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If Winston is on the board, and hypothetically the Bears are able to move Cutler's contract, do people here go for the QB?
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I don't think the Bears keep their pay roll down.
More about Teds financial mistakes. I have said don't fire him just keep him on the business side but after reading this he doesn't derserve to be on either side
They used to. 5-8 years ago that was a legit complaint against them, but at the same time they were winning while doing it! They went in big in free agency to start filling holes in the early part of this decade (think about the day where they signed Peppers and several other players).
I'm not trying to defend the current management, I just want people to indict them for the correct reasons. They're not being cheap. They're putting money on the field and doing so in a totally ineffective way. That's not a complaint about them being cheap any more, the correct complaint is that their targets are failing to produce on the field on a regular basis.
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One thing that is no longer true from this article is the claim that the Bears have kept their payroll down. Over the last several years this has been incorrect most years - the Bears have used up almost every scrap of their cap space each of the last few years. In some cases (like this year) that has led to them only being in the middle of the pack on total payroll, but still using up virtually the entire cap because they have so much dead space due to Peppers. Over the last several they have been close to or at the top of the league in payroll.
I totally agree with the claims of the Bears being a tremendously undervalued, poorly managed asset, but that is not because of a lack of spending on payroll for the last half decade.
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I'm guessing ours will b of the Darius Heyward-Bey success
The last time the Bears picked #7 they selected Curtis Conway.
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This is usually the kind of move a team makes right before the end of a season in order to use up some fraction of their remaining cap space on that extension. That's my guess about why this deal happened, using up a portion of this year's cap to pay his salary for next year.
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To repeat and now confirmed: Bears starting QB Jimmy Clausen over Jay Cutler on Sunday vs. Detroit, per sources.
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) December 17, 2014 -
Stunner from Chicago: Bears starting QB Jimmy Clausen this week, per source.
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) December 17, 2014 -
One thing I'd like to see is the continued resurgence of Allen. I want to have him back again next year but first I need to know he's worth the spot. He's got the leadership ability, now can he keep on sacking?
Wasn't Allen's contract written that the guarantee was like $3 million this year and $9 million next year? i.e. it's really tough to get rid of him because you have to pay him next year anyway?
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It's never a good to tank for draft position. I hate that thought with a passion. Also, we don't have anyone new to develop that hasn't already played.
Honestly, at this point, I would trade Marshall before the deadline to gain players/picks for the future. I have a sneaking suspicion that he is going to be a major pain in the ass as a free agent. This team lacks talent on every level of the defense, still have issues with OL and have no speed on offense. I would hate to lose him, but we may gain through that loss.
Marshall isn't going to be a free agent any time soon, they extended his contract earlier this year.
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Game thread.
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Crowd noise is about the only factor that makes home field advantage. When you're on the field what other advantage is there?
Here's a thread and an article that talked about it a few years ago....Again I will add that I'm not sure if it's still a problem or not, but it most certainly had been.
http://www.footballsfuture.com/phpBB2/view....php?p=14602331
several studies say the strongest home field advantage in most sports is the way the referees call games.
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Imagine what the Eagles, Seahawks, won't even mention Denver, would do to this team
The Bears simply have to do a better job scoring if they play a team like the Eagles or Broncos. Hell, they'll have to do a better job putting points up next week against the 9ers if they want to hang there too.
The Bears were one of the top offenses in the league last year. They're not going to win games if they can't put up more than 20 points.
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I knew I should have just left it at the gunslinger part.....That's all I was really getting at. Both guys see windows they think they can fit it in because of their arm strength which is both a blessing and a course.....That will probably never change, it never did for Favre, and it never will for Cutler.
Brett Favre's best season by far, in Minnesota, was when he finally cut down on some of those tendencies, cut down on the INTs, and showed that control.
He then lost his final playoff game when he reverted back.
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Good analysis.....My fears after the first game are the old guys on D will kill us. Agreed the Briggs looks fat and slow, Allen was invisible out there and is going to be a liability in the run game (I didn't want him for that reason), and Tillman is not gonna be able to stick with speedy WRs.
