Lucky Luciano

speaking of intentional grounding... when the vikes qb was chased out of bounds he just lobbed the ball out and never even tried to throw it upfield. maybe i'm wrong, they change the rules every 5 mins) but that is an intentional grounding if the ball doesn't reach or is attempted to reach the LOS the last i heard. and holding? the vikes were grabbing onto guys arms and jerseys all night long, BLATANTLY. this new way the league has of letting guys hold on every down is terrible. that means it is almost always a judgment call for the refs.

i absolutely would have kept johnson. it was stupid to dump a guy like that for the nothing crap he got busted for. and another team is dealing with that mess... the freakin cowboys!! again... LOOKED like an excellent setup, especially on paper. how can you or anyone else say dusty is a "nightmare" for other teams? we know absolutely nothing about him. we had a very good interior line last season. they proved it through fire. so what does angie do? he dumps the entire line with the exception of harris!! he turned one of the strongest points on this team into an unknown and the results are what you see now.

i think releasing our string of DT's has had a huge impact on or d-line and especially tank johnson. tank was a superb compliment to harris and had good quickness and speed for a DT. if they doubled up harris tank had a lot of push up the middle. he also was decent at stopping the run. if they doubled up tank, harris was a force up the middle. i didn't like releasing tank at the time and after watching this defense i like it even LESS!! add to this mess called our interior d-line, you got rid of boone who was actually starting to play a LOT better than he had in the past and ian scott. both would have been very reasonable to sign. go figure, boone starts to play very good as a rotational tackle so angie dumps him. i put this all on angelo.

Clenched_CLAW - "his assertion to draft 2 QBs annually until a HoF QB is on the roster" i strongly believe that this team needs to carry 4 qb's on the active roster and at least one on the practice squad every season until they can find legitimate qb's to play in the nfl. notice i said multiple. if other teams can keep producing a quality starters AND produce lower round backups that are sought after in the nfl when their contracts are up as starters, i see no reason the bears can't either. a prime example was green bay. look at how many qb's behind favre went on to become starters in the nfl or at the least quality backups. this is one viable way where you can make trades with another franchise to get either more draft picks or a special player you are after. it just takes a commitment by this franchise to hire (and PAY them good money) key personnel that will be able to tell the difference between real gold and fools gold and groom those said qb's into very real pro prospects. otherwise without some real talent evaluator we would be hanging onto guys that are no better than quinn type players and defeating the whole process and go on as we have over 4 decades. on a different note: i miss putting titles up on replies. is there something i am missing on how to do that in this forum?

was on the first page of the old bear report bear forum when it started in '96 in sun prairie, wi as choad and had a double moniker - Lucky Luciano also. once they moved to their west coast site i left and dropped into the bearshrine, around 2000, and stayed, occasionally visiting the bear report site till they went pay to play. was there when it went to bearstalk and finally dropped in here to the final move (hopefully).

thanks for the headsup about the new site on the other board LT. i have changed my moniker on here from choad to Lucky Luciano. so it goes.