Hub has been right FAR more then he has been wrong. And to be fair, before pre season was over he admitted it was a good pick; so apparently watching TC and PS he has a really good read on things.
SOooooooo try again.
You have actual numbers to back that up? Like actual percentages? Why is Hub a journalist when he's robbing the football world of his prophet-like abilities? Hell I guess if the Bears hired him we could dump the whole scouting department. Drafting nothing but pro bowlers for the next ten years.
All i heat is bitching now bc you know how wrong you are but have no facts or reasons left to present. I dont remember you giving any stats on how wrong he is even though you inferred it with the long comment...even thougn it didnt fit like you thought it did.
And how many times has Hub been wrong? I'm pretty sure he was on record saying the Kyle Long pick was bad.
This is the standard play by many sports analysts. Make a lot of radical predictions and then have one come true and act like you're some kind of prophet while ignoring all the other predictions that you were wrong about.
Hub has been right FAR more then he has been wrong. And to be fair, before pre season was over he admitted it was a good pick; so apparently watching TC and PS he has a really good read on things.
SOooooooo try again.
On 2 separate occasions , years ago , I called in to a radio show I was listening to that Hub was on . In 1 I said I wanted the Bears to draft Mike Vrabel out of Ohio State ... in the other I said the Bears should go after Drew Brees when he , and his bum shoulder , was about to leave the Chargers . Both times I was ignorantly basically laughed off the radio - both turned out to be pretty darn good eh ? So much for what the illustrious Hub Farkush has to say .
Hub has been right FAR more then he has been wrong. And to be fair, before pre season was over he admitted it was a good pick; so apparently watching TC and PS he has a really good read on things.
SOooooooo try again.
On 2 separate occasions , years ago , I called in to a radio show I was listening to that Hub was on . In 1 I said I wanted the Bears to draft Mike Vrabel out of Ohio State ... in the other I said the Bears should go after Drew Brees when he , and his bum shoulder , was about to leave the Chargers . Both times I was ignorantly basically laughed off the radio - both turned out to be pretty darn good eh ? So much for what the illustrious Hub Farkush has to say .
Drew Brees has stated he only wanted to go to NO's or, I think Miami, one of the FL teams. The Bears couldn't have got him if they had wanted him. btw I wanted him to. But the Bears were still high on Rex.
And if the Bears had drafted Vrabel and Hub saw him in practice he would have, like Long, came on said wow this kid is special I was wrong. It wouldn't have taken him having to start to see it. That's the point. He saw Long in practice and was wow'd, he saw Howard in practice and was wow'd. Somehow the coaches didn't see it; that an inditement on them.
Oh and just as a FYI, if Hub is so damn ignorant and incapable of being correct....well how was he SO RIGHT about this while the coaches were so WRONG? Apparently 1/2 blind brain dead moron was able to see that Howard was the best rb on this roster but the OC couldn't.
Did you see Langford in pass pro? it wasn't much to write home about.
Good point. Still, a 5th round rookie had 3 other backs he had to beat out. Like I said, his pre-season performance wasn't exactly the case closed argument you make it out to be. I'll say it again, Paul Perkins was clearly the Giants best back, he just got his first start of the season last week. Coaches all around this league are extremely hesitant to trust rookie running backs, much to my fantasy football teams chagrin! LOL
On 2 separate occasions , years ago , I called in to a radio show I was listening to that Hub was on . In 1 I said I wanted the Bears to draft Mike Vrabel out of Ohio State ... in the other I said the Bears should go after Drew Brees when he , and his bum shoulder , was about to leave the Chargers . Both times I was ignorantly basically laughed off the radio - both turned out to be pretty darn good eh ? So much for what the illustrious Hub Farkush has to say .
Drew Brees has stated he only wanted to go to NO's or, I think Miami, one of the FL teams. The Bears couldn't have got him if they had wanted him. btw I wanted him to. But the Bears were still high on Rex.
And if the Bears had drafted Vrabel and Hub saw him in practice he would have, like Long, came on said wow this kid is special I was wrong. It wouldn't have taken him having to start to see it. That's the point. He saw Long in practice and was wow'd, he saw Howard in practice and was wow'd. Somehow the coaches didn't see it; that an inditement on them.
