Thread: WED BEAR NEWS- peppers, grant,anderson,manning,taylor,manu,louis

Does anyone else doubt that Grant can help us?

He was cut by three teams in a matter of a few months.

Saints cut him for Alex Brown (Bears replaced Brown with Mark Anderson who is now is replaced by Grant)
Dolphins cut him
And a day before the Bears signed him, he was cut by a team in the UFL.

We signed a guy that wasn't good enough for the freakin UFL

Originally Posted by The Benjamin

Does anyone else doubt that Grant can help us?

He was cut by three teams in a matter of a few months.

Saints cut him for Alex Brown (Bears replaced Brown with Mark Anderson who is now is replaced by Grant)
Dolphins cut him
And a day before the Bears signed him, he was cut by a team in the UFL.

We signed a guy that wasn't good enough for the freakin UFL

yep.. by that logic we knew kurt warner after cut by packers, playing in arena football would never help the rams, right? hell he wasn't even playing, he was bagging groceries, so know he couldn't help rams, right? I mean he wasn't even good even for fricken arena football..lol can go on but think made my point

Do i think grant can help? not sure.. but the NFL is rife with " success stories after failures",, heck moss was considered dead in oakland, so his career was over right?

Originally Posted by go4bears

Oakland was such a power house while Moss was there. The bears have other more important needs, like the o-line.

So a team can't do both? and while looking for o-lineman ALSO make moves to improve the team at other Poitions? i would think its a Gm's job to always be looking at all positions- and while one may be a biiger need, if nothign there, i'd hope the Gm and scouts, don't stop looking for ways to improve other positions , even if another position a bigger need, esp if nothing is available now, don't you think?

ChrisHarrisNFL Good morning tweeps. Headed into Halas Hall to start preparation.......Carolina week......OH BOY!

Originally Posted by dabears54

yep.. by that logic we knew kurt warner after cut by packers, playing in arena football would never help the rams, right? hell he wasn't even playing, he was bagging groceries, so know he couldn't help rams, right? I mean he wasn't even good even for fricken arena football..lol can go on but think made my point

Do i think grant can help? not sure.. but the NFL is rife with " success stories after failures",, heck moss was considered dead in oakland, so his career was over right?

Warner wasn't 32 years old when signed either. The Bears aren't signing a player at the beginning of his career, most likely his last stop. So I don't see the comparison between Grant and Warner. Apples and oranges.

Originally Posted by The Benjamin

And he Vikes are close to trading for Randy Moss

if he played on the dline we would be all over that trade

Some interesting stats on week 4:

Consider the following:

• When Miami fell with a thud to .500 in the wake of that 41-14 demolition by New England on Monday night, it meant that 21 of the league's 32 teams (65.6 percent) were sitting at .500 or worse at the season's first quarter pole. That's 11 of 16 NFC teams with at least two losses, and 10 of 16 AFC teams at 2-2 or worse. Can't anybody here play this game?

• Of the six playoffs from 2009 in the NFC, only two (New Orleans and Green Bay, both 3-1) have winning records through four weeks, and neither have been anything approaching dominant. As a six-team field, the Cowboys, Eagles, Saints, Vikings, Packers and Cardinals are a very mediocre 12-10. The story is a bit better in the AFC, where last year's six playoff teams have started 15-9, with three winning teams (Jets, Patriots and Ravens) and three at .500 (Colts, Bengals and Chargers).

• Three different divisions feature a three-team jumble of 2-2 teams, with the NFC East and West being led by those break-even clubs, and the AFC South having Jacksonville, Indianapolis and Tennessee clumped just a game back of division-leading Houston (3-1).

• Lastly, with both Pittsburgh and Chicago losing in Week 4, Kansas City (3-0), remarkably enough, remains the league's only undefeated team. The last time we were down to just one of those this early in the season was the year before realignment, in 2001, when Mike Martz's Rams got off to a 4-0 start while everyone else took at least one loss in the first month of the schedule. Since the 1970 merger, the earliest point in a season in which there were no undefeated teams was after Week 4 in 1970.

Originally Posted by sph34

Warner wasn't 32 years old when signed either. The Bears aren't signing a player at the beginning of his career, most likely his last stop. So I don't see the comparison between Grant and Warner. Apples and oranges.

Would mike vick, ricky williams, tom waddle(cut 6 times), antonio pierce,london fletcher, jake delhome,jeff garthia,priest holmes, warren moon, etc etc for players that either never drafted and drifted around, had problems and avaiable for Nothing.. but have made comebacks..and had goocdcomebacks...despite the "he cant be good, no one wants him' tag...