LINK "Trubisky should enhance the Bears’ ability to attract skill-position players as opposed to last season when players they approached, including Kenny Stills and Ted Ginn Jr., turned them down to play for substantially less money elsewhere."
I didn't realize FAs had passed the Bears over for lessor money elsewhere. I found that interesting. Do you think having Trubisky here will help us bring some better FAs in?
Not sure he will this year. He was ok, but not much more. He flashed, but there are other desitinations where the QBs are already proven. Now.... next year if he does well, yeah, it will help. JMO
LINK "Trubisky should enhance the Bears’ ability to attract skill-position players as opposed to last season when players they approached, including Kenny Stills and Ted Ginn Jr., turned them down to play for substantially less money elsewhere."
I didn't realize FAs had passed the Bears over for lessor money elsewhere. I found that interesting. Do you think having Trubisky here will help us bring some better FAs in?
If you were a free agent NFL receiver wouldn't you prefer, if choices were available, to play on a team that had a good QB throwing you the ball? I sure would. It's frankly good business sense, isn't it? After all, maximizing your value, and therefore your overall income, is going to depend largely on the numbers you're able to put up on the field. And you probably are going to do way better with Drew Brees throwing you the ball than with Mike Glennon.
That's a second big reason I knew there was little hope of Davante Adams ever hitting FA and being available to the Bears (that was always a pipe dream IMO). First off, the Packers almost always re-sign their own whenever worthy. We've talked about that in another thread. Secondly, why the hell would Adams want to leave Aaron Rodgers?
I think its a bit of a stretch to say that Trubisky is a big draw at this point for FAs cuz he's unproven but at least he has real potential to become a standout QB. Glennon, Hoyer, and Barkley were garbage. Cutler was for years what everyone knew Cutler was--a million dollar arm with a ten-cent brain that averaged out to a very mediocre QB.
LINK "Trubisky should enhance the Bears’ ability to attract skill-position players as opposed to last season when players they approached, including Kenny Stills and Ted Ginn Jr., turned them down to play for substantially less money elsewhere."
I didn't realize FAs had passed the Bears over for lessor money elsewhere. I found that interesting. Do you think having Trubisky here will help us bring some better FAs in?
Can't hurt. What coach or WR wants to come into an unsettled QB situation? We may be blaming Pace for a few of his UFA deals but we can add GMcC and Phillips to the list for their refusal to let Focks go a year ago and then handicapping our FA efforts because of it.
This is what happens when a team is run buy two guys who feel they have forever to turn the team around because they still make money no matter what. Talk is cheap and talk is all they ever do because they have no skills for decision making in any fashion that can help.