[Bears waive Mark Bradley]

Here's a Commentary I wrote on Bradley's release:

 

The Bears on Tuesday released wide receiver Mark Bradley. Following the release, the Bears claimed cornerback Marcus Hamilton off waivers from Tampa Bay. Hamilton, a 2007 7th round selection, made his NFL debut last Sunday in the Bucs win over the Bears, and is expected to add depth in the secondary.

 

Bradley’s release shouldn’t shock anyone. He was one of many of Angelo’s poor first day selections, and worse yet, one of the final members of the 2005 draft. QB Kyle Orton is now the only remaining member of the “vaunted” 2005 draft class.

 

Angelo has now released 4 recent first day picks: Benson, Bradley, Bazuin, Okwo. This makes me ask the question, Why have the Bears missed on so many 1st day picks? Has Angelo just been unlucky or were these picks destined to fail? I broke down each of the 4 failed picks based upon the logic of the move (ie, team needs), other players on the board, and where the player was slotted to go.

 

Benson:

Benson was the biggest bust on the above list, but also the only selection which made sense. Yes, the Bears did have Thomas Jones, but the Bears offense was in flux. Terry O’Shea was fired and Ron Turner was brought in. Thomas Jones was not considered a good fit for Turner’s system, which required that “power running game”. Benson was expected to be just that. He was a prolific collegiate running back, who would get stronger and stronger as the game wore on. Everyone expected him to do more of the same in the NFL and no one could have predicted his eventual hold-out and unwilligness to play with the team.

 

Mark Bradley:

The Bears made a statment selecting Bradley early in the 2nd round of the NFL draft. The statement wasn’t a good one either, it was a bad one. No one expected Bradley to jump off the board this early. Sure he had physical potential, but his collegiate production was non-existent and he had injury issues. The above was why experts had Bradley projected to go somewhere between the 3rd & 4th rounds. So why take the chance on a project like Bradley? Especially when the Bears WR corps was in need of immediate help. Remember, Berrian had yet to emerge and the belief in Chicago was that the Bears needed to get a WR whom could be groomed by “Moose”. Roscoe Parrish, Vincent Jackson, and Chris Henry were all available and had much better collegiate stats and plenty of “athletism”.

 

Dan Bazuin:

Of the 4 players above, this was the worse pick. The Bears selected Bazuin in the 2nd round, when they already had three above average defensive ends on the roster (Mark Anderson, Alex Brown, & Adewale Ogunleye). The move screamed “luxury pick”. The problem was that the Bears weren’t in a position to make a “luxury” pick. They had a poor WR corps (Berrian and an Aging Moose), no depth at safety (Brown always injured and no one else had emerged), and an aging offensive line. So I ask why pick a defensive end out of Central Michigan? Instead of nabbing Bazuin, the Bears could have taken tackle Ryan Harris out of Notre Dame or WR James Jones. Heck, had the Bears not traded down in the first place to get Bazuin, they could have selected tackle Tony Ugoh.

 

Mike Okwo:

I can see some logic in the Okwo selection. The Bears were looking for insurance on Lance Briggs. The problem was the Bears already had a LB they loved, Jamar Williams, who was capable of stepping in for Briggs. Another argument could be made that the Bears were to get depth at MLB, but if Urlacher were hurt, Briggs would have slid into the middle with Williams/Hillmeyer cover the OLB’s. Bottom line there were far more pressing needs on the board than to use the selection on an under-sized, un-athletic linebacker from Stanford. RB Michael Bush would have been a tremendous value pick, but the Bears had just made another horrendous pick prior to the Okwo one (Garret Wolfe). Factoring in Wolfe’s selection, the best pick would have been safety Tanard Jackson.

