[CBFF] Long goodbye -- chicagotribune.com

[Tom Shannon]

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> bounces at chicagobearsfanforum.com] On Behalf Of Jerry Madsen
> Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2008 6:54 PM
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> Subject: Re: [CBFF] Long goodbye -- chicagotribune.com
> 
> On 1/1/08, Tom Shannon <tshanno at gmail.com> wrote:
> >But you can't fix stupid.
> 
> Rex might be a lot of things, but stupid ain't one of them.  That's
> the kind of characterization I reserve for the Ryan Leafs of the
> world.

I can only repeat that Ron Rivera disagreed (though I don't think he had
anything as bad as Ryan Leaf in mind).  Rivera wasn't invested in the guy.
Angelo and, to a lesser extent, Smith and Turner are.  That tends to blind
you to a person's failings or convince you that you can fix or work around
them.

Grossman has been around a long time now.  He is what he is.

> > As to the who do you bring in, the answer's easy.  Anybody.
> 
> I'm sorry, but I just disagree.  There are so many needs on this team,
> that the current configuration of Grossman/Orton/Griese is so far from
> the greatest need on this team, that I'm hardly concerned if all three
> come back next year.  In fact, I'm hoping that all three do.

Whether it’s the greatest need or not isn't relevant.  There's nothing about
changing the QB position in this way that would prevent you from doing
anything else.  I'm not talking about spending a bunch of cap space here.
I'm not talking about putting it ahead of anything.  Just because its one of
a group of things that needs changing doesn't mean you don't do it.  It
either should be changed or it shouldn't.

Tom S.

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