Oh and just as a FYI, if Hub is so damn ignorant and incapable of being correct....well how was he SO RIGHT about this while the coaches were so WRONG? Apparently 1/2 blind brain dead moron was able to see that Howard was the best rb on this roster but the OC couldn't.
Well then , he should be a GM or an OC or a DC shouldn't he ? hahahahahahahaha
You have actual numbers to back that up? Like actual percentages? Why is Hub a journalist when he's robbing the football world of his prophet-like abilities? Hell I guess if the Bears hired him we could dump the whole scouting department. Drafting nothing but pro bowlers for the next ten years.
All i heat is bitching now bc you know how wrong you are but have no facts or reasons left to present. I dont remember you giving any stats on how wrong he is even though you inferred it with the long comment...even thougn it didnt fit like you thought it did.
Hub and other armchair "experts" can say anything they want because they don't have any skin in the game. They aren't going to lose their jobs if they are wrong. When you actually have to be accountable for your decisions those decisions are much more difficult to make.
There's more to being a RB than just running. This is why Forte was valuable. He wasn't the best runner or the best catcher but he could do everything pretty well and was smart enough to know all the plays. This allowed him to be a 3 down back. That puts the defense at a disadvantage since they have to account for either a running play or pass play. For instance the one chink in Adrian Peterson's armor is that he wasn't a 3 down back. He would usually come out of the game on third down because if he was in the defense knew the offense was not going to pass because AP was not a very good receiver or pass blocker. Remember Chester Taylor in 2010? Before he was a Bear he had been the RB for Minnesota who replaced AP on third downs. That can significantly limit your offensive options.
Langford had showed, minus a couple bad drops, that he could be a three down back. That adds more versatility to the offense. Howard was not considered a receiving threat and his pass blocking was seen as poor - his scouting reports said as much - and it's likely he didn't know the number of plays Langford did, especially since he was injured for most of the OTAs and the fact Langford was in his second year. That's only touching several of the factors that go into deciding these things.
Again, if these decisions were easy coaches wouldn't be paid millions of dollars to make them. That's why coaches make more money than smug armchair analysts.
Drew Brees has stated he only wanted to go to NO's or, I think Miami, one of the FL teams. The Bears couldn't have got him if they had wanted him. btw I wanted him to. But the Bears were still high on Rex.
And if the Bears had drafted Vrabel and Hub saw him in practice he would have, like Long, came on said wow this kid is special I was wrong. It wouldn't have taken him having to start to see it. That's the point. He saw Long in practice and was wow'd, he saw Howard in practice and was wow'd. Somehow the coaches didn't see it; that an inditement on them.
Oh and just as a FYI, if Hub is so damn ignorant and incapable of being correct....well how was he SO RIGHT about this while the coaches were so WRONG? Apparently 1/2 blind brain dead moron was able to see that Howard was the best rb on this roster but the OC couldn't.
Well then , he should be a GM or an OC or a DC shouldn't he ? hahahahahahahaha
Once we upgrade our OC to a 1/2 blind brain dead moron we will be able to recognize stuff like this
Drew Brees has stated he only wanted to go to NO's or, I think Miami, one of the FL teams. The Bears couldn't have got him if they had wanted him. btw I wanted him to. But the Bears were still high on Rex.
And if the Bears had drafted Vrabel and Hub saw him in practice he would have, like Long, came on said wow this kid is special I was wrong. It wouldn't have taken him having to start to see it. That's the point. He saw Long in practice and was wow'd, he saw Howard in practice and was wow'd. Somehow the coaches didn't see it; that an inditement on them.
Oh and just as a FYI, if Hub is so damn ignorant and incapable of being correct....well how was he SO RIGHT about this while the coaches were so WRONG? Apparently 1/2 blind brain dead moron was able to see that Howard was the best rb on this roster but the OC couldn't.
Well then , he should be a GM or an OC or a DC shouldn't he ? hahahahahahahaha
I'm betting he does far better then that, w/a lot less work