What pisses me off is that a lot of people only will look at his total numbers for the last two seasons and not at his actual production per game which is more important. In another forum I saw I guy post that all the Bears needed to do was find a guy who could get around 50 catches for 800 yards since that's all Jeffery did the last two years. I wanted to smack him. Since most would expect his replacement to play a full season I don't want him putting up Jeffery's season total numbers, I want him putting up Jeffery's average game numbers. That's the production that needs to be replaced and that production would have to be over 1,000 yards. You're not getting that from just some random guy.
Que sera, sera but allowing some of your best offensive players to simply walk as a UFA, trading them for late round picks, or simply releasing them because they don't fit the plans of the second losingest HC in Bears history is a very odd way to rebuild a team you want fans to believe will be a contender sooner than later.
Forgetting all about these past two seasons AJ is undeniably one of the best WRs in the NFL with a talent for both making clutch catches and for making his QB more effective. Sometimes you have to overpay for top talent in order to provide continuity which has always been a foreign concept to the Bears front office and the primary reason for the past 31 years the team has been in a rebuilding mode about 90% of the time.
So tell me again how retaining a HC and OC who couldn't even score more than 17 points per game in 2016 and who went 3-13 makes more sense from a continuity standpoint than denuding the team of it's starting QB, it's star RB, and three top pass catchers all within a two year span and all without confirmed replacements on the roster? We got as lucky with Jordan Howard as we've been unlucky with Kevin White and Zach Miller's ability to remain healthy and productive and the offense has suffered. How much farther do they expect to step backwards in the rebuilding process before we see progress as opposed to regression?
The Bears have over time become not only one of the worst managed Chicago sports teams but also one of the worst managed teams in the NFL period and I see little or nothing to make me feel that will change as long as Ted Phillips and GMcC are running this team. They can talk all they want about returning the franchise to winning ways but it hasn't been done in over 30 years. In fact they've done more to damage it than to build it. The only thing they've built is a billion dollar plus franchise for their own benefit by depending on fan loyalty to excuse them for their incompetence.
Let me know when all of that changes so I can give this team my undivided loyalty again.
Spotrac has a section with their calculation of Market Value. They say Jeffery deserves a contract of 5 years for $61M averaging $12.2M per year is the value they calculate. Pretty interesting method and seems about right. www.spotrac.com/nfl/chicago-bears/alshon-jeffery-9855/market-value/
Spotrac has a section with their calculation of Market Value. They say Jeffery deserves a contract of 5 years for $61M averaging $12.2M per year is the value they calculate. Pretty interesting method and seems about right. www.spotrac.com/nfl/chicago-bears/alshon-jeffery-9855/market-value/
What should Still be getting then, because he wants $12 apparently. I just saw that the Steelers reached a deal with Antonio Brown to make him the highest paid WR.
Spotrac has a section with their calculation of Market Value. They say Jeffery deserves a contract of 5 years for $61M averaging $12.2M per year is the value they calculate. Pretty interesting method and seems about right. www.spotrac.com/nfl/chicago-bears/alshon-jeffery-9855/market-value/
What should Still be getting then, because he wants $12 apparently. I just saw that the Steelers reached a deal with Antonio Brown to make him the highest paid WR.
What should Still be getting then, because he wants $12 apparently. I just saw that the Steelers reached a deal with Antonio Brown to make him the highest paid WR.
If we're going to keep Jeffery I rather just give him a long term contract than another FT.
Personally I rather let him walk. He had 2 years to prove it and he fell flat those years.
What is your basis on saying he fell flat? Is it just because he didn't play full seasons?
His lack of durability is a huge killer on Jeffery. I understand Football is a tough sport but Jeffery seems to have problems every week yet he refuses to train with the Bears staff in the offseason.
For 14.5 million a year I pass on that. I want someone who is reliable when we're in the big games.