Thread: Players and Management Both Looking Foolish.........

Some of his commentary hits a little close to home. Like right on the front door step. Some of the rest is just a bit impractical and a rant. Still Rosenbloom is usually entertaining if nothing else.

Originally Posted by soulman

Some of his commentary hits a little close to home. Like right on the front door step. Some of the rest is just a bit impractical and a rant. Still Rosenbloom is usually entertaining if nothing else.

Matt Bowen stings the Bears over the Taylor deal too. I have to say that if they're aren't gonna keep him, which they're obviously not, why prolong the agony? We aren't gonna get an 80 year old beer vendor in trade and courtesy would say you let him go so he can catch on somewhere else so why is he still here?

Are Lovie and JA making him earn some of that $7 mil they paid him last year by keeping him around so that he can play against the Browns? My guess is that's what it's all about. Barber is recovering from his calf injury, Bell will play ST and get some carries and Forte will be lucky if they even let him suit up because this isn't a game where you want to risk guy who's 50% of your offense so any money Taylor gets to be the sacrificial lamb.

Some former players and scribes may not think much of the Bears for doing it but the way I see it is this guy virtually stole $7 mil from us last year and I have no problem using him to protect our other RB's for this one game and then cutting him. With what he sunk into him last year he should be able to retire pretty comfortably anyway!

Originally Posted by Riczaj01

Management/Coaches/Players looking bad seems to have become commong place over the past year or so. Trade/no trade during draft, botched field, CT saying he was cut but isn't(both team and player), RW opening his mouf. Mck's saying they love the turf....ooops we're getting a new turf company b/c it's the turf that is the problem....

If it was just one or two things you could just chalk it up to coincidence but this has been happening with a fair amount of regularity ever since the draft and even before if you look at the teams late and rather inadequate defense of Jay Cutler. We know the Bears have always been pretty tight lipped about what's going on in the organiaztion and JA in particular is a master of misdirection and misinformation but some of this stuff is a little hard to swallow as just being an accident or a misunderstanding.

It seems to me that there's been a change in attitude and the way they do things. Let's take that draft day snafu as an example. In the past it would have been hard to believe that the Bears would have pulled anything like that intentionally with the way Lovie and the team stress high character and moral fiber in their players. That deal might have been a signature move of Bill Belichek but not Lovie Smith and Jerry Angelo. Now I have my doubts. In the old days when the league asked then to make it right I think they would have grudgingly agreed but not this time. Did it finally dawn on them that sometimes you have to play hardball to win.

Then comes FA and players after player passes us by and the word on the street is that JA is holding the purse strings very tightly. He spends $10 mil over 5 years for a punter and $6 mil over three for a TE after defying public sentiment and trading Greg Olsen to the Panthers. Then having been shut out on at least the two Olineman we know about, he stops pursuing them altogther and begins to dumpster dive other teams failed first rounders. First by replacing the more sure handed pass catching abilites of Olsen with the WR with a record of having some of the worst hands in the entire NFL, and to this guy he gives a $960k bonus. Then he takes on a failed LB/DE that even Rex Ryan couldn't get any use out of and gives him a $250k bonus. One guy has already been cut and by seasons end the other will be lucky to be the #3 WR on the team. Four free agents and not an Olineman in the bunch but we saved a ton of cap $$$ so far.

Now we finally pick up three guys who can help us, Hurd, Barber and Okoye but unfortunately none of them play OT or OG either. Then in a final unexpected showing of their new approach to cash management they hardball a team captain, our OC and QB of the Oline over $500k which is only twice what they already wasted on Gholston and approximately half of what we're gonna waste on Roy Williams who will not be a Chicago Bear for more than a year if I'm any judge of his talent. Now with no experienced OC they move our best RG to a position he's played only once in his entire career. Then they sign Olin's replacement who while younger, doesn't even rate as one of the top Olinman in FA where Trai Essex was at the bottom of that list. We pay him $6 mil for two years and so far he isn't even able to beat out a 32 year old RG who's playing out of position for the starting job.

Is it me that's crazy or can any of you find much sense in all of this other than gaining what appears to be some very good role players in Hurd, Barber, Okoye, and Spaeth and a $2 mil per year punter who is rumored to run a 4.4 forty. Great a guy who can punt AND be his own gunner, LOL. Seriously though, these were good moves which were made on a shoestring budget comparitively speaking and each of these guys will make us a better team.

Now we go to camp with about $20 mil in cap excess and as expected our own want a piece of that pie now before JA spends more of it on one of Mike Martz's pet resurrection projects. Forte asks for an extension and since he's only been about 50% of our offense (I know I'm exaggerating a little) for the past three years and he's in the last years of his rookie deal he deserves it. JA says yes, I hear you and coming right up. You're our priority and it turns out then even the US Postal Services Priority Mail is ten times faster than JA is at getting around to that. Why don't we all go out, by a cheap dictionary, tear out the page with the word priority on it and mail in to him care of Halas Hall. Either he isn't familiar with it's meaning or he got it confused with the old procrastinators favorite excuse, "I'll get around to it". Somebody mail him one of those wooden round tuits will ya?

Next comes Lance Briggs looking for a raise for himself and everyone else who needs one but I'll bet he's not willing to ask them to give Garza, the lowest paid 10 year vet starter in the NFL, a little bump first. There's another guy whose backup makes more than he does! Well when Briggsy says his deal is outdated but suggests an easy solution which is to simply swap his last year and it's $6.25 mil salary with this years $3.65 mil salary, instead of making that concession and saving himself the season long drama this will create he plays hardball again so now Lance wants a whole new deal or a trade. Or at least that's what Rosenhaus wants so he can get paid the big bucks again. God how I hate that coc&suc&er.

And on top of all of that CEO Georgie M decides to play hardball with the CPD by refusing to even consider an alternate playing surface for Soldier Field instead chosing simply to change the sod supplier. George that new sod could be made of the purest hardiest strains of whatever the fvck kind of grass is best in northern climates but that shit still won't grow in November. So when the field is sloppy and players are slipping and tripping and the commentators are ripping it apart on national TV every home game remember that you did it the Bears way. We're "hardball" now boys. Look out Packers Super Bowl here we come.

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LOL... Soap operah B.S. for the lady men who eat it up....

Originally Posted by 4th and 26

This one made me laugh yet it is so true. lol

LOL, yeah I put that in their for your benefit so I wondered if you'd pick up on it. I just like to interject some humor into the stuff when writers state the obvious. That's just my bad self goofing around.