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They are trained professionals. They are paid to know how to watch film and make judgements on prospects. No offense, but I'm pretty sure nobody here is qualified to be an NFL scout or a GM. You have to know what to look for, outside of the obvious. There's certain intricacies that go into knowing how to evaluate players that an untrained eye would not know how to read. No problem with someone trying to formulate their own opinions, based on tape they have watched, but to act like it's so easy to be able to do a job as well as trained professionals at the highest level is pretty laughable and more than a little presumptuous. And to clarify, I'm mostly speaking on the true NFL scouts, not the talking heads you see on TV. Especially former players.

Arthur Brown is actually the same size as Ogletree now. Increased his weight to 241 at the time of his pro day. Ogletree is not the athlete he's being touted as coming into the draft. He is by no means a freak. Looked slow to me on film, and I don't like the way he plays in the run game. His best attribute comes from being a decent pass coverage LB. Arthur Brown surpasses him in almost every other category besides that. He's a more sure handed tackler, and he's excellent in tight spaces. Ogletree makes sense if they are planning on keeping the Cover 2. If not, Brown is a better pick because I think he's going to be a better player.

That would be a "Wow" move that I wouldn't expect. I can see the reasoning behind it, but it just doesn't appear to me that we would go this route, especially after the comments Emery made about these moves giving him "Flexibility." That sounds to me like he solidified the TE spot and now he can focus on other positions.

Could be. I wouldn't be surprised to see the Bears use McClellin in multiple roles defensively. I think you will see him play some SLB occasionally and rush the passer the way Rosevelt Colvin did back in the day. I think you'll see him do a lot of what he did last year with his hand on the ground as well. Eventually, maybe they decide to move to a 3-4 front, but even if they don't, there are ways that you could utilize these athletic LB's we have now that you couldn't do with Nick Roach, Urlacher (the Old Urlacher) and Briggs. Williams and Anderson have experience in both systems and they know how to rush the passer as well. It will be very interesting to see what this defense will look like in training camp. I agree. That scares me a little bit, but hopefully the added muscle will help him withstand a lot of the shots he gives out.

Saw an article on ESPN Chicago about how we are getting more athletic at the LB position, possibly hinting at the fact that the Bears may deviate away from that cover 2, still stick with a 4-3 front, but play their LB's like it's a 3-4. The more I look at these signings, the more I like them. I'm all for more athletes. Hopefully we get Arthur Brown and everything will be golden.

I believe he's still with Dallas.

I don't get what you're disagreeing with. You basically just proved my point. It doesn't happen that often.

I don't understand a word of this.

The Bears got over the loss of Olin Kreutz's supposed leadership just fine while there were still people bitching about the Bears not re-signing him. It will be no different with Urlacher gone. Can he play or can't he?

Looks like it's gonna be McCown. I actually thought he was pretty serviceable when he was forced into action 2 years ago. Looked good in pre-season last year. If McCown would have to fill in for a game this season, I think we will be okay. If Cutler goes down with another season ending injury, like with the thumb, then the Bears are screwed anyways. Very few teams are fortunate enough to have a backup who's good enough to take over a team and lead you into the playoffs.

Unfortunately, you know as well as I do that there is going to be people who still think Cutler can do no wrong and the offensive line will still be the reason for everything he does poorly.

Hopefully he plays better than last year, because last year he was awful.

Anybody else find it a little creepy how Dan Pompei keeps calling him Tommy Zbikowski? Even Brad Biggs keeps writing articles about him coming home. Who the hell cares? Have the Bears never had a Notre Dame product play in the city of Chicago before? I don't get it.

I could go definitely go along with that.

You can find a rookie to return punts and or kickoffs. Not that difficult.

Not sure the logic behind this move. He's pretty much just a guy.

Good stat from Zach Zaidman. Emery said this about him.

He's 30 years old. He is what he is. The Bears still need more youth at that position, so it shouldn't change their priorities in the draft at all. I'm not sure he's a MLB in our system either.

Bushrod, Rookie/Brown, Rookie, Louis, Webb/Carimi

So basically you just don't like the read option? Just trying to see what your stance was on everything else. The funny thing is though, RGIII wasn't even hurt on a read option play. It wasn't even on a designed run either. I understand that play leaves your QB open to more hits, but it's not nearly as dangerous as the spread option, or the triple option play you see in college football where the QB is running parallel to the LOS until the last possible second when he chooses to either keep it or shovel pass it off to the RB. You usually have room to slide or get out of bounds because of the space it creates in a defense. I'm not even hung up so much on the Bears running the read option as much as I want to see them be more creative in general with their play calling. I think San Francisco is a perfect example of an offense that's a pain in the ass to game plan against, even prior to them running the pistol with Kaepernick. We witnessed it first hand. Now they're just a nightmare.

I'm not sure either Ogletree or Brown are true MLB's, unfortunately, although Ogletree might be best suited to play there if need be. I'd still probably take a chance on them just because of the value they present, and IMO, they're clearly the two best LB's by far.

How about New England last year taking a portion out of the Chip Kelly playbook? Green Bay uses read option concepts with Randall Cobb out of the backfield, do they not? Then there is Peyton Manning and his trade mark no huddle offense that no other team besides the Atlanta Falcons have tried to duplicate. My question to you would be, why do you think teams are putting this stuff into their offense if they don't find it beneficial?

Well then you better find a better example than the Patriots, Packers, Broncos, or Saints because all of those teams have some kind of creative trademark or gimmick that they use to keep the defense off-balance. It's not necessary to do a lot of things. It's possible the Bears could win games without running a single play out of the shotgun too.

You are so missing the point. It's not about needing to run a specific play, it's about putting things on tape, which keeps teams in the film room. I'm all for anything that may give the Bears an advantage. One of the reasons Trestman was hired was because of his offensive ingenuity. If that means sprinkling in the read option a time or two every so often to open up a play action pass, great.

The low ball offer pretty much tells you that they didn't want him back. They tried to cover it up with public comments that made it seem as if they really wanted him. Time for a fresh start, I guess.