Some Roster Changes Today..............

Unless you're on the dabear's board, the relevance of Brewer's roster spot is questionable. I never saw anything special out of him and while I don't dismiss the value of the long snapper - it's actually a vital position - if Fox and Rodgers (cringe) believe he's the hands that will make Barth successful, so be it.  

Silatolu didn't show much in the pre-season and that move makes sense. We have Whitehair/Larsen to play the swing guard role and in the event of further injuries there are a few options out there (saw Ducasse got cut, for example). 

What seems bizarre about the LS deal is that Brewer was the guy Rodgers wanted to bring in from Denver to be the Bears LS so from the get go you would think he had the inside track at making the roster and apparently he did only to have them make a switch after the fact right after releasing Gould.  Is it possible the two moves were interrelated?

I believe that LS position is very critical but we were spoiled for so long having one of the best ever in Pat Mannelly I think we simply went to sleep on the position in general since it was never up for grabs to begin with.  Since Mannelly retired it's been nothing but a revolving door of guys most not even lasting out an entire season.  How much that had to do with Gould's struggles I can't say either but they did begin right after Mannelly retired.

Robbie never spoke out about it but Pat O'Donnell has and made a point about how critical the velocity and timing of the snap are to him as a punter.  That said I'd think a PK would feel much the same since his timing is also dependent on it.  So it is a very vital position but one that's much more difficult for us to determine whose doing it well and whose not unless there are some truly bad snaps.

With Sitton in the fold now to start and a young OL to develop in Whitehair Silatolu was pretty much a victim of the numbers game.  With as little time as he had to show what he could do in camp he was hanging on by a thread anyway and it was his failure to help Holmes handle the KC NT that led to Shaw's sacking and injury.  That had to loom big on the game tapes.

QUOTE; "Ryan Pace still has one practice squad spot to fill, and it would seem likely that he could be looking at a defensive lineman to add, given that it is the only positional group not found on the squad already."

SWAMP MONSTER!!!!!!!