Aparently the QB2 battle is back on. Weird, right?

I watched the presser in real time.  I typically open the Bears real-time feed when it is scheduled so it is on my YT history so I can review it later.  Once the Bears media folks release the "official" press conference link, you no longer see the real-time one.  Not on this video but sometimes the juiciest pieces get edited out.

All the stuff being discussed on this thread was brought out in answer to reporters' questions. All Flus was doing was engaging in classic NFL coach-speak. I can't remember ever seeing a HC or a GM of an NFL team discussion the details for personnel moves.  Especially when it gets into a real detailed level. 

All the way through this you have to remember that Petermen is a vested NFL player (on an NFL roster or multiple NFL rosters for 4 seasons).  As such, he is exempt from the waiver process when being released.  This means his contract is immediately voided and he instantly becomes a UFA. This allows teams to do a little dance when playing personnel games when they are at the 53-man limit.  So, the Bears cut Petermen, with a verbal agreement that he will be restored to the active roster with the same contract terms in a short number of days.  Then the team releases him and then does a lot of release/sign/release/etc stuff. Once the team is done, Peterman is re-signed to an identical or very similar contract. As long as Peterman is re-signed within a certain number of days, he doesn't even miss a paycheck.  All the teams do this, all the time.

PJ Walker is not a vested NFL player as he was on Carolina's roster for 2 years before signing with the Bears this year.  So, if he was cut, he would be on the waiver wire and his contract would be voided and would be claimed according to the NFL process for this.  I'm not saying that there would be a line of GM's salivating at the prospect of signing PJ Walker.  Just that there is a real risk of a player released at this time in the season getting picked up by another team (even if just for their practice squad).  There is also the fact that Walker really sucked, and they had decided to part ways.

The only reason that Bagent was kept active all the way through this is Poles felt there was a real risk of losing him to another team if they tried putting him on our practice squad.

Here are the NFL rules for this process.  Here is a discussion on how NFL teams use it on the Pro Football Network site.

As far as the discussion on why we have Peterman and not somebody else, you need to have someone at this point in time who can step in and perform.  So basically, a QB who is very familiar with the West Coast Offense variant that Getsy likes.  Unless we get a seasoned old pro QB with some juice left in him, we would be bringing someone without experience in our system up to speed and if that QB had to step in before being up to speed, it would likely be a disaster.  The decision then comes down to who will suck less.  I'm not saying I like our options.  But if we are bringing someone up to speed and hoping we have a backup QB soon who can step in and win a few games for us, I'd rather choose Bagent over the next PJ Walker (or whoever).