Benson: "No year in Chicago was I happy."

Benson: "No year in Chicago was I happy."


Well that would make two of us then and probably several million more.  You were just one more of an long list of JA mistakes and I still can't get over the fact that we traded TJ so we could keep your sorry ass.

One hard rap by Sanders in that Super Bowl game and apparently you decided it was just too rough our there for you.  There were very few players I was ever happier to see gone than you Cedric. You got well paid for absolutely nothing.

Here's a list of JA's 8 1st round draft picks;

2002 - Marc Colombo
2003 - Michael Haynes, Rex Grossman
2004 - Tommie Harris
2005 - Cedric Benson
2006 - Traded Pick (For 2nd and a 3rd or a 4th IIRC)
2007 - Greg Olsen
2008 - Chris Williams
2009 - Traded Pick (Cutler)
2010 - Traded Pick (Cutler)
2011 - Gabe Carimi


Pretty crappy drafting in round one.  Harris was an excellent pick for 3 years but never was the same after his injury but JA gave him a huge extension anyway.  If Grossman had ever panned out there would have been no need to trade for Cutler.  Given our success at drafting QBs I'll actually give him points for the Cutler trade.  Of course then I have to take them away for trading the best pass catcher we had at the time because Martz didn't want him and then Martz left the next year anyway.

That's a pretty sad collection of top picks if you ask me.

QUOTE; "First of all, if you are trying to strong-arm a guy with a take it or leave it, don't suddenly draft him. How dumb was that. Secondly,to then insist he sign the contract already rejected. How dumb was that."

It was Jerry Angelo dumb that's what it was.  That and a whole lot of other thing as well.

I don't know about TJ on other teams but on the Bears he produced and he had the support of his teammates.  He certainly played more effective than Benson and yet because we were paying Benson more there was an insistence he play.  Now how dumb is that?

Don't answer.  We already covered that part elsewhere. LOL

Benson was a wasted pick but then more than half the top ten picks in that draft class turned out to be wasted picks as well.  The talent was so sketchy that even though Angelo tried to trade the pick there were no takers.  No one wanted to pay the price for most of those guys.

The smartest thing the NFL has done recently was to put a cap on rookie contracts and slot them based on draft position.  Now at least their deals are reasonable and we no longer have holdouts like Benson or others from that era.

Angelo is just another bad example of who you get, a marginal scout who actually got promoted, when you had non-football people like Mikey and Teddy running the Bears front office.  Whatever criticism we might heap on Pace and his crew it pales in comparison to what that bunch deserves. 

Michael McCaskey's leadership of this team is in great part responsible for where we are now even 15 years after he was removed from the Bears top job by him own mother who should have listened to her father and never put him in charge to begin with.  To say he was totally inept would actually come out sounding like a compliment.

We had Thomas Jones who was good and highly regarded in the locker room. Cedric "the bust" Benson can in like a Douche bag. Refused to be apart of the team, and acted like royalty. I remember several confrontation stories about the locker room vs Benson. After being kick to the curb and on the street for a while Cincinnati gave him a chance and he played well for 3 years. He also probably had a attitude realignment in his football hiatus. Horrible selection.