>>Okay...nothing to really disagree with their except the
>>premise that good players don't hit free agency.
>
>Which is why I wrote "Typically". Brady. Rodgers, and Urlacher
>are great players that teams build around and teams will do
>whatever they can that is within their power to not let that
>player slip through their fingers. Yes there are great players
>that do hit FA (Ndamukong Suh), I not saying that it doesn't
>happen.
>
>
>Perhaps you
>>mean, like Julius Peppers last year? Who the much-lauded Ted
>>Thompson picked up and is now retaining. While we jettisoned
>>him to add Jared Allen who sucked.
>
>
>http://board.okayplayer.com/okp.php?az=show_topic&forum=8&topic_id=2397716&mesg_id=2397716&listing_type=search#2398040
>
>^I have already pointed out previously as to why Emery cut
>Peppers. Peppers was not worth the 18 mil cap hit at that
>time. The Packers did not think so either which is why they
>signed him for less. Peppers had a great season last yr. but
>his on the field play the previous season pointed to a decline
>and it worked out great for the Packers. The got great play
>from someone on a deal that did not have an 18 mil cap hit.
>The Bears don't have a crystal ball and did not foresee
>Peppers having the kind of year that he had. It's football.
>It's a business. It's a gamble. It sucks. The Bears lost and
>that's the reality.

Agreed, I just thought it was a bad gamble and they did indeed lose, badly.

>
>Now Pace and Fox need to fix it. They didn't break it, they
>just got here. Now it's on them to make it work. It remains to
>be seen if they can. It's just the beginning. More work needs
>to be done.
>

Agreed, I just find the moves they have made so far to be terrible, for reasons I have already articulated. I think this was a decent team (8-8ish) that drastically underachieved due to bad coaching, management and injuries snowballing into an epic freefall of a season. We were in the same place as teams like the Chargers last offseason, or the Eagles when they let Reid go. I didn't think it was necessary to then go scorched earth.

>While we may not agree on the process, we both want the same
>thing. The Bears winning the Super Bowl. Not just one, but
>many Super Bowls.
>
>

Agreed, I just don't have ANY type of positive feelings about this.

I'm from the lost black tribe of Israel, the Yos

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