 

Based on the above it’s hard to give Angelo a pass on three of the four failed picks. It’s one thing when a player busts or gets hurt, it happens (see McNown/Benson/Columbo). But it’s another when the pick was doomed from the get-go. In fact, When you look at the the list of Angelo’s failed selections, you see plenty of them which fall into the “no sense” category and its those picks that Angelo will have to get away from. When Angelo’s picks make sense, they pan-out. It shouldn’t come as a shock either as Angelo is one of the best talent evaluators in the game. So Jerry, please, lets learn from the past and do a better job addressing team needs via the draft. It worked in 2008 when the majority of the picks adressed needs, had value, and flat out made sense.

[Alaskan's take]

You're a typical Republican apologist. Obama has plenty of accomplishment in the last twenty years and significant accomplishment in the senate even though his time there has been short. If you care to educate yourself the facts are available at his web site. But you won't do that because you're already satisfied. Your life hasn't been screwed up by this President and his party. Look around you. And if you think McCain is different than Bush and you're asking me to just "trust you" that he'll be, I'll just say that plenty of you guys said the same thing 8 years ago. The same folks who gave us the worst President ever are now suggesting we overlook their complete failure and give them a whirl at fixing everything they hosed up in the first place. Sorry, I'm not stupid.

 

Your boy stands for one thing one day and another the next. He cried about ugly politics but his ads are horribly misleading. His stance on almost everything changed when he became the Repug frontrunner. His pick of Palin was purely political; Obama selected someone who could help him govern. See the difference? One is an adult and the other is Karl Rove's bastard child.

 

You boy spearheaded every effort to gut regulations that protected our financial institutions. Now we've already given away a half trillion and there's another $700 billion on the way. You dopes always talk about tax policy because you're ME ME ME about what hits your bank account. But you fail miserably to look at the big picture. What about the TRILLION dollars? Do you think some magic fairy comes out with a wand and it just disappears? YOU and your outlook on life and politics, your votes, your party have led us into this mess. And now someone has to pay for it all. Will it be those who most benefitted? HELL NO, it'll be the ferkin' middle class while the folks who spend money buying the Republican Party, as an insurance policy to cover for their crimes, continue to trick people dumb enough to vote against their self interest. OMFG!!! He's going to raise taxes on the wealthy! WHO CARES! Giving them all of that extra cheese hasn't meant a damn thing to this economy. We're in the worst shape I can ever recall. The plan from Bush, give the wealthy more money. That's where it stopped! In Reagan's day, he worked with a Democratic Congress to shape and target the money into places that helped build our economy. And I know McCain isn't Bush but he hasn't offered one plan different than your boy W. He himself said he's clueless on the economy. Meanwhile Obama has been out there offering specific plans and working with his economic advisors every day.

 

One man is ready for this job and the other is John McCain. He's not the same man he was. He's lost. He's old. He has NO ideas. We can't wait around for another 4 years as this country fails further into the chaos your team has created. Nothing is better off than it was 8 years ago. NOT ONE THING.

 

And I haven't even talked about the war yet. How many trillions should we spend on a mistake? Should this country continue to pay for YOUR error in judgment, sending a moron to the Presidency in the first place? Should I have to throw my son into the meat grinder for this Commander in Chief because you want a few extra dollars in your pocket? (Borrowed money, I might add.) Everyone who voted for Bush the first time made a mistake. Everyone who voted for Bush the second time is a Judas. Your few extra dollars is BLOOD MONEY. There are more than 4,000 of our finest dead now because you needed a tax cut. You sold this country down the river. You KNEW damn well what this man offered and you voted for him anyway. Oh, wait, I forgot, NOBODY admits to voting for Bush anymore. He's got 20% approval ratings and not even a Republican running for office will touch him with a 10 foot long turd.

 

"Trust me" say the folks who gave us W. Sorry, just apologize and shut the f*ck up. Your opinion is worthless.

The people Obama's economic policies are going to hit the hardest are the middle class. His policies will further worsen the recession (pulling money from individuals as well as businesses) and this will actually lead to further layoffs and a general poor economy. I also find it absolutely hillarious that the republicans are getting blamed for this financial mess (Fannie/Freddie/Banks). That mess falls on the banks who did a terrible job and if you want to blame someone, blame the republicans and the democrats because neither of them did anything. In fact, if you really want to blame someone blame Greenspan who continued to spew stupid shit about the lack of a housing bubble and who actually encouraged lenders to go out and offer some of these dumbass products which were inevitably going to fail once real estate prices tanked.

