AZ54

Given the fact this coaching staff can't really develop or adequately use any of our WRs why should we think that Bradley opening his mouth and asking for playing time is such a bad thing? If you sat next to Moose in the film room watching LBs run stride for stride with him, DBs always able to jump his routes, and watching him drop passes when he does get open wouldn't you think somebody else (like Bradley) deserves a shot at showing what he can do? I'll put it another way, how bad does our offense have to get before we try something different? Lovie's failure to bench players for poor performance has been one of his biggest problems this year. In his first and second year he didn't hesitate to pull players for poor play.

They've gotten a ton of blame from me. Keeping Ruben Brown on the field with one arm, brilliant who'd have thought of that? I know Metcalf has limitations but he's not as bad as a one-armed OG. Team after team runs right over the left side of our defense yet we never ever adjust to it. Nor do we pull Mark Anderson when he's not tackling people or sacking QBs. Let them keep running through huge holes on the right side of our D, nobody will expect that! For sure nobody will expect us to give up a record day in rushing yards to a rookie! I agree on Hester, a 3rd grader would draw up the plays Turner uses with Hester. He's quick and he's fast ...get the ball to him on the run then see what he can do. I agree on deep routes but what about a simple drag route or anything over the middle after everyone has run off the DBs deep? Ced was misused all year long. Pull him after he's finally having success, yeah nobody will expect that! He has his own limitations but we could have and should have gotten more out of our running game. Wolfe was drafted to be our change of pace back yet we'd bring him in and run him straight up the middle. Yeah, nobody will expect that! Lovie lost a big part of my support when he went public with his contract negotiations last summer. Since then it's been nothing but downhill for him and his coaching staff.

IIRC Lovie hated it when the Rams drafted Kennedy. Not sure why that would change now other than the fact that Kennedy might finally have gotten himself in decent shape. However, we have the luxury (or desperation) of needing any help at all and giving him a 3 game tryout certainly beats watching him in training camp to make a decision. It also lets us keep Harris off the field which I'm more concerned about. Harris can't rush the passer very well right now so we might as well get a big guy to stop the run up the middle. This Vikings game would be a good time to go to a 5man Dline with 2 LBs and 4 DBs.

Brennan might be a prick but so was Jim McMahon. I watched a couple Hawaii games this year because I had my doubts about Brennan. It seems every year there's a college QB who runs the spread offense that gets a lot of hype before the draft. Most don't pan out in part because most don't have a strong arm. That's exactly the way I felt about Tommy Chang. Brennan has a much stronger arm and he's very accurate with his passes, whether a guy is on a quick slant in or at a dead stop on a hook pattern, or on a deep fly pattern. He also does a good job placing the ball away from defenders, keeping where only his guy can catch it. He seems to have good pocket presence but this is a bit up in the air since so many of his plays are quick passes. He also shows good mobility, better than any QB on our roster. He didn't play a lot of games against first rate competition so that will be a big question mark over him but if he's there for us in the second round I think we need to consider him. Spread offense or not you don't see many guys with a completion % as high as his: 85%, 70%, 81%, 61%, 76%, 58%, 63%, 72%, 75%, 84% For sure the numbers get inflated a bit because of screen plays but I watched his last game and his WRs were not wide open all game. On top of that many passes were beyond the LOS and Washington often had a defender right on the WR and the ball had to be placed perfectly. Late in the game he threw a perfect deep ball hitting his WR in stride.

Bryant Johnson has his own problems with dropping passes so consider that before choosing him over Berrian. I would say Berrian has been more consistent that Johnson over the last few years and keep in mind that Johnson is the #3 WR for the Cards so he goes up against the 3rd best CB. I'd be ok if we paid Berrian equal money to what the 10th best WR contract is today. It would give him his goal and by the time the draft picks are signed he wouldn't be a top 10 anymore. Certainly wouldn't be top 10 a year or two from now which puts his contract in the middle which is where he should be.

Name is Frank, been hanging around in good times and bad since the Bearsshrine days. Soon to be 43 and I grew up in the west suburbs (Naperville) when it was the far-west suburbs. It's a little different these days with everything completely built up on all the old farms. After college in Iowa (Cyclones!) spent a few years in the Air Force in Texas. Now my stomping grounds are in the Phoenix area. Best Bears experience...going to Soldier Field to watch the '85 Bears beat the Giants in the playoffs. Had seats in the corner of the endzone where all the action was. And yes, it was cold that day!

AZ54 reporting for duty, same as always.