Grossman gets a second chance

The Bears should get Byron Leftwich or Jake Plummer or Jeff Garcia or someone. Just not Grossman. He does, and will always, suck. Every year Bears fans say he is good but he just isn't.

 

Those kind of Bears fans are dead to this kind of Bears fan.

I'd say re-signing Grossman made sense. If I'd just had a stroke.

 

I'm a Bears fan and I say he sucks. I gave up on the rumour that he was good during last preseason when all the Bears could talk about was how improved he was and he went on to turn the ball over something like 10 times three brief pre-season appearances. The guy couldn't carry Rick Mirer's jock. Why? because he'd probably fumble it.

 

I'm going to correct myself.

They HAD Bobby Layne, briefly, as a third-stringer behind Luckman.

But Halas had seen the personality type, endless times before, and knew Layne
was "trouble".

And away he went.

 

McFlabb's contract breakdown:

2008: $9,635,000 ($6.3 M base salary)
2009: $9,206,000 ($9.2 M base salary)
2010: $10,006,000 ($10 M base salary)

He can be cut with a smaller cap penalty in after 2009, or no penalty after 2010.

Moreover, the Eagles aren't married to Kevin Kolb. They were putting subtle feelers out last spring.

 

It's not just QB that has been a talentless void for decades. Talking to my brother the other day, I mentioned that the Bears haven't drafted for shit on offense for most of my life. They fail consistently drafting QBs, RBs and WRs. I've never understood how the team can draft so successfully on one side of the ball year after year, but never get it right on the other side. The Bears have a legacy of great running backs, but the only decent one they've drafted since Payton in the mid-70s was Neal Anderson -- and that was 21 years ago. Receivers? It's been all downhill since Harlon Hill in the mid-50s.

 

Bears' passing offense, last 22 years:

2007 -- 3362 yards, 18 TDs
2006 -- 3281 yards, 24 TDs
2005 -- 2201 yards, 11 TDs
2004 -- 2641 yards, 9 TDs
2003 -- 2905 yards, 12 TDs
2002 -- 3316 yards, 22 TDs
2001 -- 3072 yards, 20 TDs
2000 -- 3005 yards, 12 TDs
1999 -- 4352 yards, 25 TDs ----> Gary Crowton's first year as OC
1998 -- 3277 yards, 16 TDs
1997 -- 3501 yards, 14 TDs
1996 -- 3350 yards, 19 TDs
1995 -- 3838 yards, 29 TDs
1994 -- 3230 yards, 19 TDs
1993 -- 2270 yards, 7 TDs
1992 -- 3334 yards, 17 TDs
1991 -- 3292 yards, 16 TDs
1990 -- 2827 yards, 14 TDs
1989 -- 3262 yards, 21 TDs
1988 -- 3173 yards, 13 TDs
1987 -- 3420 yards, 23 TDs
1986 -- 2912 yards, 12 TDs

 

They won with goddamn Billy Wade in '63, for heaven's sake . . . and could, because the defense -- for that time frame -- was unGodly. '85's was better, of course, because it was bigger and quicker, but for the time . . . '63's was very, very stingy. And that was with Bill George, not Butkus, who hadn't arrived, yet.

 

They got to the second round of the playoffs with Steve Walsh and Ryan Wetnight one year (average defense with a decent secondary and that's it).

The 1994 Bears are one of the damnedest teams I've seen.

 

Rex is pathetic, horrible, and dumb. He makes bad decisions, and he has not come along at all. Signing him again is like the Texans cutting Offensive Lineman.

 

Curtis Enis and Wendell Davis kindly ask you to blow it out your ass!

 

I thought the need for Grossman was eliminated when Orton proved that he could throw the deep ball, too. That's pretty much Grossman's only strength.

Orton has Rex's accuracy problems, but he doesn't have Rex's problem of bailing out of the pocket and into the arms of a defensive end for a 10-yard-loss.