Thread: OT Eric Winston Released

Originally Posted by MPBears68

Valid points, Soul. I agree with you and have hope still for Carimi to be a long term starting RT. Not ready to give up on him at all yet. But....we do have to hedge our bets a little. He could flop again next year. He could (I hope not) turn out to be another JA injury OL bust.

We have 3 OTs with NFL experience--Webb, Carimi, and Scott who's a journeyman quality backup at best. He sucks, lets be honest. So unless we draft one (unlikely) its either Scott or another FA. Winston is a proven, quality RT and >>> Scott. If the price is right, he's worth a look. The way I see it, picking up one clear OL upgrade in FA (iow, someone head and shoulders better than Rachal/Spencer/Scott/Garza) makes it a helluva lot easier to justify drafting a LB in round 2.

If we sign a vet OLineman I'm a bigger fan of Moore right now than I am of Winston but that's me. Saying Scott sucks isn't absolutely true but calling him a journeyman backup at best is fair. That's what he is and that's what he plays like. If he was all that good he wouldn't have still been looking for a team last August. He's a role player and that's it.

What makes this difficult is not knowing what moves they're gonna make toward freeing up some cap space but it's pretty obvious some will be made. There isn't even enough left to sign our own guys let alone anyone else yet day after day it's written about and talked about. My guess is that they've worked out some restructuring but just haven't announced it yet. Otherwise why even talk about your own guys who you want back when clearly you don't seem to have the cap space to even sign them.

So it's gonna be harder than hell to predict anything until Tuesday at 3PM when the bell rings unless on Monday or earlier on Tuesday we see some announcements about changes in the Bears cap situation. If we have the money to pursue a guy like Winston I'm all for it. We need another vet OT so why not him right? We also need another vet OG so why not Moore? From what I can see those would be two beneficial signings IF there's cap space to do it.

Originally Posted by soulman

If we sign a vet OLineman I'm a bigger fan of Moore right now than I am of Winston but that's me. Saying Scott sucks isn't absolutely true but calling him a journeyman backup at best is fair. That's what he is and that's what he plays like. If he was all that good he wouldn't have still been looking for a team last August. He's a role player and that's it.

What makes this difficult is not knowing what moves they're gonna make toward freeing up some cap space but it's pretty obvious some will be made. There isn't even enough left to sign our own guys let alone anyone else yet day after day it's written about and talked about. My guess is that they've worked out some restructuring but just haven't announced it yet. Otherwise why even talk about your own guys who you want back when clearly you don't seem to have the cap space to even sign them.

So it's gonna be harder than hell to predict anything until Tuesday at 3PM when the bell rings unless on Monday or earlier on Tuesday we see some announcements about changes in the Bears cap situation. If we have the money to pursue a guy like Winston I'm all for it. We need another vet OT so why not him right? We also need another vet OG so why not Moore? From what I can see those would be two beneficial signings IF there's cap space to do it.

Then if Cooper is still available @ 20 the OL is looking pretty good all of a sudden.

MP I'm not holding my breath but it would be sweet!