Thread: A Day Removed...Are you still angry?

Originally Posted by gammabears

I'm still pissed at the 5th round draft pick selection... why go QB when you obviously need to develop young OFFENSIVE LINEMEN. Instead of Quarterbacks when you have a franchise QB and a proven back up QB.

It's not like I can do anything about Jerry's decision to draft him. I'm not saying he's a bad player, I'm just upset with the choice to draft a QB.

Free agency isn't always the answer to look for linemen, you need to develop young linemen in your system.

In this instance, I have to disagree with you, gamma. There would have been no OL by the fifth round who would live up to what we need right now as a starter. Free agency has that and much more, especially if we don't go by 2010 rules.

I'm still pissed.

Picks 1 and 2 are terrific. I laugh, knowing now that JA worried KC was going to take Carimi and hustled (and fumbled) the pick-swap with Baltimore, only to have it work out for the best anyway.

Pick 3 chaps my backside. I can find nothing... nothing... that said this kid was going to go before the 6th round. So the kid has huge upside. This team is on the cusp, it doesn't need 'upside,' it needs help! It needs reinforcement at it's weakest areas, and while the secondary could use help, everyone and their blind grandmothers know the Bears need OL, and almost that many people know really, really good OL have come out of rounds 3-4.

JA could have taken another OL in round 3, gotten his precious Conte in round 5, skipped on the QB altogether and finish out the draft from there.

Originally Posted by WindyCity

I never was mad about the draft.

By any other NFL teams standards this draft would be a B+, as we filled two huge needs with very good players.

By Chicago Bears [Jerry Angelo] standards this draft is an A+, as not only did we get the OLmen we wanted we got the 3 technique we wanted.

You say that as if he drafted more than one.

Originally Posted by soulman

JA wants to develop a QB so he never has to pay through the nose again like he did for Cutler.

Wait. What?

Am I missing something? Do you guys have some sort of special access to covert scouting information?

Are we forgetting that Cutler was a FIRST ROUND draft pick, because his talent and success warranted it? That JA paid 'through the nose' because that talent warrants it? That Enderle is nowhere near the talent Cutler is, that all the development in the world is not going to bring Mr. 5th Rounder up to the capability of Cutler?

JA's going to continue to pay through the nose for Cutler, just as every other team continues to pay through the nose, if they want to keep their premiere, elite-level QB on the team.

Rare are the Tom Bradys. Rare. Very, very rare.

This isn't 1983 anymore.

Nope, still pissed.

*shakes head*.... anyone who's angry about the draft needs to suck Blozz. we were an 11-5 team who made the NFC game.... how the HELL do you messure success around here?

an 11-5 team who's getting better.

Originally Posted by Dagan81

That only happened because Cassel played a full season for the Patriots back in 2008 when Tom Brady was injured and performed quite well. The only way that we would get that kind of attention in kind is if Cutler, God forbid, went down with an injury, and say Hanie were around and couldn't get the job done. in essence, Enderle would have to become our starting quarterback by default.

Could happen. Who ever expected Cassel to step in for Brady the way he did. All it takes is one good year to get teams drooling over you if you're a QB. Hell there are teams who probably have an interest in Hanie right now just off what he did against the Packers in one quarter.