 

You talk about the rich who gets effected but I'm looking at myself. I'm a 25 year old whose a few years out of college. I certainly am not rich, yet, Obama's policy would cost me an extra few thousand out of my pocket. And for what, so I can have a national health care system as opposed to one by my choice which is managed by businesses. The cost of a national health care would be very expensive on the individual taxpayer (much more than any of us currently pay).

 

I'm not saying we shouldn't offer health care to those less fortunate. I would want every single person under 18 to have health care as well as a program set up to ensure that every single working mom would have health care (ie a single mom or single dad who doesn't make enough money to even feed there kids shouldn't have to worry about health care, they should have it so they can stay healthy and do everything they can to work and support the family).

 

Also, I realize it's the cool thing to blame Bush on the war but the reality is that the president isn't the only one who made that decision. Sure Bush was the figure-head and was one of the prominent players behind the war but last I looked the senate and house had to approve such items and those plans went through with bipartisian support (ie, Democratic & Republican approval).

 

Please tell me about Obama's 20 year record. He has served in the senate since 1997 (11 yrs). Prior to that his only public type of experience was as a community organize for roughly 3 years. I give him credit. He's had some tremendous personal accomplishments, going all the way from community organizer to the democratic nominee for President.

 

I'm curious though cracker as to what his "significant" accomplishments were in the senate? I don't recall him being involved in any significant piece of legistation.

 

McCain has been involved in the following (and by involved I mean actually had a lot to do with):

- Indian Gaming Regulatory Act

- Gramm Rudman Legislation (This enforced automatic spending cuts in the case of budget deficits)

- McCain/Feingold Bill (Campaign Financing; In addition it also shows his willingness to be bi-partisan (Feingold is a D)

- Line Item Veto Act of 1996 (Presidential Power to Veto Spending Items; Yes, he was for a policy that would give current president Bill Clinton veto power)

 

 

He's also served on numerous committees and has stood out on his own from the republican party to support ideas which he believed in (despite the republican base not feeling the same way). As far as I'm concerned, aside from his boringness on the podium, the guy has shown a tremendous number of qualities you'd like to see out of a leader, including the willingness to work with others and to stand out on a limb based upon what he believes.

[Politics]

So I just got caught up in this thread and I guess DrunkBomber finally has a friend

 

This looks like a fun thread though so I'll try to keep up tell all you dem's whats really up (as if any of us is ever going to convince the other person to vote the other way, LOL).

[Politics]

From the reception he got when he was in Europe I'd say that Obama is well liked over here. Leaning to the left politically then he'd be my choice over McCain.

Its actually interesting. I work for an international company and a few of our people were just over-seas and one of the partners on my engagement (he's actually a democrat) grew up in Europe and still lives there part of the year and indicated that a strong portion of Europe actually favors McCain.

 

Apparently Europe has become growingly concerned with the economy and many seem to believe that McCain winning would be better for the US Markets which in turn would be beneficial for the European markets (since the US is still such a huge portion of the world economy). Obviously on other issues Europe would favor Obama and the democratic party in general.

[Politics]

Its quite funny reading these politcial posts, from an objective point there isn't a great deal of difference between McCain and Obama. One is a moderate centre-right politician, the other moderate-centre left. I find it quite amusing though to hear Obama labelled a socialist based on his approach to universal health care, from a European perspectibe he aint anywhere near left wing enough to be considered a socialist.

Personally speaking I don't think this could be farther from the truth. McCain is a pretty middle of the road conservative but Obama is a very liberal. In fact, in general over the past 8 years the democratic party has been pushed farther left while the republicans pushed themselves farther right. Obama is about as far left as it gets with Kerry/Kennedy/Pelosi being about the only people farther to the left. However, McCain is a relatively middle road conservative and its why a lot of republicans were unhappy when he won the primaries (since people feared he wouldn't be able to rally the base).

