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Knightni, Once again thanks for the hard work organizing this with all the write-ups. Which players listed spent the least time playing for Chicago? Suggestion for next poll: Do the same thing with all the Chicago sports teams (by sport/position). Example: All-time Chicago Basketball team (C, PF,SF, PG, SG). Each ballot selects one for each position. All-time Chicago Football team (QB, RB, FB, WR, TE, etc, etc) Do offense, then defense, then special teams. All-time Chicago Baseball team (Sox and Cubs) All-time Chicago Hockey team (G, D, D, RW, LW, C) I don't know how hard that would be, but there would be some interesting battles (Middle Linebacker, Cubs vs Sox).

This year seems to be the only year they could move him for something, but I would wait until a team comes calling during training camp. Someone always gets hurt. If the Bears want to move him next year, more than likely they would cut him due to his salary. I don't think any team would want to take that salary on for a Nickelback.

Sign me up!

Pix, Sign me up. As long as the draft is on the weekend or at night I am good for the live draft.

Nice work Knightni. Not one Bull yet is amazing.

Wow, they can't even spell his name correct. He probably thought mph were kph since it was a BMW.

Urlacher was expected, but Benson. Does this push him down the charts? http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?i...ce=NFLHeadlines Also, Orton received majority of the reps with the 1st team: More on Benson: http://blogs.suntimes.com/bears/2008/05/ot...sing_bears.html

Punters and Kickers revolt over balta's exclusionary comments. Hey, they are players too.

Grossman doesn't have that good internal clock. I would rather see him just throw it away half the time instead of forcing it. That would seriously solve a lot of his issues. Also, they need to do more quick sets and 3 step drops with timing patterns. He gets in trouble when he is just sitting back there looking for the 3rd and 4th option. This has a lot to do with the receivers as well. Moose was not very good last year. Like I said before, this is Grossman's last shot with the Bears. He has a one year tryout, and if he can come in and be a league average QB with some consistency, he will stick around. If not, he will not be on the Bears in 2009.

That's awesome. That is all Benson needs right now is some "calming influence".

I don't know how much weaker than Moose/Berrian you can get. It is probably more of a wash with Booker/Bradley/Bennett.

Nice catch.

Your right DB, there is so much mediocrity amongst average teams. From one year to the next we see teams go from 5-11 to 9-7 and back. There are only a handful that are almost guaranteed to be there year in and year out. The one thing that will be interesting to see is NE's "year after losing the Super Bowl" season. Everytime a team loses the big game, they bring up how bad they do the next year. So lets see if that theory holds true with them.

This is just a bad PR move by Urlacher. He is not only tarnishing his own legacy, but also making the Bears front office look like they don't take care of their own. If this goes on for awhile, people are going to start bringing up the selfish player stereotype. Singletary, Butkus, did they ask for new contracts with 4 years left on their current ones? Even if they were playing today, they would never do that. That is just what type of people they were. Obvioulsy Brian doesn't belong with them. As a player maybe, but thats about it.

TD passes- Grossman (22) TD runs- Benson (7) TD receptions- Booker (6) Rush yards- Benson (920) Receiving yards- Booker (850) Pass yards- Grossman (3050) Tackles- Briggs (135) Interceptions- Tillman (6) Forced Fumbles- Brown (5) Sacks- OGun (12)

Sounds like he talked to Angelo.

Bill Williamson? An expert ranking the Bears 29th? They finished 7-9 with all those injuries and easily could've won 3-4 of those losses with a decimated defense. Some "experts" ad the Raiders ranked higher than the Bears, hilarious.

Shockey comparable to Olsen their rookie years? No way. Shockey had 74 receptions for 894 yards while Olsen only had 39 for 391. The only thing they had in common was 2 TDs each. Either way, Olsen was solid as a #2 TE. If he moves into the #1 role, he will easily get 50+ receptions and 600+ yards, which would be some of the best production out of the TE position in a long time.

I call BS about the anchor thing. Someone fabricated that. Check out the following quote: http://www.suntimes.com/sports/football/be...enson06.article Why would Snyder, the LCRA officer, STOP the boat if it was anchored? So clearly Benson was operating the boat, they were partying, the official stops the boat, Benson is friendly and cooperates, they do safety inspection and probably notice all they alcohol on board, Benson then gets annoyed when they want him to do multiple field sobriety tests, they ask him to board their boat, he gets more pissed off, then gets pepper-sprayed and dragged all over the place for not cooperating. I am sure they didn't need to do all that, but it is fairly easy for them to justify the force used if they felt threatened (it is subjective). At least he didn't get tasered near water.

Urlacher also just had surgery on his neck. They said it was a minor procedure, but any surgery on your neck is major, especially when you play MLB for a living.

So if we don't sign him, who do we sign who can consistently kick 50+ yarders? I think you underestimate how good Gould has been, especially at Soldier Field (28/30 FGs). I would rather have a guy who makes 85% of his kicks inside 50 compared to a guy that makes 75% of his kicks inside 50 but can also occasionally hit a long ball.

The only issue I have is that more and more NFL players are doing this. This is not just an Urlacher thing. They are basically playing for their huge signing bonuses, then 2-3 years later, wanting another one. That must be nice. There have been numerous franchise players that have even taken pay cuts to make their team better. This seems like a selfish move. I could see if he had 2 years remaining, or even 3, but not 4 years. All he did was sign the long deal to get a bunch of up front money, and now wants another payday thru a signing bonus. To make matters worse, he is doing this after what is widely considered a down year for him.

Locking up any player in his prime for that long is always good. It's nice to have another position with some longevity.

The one area that he excels in is kicking at Soldier Field, which in December and January is pretty hard to do. That alone bumps him up a notch. A ton of the other Top 10 kickers are kicking in a dome or in nice weather. I would say he is definitely a top 5 kicker when you take that into consideration.

I don't see room for Robinson and I don't think he would be an upgrade over what we already have.