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Absolutely. Still would be nice to get an actual safety, though. I'm more concerned about the QB position, he's the reason the secondary struggled so much. It was so easy to pick him off in practice that they couldn't figure out real QBs in games.
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http://www.chicagobreakingsports.com/2010/03/pompei-not-to-be-greedy-but-how-about-a-safety.html
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Of course getting thrown out in spring training is meaningless. But this team already struggles enough getting thrown out on the basepaths, the last thing they need to do is have it happen more often.
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Since when do Philly and NE not go after free agents? Philly doesn't fiddle with the salary cap like Washington does, and New England is known for being more than happy to let their own free agents walk, but both of these organizations go hard after free agents with regularity.
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He's a 35 year old who has barely pitched in the majors, I'm guessing the reason nobody is interested is because he's not that good. -
I'm with you. I'm a little torn on the tight end signing. On one hand, it's just a blocking tight end, one of the least important positions on the team. On the other hand, it's supposedly exactly what Martz wants, and the Bears could use all the help they can get in block. I've always liked Desmond Clark, but he was a multi-purpose tight end rather than a great blocker. But again, he's just a blocking tight end, no threat at all in the passing game, and he barely even played last year. Plus, he's already 30, the same age Clark was when everybody was panicking about finding his replacement. If he doesn't get in the way of other things, I guess it doesn't matter.
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Yes. I'm so black-and-white that I said there was a chance he could still recover and become the quarterback they hope, and that of course the offense around him had a large part to do with his problems. I thought it was just a theoretically possible chance.
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I'm saying Cutler didn't improve our situation, and since he didn't, I'd rather just have the two first-round draft picks back. In his first freaking year, when everything on offense was a mess, and the defense continued to stink. It was one year it what is going to be a 10 year career with the team. Had they not made the trade, they would just be gambling on another completely unknown QB by now.
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I'm still trying to figure out why you want a situation where the Bears can win 7-9 games. They just freaking did that.
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Kyle you are not even close to making any sense, I feel disgusting having agreed with you on a couple other subjects, absolutely disgusting. How does somebody who is supportive of Cristobal Huet get so over the top negative on Jay Cutler?
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It's been said before, but they really can't let these guys leave without signing contracts. I'm not assuming anything until the Dave McGinnis situation is no longer a possibility.
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Again, this is where we'll have to respectfully disagree. I've seen too many Lovie Smith teams win seven to nine games with ball control. So that's your goal? 7-9 wins. Your entire argument is you want a QB to do just enough to get the same freaking results the Bears got with Cutler.
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That'd give us 2400 yards, 15 touchdowns, 10 picks? It'd be close, but yeah, I'd probably take that season over 3600, 27,26 2400 yards? That is absurd. That's more or less Sanchez with half the picks and his team needed the best defense in the league plus the best running game in the league just to finish a game over .500. You can't talk about the modern era difference in INTs and then say you'd take a QB with 2400 yards, 15 TD and 10 picks. That guy doesn't exist, and he wouldn't be a franchise QB if he did.
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Not many. I'd say maybe 4-5. Maybe. And I'm assuming by "better" you're not only meaning "less picks," right? I'd say probably a couple more than that, but otherwise, that's it. Some of the guys who had better years, like Brett Favre, would have been disastrous. I'm guessing Manning, Brady, Brees (although that's no guarantee given the vast difference in situations), Rivers, Roethlisberger, maybe McNabb. But look at the list of the most prolific QB's last season, it's dominated by dome and nice weather teams, and every single one of them had a vastly superior collection of skill position players and/or offensive line. There's only three guys in the top ten of ratings who had to play in challenging conditions, and all three of them had weapons that mop the floor of the Bears.
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I think he's saying that Grossman/Orton had the same personel that Cutler had to work with. Of course, the weakest spots of the line were one year older, Forte disappeared, the double tight end strength was negated by Clark's injuries, the WR depth chart turned over and Hester missed time with injury as well. But yeah, sure, other than that it was the exact same thing.
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They don't travel to Pittsburgh anymore after May. The actual game dates are May 31, June 1 and 2, and after that they pllay them 2 more times at home.
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Every Cubs fan I know in person (i.e. not people on this board) had the exact same thing to say about the Bradley/Silva trade: "I'm just glad he's gone." Most people don't want to think about the other stuff. They just don't really care, or want to be told why (I think) they should. Most people don't know anything about baseball. My friends are all idiots when it comes to this stuff. Maybe not idiots, just uninformed. Most people don't obsess over the team enough to spend their days checking out every rumor and story on a message board. They know he was a distraction, they hear things from the media, and are just happy to not have to deal with it. I don't blame them. I do blame the media members and Cubs personel who should know better but choose to remain ignorant.
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Is he a franchise quarterback? That's still up in the air, at best. He might not be a top tier franchise QB, but there is no question that he was a franchise QB when they acquired him and he still is a franchise QB 11 months later.
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They didn't just give away draft picks or choose not to use them. They traded them for a young franchise QB, who they still have under contract at a reasonable cost for a few years.
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That's not even close to true. So when Cutler first went on the market, lots of teams thought two first-round picks was good value? It was the biggest reason why most people thought the Bears would never make the move, becuase for an established franchise QB, that was the bare minimum cost.
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That's not even close to true.
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There are different levels that a restricted free agent can be tendered a contract. 1st and 3rd round. The most expensive for the retaining team, but other teams have to offer up a 1st and 3rd rd pick to sign the player. 1st round. The next step down, the signing team must offer up its first round pick to sign the player. 2nd round. Same as 1st round tender. Original round tender. The lowest contract a team can tender to an RFA. A signing team must offer up a pick in the same round the player was originally drafted in. I think that's all of them. Most all of the tender levels have been available before this year, but there may have been a couple of additions coming with the uncapped year. There's been a whole bunch of guys added to the list of restricted free agency, instead of unrestricted, due to CBA situation, which means it's in the news a lot more. But this is the thing that cost the Bears a pick when Angelo famously forgot to check the proper box on the offer sheet for, I believe, Rosevelt Colvin.
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It's well beyond theoretically possible that he'll make it worth it. There's work to be done, but it's hardly an uphill battle. Of the 7 1st round picks they've had since Urlacher, only 1 has proven to be worth it, and his value plumetted after just a couple years - Harris. Williams might be worth it, but that's far from a sure thing. Cutler is more valuable to the team already than every single one of those 1st round picks combined.
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It's an uncapped year. The money has always been there. Well, some of the money came from getting guys off the books, including Ogunleye. Plus, they don't have to set aside a huge chunk of change for a first round draft pick. I don't really think they are going to blow by what would be the likely cap number, they can't do that if they return to a capped season in 2011, assuming they return at all.
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Actually the Bears are ridiculed by many for not squeezing every dollar they can out of the franchise. They aren't as profitable as they could be if they treated their team like Snyder and Jones treat theirs. And the Bears always spend money. It's ridiculous to suggest they are a penny pinching team. They've gone after several high priced free agents this past decade, overpaying for most of them and getting burned by it. They had one of the highest paid head coaches in the league last season as well. They never lose their own players to free agency, having spent an insane amount to keep the 2006 team around, even as several of those guys started to decline. They spent huge on Harris, Urlacher, Briggs, Ogunleye, Tillman, Vasher, and just last year invested heavily in a quarterback who they are going to have to give a $100+ million contract in a couple years.
