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LOL, I was thinking the same thing. I can't wait until Thursday (I know, don't have a choice) to see both on the field in real action to see how they do.

Got this in an email to me, should be interesting now he is reinstated. GBP now have to make a decision. Until now they could debate, tomorrow he will be on their roster. Salary Cap?

I have to believe every team in the league would love to be in the contractual position we are in. I hope we never lose Cliff Stien because he works great with JA to get all of these deals done.

and it should not make them any worse either. If I were a player getting booed, it wouldjust motivate me that much more. I still feel fans have the right to voice their opinions. Would I have booed him coming out of the tunnel? NO Would I have booed him if he had a rough practice, NO. I do not think I have ever booed a Bears player, even when they were sucking eggs. I am a rah rah type of fan. I might groan, cry, get mad as hell, but boo a Bears player, not me.

Good point. I think the key to any draft is you have to multitask. You can not just keep track of your selections and needs, but if you are good, you know the other team owners rosters and needs as well as the draft progresses. This allows you to prioritize better. I also think the biggest mistake I see managers drafting their teams make is to be overly concerned about bye week conflicts on their roster. Heck, if every player on my roster has the same bye week, oh well, I may lose that one week, but look out the rest of the year, LOL.

Hey guys, if anyone has gone through a draft this year, let's hear it, how did it go, who did you draft? I would be curious to see how you did. I am in 5 leagues so far, may sign up for more, with my first draft coming up on the 16th. I will post the results from all my drafts here and maybe you guys can give me some feedback. Don't be shy, let's see those draft boards, LOL.

That would be a very solid draft but I agree with another poster who said MJD may be a bit high on your draft board. I would be tempted, if nothing better was left at that point, to go another position. I have been reading articles on Yahoo and ESPN and I must agree, it seems the era of stud RBs may be disappearing in favor of the RBC schemes that over half the teams seem to be going to. I use to go into a draft with one thing in mind, come out with no less than 4 legitimate quality starting RBs. Now, that will be tough to do. You only have a handful of RBs who will probably get 200+ carries this year. The number of such RBs have been going down every year over the past 2 to 3 years.

AZ54 - Please tell me you were saying this tongue in cheek, you really are not serious are you?

No, I missed that. This kid works his butt off every year. Last year his leg strength improved on FGs and it appears he is still becoming stronger and better refined in technique. 67 yds, wow, and were not in Mile High, LOL.

Yes, 22nd overall. He has not had a chance to prove anything. I agree, he would probably require a first rd selection, (I doubt a team would give a high 1st, but maybe a mid to late) or, as you said, a 2nd + ???. That being said, let's sit back and see what the QBs do this year for us. I still think Kyle Orton has a lot more upside than many believe. I am now an Orton Backer in that I think the kid deserves to show us what he has to offer with legitimate preparation. In the past when he was asked to start it was always an afterthought. He never got the reps he needed because he was always carrying the clipboard. In his rookie season he did remarkable in that when drafted he was to again, carry the clipboard and be a 3rd string project. Then the kid was thrown to the wolves without much advance warning. I would have crapped my pants. I think he did an excellent job for a rookie. Rex may still be the QB we hoped, but hasn't he had enough opportunities to show us what he is or is not? Now it is Kyle's turn to step up on the stage. Can he be a "David Gerrard" type of QB and lead us to the Super Bowl? I think he can.

If Rex isn't able to understand the frustrations of the fans in light of his ups and downs (more downs than ups) then he is not our QB because he is too stupid to be out there calling the plays. Hey, IMO opinion, the fans, who have been very supportive of this team, deserve the right to express their opinion, and one way for them to do that is to do as they did the other night and send a message to Rex. If ANY player does not want to get booed, he has two options, play better or quit.

I think it is still up in the air as to if he will be on the PUP at the start of the regular season. He has been doing work on the side in individual drills but I am sure the Bears will err on the side of caution and not bring him back off the PUP until they are absolutely sure he is ready to go. My guess is he may miss the first week or two.

