Did you zero in where it said to package him in with the 19th pick or, as we've talked about with soul and others many times, our second round pick?
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My how things change. I have a 2011 draft magazine at work ( forget the name ) I was looking at today, and in their " A Look Ahead " section ( pertaining to this years draft ) they had Potter at #15 on their best players list. He was the #2 LT listed behind Kahlil . So I don't get how he's suddenly considered nothing more than a 3rd rounder this year. He's a good player . Some of these draft 'experts' are FOS and put out publications for 1 reason and 1 reason only - $$$$$$$.
They can't evaluate squat until these guys start playing on Sunday anyways. They can offer educated guesses and nothing more really ( like ALL of us ). I could turn out to be totally wrong about Potter. But I'd rather have him on this team - that's my educated guess.
I'm to the point where trading a 4th or 5th rounder for the best 2nd stringer on some other team sounds like a good idea. Heres what he should be :
If he was a relief pitcher he'd be the forgotten man who only gets used when ur team is down 10 runs.
If he was a basketball player he'd be the guy who gets in, in the last 4 minutes of a blowout.
- the Tv anchor who gets the morning weekend slot.
- the neighborhood kid who gets picked last.
- the junkyard night watchman.
- the guy even the ugly girls ignore.
- etc etc etc.
But for us .... he's our STARTER. Ugh.
And, I mean, what were the Bears thinking of starting Webb and OMG at any position when one was a seventh round idiot out of West Texas Bum-Fuck and the other was the worst offensive lineman in the entire league? C'mon! I guess we must've been desperate or something.
Of course, Tice did a wonderful job of making this line decent considering what he had to work with. That much you can say for him. But his false sense of bravado over Webb may cost him his job. He is just simply too emotionally invested in this kid.