wait a minute...I thought he was a vital need because he was a blocking WR. Some of us assumed that catching the ball and getting open were more important.
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I'm in a twitchy mood today, so the sarcasm will flow freely. Feel free to ignore all my posts today people.
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I love how we as Bears' fans love our blocking WRs: Bellemy, Wims, St Brown...If you added their best seasons together you might, might I say, have a #2 WR in a down years on the Packers.
Josh Wims-Brown best combined seasons: 63 receptions for 800 yards and 2 TDs.
Equanimeous St. Brown is finally gone. What a waste of roster a spot we had with him here.
LINK Saints sign Bears receiver Equanimeous St. Brown
Don't know I would say that. Velus, on the other hand, is a waste of a roster spot. He can only do one thing.
EQ is a fine #5 or #6 WR who is mainly there as a 4-phase STer. Regardless he is a total JAG and easily replaceable. There's guys like these on the open market every offseason.
Equanimeous St. Brown is finally gone. What a waste of roster a spot we had with him here.
Don't know I would say that. Velus, on the other hand, is a waste of a roster spot. He can only do one thing.
EQ is a fine #5 or #6 WR who is mainly there as a 4-phase STer. Regardless he is a total JAG and easily replaceable. There's guys like these on the open market every offseason.
My problem with the Bears rostering guys like Bellamy and St Brown (I'll address Wims later) is that they play a position that by definition means they are going to see the field at critical times during games on OFF. Late in games, with injuries and the substitution pattern, the last person you want running routes is a WR who is on the team because he's a four-phase STer. IMO (and I know almost nothing about picking a team, telling guys they got cut, etc, etc--I'm a blow hard on a message board) I want my 4-phase STers to be LBs, CBs or S.
It always irritated me when people said the Bears had to keep Bellamy/St Brown type players because of a skill set that didn't match their roster spot. Bellamy literally couldn't catch. Cutler or McCown or Hoyer hit him in the chest IN THE END ZONE and he dropped it. Fields or Mitch (can't remember) had St Brown open on a rollout right in front of them for a 4th down catch that would have kept a late drive alive, and St Brown pawed at the ball like a fat 6th grade boy given 1/2 a cake for breakfast and no fork. I would have been OK with keeping either as a STer as long as they didn't see snaps on OFF. Bellamy actually got taken off STs one year because he became the #2 WR due to injuries for a few games. They couldn't have done worse at WR if they had sent me out there to run routes wearing my ankle brace, knee brace and wrist brace (all on the right side of my body, is that normal?)
And I consider blocking WRs to be as important as ... an appendix. You know its there, might have some value but then it explodes on you or drops a critical pass in the EZ.
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Now, Wims....I think I'm the only person here who will admit that he thought Wims was going to be a steal and a redzone threat for years. He had the height, the speed, the hops....I imagined 6-7 TDs a year on jumpballs and fades, working in the redzone and short yardage catches for 1st downs. Boy was I wrong.
Equanimeous St. Brown is finally gone. What a waste of roster a spot we had with him here.
Don't know I would say that. Velus, on the other hand, is a waste of a roster spot. He can only do one thing.
EQ is a fine #5 or #6 WR who is mainly there as a 4-phase STer. Regardless he is a total JAG and easily replaceable. There's guys like these on the open market every offseason.
To be honest I forgot about his special teams contribution. And that does add to a backups' value. But I agree too, that these guys are not difficult to find.
