CrackerDog

I guess we've both been busy. WHAT! Oh yeah, wait a second, Grossman NEVER hit Berrian deep. I forgot. PUUUUUUUUHHHHHH LEAAAAAAASE! I agree. He's a good #2 if we have a solid #1 who can stretch the field. If not, the lanes will be jammed and he'll get little. Look, I don't know if Hester can play WR at all. I think he can but I'm not sure where exactly he fits in best. I think it's in the slot, put in motion. He can literally end up anywhere on the field using that formation and movement. But that isn't my point, he ain't a #1, so we agree. We need one! If we don't stretch the field, TE, any TE not names Gates, is diminished. We need someone to play the spot. Once again, Bradley has proven himself unworthy of trust, over and over. We can't rely on him to be available and we've NEVER been able to. I've been saying this for a long time. Lastly, to whoever scolded me above, I'm not really this big a peckerhead. It's just that I appreciate it when the Bears players play like MEN and not women. I've been talking til I'm blue in the face about this sissy Bradley for at least two years now. I really lost my patience with him last season. I pray I'm wrong or that at a minimum the Bears found somebody in the last two draft classes who can play the position. If not, it doesn't matter too much if GrossTon has improved, if the line has improved, if BenTe is a good 1/2 combo at RB, we're DEAD. We can't expect our D and ST to be that dominant this season. The O must contribute. With dog food at WR, we can't succeed. JA, don't let me down, find someone to be our #1 WR!

I've said it before and I'll say it again, this guy is a complete and total pussy. Get "him" a box of maxipads! JESUS CHRIST! When are the Bears going to learn their lesson with him? He's never shown more than "potential" and that has been on such a limited basis, after this long... You've got to cut his ass. I TOLD YOU SO! I was right, all of the softies out there, were wrong. All the "Gee CD, give the kid a break, it's just flukes." All the "Hey man, injuries happen. He's a tough kid." BULLSHIT! Sorry man, if this kid needed to be scoped he should've had it done a month ago. Either the Bears training staff is full of complete morons or this guy hid from them, not wanting to be checked out. Based on his history of skirt wearing, I doubt it's the Bears trainers. I hate to say it but we've got to look at Koren Robinson and/or any other WR still out there and available. We need someone who can get down the field besides Hester because Hester isn't a prototypical WR. He lacks the height we need at that position. If we head into the season with Booker and Hester at 1 and 2, we're dead. PERIOD! I could cover Booker and I'm 43 and 25 pounds overweight! PS. Been a long time for me on one of these rants. That felt good!

I hope he can play guard or tackle. We don't need a friggen TE. I'm very suprised with this pick. Our 1 singularly clear need going into this draft was the OL and we've taken one player at that position thus far. I don't want to turn this into a childish tantrum but DAMN IT JERRY!

Kiper just compared him to Doug Plank. Few here are probably old enough to remember him. He was who Buddy Ryan named the "46 Defense" after. I have no idea if Kiper is right but the highlight film on this kid looks like he's got great instincts. I hope he hits like ol' #46.

Well, at least this post wasn't another childish temper tantrum.

Why not Jones or Jordan via FA and blow off drafting a RB in the first?

He's a significant injury risk but if he passes a physical, I'd try to get him. As I expressed elsewhere on this site, I'm not certain Benson has what it takes in several regards. Having him on the team would allow us to focus on OL and WR in the draft.

LOL! Wow, was I surprised to see the thread I started had become this long and was moved to "off topic" because of the fighing going on, I suspect. Oh well... Can't we all just get along? Frankly, ANY discussion of a rival is clearly on topic. This thread shouldn't have been moved, IMO. That said, you guys really started going after each other. Let's save our poison for the enemy! Back to my original point, I just think Favre was way over the top with his emotional show the other day. Get a grip Sally! Sheesh. I don't hold it against a guy for shedding a few tears, Payton did when he was having the press conference about his health. But to go on and on and on weeping like a school girl... Damn. As to Favre, in general, I always hated him because he was a Packer, not the other way around. I didn't hate the Packers because of Favre. His winning streak over us ended 4 years ago and we've dominated him since. Lovie said he knew how to get that done and I'll be damned if he didn't know what he was talking about. It'll be interesting to see how the Packers move ahead at QB. I've heard talk about Sage Rosenfelds... BWAAAA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!! Ah well, let the Sage era begin! Later guys.

He was cryin' like a sissy. Pathetic.

Unless he's signed with someone in the last day or two, he's still available. I'm with the folks here who blame the OL more than the backs. We're old there and need a lot of help. A LOT of help. I was worried about the OL last season before it started and now I'm just frustrated as all hell. That said, Benson is pretty darn close to being a bust in my book. Has anyone heard how his rehab is going? I know a guy who knows someone on the Bears staff who said something along the lines of "Benson has an injury that takes a lot of dedication to rehab. From what we've seen, he doesn't have the intestinal fortitude to make it happen." I'm paraphrasing but this is from someone I have no reason to doubt. It may be time to look elsewhere.

