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Wednesday LOL: It's clear Adam Gase took Bears offense to Miami
Steve Rosenbloom Contact Reporter Chicago Tribune
If you think Alshon Jeffery’s four-game suspension for using performance-enhancing drugs will hurt his free agency, then you haven’t been watching all the bail money the NFL has been forking over.
The NFL is filled with criminals who get paid, and Jeffery is hardly the worst of the criminals. He might be an idiot for using a banned substance or for not calling the trainer before he put something in his body. He also might be lying about the whole thing.
But he’s not a criminal in a league filled with owners who can’t wait to pay miscreants, and that includes the Bears. Isn’t that right, Ray McDonald?
For the moment, Jeffery’s suspension leaves the Bears with a void at false-starts by the guy farthest from the ball. I have no idea what Jeffery was doing when he jumped early coming out of a timeout for the two-minute warning in Tampa on Sunday, but maybe he should’ve taken a drug that enhanced his mental performance.
Short-term, the Bears could slap another franchise tag on the unreliable Jeffery, and long-term, they could make another offer. I think the former is more likely, but at $17 million-plus when you factor in the mandatory 20 percent raise for a second franchise tag, it looks like too much money for too little player.
What’s more, I don’t think Jeffery wants either from the Bears. He hasn’t exactly embraced the city, whether he has been around to play or not, and it has been mostly or not the last two seasons.
But some team will take a shot because some team always does when you’re talking about talent, or even the threat of it, no matter that Jeffery is undependable.
Clip & save: Jeffery will serve his four games, then come back to have three big performances against the Packers, Redskins and Vikings as an audition for the rest of the league, and then wait for money.
Like, Cowboys money.
The Cowboys have paid far worse miscreants than Jeffery. The Cowboys are in the South, which seems to be Jeffery’s choice. The Cowboys also have a No. 1 receiver, which Jeffery isn’t and which will benefit Jeffery, not to mention a terrific young quarterback.
Sure, Jeffery would help a young quarterback here, except the Bears titular general manager who believes in drafting a quarterback every year has yet to draft a quarterback in his two years of running the draft.
And besides, even if coach John Fox lets titular GM Ryan Pace actually do his job, there’s no evidence to back up the idea the Bears could develop a young quarterback.
Even with Jeffery on the field, there’s diminishing evidence that Fox’s coaches can develop a potent Bears offense with any kind of quarterback.
Remember when Fox bristled at the idea that former offensive coordinator Adam Gase took the Bears offense with him when he became head coach of the Dolphins, snapping that it’s the Bears’ offense?
Quick, someone tell Fox that Gase’s new offense has scored three touchdowns in a game five times this year while Gase’s old offense with “Death Spiral" Dowell Loggains calling plays has yet to do it in nine games.
Sorry, John, but it’s tough to claim you kept your offense when somebody took all the points.
So, for those of you scoring at home, the Bears have no quarterback of the future and no top receiver of the present.
And that top receiver might not be part of the future, either.
I’m sure the Bears will call another consultant to figure this out, but what they really ought to do is call FEMA. Or Goodwill.
Steve Rosenbloom Contact Reporter Chicago Tribune
If you think Alshon Jeffery’s four-game suspension for using performance-enhancing drugs will hurt his free agency, then you haven’t been watching all the bail money the NFL has been forking over.
The NFL is filled with criminals who get paid, and Jeffery is hardly the worst of the criminals. He might be an idiot for using a banned substance or for not calling the trainer before he put something in his body. He also might be lying about the whole thing.
But he’s not a criminal in a league filled with owners who can’t wait to pay miscreants, and that includes the Bears. Isn’t that right, Ray McDonald?
For the moment, Jeffery’s suspension leaves the Bears with a void at false-starts by the guy farthest from the ball. I have no idea what Jeffery was doing when he jumped early coming out of a timeout for the two-minute warning in Tampa on Sunday, but maybe he should’ve taken a drug that enhanced his mental performance.
Short-term, the Bears could slap another franchise tag on the unreliable Jeffery, and long-term, they could make another offer. I think the former is more likely, but at $17 million-plus when you factor in the mandatory 20 percent raise for a second franchise tag, it looks like too much money for too little player.
What’s more, I don’t think Jeffery wants either from the Bears. He hasn’t exactly embraced the city, whether he has been around to play or not, and it has been mostly or not the last two seasons.
But some team will take a shot because some team always does when you’re talking about talent, or even the threat of it, no matter that Jeffery is undependable.
Clip & save: Jeffery will serve his four games, then come back to have three big performances against the Packers, Redskins and Vikings as an audition for the rest of the league, and then wait for money.
Like, Cowboys money.
The Cowboys have paid far worse miscreants than Jeffery. The Cowboys are in the South, which seems to be Jeffery’s choice. The Cowboys also have a No. 1 receiver, which Jeffery isn’t and which will benefit Jeffery, not to mention a terrific young quarterback.
Sure, Jeffery would help a young quarterback here, except the Bears titular general manager who believes in drafting a quarterback every year has yet to draft a quarterback in his two years of running the draft.
And besides, even if coach John Fox lets titular GM Ryan Pace actually do his job, there’s no evidence to back up the idea the Bears could develop a young quarterback.
Even with Jeffery on the field, there’s diminishing evidence that Fox’s coaches can develop a potent Bears offense with any kind of quarterback.
Remember when Fox bristled at the idea that former offensive coordinator Adam Gase took the Bears offense with him when he became head coach of the Dolphins, snapping that it’s the Bears’ offense?
Quick, someone tell Fox that Gase’s new offense has scored three touchdowns in a game five times this year while Gase’s old offense with “Death Spiral" Dowell Loggains calling plays has yet to do it in nine games.
Sorry, John, but it’s tough to claim you kept your offense when somebody took all the points.
So, for those of you scoring at home, the Bears have no quarterback of the future and no top receiver of the present.
And that top receiver might not be part of the future, either.
I’m sure the Bears will call another consultant to figure this out, but what they really ought to do is call FEMA. Or Goodwill.