 

That said McCain isn't an exciting candidate and thats why he needed someone like Palin to stirr up the spotlight. Obama is the exciting candidate and he needed a VP who has credentials (since Obama really has limited political experience) and Biden fit the bill. The reality is there is a lot more similarities between Palin and Obama & McCain/Biden respectively than the other way around.

 

McCain/Biden are the grizzled vets where as Palin/Obama are the more "exciting" charismatic individuals. But at the end of the day it comes to which policy you agree with. I vote on the economy and I strongly believe in the typical republican way of handling the economy (unfortunately Bush completely ignored that way and spent and spent and spent).

[Alaskan's take]

I just got this letter emailed to me by my dad. What's unusual about that? He's a guy who votes Republican almost 100% of the time. Seems this Palin pick is having an undesired impact for old Johnny.

 

At least the problems of the week got us talking about substantive issues. No surprise, when that happened, Obama killed McCain. The worst thing that could've happened for the old man was for Americans to start focusing on the economy. He wants this to be about Piggy Palin.

I'll bite. I'm curious as to how increased capital gains taxes, a change in the capital gains surrounding real estate (250K gain without tax for a single person, 500K for married is what it currently is, but Obama is proposing to get rid of that), as well as a repeal in Bush's tax plan is going to "help" the economy. I'm not proud of where the free spending republicans went but McCain (as much as I dislike him) seems to have a much better head on his shoulders when it comes to business and seems to be much more in the old of the traditional "fiscally responsible" conservative.

 

In fact, if you ever get into the politics of the matter both Palin and McCain would blow Obama out of the water. He has no true accomplishments to point to. Although I will give him credit to be the best political speaker not named Bill Clinton.

[My time to rant]

I will admit, I fully expected to see an off-setting penalty where both teams players were called for personal fouls but that didn't happen.

[Noots' Notes Game 3: 27-24 OT Loss to TB]

Orton has to be dropped a grade. The "beautiful strike to Lloyd" was just a result of Lloyd making a very good catch on a poorly thrown ball. It's even mentioned briefly in the WR section.

 

The "C" grade for the coaches, however, is ridiculous. This game is squarely on the shoulder of the coaches. The offense was fairly inept considering the field position advantages. The defense made absolutely no adjustments in the second half and allowed a gun-shy QB to sit in the pocket and throw 60+ times while the Bears brought a four-man rush the majority of the time. And Lovie didn't call out either coordinator that we know of. The coaching grade should be a D at best, and probably deserves to be slightly lower with a D- or an F.

Lloyd's TD reception from Orton was probably the best ball Orton threw (2nd would have been his pass to Davis) so I assume you are referring to the pass which set up the TD (where Lloyd made the over the head catch). Had Orton thrown a good pass, not only would it have been a routine catch for Lloyd but it would have been a TD pass. Sure the Bears still ended up getting the TD, but you can't ignore the fact that a good pass and they get the TD a few plays earlier (cause you never know what happens on future plays, especially given the Bears ineptitude).

[Noots' Notes Game 3: 27-24 OT Loss to TB]

Some exaggeration on Kyle's inaccuracy though. Reading Noots summary I was thinking "what? I don't remember getting aggravated at his innaccuracy on the medium and short stuff", so I checked it out.

 

Kyle only missed 12 passes all day. minus 2 (at least) for outright drops, minus 2 (at least) for deep misses, minus 1 for the pass striaight to the TB lineman...and you're left with 7 incomplete passes. And unless you're claiming nearly all of those were incomplete due to innaccuracy, then likely you're looking at Orton only threw 3-4 inaccurate short/medium passes out of 34 attempts. Sounds about right considering I almost surely underestimated the drops and deep balls (on the other hand, maybe a couple of completions were only the result of significant adjustment by the reciever). Anyway, that won't win him any awards but it's good enough to win.