I like it. A 1 year deal loaded with incentives. What more could you want? If he wins the job and turns out to be Good Rex for vast majority of the season, he'll have proved he's worth a longer higher paying deal. If he can't beat out Orton in camp, having a QB who played us into the SB on our bench isn't too bad. $3 million is peanuts these days. Interested to see what they do in the draft now. Griese is gone, IMO, but a lot depands on where they go in FA or the draft. I guess this means we won't be chasing McNabb.

Don't you always? I agree with you on most of your above thoughts. However, Booker is old and I wouldn't sign him. I'd find a kid in the draft that looks like him (statistically) and sign him cheap. You can find a WR like this in the 4th round or later. I'd absolutely cut Moose for a kid but not for Booker. I have to believe it's a push on the money side and Moose probably has a step on Marty and statistically they've produced about the same for the last 3 seasons (about 50 catches on average.) So, I agree with the concept of a "Booker-like" player, just not that Marty is that guy anymore.

On the defensive side of the ball this is true. On offense our line, RB's, WR's and QB are all lower quality than the same on the Giants. Unless you assume we'd gel like Eli and his team seem to have done. But then again, that has little to do with health.

Has this board been infiltrated by communists?

We can still say that with them having lost in the playoffs too. I'd rather see the Packers lose every game they ever play. I HATE THE PACKERS. That isn't hypothetical.

LOL! Well, there's some bad stuff going on in my personal life which will take a while to sort out. I'm also swamped at work (where I usually post ). I should be back to slapping you around consistently before next season starts.

Somebody needs to breath some life into this board.

Hub is a stupid ass and if the Bears are telling him anything at all, which I seriously doubt, they're feeding him garbage to throw other teams off the scent. Hub hasn't said anything worthwhile in his career and the bitter little man that he became after the Bears showed him the door really told me all I needed to know about his character.

Awesome one NYC! I love a lot of the ones mentioned here so I'll add a more obscure one... Bryan Robinson's kick block against the Packers the week after Sweetness died in 1999. It's become known as the Payton Game and even though the win was totally meaningless in a lost season, I had tears running down. It was a great "moment" and Robinson said something along the lines of "I felt #34 picking me up into the air." These types of moments are what make sports worth following.

If he doesn't fit Marinelli's system he doesn't fit Lovie's system.

I agree. And we got literally destroyed by Dallas earlier in the season (in every way possible) and we weren't the same team afterwards. If we'd have played Dallas toward the end of the season we may have been healthier and picked up a win or two along the way that we didn't otherwise get. Who knows? All I'm sure of is I saw a team in GB this season that won 13 games with marginal talent. That ought to be a cause for optimism here.

The Packers won't be as good next season as they were this year. I see success breeding some discontent on that team, just like it happens elsewhere. Favre will be back but that isn't necessarily a BAD thing. He's had several lousy seasons leading into this good one and then, in the end, he still screwed up. Classic! They are very young but I'm not buying their running game. I think they have some holes on D, particularly in the backfield. I also believe I've heard they may have some potential losses to fix in the O Line if some of their guys go into FA. If the Bears can stay healthy we'll be in it next season and will probably win it. We took the Packers TWICE this year and they didn't make it as far as we did last season. This is a HAPPY HAPPY day to be a Bears fan.

And the way it ended... SWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEET! Favre drops back... HE'S PICKED OFF!!!!! Giants WIN! WOOOOO HOOOOOOO!!!!!!

I couldn't agree more. This season was a bust because we finished a game under 500 only one year from being in the SB. But when you look at it, inconsistent (heck, horrible) QB play to start the season couldn't have been expected by anyone. I think the general consensus was that Rex would probably elevate his game, at least a little. Talk before the season was that they brought in Pep to address his lack of consistency and his fundamentals. It didn't work and Rex was a huge disappointment. The D played like a team with half their starters injured. Know why? Half their starters were injured! If you add a healthy Tommie and Dusty to the interior of that line and a 100% healthy Urlacher, nobody runs over us. Further, if we have two healthy corners for the season, we're significantly better. Anderson had a sophomore slump and then got hurt. Brown was IR'ed and then Archy proved why Washington let him go as he played poorly when forced to cover. There were some positives to come out of this, however. Frankly, I was impressed that with everything that went wrong, we ended up the year at almost 500. Down the stretch we built some momentum for next season and Orton showed he can play QB at a pretty good level. Babich coordinated himself around the talent he had left on D and didn't do a terrible job with diminished talent. A few breaks here or there and we could've just as easily been in position to sneak into the playoffs like Washington did. Another positive... Ced was exposed as the poser he is. He'll never be great because he doesn't care to be great. We now know he's a bust and we need to move on. It's all about picking up some guys for the O line and a RB with heart for next year. If we stay moderately healthy and add just those components, we can compete again. I trust JA and Lovie to get us back there and not need to go through a rebuilding process. And, to be honest, beating the Packers twice in a season in which they won 13 games feels pretty damn good. I'm looking forward to next year.

I wouldn't let him scrub the locker room floors much less let him coach. He might be OK as a high school coach... Maybe. For like a girls school just starting a football program...