Thread: NFL Rumors: Should Chicago Bears Consider O.J. Atogwe?

Originally Posted by VJ18

he hasnt played since 09!?

Yeah but he hasn't been injured since then either.

Originally Posted by Dagan81

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My question is when in the hell are we going to develop our own guys and do so with a degree of urgency? At some point, the Bears are going to have to consider drafting some of their picks in the secondary in the first couple of rounds rather than the third, fourth, or even fifth rounds. Not every player turns out to be like a Mike Brown, a Chris Harris, or a Danieal Manning. Also, when we've finally developed a set of safeties who are among the very best in the league, we cut ties with them before we have had the opportunity to get the most out of their abilities over the long haul. This cannot happen. Jerry Angelo was responsible for this type of action far too many times. I hope Emery won't fall into the same trap.

Brown and Manning were 2nd round picks. Harris was a 6th. Sometimes there's very little difference between a guy you take in the middle rounds and one you take higher. Every draft as a few Ed Reeds, Eric Weddles, Troy Polumalus and such but you don't find a half dozen of them in every draft.

The Conte pick was a good one and I think eventually the Hardin pick will be too. We've had a couple more who looked good to begin with like McGowan but we can't seem to keep ours healthy and that's more of a problem than selection.

Originally Posted by soulman

Brown and Manning were 2nd round picks. Harris was a 6th. Sometimes there's very little difference between a guy you take in the middle rounds and one you take higher. Every draft as a few Ed Reeds, Eric Weddles, Troy Polumalus and such but you don't find a half dozen of them in every draft.

The Conte pick was a good one and I think eventually the Hardin pick will be too. We've had a couple more who looked good to begin with like McGowan but we can't seem to keep ours healthy and that's more of a problem than selection.

Conte's had a few nicks here and there, but overall, I've been very pleased with his performance for the Bears. I'm disappointed in Hardin because, and I don't know why I should be, but because he was injured in college for all of his senior year and now plays a preseason game and goes down with a potential season ending injury (I understand from some piece I read that Hardin might not be done for this season, but if he's on IR, doesn't mean he's shelved for the entireity of the 2012 season?), we are once again thin at safety.

I really feel like the Bears need to start investing draft picks in future drafts in the first two rounds on players in the secondary, both at corner and at safety. I want this defense to go back to being as dominant as the 2005 and 2006 defenses were, when we could defend the run AND the pass. We do well against run today, but our pass defense is atrocious. If we had the defense now that we had in the mid 2000s, we would need but an average offensive effort in most games to put us over the top against virtually every opponent.