"Nearly 1,200 players will lose their jobs soon" - any future Bears here?

I wouldn't be surprised if we pick up a player or two here. There will be some good players in the mix, just like WE will be releasing some excellent players at positions where we simply have too many good players (it's going to break my heart to see us let go some of these players).

We ARE thin at a few positions, so maybe we can reel in a guy we need.

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LINK to the article

Nearly 1,200 players will lose their jobs soon

Posted by Mike Florio on August 22, 2012, 8:09 PM EDT

With the NFL expanding offseason and training-camp rosters to 90 for the first time in league history, there will be even more fat to trim when the time comes to turn in playbooks.


Within the next nine days, teams will move to 75 and then to 53 players. The first deadline comes Monday at 4:00 p.m. ET. By Friday, August 31 at 9:00 p.m. ET, all teams must be at 53 players.


This means that 1,184 players who currently are practicing and playing will soon be not practicing or playing.

Well, not all of them. As an unprecedented throng floods the market, other teams will do the trash-treasure thing, looking for players who can help them out. The Cowboys will look for wideouts, the Packers will look for quarterbacks, the Raiders will look for running backs, the Giants will look for defensive tackles, the Bears will look for offensive linemen, and the Colts will look for defensive backs.


And that will trigger a second wave of roster cuts, with new arrivals bouncing players who thought they had made it onto the 53-man roster.


The sheer number of players who will be ready to play underscores the need for a real NFL minor league, which would be wholly owned and operated by the league — and which would give players a framework to stay in shape and get live reps via games played on Tuesday and Wednesday nights in cities that don’t have an NFL franchise.


That makes way too much sense to ever get any traction.

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Seems like nobody can hold a job long these days in this economy.:4_13_13[1]:

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Originally Posted by soulman

Seems like nobody can hold a job long these days in this economy.:4_13_13[1]:

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I'm blaming Jerry Angelo for THIS too. :lol-032:

This is exactly what I posted about a week or so ago. Stop screwing around with NFL Euro and anything else that resembles a way to try and generate more profit with little or no cost and create an NFL sponsored developmental league. The NFL version of the AAA/AA farm system use by MLB.

Allow teams the option of bringing players up from the minor league club to fill needs created by injuries and such. Certain players at certain positions could be developed faster this way than simply placing them on the PS. The problem there is that a PS roster is filled more by position than talent so that teams have enough players to conduct practices. Instead of keeping skill players a teams may want to develop they have to keep a couple of lineman and LB's or DB's to fill out the scout team.

Screw Europe. Put the teams here in smaller markets that could never support a pro franchise but could support minor league football just as they do minor league baseball. Place the farm clubs near the parent team geographically like a Bears farm team in Rockford or somewhere in the western suburbs like the Hawks have the Wolves. Look to break even on those operations not profit.

The NFL has depended on the colleges as it's farm system and it's only half way effective. Some players who have talent simply aren't ready for the NFL at age 21 or 22 and need some added time to mature. An NFL minor league system can provide a way for them to do that instead of getting that one shot at it and then fading away if they don't make it immediately.



The sheer number of players who will be ready to play underscores the need for a real NFL minor league, which would be wholly owned and operated by the league — and which would give players a framework to stay in shape and get live reps via games played on Tuesday and Wednesday nights in cities that don’t have an NFL franchise.

NFL in europe is popular... NFL europe on the other hand wasn't IIRC

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Originally Posted by GermansbombedPH

NFL in europe is popular... NFL europe on the other hand wasn't IIRC

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Not trying to slight you guys brother. It may be popular but putting teams there as an effective NFL farm system? NO, you're right!

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Originally Posted by soulman

This is exactly what I posted about a week or so ago. Stop screwing around with NFL Euro and anything else that resembles a way to try and generate more profit with little or no cost and create an NFL sponsored developmental league. The NFL version of the AAA/AA farm system use by MLB.

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Well an EU NFL league just doesn't work and I doubt it never will.
A EU based NFL however, might be possible, but I rather keep it the way it is now.
Games in EU/London? Yes, and more please. 3 games, a year would be pretty neat. I find one just not being enough. I wan't it to be so that every year it's two new teams that get's to play there. That way the NFL EU fans doesn't have to go all the way to the US to see a game. It's not the same, but for those that can't afford to go there just for the NFL games.

NFL is huge in Europe as GMPH said, and everything I go on the FB page of the two broadcasters they fan's scream for more than 6 games a week, and I can only agree with that.

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Originally Posted by ZifanQ

Well an EU NFL league just doesn't work and I doubt it never will.
A EU based NFL however, might be possible, but I rather keep it the way it is now.
Games in EU/London? Yes, and more please. 3 games, a year would be pretty neat. I find one just not being enough. I wan't it to be so that every year it's two new teams that get's to play there. That way the NFL EU fans doesn't have to go all the way to the US to see a game. It's not the same, but for those that can't afford to go there just for the NFL games.

NFL is huge in Europe as GMPH said, and everything I go on the FB page of the two broadcasters they fan's scream for more than 6 games a week, and I can only agree with that.

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We need to get a Bears-Packers game set up in Denmark for you Z.

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Originally Posted by JustAnotherBearsFan99

We need to get a Bears-Packers game set up in Denmark for you Z.

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Hell yea! I'll be only Bears fan attending at the stadium, the rest would be bloody bandwaggon cheesehead, so we'd have to get Hester to score some PT/KT TD's and Peppers/Shea to smack Rogders down in the ground. And we'd need the Oline to make sure that Clay Matthews looks like the girl he really is.

I could have the Bears sleep over at my house and I could like become a member of the staff like a waterboy and all of the sudden I'd be playing in the NFL as a combied QB/DE and we'd win the SB 10 years in a row..

Man I had the weirdest dream...

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Originally Posted by ZifanQ

Hell yea! I'll be only Bears fan attending at the stadium, the rest would be bloody bandwaggon cheesehead, so we'd have to get Hester to score some PT/KT TD's and Peppers/Shea to smack Rogders down in the ground. And we'd need the Oline to make sure that Clay Matthews looks like the girl he really is.

I could have the Bears sleep over at my house and I could like become a member of the staff like a waterboy and all of the sudden I'd be playing in the NFL as a combied QB/DE and we'd win the SB 10 years in a row..

Man I had the weirdest dream...

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What a dream!!