Thread: Amobi Okoye to return to Bears

Originally Posted by Riczaj01

Last guy we got from houston was considered a bust; Okoye, and look what he turned out to be. Some players are more a product of the system then great players. Okoye was one, maybe this guy will be also.


I fucking love how we went from thinking Tice would save this group to oh we cut a FB that hardly played last year to oh he doesn't know what the hell he's thinking.

Reallity check, Clutts didn't play that much last year, he wasn't an everydown O player. He wasn't the reason the O was good last year, nor will he be a reason the O was good this year.


I liked Clutts, I wanted us to keep him; but the over reasction of cutting Clutts is getting to be a bit embarassing. Better hurry up and resign McCown and Allen b/c apparently all our Qb's and RB's are gonna get hurt b/c Clutts is no longer on the team. Might as well trade away Marshal and Jeffery b/c they won't matter b/c Clutts won't be back there blocking for Cutler.....Holy crap get a hold of yourselves!

I don't think anyone is over-reacting at all. It is just the same opinion amongst several different posters that gets generally repeated, so it appears to be an over-reaction. I'm not going to go throw myself into the eye of a hurricane just because the Bears traded Tyler Clutts, and I don't think anyone is suggesting they would either. It's simply that many posts and posters feel the same way and share their thoughts in a similar fashion.

As far as Tice goes, I have always thought he was a meat head. However, during his first year, I kinda started to like him. I certainly like HIS sharing with the media/fans more than any other coach on this team. However, I'm still waiting to see the results of this great O-Line coach that the league "experts" keep talking about. I know, he gets a pass just like Lovie because "he can only work with what he's given". Well, just like Lovie, He's been given what he's asked for, so that excuse doesn't fly. Cutting Tyler Clutts does not move me one way or the other regarding Mike Tice. Continuing to have a league wide laughing stock at O-Line year after year DOES in fact, move me, and yes, THAT could very well get our QB's and RB's killed. Clutts is merely a nice complimentary player that played with a hard nose and blocked well and happens to play one of my favorite old school positions of Full Back. Is there something wrong with my favoritism here? Did you watch any of the plays last week when Rodriguez trying to make those blocks? I did and it was sad. He's a rook and he may get it someday and allow us to do other things, but right now, he doesn't and Clutts does. It's probably a move that had to be made, but I don't have to like every move that is made without being required to turn in my fan ID card.

Sorry to hijack with my above post. As far as Okoye goes, my question is how is the knee. At this point, didn't we just add another injured DT?

not sure about this. He got cut because of health problems and we pick him up? A healthy Okoye would improve our team for sure.

Still hope we can find a OL player that gets cut today and would improve us

But you can NEVER find a GOOD OL player cut, I think that was just stated ( really with as bad as the Bears OL is). So don't worry , the BEARS will go get an unproven/ injured Def. player.