Post by butkus3595 on Jan 26, 2023 10:21:36 GMT -6
Yep, nothing specific cuz he has nothing.
And the McDonald's analogy was bizarre. $1m is pocket change in the NFL. It's the equivalent of minimum wage. How many minimum wage players are "good"?
Very few.
And among those few that do turn out to be "good", how many truly move the needle and become difference makers?
Only a tiny handful.
Example: Jack Sanborn is one of the those few UDFAs who looks "good". Is he going to move the needle? Or push the Bears to contender status?
NOPE
The mere fact that were are critiquing Poles over what cheap players he did or didn't sign shows how vacuous this argument is. With very rare exception, these guys don't make much difference in terms of playoffs Ws and Ls.
I didn’t say he would necessarily get better players at $1 million/yr. I said he could have had many different players willing to come in and play for that salary. One or two might have ended up on the Bears 2025 Super Bowl contender team.
This is your original quote that started all this:
"I already moved on. I just wanted you to admit that he created this roster. He got rid of all these guys and replaced them with players he chose to bring in. There were other free agents he could have brought in for the same money and others guys he could have traded the #32 pick for, etc. We have the worst defensive front-7 in the NFL, and he hired all these guys. That is a fact. You think that’s a great idea for all the reasons I’ve heard 100 times. No need to repeat it all. So, by all means, let’s move on and see what comes next."
You then went on to say this was a fact despite offering no evidence of it being factual other than a hypothetical situation. At the end of the day we're arguing over semantics. You THINK he could have brought in better players for the same amount of money he spent on the other guys. But you don't KNOW that better players were willing to come to Chicago for that money. I'm not sure why this is tough to admit.