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[Steve Behrens]

Didn't mean my reply to be so personal to those on the list... was listening
to internet radio last night and was fed a constant stream of 'Rex the
mental midget' and everything negative under the sun in regards to a guy who
just went out and won a game like he's paid to do... and was still a little
ticked off.  Sorry if it came out wrong.

Basically it boils down to this for me:  Even though he's melted down in
several games, he's still done enough for me many of the other games to
warrent another shot (afterall, this is the first time he's ever been sat
down... let's see how he responds).  If he doesn't respond, fine and
dandy..I'll show him the door myself. But to sit the guy for the first and
only time and then say 'that's it, your done.  You get no more chances'
doesn't sit well with me, especially when we know he has the stuff if he can
figure it out.

Greise's not the guy, and I'd rather see Rex for the rest of the season try
to get over the hump than Orton try to prove he's a franchise QB.  Because
if Rex get's it in time for the playoffs, we have a much better chance of
doing something in those playoffs that with either of the other two.


-Behr


On 11/14/07, Westmalle van 't vat <westmalle at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> On 11/14/07 9:04 AM, "Steve Behrens" <steve.behrens at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I'd venture to say most of the anti-Rex crowd would have rather have
> seen
> > the Bears lose with Rex back behind center if it meant keeping on the
> > bench.  Amazing.  Truly.
>
> Steve, you can put awake the rhetorical nukes.  This ad hominem attack is
> unfair to Chris.  Or to anyone like myself who has always been a BIG Rex
> supporter but, unfortunately, reluctantly, has come to some conclusions
> about his being the guy.  You can legitimately think that you have seen
> enough of Rex to know he is not the future.  That's all Chris was saying,
> as
> far as I could tell.  I too think I have seen enough, even in a nice come
> back win on Sunday, to think that Rex is not the long term answer.  He
> deserves all the kudos in the world for Sunday, but I don't see any way it
> changes what you've ever previously thought about Rex and his place with
> the
> Bears.  Zip.  Zero.  Zilch.
>
> Now, if he continues winning and improving, then maybe you've got
> something.
> For the sake of argument, let's just say he plays well enough for the
> duration of the season that we squeak into the playoffs.  Where does that
> leave you?  The only way I would resign him and trust him with the helm
> next
> year is if he made some pretty spectacular strides in his
> game.  Stat-wise,
> he'd have to throw 14 TDs and no more than 7 INTs (with comparable numbers
> in the playoffs) for me to begin thinking, Rex has finally turned the
> corner.  That would be very good stuff indeed.  Or if he throws 20 TDs
> with
> no more than 10 INTs, then I'd glad concede, he's indeed a franchise QB on
> the rise.  That would be great stuff and I'd want more of it.
>
> Now who on this list expects we'll get either the 'very good' or the
> 'great
> stuff' from here on?  I love Rex, but I don't expect either scenario to
> unfold.
>
> Steve
>
>
>
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