David

I'd be shocked if it was anything more than Zach's opinion. Pretty much.

Zaidman - Cutler looks great Team speed that has been missing the last couple of years is back Bennett looks fluid, catching everything in sight Johnny Knox is standing out the most among rookies (Note - Yesterday, Turner made a point of saying that he's been working with Cutler on timing, after saying that Cutler was working predominantly with the 1's on offense) Zaidman was the one who ran into Plax and found out that Cutler had been making overtures to him... Plax told him to tell the people in Chicago that he loves Giordanos and Garrett Popcorn... Bears would like to have him. Obviously, a lot of obstacles along the way. If Corey Graham "gets" the position of free safety, Steltz could wind up moving to strong.

Holmes and Hampton will have Zach Zaidman (WSCR Bears beat guy) to talk about the Plaxico possibility after the 11 o'clock update.

He has a court date on the 15th. I'm sure we'll more after that.

If he winds up pleading not-guilty, he is so screwed.

I doubt Plax will face jail time. I think it's more likely he'll plead out and get probation (he did have a unlicenced gun, but he only hurt himself). The biggest obstacle will be from Roger Goodell and a potential suspension. I believe the law he broke carries a mandatory minimum sentence of one year. They offered him a plea deal of 2 months and a ton of community service and he turned it down. It would've left him ready to make some team's camp. I think it was a dumb move, but we'll see.

First we have to hope he doesn't wind up behind bars for very long.

It's pretty much a lock to vest unless he suffers a career ending injury or something.

Yep. He made Eli Manning look like a decent quarterback. Imagine what he could do with a good one.

The Bears are 30/1? Are you sure? Is that stale info? Chicago always gets a decent amount of money placed on them, and after the Cutler signing I'd think they fall more into the 12-15/1 range. As of a week or two ago, I could've placed a bet on bodog at 30-1. I'll take a look right now to see if it has moved. It's now 20-1. Damn. Should've placed that bet then. I thought it was outrageous immediately.

Yeah, makes no sense, especially since the Bears have done pretty well vs. GB in Lovie's tenure. If anything, he could say he was brought in to beat Minnesota, who is a better team than GB and has a defense that is almost impossible to run on. But I'm pretty sure the Bears brought in Cutler with the hopes of him helping them beat whoever represents the AFC in the Superbowl. In the quotes provided, Dungy doesn't even mention Green Bay. He just says "one team" and the writer apparantly assumes it's Green Bay. It would make more sense as Minnesota, but it's still a rather ridiculous sentiment. He was brought in to be the quarterback for 19 games this year and the next 10 years after. :D He just meant preseason. The regulars don't really play in the 4th one. :grin:

Marshall is a world class d-bag, though. I mean, I'd be more than happy to have him as a player, but I'd have a hard time rooting for him after watching that Outside the Lines on him.

I agree with all of that wholeheartedly, and it's part of the reason why, at 30-1, I'm tempted to put a hundred or so on the Bears to win the Super Bowl. Not because I think we're anywhere close to a lock, but I think it's a hell of a lot better than 30-1, and I'm not sure why people aren't realizing that.

I really think there's a good chance we'll get Plaxico. Coupled with my post from before about the organization's mouthpiece, Larry Meyer, on the official website being very supportive of a potential Burress signing, I think there might be some fire with this smoke. http://www.suntimes.com/sports/football/bears/1606293,CST-SPT-bear04.article

That's not the most comforting thought, either. I'm still not sure why no AL team picked him up. The Red Sox could sure use him right about now.

http://www.sawauto.com/uploader/up2/Donkey%20Show.gif lol

Ugh. Hopefully, it's nothing.

Mike Brown and Rex Grossman were two of my favorite Bears and it would suck for them to not find a team to latch onto. There are plenty of worse QB's than Rex out there. Hell, there are almost certainly two on our roster. (That's not to say I want him on our roster. I'm tired of hearing him get ripped on. We've done way worse than him at that position.)

There's a ton of them. It's like a perfect storm right now. Rarely have I ever wanted June and July to go by this quickly.

BTW, today's OTA is open to the media, so maybe we'll have some cool footage/stories coming.

I just like to think/know I have a good idea of who the best teams actually are *shrug* and I feel like I'm able to separate that from what the results actually are.

Mike Brown is visiting the Chiefs soon. I still think it's sort of dumb to not just sign him if it's cheap. If he's around, he's not worse than our other options. Reminds me of when many/most Cubs fans wanted to get rid of Prior just for the sake of getting rid of him. Granted, it seems nothing good would've come of it, but I didn't see much to lose there and I see even less to lose here since Brown is at least capable of taking the field for a decent percentage of the time.

The funny thing is, I agree with your sentiment here, but at the same time, it almost seems illogical. Football is such a fluky game with an odd oblong ball that bounces crazy ways and can shift the tide in a game in a split second. A first and goal from the one can turn into a 99 yard fumble/INT return and completely change the complexion of a game. It just seems like when the mistakes or accidents (or straight up flukes when that ball just bounces crazy ways) do happen, they have a much more profound impact on the outcome of a game than in other sports.

I don't know. The best baseball teams win a little more than 60% of the time, and that's including against all competition, good or bad. How often does the best baseball team beat another top 8 team? 53%? The best NFL teams win 80% or more of the time. I think being the best might matter more in football, but it still doesn't absolutely determine the champion. Zona got to the Super Bowl with a 9-7 record last year. Pitt recently won a Super Bowl as a 6 seed. I really do think, after all is said and done, alot of this analysis winds up being just bunk. Give me the 6 seed Steelers and a Super Bowl championship over the other team that was better, but didn't make it. I'm an emotional guy. I'll take that emotional Super Bowl run from a team that maybe wasn't all that great on paper any day. The championship is really all that matters to me. That goes for all sports. It's not bunk. Unless it's actually attempting to predict one team as a champion. And in that case, said analysis usually amounts to a big chart with pictures of "experts" and their Super Bowl picks, which is obvious crap to begin with. Legitimate analysis tells you things of value. And the fact that it isn't going to do a great job of saying who ultimately wins is implied due to the nature of all this. I don't think legit analysis attempts to do that, anyway. It tells you who is likely to win and might or might not give you a good idea of what teams are actually better than others, but you're not going to see them say, "Team X will win the Super Bowl," at least, not without major qualification. If they do, you know what you're reading is crap to begin with. Unfortunately, like 90% of fans don't realize this and that's why the crap analysis is what you mostly find in the mainstream sources.

Lack of clubhouse leadership is why everyone not from Japan in our lineup is OPSing like 100 points below where they should be and why we've had to replace our best hitter with a complete offensive void.