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Chicago Bears: Taking Off the Offseason


 by Joe Willett (Columnist) 7 comments

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February 26, 2008


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The Chicago Bears have had tough luck in the offseason to this point.

They have lost their second best linebacker in Lance Briggs.

They have cut or failed to re-sign Mushim Muhammad, Fred Miller, and
Ruben Brown.

They are having a hard time re-signing Bernard Berrian, who could
possibly take over as the number one receiver; and Brendon Ayanbadejo,
who could possibly take over for Lance Briggs at linebacker.

Interestingly, Briggs, Berrian, and Ayanbadejo are all clients of Drew
Rosenhaus.

Regarding his three clients, Rosenhaus said, "At this time I would
project that those guys would at least get to free agency or at least
the beginning of it. But the Bears are going to be in the mix as we
continue to talk with other teams. We're going to have a good, healthy
dialogue with [the Bears]."

However, they didn't want to lose their entire roster before the
2008-09 season, they decided to re-sign oft-injured,
not-so-oft-talented, Rex "My Play Sure Is" Grossman.

With all these players making a mad dash to free agency, the Bears
decided to sign the one piece to the puzzle that just can't seem to go
away.

They probably decided that instead of trying to keep the talented
players, they should just make the bad players look better.

In the games that Grossman did play this season, he was worse than the
other QB that could possibly play instead of him.

His passer rating, touchdowns, yards per completion, and completion
percentage, were all worse than Brian Griesse, a player who didn't
have significantly more time than Grossman did.

Kyle Orton, although he had almost 150 less attempts, had a higher
percentage of passes for touchdowns, and a lower percentage of passes
for interceptions, and a higher passer rating.

This means that the starter isn't even the best QB on the team.

And we decided to put even more faith into Not-So-Sexy Rexy.

In fact, they decided that he was even better than those two other
possibilities.

"He was motivated to be back and we feel it's good for both sides. The
continuity can't be minimized in all this, and Rex brings that as well
as [being] a very talented player with good game day experience, so we
feel with him in the mix this is going to make us better," said Bears
GM Jerry Angelo.

The Chicago Bears need to pick the right players to sign, and the
right to drop; and right now, they are not doing either.

Say hello to the 2008-09 Miami Dolphins.