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Yea, let's bring back John Shoop, that will do the trick. Get real. Martz is overly confident and at times arrogant but he is a good OC and there is nothing outdated about his system. As long as he brings back the same offense from the second half of last year, where he mixed in a good portion of run, we will be fine, assuming, of course, the OL does it's job.

I like Knox. I feel he is getting a bum rap. I personally saw a different player in Knox last year than 99% of the posters here. Yes, there were some routes he missed on, it was a 1st year system that all of our WRs and out QB struggled with at times. He may have dropped a few but made many excellent catches diving and sliding and wound up with the most yards for a WR since 2002 Marty Booker. Say what you want but I like the kid. Now if he is snoozing in team meetings, quite frankly I am surprised he has not been cut. Lovie & Co. would never allow that to happen and just let it go lightly.

The problem is, every time an admin tries to step in, delete a thread, reprimand a member, we get criticized for censorship and people threaten to leave because of that as well. Somewhere there has to be a "medium ground" acceptable to all. To be honest, there are 2 or 3 that are wearing thin on my nerves but that is me, my personality showing through, and others may not feel the same way.

Here is the 1st depth chart relesased, I am sure there will be many changes. Interesting is the fact they have Hester 1st string PR, KR, and WR.

I have to believe one of two things are going on. 1) Hayden did not convince the Bears he is fully healthy when he took the physical 2) Hayden is looking for more money than the Bears are willing to gamble on so the Bears will see what the marketplace sets his value at If it is the first of the two, as Hayden has missed time from the lineup for 3 years running, we need to take a pass If it is a money issue, I suspect we will be seeing Hayden in our locker room as he will be of greater value to us as a cover 2 CB than any other team I see on his list of teams entertaining him for visits. Give him a contract with incentives around playing time and staying healthy during the season.

I hope this happens, to pick up a quality corner from a system that ran the cover 2 would be fantastic. He should fit in immediately and have a smooth transition.

I am not finding this on NLF.com. Where are you finding this info? Link?

Most had us coming in last in our division or possibly edging out Detroit for 3rd. Most penciled in Minnesota to win the division, and some even had them going to the SB, shows how much you can place on these experts opinions.

Exactly, You have to read between the lines. All coaches want to give their players a vote of confidence, however, it was at best a shallow vote as he admits if they screw up in the preseason games, changes will be made.

If he is placed on the practice squad, he will be snatched up within hours. If they want to keep this guy, with as much interest as there was in him by so many teams after the lock-out, they will have to find a place for him on the roster.

I was just kidding around, in your post you said "Hopefully 90 catches for 140 yards" when talking about Williams, I am sure you meant 1400 yards, but at 90/140 it would work out to a 1.55 YPC,

Talk about a piss poor YPC, LOL

And the name of a WR who never drops balls is ???????????

Here is an excerpt from the NFL calendar on NFL.com

Knox had 51 receptions and close to a thousand yards receiving last year. This does not give him a little "love" from the board? I certainly do not remember him having "hands" issues last year. If anything, I think this may cut back on Bennett, although I do not want to see that either. I like what I am hearing out of camp about Hester and I liked what I saw out of Knox and Bennett last year. I think picking up R Williams was a good move, but it is going to be a tough call and like Gary said, it may be a rotational factor.

I have not heard of CT being cut either, last I saw they were gushing over having CT, MF, & MB in the backfield. I would not be surprised if K Bell or the kid we picked up from the supplemental draft, can't think of his name, has a good camp and Taylor walks, but for now I think he is still with us.

Yep, I will be curious what players get cut at the last minute due to salary cap issues, players teams had hoped to trade but obviously couldn't and now have no choice but cut. Hopefully a few OLmen, under 30 years of age, with some quality experience, LOL.

Ist, I do not think we are finished in the FA market. 2nd, We still have some of our own FAs to sign 3rd, many on the board were screaming at Angelo for not giving Forte his extension, could some of this money be used there, obviously yes. So let's not get things out of kilter here.

I have seen some posts on other boards saying how stupid it was for Angelo to not give the extra 500k to keep Olin, why not? Well, it works 2 ways, why didn't Olin, if he wanted to play here, agree for 4 Million instead of 4.5 million? I am sorry to see him go but does he really think anyone else is going to pay him 4 million? I do not think so.

If he changed his mind at the last minute, Spencer could fill in at guard and we would have a futre replacement for Olin

On second thought, are we sure Olin is gone? Has it been confirmed? Did we sign spencer as a backup/heir apparent for the future?

I am sure this gives usd even more room under the cap, as I doubt he gets paid what we were offering Olin, and hopefully that extra money brings us more OLmen in free agency

As much as I hate to say it, as I loved Olin, leadership qualities is nice, but when you make the highlight films not because of your good play but highlight reels of you being knocked on your ass while Cutler gets sacked, well, like I said, leadership is one thing, but without being able to do your job it is not good enough.

Yea, you are right, the Bears would never go out and pick up a top DE in the off season to bolster out defense, ooops, wait a minute, they did that last year, why not again

I suspect there are yet to be more cuts, or trade possibilities with OL teams cannot sign or need to cut for cap purposes do to FA signings