Overall it was still a better showing than what the Bears D was able to put together last year. The O turned the ball over 3 times, the game went to OT, and the Bears still only gave up 23 points. Even though the Bills aren't the best offense in the league, they didn't torch the team through the air and they were only able to get 15 first downs during the game compared to the Bears 29. The D wasn't spectacular against the run, particularly if you factor in the game killer, but at least so far it wasn't an open gate; until that final run the Bills were at about 4.7 ypc.
That's not the best defense in the league, but so far thats a major improvement from last year.
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Talking about his gunslinging "I can fit the ball in anywhere" mentality. Favre lead the league in INTs a few times.
Career Completion %- Favre- 62% Cutler- 61.4%
Career TD%- Favre- 5% Cutler- 4.7%
Career INT%- Favre- 3.3% Cutler- 3.4%
Yards per completion- Favre- 11.4 Cutler- 11.9
Yards per game- Favre- 237 Cutler- 230
QBR- Favre- 86 Cutler 84.6
How do the average stats for the rest of the league compare to those 2 QBs? Because I'd guess that passing yards per game in 2009-2014 are very, very different from what they were 1995-2005.
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LinkJeffery appears to be fine: Alshon Jeffery missed the fourth quarter and overtime due to a hamstring injury, but Bears coach Marc Trestman said, "Alshon was prepared to go in there at specific times. I'll just leave it at that." Jeffery was seen in the locker room after the game, and he didn't appear to be walking with a limp or any type of discomfort. Trestman said he didn't know the extent of Jeffery's injury.Garza and Slauson hobbled: Center Roberto Garza conducted postgame interviews with a walking boot lying on the floor in front of his locker while left guard Matt Slauson walked with a limp on the way out of the locker room. Both players missed the entire second half and said they will receive MRI exams Monday morning.
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"I don't know what happened on that s---," Bennett said. "The fat guy got a pick."
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What are the odds Cutler misses more than 4 games?
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Guys who aren't signed right now are guys who are probably hoping for better deals to become available as injuries occur and as the draft shakes itself out (where teams realize they failed to fill a need).
I'm still figuring the Bears need a backup QB so Freeman could make some sense, but really, whoever Trestman wants at that spot I'm ok with.
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If he's on the field, the Bears just generated like 5 turnovers.
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I think he could still find a way to 8-10 sacks next year in a reduced role in the Packer's defense. I think they'll try to preserve him as much as possible. You'll see his reps go down and his production go up IMO. Good move by the Packers. I hope he doesn't do to Jay Cutler what he did to Matt Stafford a few years back.
The thing that could really help him be more productive is having Clay Matthews as a #1 option on the other side.
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Absolutely. If the right situation comes up though I wouldn't hesitate to dip into that contract though. Say they sign Melton at ~6M that leaves em with ~2M, if the market for a guy like Chris Clemons (the safety) dries up and he only costs ~3M I wouldn't hesitate to dip into the contract a few mill to cober that cost and give them a little more money to perhaps bring a guy like Britton, Bowman, and Rosario back.
Your point remains though, right now the Bears salary for 2015 is 85 mill and that includes all but the guys I mentioned in my last post. If Bostic really is Briggs replacement next year then the Bears will really only need to resign Marshall. Even if we say BMarsh gets 10M then that's 45M in cap space.
The other thing they could do with a setup like that is slightly backload the bonus for a guy like Melton into future years rather than moving it around with Cutler, thus saving them a bit of cap space this year and giving them the option to retain him in a future year.
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And at any time they can dip into the Cutler contract to free up some space. I vaguely remember Slauson and Jennigs contracts have that flexibility too.
With the amount of space that they still have remaining and their current needs it doesn't seem like it'll be very necessary to do that this year.
And let's also not forget the benefit of avoiding doing so...the Bears could go into next offseason having Pepper's deal fully paid off, having taken the largest portion of the cap hit on Cutler's deal, and having a really good sum of FA dollars available (even after extending Marshall).
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Instead fo Earl...sure. But I think the price would be high.
Any guesses as to a $ amount for Smith?
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How long has he been at UCLA? I always feel nervous about guys who haven't been in a single spot for all that long in college and then leave for another job again.