How Good Does the Marshall Trade Look Right Now?

**Zelezo Vlk** · 10-28-2012, 08:19 AM

Only if the defensive player would then kick the bucket. Too soon?

**soulman** · 10-28-2012, 08:22 AM

Originally Posted by 4th and 26

Jerry would have never made this trade unless it was on a defensive player.

Or because it was a receiver taller than 6'. I don't know maybe because it was just for 3rds he may have since after Terrell and Bradley he'd never go higher than a 3rd for a wideout. I think ol' Jer had gotten a little neurotic as time passed.

**Henry Burris** · 10-28-2012, 09:46 AM

too bad he wouldn't have spent a 4th on Marshall from the get go, or a 2nd on Fitzgerald, but oh well...

**Zelezo Vlk** · 10-28-2012, 09:58 AM

I thought that Fitzy was a really high first round pick.

**soulman** · 10-28-2012, 11:14 AM

Originally Posted by Zelezo Vlk

I thought that Fitzy was a really high first round pick.

Yeah, he was a top 5 pick. Henry must be thinkin' of someone else.

**Zelezo Vlk** · 10-28-2012, 11:31 AM

Well there were others we could have picked up. But there always will be. Hindsight is 20/20. That's also not to say that any player would be as good if they played with the Bears. Marshall was a special case because we knew how he works with Cutty, and in a similar offense.

**Dagan81** · 10-28-2012, 09:41 PM

Marshall will be a Hall of Famer one day. I see Cutler as being more or less like Phil Simms. He's a good quarterback, but not great, although in the case of Cutler, I think that's because of his offensive line that he's held back. I don't know whether Simms is in the Hall of Fame or not, but their numbers are sort of similar. Of course, completion percentages in the 1980s and early 1990s were much lower than they are now, so I may be comparing apples to oranges.