Just cause a ball was completed, doesn't mean it was an accurate pass. On quite a few of Lloyd's catches you saw Lloyd have to make very good plays to come down with the ball. You also saw numerous receivers have to stop and wait for the ball. Very rarely all game did Orton actually hit a WR in stride.

 

In fact, two of the only times I can think of him hitting a guy in stride:

1. When he hit Rashied Davis in the hands in OT only to have Rashied drop it.

2. First drive of the game, he hits Desmond Clark on a slant which would have either put the Bears at the 1 or given them a TD and Clark dropped it

 

Bottom line this was the 2nd straight week where Orton left yards on the field with his inaccuracy. However, it was an improvement from Carolina where he was so inaccurate that they couldn't even complete most of those passes where as this past week the Bears WR's just had to stop and wait for the ball but at least were able to make catches. That said, if Orton throws a couple balls on the money the Bears end up with another TD or two.

[My time to rant]

Wow really? Tillman is inconsistant at best in coverage. He is great at knocking the ball out but rarely makes plays on the ball. As long as the line is rushing well, his faults are masked.

 

For me the whole secondary has been bad this year, besides Payne who I can give a little leeway as to him being so young.

 

I disagree on the scheme. The second half the Bears D was too tired or whatever excuse they want to make. These guys have not been a good defense in two years. Good defenses dont let Greise carve them up. Look at the last drive. Every single guy in coverage is late to their spot. Thats not scheme, thats desire. They when through the motions in pre season and are paying now.

They shouldn't have been tired. The Bears had time of possession dominated most of the game and still finished on the plus. Tillman is a very good physical cb. He has his faults, ie, defending speed CB's, but he's about as solid of an all around CB as there is in the league. He's no Champ Bailey but I think he's in the class right below (good tackler, good cover guy, great against physical WR's, best stripper in the league..yes better than Chris Harris).

 

Vasher is the guy I'd call over-rated but I'm hoping his dissapointing play has more to do with him getting readjusted to NFL speed (since he missed pretty much all of last year). Brown and Payne both looked slow as molasses today and they were a big reason a lto of those completions over the middle happened.

 

I do want to know why the freak the Bears didn't adjust on the 18 zillion slants thrown by Griese.

[So we pay big money for the guys and get this...?]

Leon Johnson - yuk

Bobby Wade - did alright

R.W. McQuarters - did pretty good

Jerry Azumah - pretty good also

Nathan Vasher - not bad

 

I don't think I'd like to see that trade, especially with JA 1st RD draft history. Hester for a starting OL, then I might consider it.

Azumah was an awesome kick-returner. IIRC, he was widely considered the 2nd best return man in the league during his tenure. Vasher was a premiere punt returner as was Rdub (it was the one thing he has consistently done good).

 

Leon Johnson goes pretty far back and I'd agree he was bad and Wade was nothing special. Still, thats 3 other guys (plus Hester) in a few year span. That makes me think the system has a lot to do with it.

[Orton SUCKS]

I fear you are right with Hester. The guy will never be more that a return man. This is exactly why he was moved around so much in college. He can't mentally handle it. Plus alot of his success here is due to the ST coach and his schemes.

 

 

Lloyd has been the best surprise of the offense this season. He has good speed and tremendous hands. I hope we can get him long term.

 

As far as Orton, when I brought up his accuracy issue before the season, I was told reps and training camp will rid him of these. It has not happened so I am concerned.

The biggest concern is the piss poor accuracy on shorter passes. I expected him to miss a bit down the field but as long as he could hit some of the time it would be okay. He hasn't hit almost any down-field passes and has struggled on the short ones. As a pure passer Orton couldn't hold Rex jock. The problem is Rex has a lot of problems adjusting for blitz packages and in the face of a big pass rush has trouble seeing over the line and thus has problems hitting his check down or making the hot read.

[Orton SUCKS]

I fear you are right with Hester. The guy will never be more that a return man. This is exactly why he was moved around so much in college. He can't mentally handle it. Plus alot of his success here is due to the ST coach and his schemes.

