[CBFF] FW: Berrian receives $16 million signing bonus

[Tom Shannon]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cbff-bounces at chicagobearsfanforum.com [mailto:cbff-
> bounces at chicagobearsfanforum.com] On Behalf Of Jerry Madsen
> Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2008 6:36 PM
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> Subject: Re: [CBFF] FW: Berrian receives $16 million signing bonus
> 
> The fourth highest paid receiver in the league and I'm not sure he's
> even the fourth best receiver in the division; certainly not the
> conference.
> 
> Who should feel worse?  Bears fans that we just lost Berrian or
> Vikings fans that they just WAY overpaid for his services?
> 
> Perhaps the Bears should have tagged him, but I'm glad they did just
> pay what the Vikes did.

They doubled the guaranteed money the Bears were offering.  There was no way
the Bears were going to sign him for that.

Funny how Berrian wanted stability at the QB position, then went to
Minnesota which probably has the most unstable situation in the division.

In any case, I've got no problem with this.  The Bears knew what he was
worth.  This looks to me like a the grass is greener on the other side of
the fence situation.  Berrian is better, of course but dollar for dalloar I
can't imagine it will turn out better than Dwayne Bates did.

Tom S.

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