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I think Hilly will be the odd man out, does he play on special teams? Williams will back up Urlacker and Freeman will back up Briggs.

He is worth checking out and if they deem him capable he can be our pos WR, let him and Rideau fight for that spot.

Actually I think Olsen doesnt count as a suprize player. He had good stats last year, and I would think everyone expects him to be better this year, so not a suprize player to me. Anything good from Gilbert will definity fall in that class.

It is quite boring right now with all the expectations coming and the moves we have made, I just want to jump to August. But until then, who is the biggest suprize of 2009? Not a Cutler, or Briggs making the Pro Bowl again, but someone we dont expect to be one of the stars? Mine is Earl Bennett, nothing to lead me to believe why he would be, but we have a QB and there old friends and someone will emerge as a star, I am calling Earl the one.

Every team has questions marks at the begining of the year. Is Tom Brady ready to play after a year off? Can Adrian Peterson stay healthy for a full year? You have to look at the overall picture and take a reading on it. Going into last year we had more questions than this year and was one play away from being a playoff team. Look at the brightside We have a capable qb that can win us some games with the outcome on his shoulders, instead of hoping Orton could do it. Our OL with be better than last year, as we have added more beef and better players and more depth. Much less of a question than last year. Plus we have a qb with feet. We have more talent at WR than last year, which brings with it question marks, but we now have a better qb to help those WRs play better. Our RBs will no longer see 8 man fronts, and with Jones being healthy, our RB committee will be much more effecient. Our defense has some new blood and depth and an offense than will put them on the field less, and other teams playing from behind will add to our overall effiency. Our coaching staff is now off the big head they got from an apperance in the Super Bowl and can get back to proven themselfs once again.

You can list these stats and have many different opinions on them. The question is can our QB make consistent long throws ? To use the over 31 yards stats, can be misleading because those passes are usually desperation passes in a game and means the team is behind and has to attempt them. Stats to look at: 21 to 30 yard throws. Orton- 17/46/472 5-tds 1-int Cutler-23/53/751 7-tds 3-int Manning-14/40/385 2-tds 1-int What do these stats say? Is Orton better than Peyton? Can Cutler throw a deep pass consistently? Stats to look at: All passes over 21 yards Orton-18/57/504 Cutler-27/80/944 Manning/ 21/58/848 What do these stats say? Being a bad team comes into play. Team philosophy. Playing from behind, so many things contributes to stats what do you want it to say? What I read from this is Cutler can throw a deep pass, and may be better than average at it.

He left Buffalo without a contract so that could be good news for us, considering he knows Lovie.

I think we have enough projects on the team, we now need to embrace what we have, Jay Cutler! Bennett will lead the team in recepitions,. forget who he was last year. Hester will be better. Olsen will be all pro this year. Forte will be one of the top three rbs in the NFC. Our offense will be one of the top 10 in the league this year and I am an optimist.

We have so much to look forward to and so much to forget.

There is no way Hester has 80 balls threw to him. We will throw to our TEs, RB, and Bennett will be the leading receiver. Here is how I see it. Bennett 72-around 800 yards and 4 TDs Hester 61- around 900 yards and 8 TDs Olsen 59- around 700 yards and 6 TDs Forte 46 - around 500 yards and 4 TDs Clark 41- around 400 yards and 2 TDs Iglesias 32- around 400 yards and 2 TDs Knox 12- around 200 yards and 2 TDs Cutler will throw for around 3900 yards and 28 TDs

He keeps looking for additions to make this team better and will continue to till he gets it right, we will be a very good team next year, no matter who says Cutler doesnt have the weapons, its about winning and we are set up to do that.

He lost weight to move to the Will spot, he was productive playing at that weight when moved to Sam, have him put on a few pounds and plant him at the Sam, productive player and stick him with a couple of good LBs and may look real good.

There trying to shore up all our weaknesses last year. Short yardage situations. Plus using 2 TEs sets, gives us one blocker and one pass catcher in that formation, more flexablity. He will help alot, and will block better than McKie and probably catch a few more balls out of the backfield. Excellilent idea.

they will have thre moments but have a long way to go. I would say a good year for them would be 6-10. All new scemes and new players, just will take time if they got eveything right, and we still dont know that.

What have we did yet to make a judgement on any of our players? We have to go to camp , before we can start judging players.

Pegues was listed in several mock drafts as a FS as a player we picked in the middle rounds. Three websites had him at the 12th rated FS, one the 130th ranked player in the draft and the another at 170. Maybe he can stick as our FS.

Yes he is a question mark, just like a rookie would be coming in. If you look at the OL players drafted they are changing positions all over the place. If your a good player you should be able to play several spots anyways, and someone thought that so they brought him in here.

I think Melton might be the goalline guy. He scored 16 TDs on the goalline for Texas.

Someone on the NFL network interviewed Jerry about that rumor, they did call him but were going to take him with there late third or early 4th round pick. Someone assumed it was with the second pick after the fact. They wanted Robisckie and when he wasnt there were trading out of it.

The thing is with Melton is he has all the atributes of a big time pass rusher. The speed, the quickness, the firs step, but he hasnt did it yet. He changed positions in college and didnt start till the 3rd game of his senior year. With coaching he may turn into somebody, but didnt have production in college due to his inexperience. If you read some of the experts and how they rate our draft, some concider him nothing and some think he could be the bomb. We will just have to see how it turns out.

Larry Foote will be available, can he play SLB? Also Mike Doss was released, FS , doesnt anybody know if he is any good anymore?

You really need to get off that stud OG stuff. We have two new players there and that are more seasoned than any rookie we could have brought in. Robinson dropped as low as he did for a reason, and wouldnt be starting here if we did drafted him. Garza is the oldest guard we have now and I think he is 30, there will draft one to develope in the future, we are quite find at guard, you will see one they take the field.

Couldnt have stated any better that you did.

We dont know how these players will turn out, but what I did like. We draft the DL, where we definitly need more of a pass rush and addressed that. We added WRs and definintly needed an upgrade there. We added a solid LB, hopefully that means we can improve our SLB position by him or moving people around. We added a very good CB which means, maybe that looses up a player to slide into the FS spot we didnt address in a weak FS class. Maybe a new FB which would please me alot. A blocking TE is a small move but might help alot at the goaline. I think we also may have a goalline RB in Melton to punch it in at the goaline of which we couldnt do last year. We vastly improved our OL threw FAgency, and would have like to had a developmental OT, but you cant fill all your needs in one offseason. And finally added a QB which will evevate the play of all phases of the team.

Melton is just an upside guy, but beg to differ on producton for Gilbert. 47 Ts, 22 TFL, 9.5 Sacks, 3 PKnockdowns, doesnt sound like a bad year for a DT. The top DT in the draft had 14TFL, 7.5 sacks, 5 knockdowns.