Post by Deleted on Mar 15, 2017 17:38:21 GMT -6
Well to answer this Soulman and me have been around a very long time on many different boards. I believe the thin air and being a mile high in Denver helps us cut through all the BS coming out of HH.
Soulman and me use to be just like some of you biting on every word coming out HH, about things being different this or that year only to the see the same shit year in and year. And once again in the spring to more promises only to see those promises go unanswered each spring with more excuses then Carter has liver pills (only the old times will remember what that means). It has taken year of lies and disappointments for to see through the lies and half truths that come out ever spring.
I ask some of the younger posters how many years have you heard in the fall how the Bears need to improve the O line and ever spring you see nothing or at best some half-ass attempt that was doomed from the start fail. To the Bears credit it only took 9 years and 3 GMs to get the O line as good as it is this year and the Tackles still aren't even above average. Most teams might take two years to improve there O line, not the Bears they still don't have it 100% right after 9 going on 10 years.
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Had Cody Whitehair not proven to be one of the sharpest OL picks we've ever made and Josh Sitton had not fallen in our laps like a gift from GSH himself how would our pass protection have been in 2016? And what happened wasn't even in the initial plan. It was mostly blind luck or good fortune depending on how you want to shade it.
Cody was drafted to play LG in replacement of Matt Slauson who many whined about like bad alternator when he was let go. Grasu was expected to start at OC 'til the SF turf claimed another victim so Cody moved over and played at near Pro Bowl level at a position he'd never played before. I love getting that lucky.
But without Sitton, one of the very best pass blockers in the NFL, we'd have had to start Larsen next to Leno. Then after we lost Long what then? It took more than half the season for Bobbie Massie to realize he needed to start blocking someone and Leno's ascent pretty much came to a halt and that may well be as good as he ever gets.
Long is coming off a severe ankle injury and will play this year with a torn labrum once again. We're still a bit shaky at OT and a Tom Compton won't help that much if at all. So will Long play RG this year or OT. We don't even know that yet but with the exception of Cody and Sitton that OL is far from "fixed".
Maybe the closets we came to a one year UFA "fix" was at ILB before we lost Trevathan who like McPhee was our prize UFA signing of the year but also a player with an injury history that popped up again. Will either of those guys be 100% by summer? Or ever again? And I don't even want to deal with the secondary just yet. They'll have to show me they're better otherwise it's just like I posted before. To me it's like changing out the greeters at Walmart.
The point both JJ and I are making is this team has been in rebuilding mode about 90% of the time we've been following them. When does that all end?