# Devin Hester is overrated and other Bears gripes.
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/devin-hester-is-overrated-and-other-bears-gripes/420258
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [September 24, 2007, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/devin-hester-is-overrated-and-other-bears-gripes/420258 "2007-09-24T03:11:39Z")
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### Author:  [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2007, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/devin-hester-is-overrated-and-other-bears-gripes/420258/21 "2007-09-26T11:25:40Z")
[QUOTE=Cubsfan]
Looks like Greise may be getting the start sunday against Detroit.
I didn’t follow him at all before he came to Chicago. What’s the word on him? Has he ever been very good?
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Griese has had some solid years in other franchises. I remember the year he threw 22 touchdowns and only 4 interceptions. Good fantasy year, there.
Griese was supposed to be the veteran presence they’d go to when/if Rex faltered. Res faltered, but he’d keep getting chance after chance after chance. There’s nothing wrong with Griese, but it’s been a while since I’ve seen him play because he’s been warming the bench in Chicago.
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### Author:  [@Wee\_Bairn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wee_Bairn)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2007, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/devin-hester-is-overrated-and-other-bears-gripes/420258/22 "2007-09-26T13:08:07Z")
Griese is going to look like Peyton Manning this week against the Lions defense- it would have been interesting to see if Rex could have at least played decent against them, but not worth the risk.
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### Author:  [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2007, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/devin-hester-is-overrated-and-other-bears-gripes/420258/23 "2007-09-26T15:11:25Z")
Griese is a short term solution, but the Bears now have to wonder where there QB future is going to be.
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### Author:  [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2007, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/devin-hester-is-overrated-and-other-bears-gripes/420258/24 "2007-09-26T15:47:26Z")
[QUOTE=Gangster Octopus]
Griese is a short term solution, but the Bears now have to wonder where there QB future is going to be.
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Brian Brohm or Matt Ryan? 😃
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### Author:  [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2007, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/devin-hester-is-overrated-and-other-bears-gripes/420258/25 "2007-09-26T16:15:34Z")
Dennis Dixon
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### Author:  [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2007, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/devin-hester-is-overrated-and-other-bears-gripes/420258/26 "2007-09-26T16:23:51Z")
[QUOTE=garygnu]
Dennis Dixon
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I would love to see Dixon continue to do well, but it’s going to take more than four good games to sell me on the guy. He was _not_ a great quarterback last year.
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### Author:  [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2007, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/devin-hester-is-overrated-and-other-bears-gripes/420258/27 "2007-09-26T17:46:01Z")
I have been saying for quite some time now that I wondered why they weren’t putting Griese in. The defense can’t do everything forever. I’ll be interested in how it goes this weekend.
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### Author:  [@Wee\_Bairn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wee_Bairn)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2007, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/devin-hester-is-overrated-and-other-bears-gripes/420258/28 "2007-09-26T20:53:05Z")
Well, they could always go after Donovan McNabb, who is from Chicago- surely the Chicago media would give him none of the scurtiny he gets in Philadelphia 😉
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