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Grossman gets a second chance

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Starving Journalist, Feb 23, 2008.

  1. The Bears should get Byron Leftwich or Jake Plummer or Jeff Garcia or someone. Just not Grossman. He does, and will always, suck. Every year Bears fans say he is good but he just isn't.
     
  2. zimbabwe

    zimbabwe Active Member

    Those kind of Bears fans are dead to this kind of Bears fan.

    I'd say re-signing Grossman made sense. If I'd just had a stroke.
     
  3. Beef03

    Beef03 Active Member

    I'm a Bears fan and I say he sucks. I gave up on the rumour that he was good during last preseason when all the Bears could talk about was how improved he was and he went on to turn the ball over something like 10 times three brief pre-season appearances. The guy couldn't carry Rick Mirer's jock. Why? because he'd probably fumble it.
     
  4. Ben_Hecht

    Ben_Hecht Active Member

    I'm going to correct myself.

    They HAD Bobby Layne, briefly, as a third-stringer behind Luckman.

    But Halas had seen the personality type, endless times before, and knew Layne
    was "trouble".

    And away he went.
     
  5. Herbert Anchovy

    Herbert Anchovy Active Member

    McFlabb's contract breakdown:

    2008: $9,635,000 ($6.3 M base salary)
    2009: $9,206,000 ($9.2 M base salary)
    2010: $10,006,000 ($10 M base salary)

    He can be cut with a smaller cap penalty in after 2009, or no penalty after 2010.

    Moreover, the Eagles aren't married to Kevin Kolb. They were putting subtle feelers out last spring.
     
  6. pallister

    pallister Guest

    It's not just QB that has been a talentless void for decades. Talking to my brother the other day, I mentioned that the Bears haven't drafted for shit on offense for most of my life. They fail consistently drafting QBs, RBs and WRs. I've never understood how the team can draft so successfully on one side of the ball year after year, but never get it right on the other side. The Bears have a legacy of great running backs, but the only decent one they've drafted since Payton in the mid-70s was Neal Anderson -- and that was 21 years ago. Receivers? It's been all downhill since Harlon Hill in the mid-50s.
     
  7. Herbert Anchovy

    Herbert Anchovy Active Member

    Bears' passing offense, last 22 years:

    2007 -- 3362 yards, 18 TDs
    2006 -- 3281 yards, 24 TDs
    2005 -- 2201 yards, 11 TDs
    2004 -- 2641 yards, 9 TDs
    2003 -- 2905 yards, 12 TDs
    2002 -- 3316 yards, 22 TDs
    2001 -- 3072 yards, 20 TDs
    2000 -- 3005 yards, 12 TDs
    1999 -- 4352 yards, 25 TDs ----> Gary Crowton's first year as OC
    1998 -- 3277 yards, 16 TDs
    1997 -- 3501 yards, 14 TDs
    1996 -- 3350 yards, 19 TDs
    1995 -- 3838 yards, 29 TDs
    1994 -- 3230 yards, 19 TDs
    1993 -- 2270 yards, 7 TDs
    1992 -- 3334 yards, 17 TDs
    1991 -- 3292 yards, 16 TDs
    1990 -- 2827 yards, 14 TDs
    1989 -- 3262 yards, 21 TDs
    1988 -- 3173 yards, 13 TDs
    1987 -- 3420 yards, 23 TDs
    1986 -- 2912 yards, 12 TDs
     
  8. Ben_Hecht

    Ben_Hecht Active Member

    They won with goddamn Billy Wade in '63, for heaven's sake . . . and could, because the defense -- for that time frame -- was unGodly. '85's was better, of course, because it was bigger and quicker, but for the time . . . '63's was very, very stingy. And that was with Bill George, not Butkus, who hadn't arrived, yet.
     
  9. Herbert Anchovy

    Herbert Anchovy Active Member

    They got to the second round of the playoffs with Steve Walsh and Ryan Wetnight one year (average defense with a decent secondary and that's it).

    The 1994 Bears are one of the damnedest teams I've seen.
     
  10. Rex is pathetic, horrible, and dumb. He makes bad decisions, and he has not come along at all. Signing him again is like the Texans cutting Offensive Lineman.
     
  11. BYH

    BYH Active Member

    Curtis Enis and Wendell Davis kindly ask you to blow it out your ass!
     
  12. I thought the need for Grossman was eliminated when Orton proved that he could throw the deep ball, too. That's pretty much Grossman's only strength.

    Orton has Rex's accuracy problems, but he doesn't have Rex's problem of bailing out of the pocket and into the arms of a defensive end for a 10-yard-loss.
     
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