If there wasn't a gale blowing in you wouldn't have been so excited, me thinks. I actually think pitchers use their environment when they can. I wouldn't be surprised at all if pitchers lay them in there a little more frequently on those days, knowing some guys will still swing for the fences.

It's still early, but I expected Fontenot to be exposed a little later in the season. I wasn't expecting him to be a good everyday player, but I thought it would take longer than this. Hopefully it's just a slump.

Where is he now? I'm too lazy too look it up oakland I miss Mike Wuertz.