Stop the Bears before they make a Jimmy Garoppolo deal
Jan 1, 2017 15:41:44 GMT -6
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Post by JABF on Jan 1, 2017 15:41:44 GMT -6
I hope we don't "buy" a quarterback from Belichick. Somehow I don't see us getting the best of THAT deal.
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Stop the Bears before they make a Jimmy Garoppolo deal
The Bears are done embarrassing themselves this season — John Fox’s “try hard’’ clown act capped the embarrassment with a 38-10 loss in Minnesota on Sunday — which means the Bears now have a chance to become relevant.
To become relevant beyond next season’s opener, however, they will need a new quarterback. They also need a new coach. They always need a quarterback and coach at Halas Hall. Same goes for a Football Yoda and new ownership, but good luck getting this outfit to act professional and successful these days.
Let’s just talk about a new quarterback who isn’t the disastrous Matt Barkley, the uninspiring Brian Hoyer or the hopeless Jay Cutler. This year’s best rumor available suggests they go after Patriots backup Jimmy Garoppolo, and it makes for a nice story: The Arlington Heights kid who played at Eastern Illinois coming back to Chicago.
But let me ask you something: How many quarterbacks have left the Patriots and won a title? Or even played well?
Most notably, Matt Cassel was traded by the Patriots to the Chiefs along with Mike Vrabel in 2009 for a second-round draft pick that became safety Patrick Chung, who helped the Patriots get to two Super Bowls and win one.
And remember, Cassel was a guy who started 30 games in New England. He should’ve been a known quantity. Garoppolo isn’t. Isn’t even close.
Garoppolo has started just two NFL games, both this season, and yeah, he completed more than 70 percent with four TDs and no interceptions, but then got injured.
So, what do you really know? Other than he gets hurt like a Bears first-rounder I mean.
But listen, here’s the big issue: Do you really want Bears wonks trying to make a deal with Bill Belichick?
The Bears can’t evaluate their own safety spots, and you want titular GM Ryan Pace and Dowell Loggains-supporting head coach John Fox to deal with the smartest man in football?
You know how the stock market has a circuit breaker to halt trading in order to prevent a disastrous crash? The NFL should have some kind of alarm that sounds automatically when someone at Halas Hall calls Foxborough.
Have you seen the Bears play? The only thing tougher than getting legit NFL players out of their active rosters is getting the truth out of Fox.
And you want to further hamstring this rebuild by surrendering the rumored first- and fourth-round picks for Garoppolo?
If Belichick wants to get rid of someone, the Bears should say thanks but no thanks, unless they figure they’d get nothing out of it anyway.
That seems to be the pattern. Pace’s first-round picks have been Kevin White, the wide receiver who is broken, and Leonard Floyd, the defensive end who is concussed. Maybe none of that is Pace’s fault, but it’s not doing him much good that his top picks look more likely to appear on the board game “Operation’’ than a Pro Bowl team.
And another thing: If Garoppolo is the real deal, would you want Loggains coaching him?
I don’t get Loggains’ game plans, but Fox seems stubbornly and unfortunately behind him, so if Loggains is going to be here, the Bears ought to let someone else deal for Garoppolo while using their top pick on an offensive tackle. Heck, use their first two picks on tackles because they need one on each side.
The interior of the offensive line is solid. Tackles Charles Leno Jr. and Bobby Massie are not. Build a line before hoping and praying you have the quarterback you can trust.
The Bears have a better chance of getting that right than risking two picks trying to outsmart Belichick.
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John Fox was at his double-talking best when asked about stability in his coaching staff in the wake of a 3-12 season that could get worse, if you consider going 0-for-every-stinkin’-road-game worse.
See if you can parse Fox’s blah, blah, blah, yadda, yadda, yadda word salad that makes the Bears franchise look stupid, if only the Bears knew it or cared:
“It’s not like I’m going to make changes. It’s just the nature of the beast."
So, there will be changes. Or there won’t be changes.
The Bears defense surrendered 478 yards to Washington on Saturday, just six days after allowing 451 yards to the Packers. Like that, you have the Bears’ two worst games in terms of getting trampled this season.
What’s more, the Bears defense has allowed more than 200 yards rushing the last two weeks, the unit’s two worst games against the run this season.
Head coach John Fox says the players are still competing, which seems to be the only thing Fox can say to cover himself. Fox says the problem is execution.
Matt Barkley cannot seem to play a first quarter or even a first half that looks dangerous, except to his own team.
The only thing Barkley seems to execute well is the hurry-up offense, and that seems to happen only in the second half after the Bears have found themselves down by three scores. Again.
So, why don’t the Bears start games that way?
In the hurry-up, I mean. Not down three scores. Just trying to clarify here.
After all, what do the Bears have to lose?
The Bears looked as bad and stupid Saturday at home as you would have expected Washington to look after traveling to play a game on a shortened week.
Once again, John Fox was talking about how hard his players are playing and on Thursday detailed how “proud’’ he is that they’re watching video from different angles.
Once again, pointing out a given such as effort like it’s a revelation sounds like a coach trying to save his job.
Or a coach who’s out of good answers for his game decisions and clock management.
Or both. Or all of it.
It’s like trying to talk up a participation trophy like it’s a gold medal.
