Post by JABF on Dec 23, 2016 17:05:34 GMT -6
That is an excellent point. Even the guys who will go back to being depth players next year when our starters are healthy again, those players should be MUCH more solid depth players. A championship caliber team needs quality depth too. You see that with the Patriots. A guy goes down - even Tom Brady - and Belichick just trots out another guy and keeps on winning. LOL, granted we are not the Patriots, but my point is that the quality of your depth players ARE important too. This year has allowed the Bears to get an extended look at our young depth players due to the starters being injured. It's not a situation you would choose (having an NFL-league leading IR list) but there is the side benefit of young bench guys getting valuable game reps as starters.
It was just posted in the injury thread that Eddie Goldman was just placed on IR now. That's #20 on IR. Only 22 positions on a football team. Wow. Just wow. And that is just the IR injuries. There have been a number of other serious injuries that didn't land the guys on IR, but just the same they've been out missing games.
