Wow. Just…wow.
I feel like the disaster that has been Bears quarterbacking under Angelo should probably be mentioned as well, I mean we did just resign Rex Grossman afterall.
Jerry’s history of QB selections:
Mike Shula, Vinny Testaverde, Pat O’Hara, Mike Pawlawski, Craig Erickson, Trent Dilfer, Shaun King, Joe Hamilton, Rex Grossman, Craig Krenzel, Kyle Orton.
I’ll give him props for Vinny, but generally this confirms the point that there’s inverse relationship between time spent touching the ball and Jerry’s ability to evaluate them. Not sure he wants to put that on his next CV.
Only one way to go is up? The Lions have stayed down for 40 years. Crappy level to maintain but we can do it. You can stay down a long time with bad management and crappy coaching.
Iggles fan here.
Much as I hate to say it because it makes the Philly talk-radio jackballs think they’ve won, I think it might be time for the Kevin Kolb era.
if we can get a good package of picks, we should take it.
There’s the rub. I think McNabb’s time in Philly is done, but the Eagles are asking for multiple first-round picks from a team who’s getting the privilege of paying injury prone McNabb $10 million a year. Not too many franchises are going to make that move. At this point in his career McNabb is seriously overpaid, for a team to acquire him they are essentially doing the Eagles a favor. If I were a GM I’d tell the Iggles to eat shit if they asked for a bundle of draft picks.
Is this to be about free agency or trades or whatever, and specifically excluding the draft?
The separation is temporal, not topical. So here is fine for draft discussion, but as we move into April look for a dedicated draft thread. Those usually turn into a multi-page play-by-play commentaries while the draft is happening.
The Bears shouldn’t have let Thomas Jones go…
And Grossman indeed sucks.
Da Bears have a good to great defense…if their top secondary players stop getting hurt for long stretches.
Their offense is in a world of hurt right now, with Benson, Grossman and an underwhelming WR cadre.
I wonder if the Bears will look to draft a QB high or if they will go FA…McNabb would be an upgrade if available, but SO costly it may not be worth it.
You’re awfully polite…you sure you’re an Eagles fan?
<<ducks batteries>>
Dish Network is moving the NFL Network up a tier, apparently in retaliation for the NFL allowing other networks to carry the Giants/Patriots game in week 17 last year.
http://www.multichannel.com/article/CA6534071.html?industryid=47199
Fortunately I’m safe, as I’m a Top 200 subscriber already for many compelling reasons*.
*Ok I admit it. It’s pretty much just so we can watch Project Runway, ok?
Meh. Flash back to the first half of 2006, when McNabb was turning out what might have ended up as the finest statistical season by a QB ever, and doing it with a really, really weak receiving corps.
If he can be 75% of that guy, he’ll be worth every penny.
$10 Million a year and losing multiple first round draft picks? For a guy who’s missed 15 games over his last 3 seasons? With a career 58% completion percentage?
Please put your name in consideration for the Packers GM job, please…
Nah, that wasn’t the problem. I loved Thomas Jones but the guy was over the hill. His numbers last season were nothing special and you could see him losing a step in his final season with the Bears. He stopped getting to the corner and was always getting run down from behind, plus the Jets get to pay him $5 million a year until he’s 33 years old. The Bears let him go at the right time. The problem is that they had no plan to replace him. Well, actually the plan was Benson, so they just had a shitty plan to replace him.
Well, last season he played for a really marginal team. If I recall correctly, Benson was anointed the starter at the beginning of 2006, but was hurt, and when he got healthy he couldn’t win the job back from Jones (entirely).
Jones seemed to suit the Bears that year, and found the endzone quite a bit, AFAIK.
It seemed to me at the time a mistake to cut him loose, but maybe only because their insurance plan, as you said, was shitty.
They really do need to settle their QB issue though. Grossman looked horrible in the Superbowl last year, and always seemed to be either hurt or wildly inconsistent before that.
Any Bengals fans out there in the cybersphere?
I didn’t say he’d be worth the draft picks. I said he’d be worth the money.
And yes, for that guy.
Try to keep in mind that he had James Thrash as his #1 WR for three or four years when considering his completion percentage.
I recall a conversation I had with a friend about whether the WR makes the QB or the other way around. He would point to Brady in 2006 and say “he had nobody to throw to!”…and then we would always gravitate to the similar situation in Philly…I mean, Freddie Mitchell? Thrash? Blech.
If it weren’t for McNabb and Westbrook, the Iggles wouldn’t have any offense at all.
Can’t have one without the other.
McNabb makes as much as Tom Brady (and Chad Pennington, ouch).
He also got to dump it to Westbrook 8 times a game too. He’s in a pretty completion friendly scheme, which make those numbers more troublesome. I think McNabb has gotten somewhat of a bad rap over these last few years, but the injury history and the diminished mobility make him a liability at that price. If anyone were to pick him up you’d better be in the Super Bowl for the next 2 or 3 years because you’ll be in salary cap hell for the following 3.
And for most of his career, he hasn’t even had Westbrook (well, he was a spot player for a long time). He had Duce Staley, who couldn’t catch a pass with a baseball mitt.
In Duce’s defense, it *really is * hard to catch a football with a baseball mitt.
I’ve tried.
But I know what you’re saying.
I always felt kinda bad for Correll Buckhalter. If he had been able to stay healthy I think he was the superior back to Duce.