Stop the Bears before they make a Jimmy Garoppolo deal
The Bears are done embarrassing themselves this season — John Fox’s “try hard’’ clown act capped the embarrassment with a 38-10 loss in Minnesota on Sunday — which means the Bears now have a chance to become relevant.
To become relevant beyond next season’s opener, however, they will need a new quarterback. They also need a new coach. They always need a quarterback and coach at Halas Hall. Same goes for a Football Yoda and new ownership, but good luck getting this outfit to act professional and successful these days.
Let’s just talk about a new quarterback who isn’t the disastrous Matt Barkley, the uninspiring Brian Hoyer or the hopeless Jay Cutler. This year’s best rumor available suggests they go after Patriots backup Jimmy Garoppolo, and it makes for a nice story: The Arlington Heights kid who played at Eastern Illinois coming back to Chicago.
But let me ask you something: How many quarterbacks have left the Patriots and won a title? Or even played well?
Most notably, Matt Cassel was traded by the Patriots to the Chiefs along with Mike Vrabel in 2009 for a second-round draft pick that became safety Patrick Chung, who helped the Patriots get to two Super Bowls and win one.
And remember, Cassel was a guy who started 30 games in New England. He should’ve been a known quantity. Garoppolo isn’t. Isn’t even close.
Garoppolo has started just two NFL games, both this season, and yeah, he completed more than 70 percent with four TDs and no interceptions, but then got injured.
So, what do you really know? Other than he gets hurt like a Bears first-rounder I mean.
But listen, here’s the big issue: Do you really want Bears wonks trying to make a deal with Bill Belichick?
The Bears can’t evaluate their own safety spots, and you want titular GM Ryan Pace and Dowell Loggains-supporting head coach John Fox to deal with the smartest man in football?
You know how the stock market has a circuit breaker to halt trading in order to prevent a disastrous crash? The NFL should have some kind of alarm that sounds automatically when someone at Halas Hall calls Foxborough.
Have you seen the Bears play? The only thing tougher than getting legit NFL players out of their active rosters is getting the truth out of Fox.
And you want to further hamstring this rebuild by surrendering the rumored first- and fourth-round picks for Garoppolo?
If Belichick wants to get rid of someone, the Bears should say thanks but no thanks, unless they figure they’d get nothing out of it anyway.
That seems to be the pattern. Pace’s first-round picks have been Kevin White, the wide receiver who is broken, and Leonard Floyd, the defensive end who is concussed. Maybe none of that is Pace’s fault, but it’s not doing him much good that his top picks look more likely to appear on the board game “Operation’’ than a Pro Bowl team.
And another thing: If Garoppolo is the real deal, would you want Loggains coaching him?
I don’t get Loggains’ game plans, but Fox seems stubbornly and unfortunately behind him, so if Loggains is going to be here, the Bears ought to let someone else deal for Garoppolo while using their top pick on an offensive tackle. Heck, use their first two picks on tackles because they need one on each side.
The interior of the offensive line is solid. Tackles Charles Leno Jr. and Bobby Massie are not. Build a line before hoping and praying you have the quarterback you can trust.
The Bears have a better chance of getting that right than risking two picks trying to outsmart Belichick.
Week 17 live blog: Bears' season ends with a thud as they fall 38-10 to Vikings
Protesters create spectacle at Bears-Vikings game
Blackhawks' Marcus Kruger could be out 3 weeks; Marian Hossa to miss Winter Classic
John Fox was at his double-talking best when asked about stability in his coaching staff in the wake of a 3-12 season that could get worse, if you consider going 0-for-every-stinkin’-road-game worse.
See if you can parse Fox’s blah, blah, blah, yadda, yadda, yadda word salad that makes the Bears franchise look stupid, if only the Bears knew it or cared:
“It’s not like I’m going to make changes. It’s just the nature of the beast."
So, there will be changes. Or there won’t be changes.
The Bears defense surrendered 478 yards to Washington on Saturday, just six days after allowing 451 yards to the Packers. Like that, you have the Bears’ two worst games in terms of getting trampled this season.
What’s more, the Bears defense has allowed more than 200 yards rushing the last two weeks, the unit’s two worst games against the run this season.
Head coach John Fox says the players are still competing, which seems to be the only thing Fox can say to cover himself. Fox says the problem is execution.
Matt Barkley cannot seem to play a first quarter or even a first half that looks dangerous, except to his own team.
The only thing Barkley seems to execute well is the hurry-up offense, and that seems to happen only in the second half after the Bears have found themselves down by three scores. Again.
So, why don’t the Bears start games that way?
In the hurry-up, I mean. Not down three scores. Just trying to clarify here.
After all, what do the Bears have to lose?
The Bears looked as bad and stupid Saturday at home as you would have expected Washington to look after traveling to play a game on a shortened week.
Once again, John Fox was talking about how hard his players are playing and on Thursday detailed how “proud’’ he is that they’re watching video from different angles.
Once again, pointing out a given such as effort like it’s a revelation sounds like a coach trying to save his job.
Or a coach who’s out of good answers for his game decisions and clock management.
Or both. Or all of it.
It’s like trying to talk up a participation trophy like it’s a gold medal.
