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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.
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That is very rarely the case with RBs. It is a young man's position and a horrible one to pay big money in free agency.
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Well Sproles is a lot more explosive and younger than Taylor but the Chargers just put a high tender on him. So if you want to upgrade the Bears running game you've gotta go with Taylor, a draftee, or Tomlinson/Westbrook. Taylor is still explosive, IMO, which is why I like him. The Bears have money to spend and they're going to spend it regardless because the management is throwing a hail mary. What would you have them do? The running backs and offense in general aren't so good (in fact, they're horrible) that they should just hold the money and wait for the stud linemen who simply aren't on the market. The Bears need upgrades everywhere. RBs emerge from the depths every year, I would simply never spend money on the position. It's a waste, unless you have your own stud. I'd solidify both lines, offense via draft and defense via free agency, and spend money on the secondary. This defense has barely held on over the years and is in desperate need of an influx of talent.
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Yeah. I'd like to see him make the team over Fuld, though. I don't see him as anything more than a fourth OF anyway, so I don't think there is a lot to be lost by not leaving him in the minors for seasoning. Even if he tore it up in AAA and got called up, he's still be behind Nady even if something happened to Soriano. For him to get significant AB's, Soriano and Nady would have to go down, which is possible. If an increase in power led to some pitchers being more careful with him and him becoming more patient as a result, I could see value in giving him another year of work. I think I'd rather he play everyday until somebody in front of him gets hurt at which point he might be a better option than Fuld to start.
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I just can't put a good pass catching and blocking RB at the top of the priority list without being significantly more explosive and younger than Taylor. There's so much more important to go for.
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Negotiating
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He's probably missed out on many more millions of actual player contract.
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Really? Haven't you done this before? Just make the choice you would make. Nobodies livelihood depends on it.
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That's not a lifestyle you can choose, he was born that way.
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I bet Theriot disagrees with Bradley's assessment.
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Re: Spring Training Pics and video!
jersey cubs fan replied to Old Style's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
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Some old prospect burnouts
jersey cubs fan replied to Hairyducked Idiot's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
And I think that's a fairly "safe" way of doing things overall. -
I hope he does just so we can use your tears to nourish a drought-ravaged African village. Irrigation with tears seems like it would do more harm than good.
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Some old prospect burnouts
jersey cubs fan replied to Hairyducked Idiot's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
I can't think of a draftee that really matches that description. Colvin I suppose, even if he's not super high on the athleticism scale. They have a lot of guys who are pretty good athletes and maybe strike out too much(Thomas, Flaherty, and Jackson immediately come to mind), but they all walk a good bit and don't match the Pattersonian model that it seems you're talking about. Cool. I was actually asking, not being rhetorical. I'm not that up on the minors these days. The recent years they seem to have gone after a bunch of somewhat safe, minimal ceiling guys all over the place, as if the new goal is to produce as many guys as possible who can make the major leagues, even if none of them are particularly good. Of course there's still Vitters, but he's not all that athletic. -
I think he's a bad guy.
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Millar’s chances of making Cubs improving
jersey cubs fan replied to Schwarber Fan's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Got that is all kinds of stupid, and written by the AP. -
I'm waiting for you to miss a selection so I can award him to the Jets. The Jets should only wish to be so lucky that he drops that far.
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should have been Tebow
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Some old prospect burnouts
jersey cubs fan replied to Hairyducked Idiot's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Anything's possible, but that's unlikely. He spent 1 full season in the minors where he dominated, was called up and pretty successful from the start. He didn't need much, if any, developing. But that's beside the point. The other thing you mentioned, that Atlanta actually produced their own hitters, is a major part of the point. Chicago tried something that was dumb, largely ignoring position players (and then focusing on the wrong ones when they did pay attention - free swinging athletic high schoolers) with the excuse of trading/signing bats when they needed, but they failed to trade for and sign the bats they needed, which is why the offense was so bad for so long after the plan was implemented. -
We're 35 minutes away from the 24 hour mark, and I'm ready to hand STL Tebow.