I see him as a similar player to David Garrard of Jacksonville who seems to get a lot of good ink from around the league. I do not see Garrard getting ripped by anyone. If Kyle could become a QB in this mold, we will win a lot of games.

Reading the article on the family night practice on the website it would appear Orton is beginning to take charge of the position battle. This guy was very highly regarded as a college player and would have been drafted much higher if he had not missed so much time do to injury his last year. I hope he proves to be the sleeper QB everyone here has been waiting for. He did quite well for himself under the circumstances as a rookie and has played sparingly since but never with a chance to come in fully prepared, having limited time with the #1s in practice and limited reps period. It will be interesting to see what he does given a chance to really compete for the position. Up until now I have been thinking Rex all the way. Now, I am leaning toward Orton. Still early.

Agreed, and the thing I like most about it is this guy obviously is working his ass off "AFTER" signing a BIG $$$ contract. That is refreshing to me as well. Obviously, money well spent. I was hoping this guy would not turn out to be a short term star like Edinger turned out to be.

A small quote from the article now posted on the Bears site: I know they said he was working on his kickoffs but wow, 7 yds deep into the end zone with 4.2 hang time. Now that is awesome. Our kickoff coverage guys will have an easy time being number one in the league if Robbie can deliver like that on a regular basis.

I do not know of any instances here at TalkBears but DBDB would be the one that would have the answers to that. He is the site administrator they would be in contact if there were a complaint. Sportsinfinity owned the server that Bearstalk was on and the owner/operator of same was my go between. He was the one they contacted with threats when copy write infringements were found and then he contacted me.

Well, that kinda ticks me off. I have always been a fan of Wolfe and it is disappointing to me that his work ethics last year were less than needed. I am surprised. I thought it was just getting accustomed to the "big game" and not a lack of preparation that held him back.

Yes, it can cause problems when entire articles are posted, which is why a lot of times I will just put the link to the article. When I do copy and paste an article I am careful to make sure the author of the article is given credit along with the host site and include a link to the article on the originating site. That helps - doesn't entirely validate - the copy and paste of the article without the originating site taking offense. It is a touchy situation and we did get legal action threats at the other site when articles were posted without giving credit and links to the originating site. The Bears home site was one that took the greatest offense if I remember correct.

I still question why Bentley has not been signed by another team. We know he was once considered a STUD on the OL. He signed a BIG $$ contract, never played up to the contract due to injury/health issues, and is now a FA. He has been on the market for quite some time. He is still available. There are a lot of teams who need help on the OL, not just the Bears, as is the case every year in the NFL. So my guess is that this guy has a lot more injury/health issues than what you and I as "outsiders" know about.

The problem is for years we have no way of knowing how good our WRs really are because the abilities of the QB throwing to them directly effects how the WRs produce and look on the field. A bad QB can cause a good WR to look bad. A bad OL can cause a QB to be less effective and the running game to suck. A bad running game can effect the QBs production. Bad WRs can cause a QB to look bad. Ahhhhh... Everything is so complicated. I give up

Of course, if we were dealing with GBP front office for a trade, no tampering charges, I know that. I am saying, before this becomes official and GB gives permission, would it be tampering if the Bears made it public (and to Favre) that we wanted him to sign with us? That I believe would be tampering at this point, 7/31 @ 20:08. Tomorrow, depending on what GBP does, it might not be.

3 points: 1st, even if the Bears wanted to sign Favre, how would they be able to afford the BIG $$$ he would want? 2nd, if we were interested could we publically say so without a claim of tampering with him, ala Minny 3rd, would Minny go after him? Wouldn't this strengthen the tampering charges they are facing from GBP & NFL?

Yep, I agree, Mid round kinda sucks. I have had difficulty drafting in that position often.

I agree that I do not think a repeat of last years stats is likely for Brady, however, I could see him going mid first in a 10 round draft. I do believe there would be a half dozen RBs I would go with before Brady just because the RB position brings more uncertainty this year than ever before with so many teams going to RBBC and sharing reps amoung 2 or 3 backs.