 

 

Lloyd has been the best surprise of the offense this season. He has good speed and tremendous hands. I hope we can get him long term.

 

As far as Orton, when I brought up his accuracy issue before the season, I was told reps and training camp will rid him of these. It has not happened so I am concerned.

I think Hester is good, but I don't think he's special. I think the Bears special teams is what makes him special. They do a tremendous job blocking and scheming (Toub is stellar) and that can be evidenced by the success all of the recent return men have had (Vasher/McQuarters/Danial Manning). Prior to Hester getting here, people seem to forget just how great of a return man Rdub and Vasher were. They weren't quite Hester, but they were no slouches and I'd rather have one of those guys returning kicks and the Bears giving 60 million to a guy like Roy Williams (who can legitimately help an offense).

 

Plus Hester could have netted the Bears at least a 1st and 2nd round pick and given the multiple needs that would have been real nice (if not 2 1st rounders). Now the Bears can't trade Hester (the cap hit would be ridiculous).

[My time to rant]

Thats great, but we have enough players living off of their past accomplishments. Lets not add him to the list.

Ummm...aside from one penalty he had a tremendous game today as well. What past accomplishments are you speaking of? Tillman is the least of the Bears worries. He's one of the few players actually playing very well. In fact, the defense has a whole is playing pretty well.

 

The scheme this week was freakin atrocious. Babich went back to being a boring and predictable blizter the few times the team actually tried to bltiz. Its one thing to sit back and not blitz if your front 4 is getting pressure but when it isn't, its time to get creative and the Bears didn't do a freakin thing. That comes down to the coach. The defense gave up 24, including OT, and that is more than I'd want them to but the yards were given up because Griese was playing catch-up from the beginning.

 

As a whole I still give the defense a B- and it has played good all season long (including the Panthers game). Great, NO, good, yes.

[Why not trade Olsen and Anderson?]

Are you serious? We never have used TEs, except Ditka, for what they succeed greatly at. We may as well trade him, and he is a horrendous blocker, too. Some team, like New England, could use a TE that is a special player when you use him correctly.

Jeremy Shockey is 3 times the player Olsen is and he didn't garner a 1st round pick. You could maybe get 3rd round picks for either player. 1st rounders, absolutely not. 2nd rounders, highly unlikely.

[This teams philosophy SUCKS]

Dump Lovie and bring in Jason Garrett or Samurai Mike as head coach. Can't wait for the day the Cover-who defense goes bye-bye from the windy city.

Garret I could live with, but Dallas is grooming him for the head coaching job and if anyone actually made a serious offer Dallas would dump there current head coach and hire Garret.

 

I don't want anything to do with Samurai Mike. I realize he was a great Bear but I wouldn't make him a head coach. If you dump Lovie, I want a head coach that demands respect and has a proven track-record of winning...Bill Cowher. Coaches like Cowher are rarely available and if you decide Lovie isn't the guy, than the Bears need to act like a big market team and make a big time statement.

[This teams philosophy SUCKS]

So Lovie escapes scrutiny? That's aawfully good of you. But I put him at the top of the list. It is his responisbility to get the team through the week and through the games. He is not fulfilling his role, and it is showing with a 1-2 record.

I actually have to tip my cap to Angelo. Aside from the WR/QB issue he's done a pretty good job. I thought this team was going to suck and with some decent coaching and execution it is 3-0. Forte looks legit and Beekman looks like a solid guard. He's quietly made the oline better (although it was poor today) and locked up a major core.

 

I question some of his signings and picks but this draft on paper could be a very good one (if Williams can get healthy and turn into a book-end it will be a good draft and if Bennett develops along with Forte it will be a great one). This doesn't even get into Harrison (who has flashed a good deal of potential as well).

 

Lovie's coaching has left a lot to be desired. I'm just sick and tired of seeing other teams make adjustments and tear the living shit out of us. It rarely, if ever, seems to happen the other way around.

