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i almost choked on my dinner after reading that first post - that is histerical!!!! bears fans better pray for a new cba

jason is right. maybe it's a blessing? we have more needs than picks, and we've already seen how low priority FS has been, so maybe after other holes are filled we think about it? da Bears never draft elite players though, so what does it matter...

it has been quite some time between posts for me, but I can feel the frustration on this board. being a bears fan is not easy, esp considering our genius GM invested a lot of money in declining players. this defense was great in 05 and 06, but i remember thinking then that the time they spent on the field those seasons due to an inept offense was going to shorten their careers. now none of them have trade value (whoever thinks AZ is giving up Boldin for a couple picks + one of our past-their-prime has-beens is crazy) and we're saddled with their salaries. JA is not going to set the bar in FA for anyone, be it TJ (WR), Gross (OT), Peppers or Suggs (DE), or Haynesworth (DT), so these dream signings are in a sense a Madden fantasy, b/c we will only see them if we are playing GM with fake $$$

I hate to chime in after negatively after being away for so long, but I must say that neither Suggs nor Collins would excel here. Suggs is a 3-4 OLB. With our O-line, Collins plays like, well, Collins. Gross would be great except every other team agrees, and da Bears will not get into a bidding war for anyone. Like Hub said on 670 this morning, this regime has ZERO pressure on it, so it will continue to draft "athletes" over football players and we will continue to be embarrassed by flops like D. Manning... I like Taylor Mays, too (maybe Bears fans get to see what a FREE safety looks like?), but I doubt we get a shot at him. If there's anything I know about this league, it's that there are fewer elite FS prospects coming out of college than any other position other than QB. I don't think it's coincidence, b/c not only does a FS need to have instincts and work ethic, but also great athletism. But if he's there, I'd take him over Crabtree.

Rhodes resigned with the Colts... Word is Jones looked great in workouts for the Bengals and Patriots. Apparently one of the drills he does is running and cutting on an incline (treadmill? not sure), and he was fluid and powerful. This comes from the guy who covers the Lions for MLive...he likes to report on players the Lions drafted that become successful, which almost always means he follows them after they leave Detroit

He never cared about sacrificing himself for the better of this team and us the fans. I know many of us who didn't like the pick still got up and cheered him and found reasons to believe he could live up, but he didn't. He was a reach in a weak draft class and burned the GM that took him...that to me shows no respect for the game, the business, and the tradition. Playing for da Bears should be an honor, and he spit into the wind the minute he put on our cap...if we don't want our GM to let go, we're gonna be stuck with Rex, Orton, and Bradley for years to come...

I really don't understand why everyone is getting down on the guy for wanting to get more money guaranteed. NFL contracts can be torn up by the owners at any time...the players have a right to get as much money as they can when they can. It's the media that turns this into a circus.

sadly enough, I didn't get out when I had my chance...although, it is nice to be only 2 hours away from Chicago and yet still only have a 10 min. commute to work...

You must be in GR? I'm in Kalamazoo...

Anyone have details on the recent Bears trades? How did we lose our 6th? Also, Colt Brennan is another Rex Grossman...I don't agree with the TE pick either, cuz the guy is a bag of douche, but if he would've picked Brennan, i was going to go out and buy a Colts hat... We're rebuilding, so why not hold out for the top QB in next year's draft? Hopefully we'll have a real GM then...

I will bitch about drafting a CB with bad knees in the 5th. Didn't we draft 2 CBs last year? How many do we need, really? We still have holes on the team, and we're filling our roster with DBs, again...

over-valued in a weak QB class...is anyone getting sick of me saying this? Henne has the lowest completion percentage and the highest interception-to-attempt ratio of all 4 QBs... I'm a diehard Wolverine fan...and I've always loathed him. He's easily confused and forces throws under pressure. Why can't we just wait for the QB we want rather than wasting a pick on one who is going to struggle? Haven't we learned from the Grossman experiment?

I wouldn't take either one of them. Why reach for something that isn't there? We have 2 safeties returning from injury, plus 2 that ended the season in the lineup, one Lovie won't let go, and another we signed late last season of someone else's practice squad. We have bodies with potential. We should use this draft to fill glaring needs on offense and look safety next year...

Brohm can't read defenses and struggles under pressure. He was a preseason All-American, but without Bush to shoulder the load, he crumpled. Brohm is only getting consideration b/c he is a QB in a very weak draft class. Anyone who has watched much of him will readily admit that he's just a tall Rex with a weaker arm...

what system and what's your screen name? I'm a COD4 junkie on PS3 myself...