[My time to rant]

Exactly.

And yes, good eyes- he went after Clayton, not Trublood.

What a joke.

It started with him going after TruBlood and than he got into another scruff with Clayton and thats when the flag was thrown. It was an absolutely horrendous play. No excuse...period. I bet Tillman won't make any excuses and I will say if there was ever a player I could live with making a mistake it woudl be Tillman.

 

Tillman has been one of the best Db's Chicago has ever seen.

[Orton SUCKS]

Actually, the more Indy loses, the less impressive that win is.

 

I do agree that he looked a ton better in the second half, but we have the same problems week in and week out. The accuracy is really bad. If it is not for Lloyd, his numbers are alot worse in three games.

 

Plus, part of what people touted, his ability to avoid the rush and turnovers, was not there today. If he is going to take three sacks and throws picks for touchdowns, what is the advantage to him?

I still thought he showed decent presence against the rush. Yes, he took a few sacks where I legitimately thought he could have gotten rid of the ball (or at least thrown it to the side-lines) but I don't think he was that terrible in terms of pocket presence. He definitely wasn't "Rex" like. And this is coming from the biggest Rex backer on the site.

 

You got one thing right though and that is that Brandon Lloyd has completely saved his ass the past two weeks (he's shown tremendous hands). Unfortunately the Bears spent a boatload on Hester and that will prevent them from spending big bucks on a legitimate WR (Roy Williams to go with Lloyd and the few in-house guys such as Bennett would have been tremendous).

 

I really wanted to move Hester this off-season and I can only hope he turns into a WR by next season because if he doesn't the Bears overpaid big time.

[Why not trade Olsen and Anderson?]

Unfortunately in the NFL its pretty difficult to trade players for high draft picks. However, if a team out there had a QB with high upside that we felt would be a long time starter and such team had needs at TE/DE I would gladly make the deal. I don't think that deal is out there though.

 

I would also deal Olsen in a heart-beat for a legit WR. Again, I don't think that trade is out there.

[Completely PO'd]

No one's forcing you to watch.

 

I am just hoping the Cubs and Sox go far in the playoffs as a distraction.

 

Peace

Cough...Sox...Cough

[Orton SUCKS]

I think you have to give Orton a lot of credit for the Indy game. He was very mature and did exactly what was needed of him. I don't know if Rex wins that game for us. However, the other two games I think you could make a case that the team wins with Rex. That said, the team could have very well won those games with Kyle.

 

Obviously the Bears didn't win the games with Kyle but it should be worth at least something when you can say that the team should have won the game if (and Kyle's name doesn't pop up).

 

Clearly the offense left some points on the field today and I can bitch and moan a lot about Orton's play but in the 2nd half Kyle stepped up. He still wasn't pretty but he at least delivered completions. Was it a perfect 2nd half, no, I'd probably give him a B- because there were a lot of "poorly thrown" receptions. First half he would have gotten a D- or so.

 

All that said I think its hard to really say how the team would be doing with one guy or the other but I will say this, the last time Rex had a decent rushing attack he turned out to be pretty effective (ie, super bowl season). Still Rex showed enough of why he wasn't the answer which is why the Bears almost are stuck with Orton (unless he's horrendous, which he was in the 1st half) because they have to see if Kyle can do it (the answer is pretty much out on Rex, unfortunately).

[Noots' Notes Game 3: 27-24 OT Loss to TB]

Once again, accurate as hell recap Noots!!!

[Completely PO'd]

Whoops, forgot about the Lions. They can't play defense.

Chiefs run away with the mark of worse football team in the NFL.

[So we pay big money for the guys and get this...?]

I've always said the Bears took a big chance on Hester. He doesn't deserve that type of money until he proves he could be a legit WR. I don't personally think he has the smarts to do it and I would have traded him for 2 1st round picks in a heart-beat. People forget that while Hester is a special returnman the Bears have had a good returning game for a few years before Devin (McQuarters & Vasher were both very good).