Bears Vent...WHY NO RB TALKS! (1 Viewer)

[Donnybrook]

Here's what I don't understand: why was it OK to go into last season with a RB crew headed by the unproven Cedric Benson and backed up by steady, but underwhelming Adrian Peterson and an unknown waterbug like Garrett Wolfe?

It wasn't OK.

Now one year later, you have a similar scenario with a RB crew headed by the unproven yet obviously more well-rounded Matt Forte and backed up by the steady, but underwhelming Adrian Peterson and a known entity like Garrett Wolfe?

It is still not OK.

It's the same scenario except I would think the more fundamentally sound three-down back Forte should inspire more confidence this year than Benson did last year.

Even if you believe Forte is more fundamentally sound, the underwhelming Adrian Peterson is 29 years old and should be looking for a better back to share the load.

And rushing out immediately to sign a 31-year-old washed up Shaun Alexander? Come on, surely you're not serious. Why make an ineffectual move out of desperation when your RB crew is stronger now than it ever was last season?

There are more backs available now than Shaun Alexander. The definition of insanity is doing the same things over and over again and expecting a different result. Hey at least Benson remained relatively healthy last season. There are no guarantees with Forte. I don't blame Bears fan for wanting to add another running back.

 

[RexGrossman Fan]

F&L:

Here's my argument: Teams just can't go out and get high quality starting QBs and WRs that easily in the NFL. We would have to trade away our best defensive talent or multiple high draft picks to do that and trading in that fashion is not prevalent anyhow. Nearly all teams protect their playmakers, so building from within is the path of choice for nearly every team.

Orton and Grossman both signed one-year deals, meaning the staff is giving both one more chance to prove they belong. If neither is successful, initiate rebuilding mode or try to land a big-time FA QB.

Snowball effect: Woeful O-line = woeful QB = woeful receivers = woeful running game

Still, our woeful passing attack somehow wound up in the upper half of the league last season.

Why are you bending over backwards to make excuses for them? They blew their shot at a championship because they were too stubborn to admit they were accepting mediocrity when they should have been going for it all. I don't buy the argument for a minute that the Bears couldn't find a better QB than Rex Grossman. There are better QBs sitting on benches around the league. The main point, however, is that Grossman's strengths and weaknesses were an appallingly bad fit for the surrounding talent on defense and special teams. The team needed a caretaker/game manager, not a turnover prone wannabe playmaker.

Now you're saying it's understandable that the team is once again allowing Grossman and Orton the opportunity to "prove they belong" when they've already proven they don't belong anywhere but on the sidelines holding a clipboard. That's ludicrous. That would be like a baseball team running their cleanup hitter out there for two straight years with a .195 average, .300 SLG, and .250 OBP and saying, "Yeah, but we think he's better than that. We're going to give him one more year in the heart of the lineup to show whether he belongs or not." Damn, you're a heck of a nice guy to be handing out free passes so easily.

Face it, the jury is in and they've handed the judge a rope. . .

The Bears suck.

 

[Couch Potato]

Hey at least Benson remained relatively healthy last season. There are no guarantees with Forte. I don't blame Bears fan for wanting to add another running back.

If you don't want to count the 5 1/2 games missed and landing on IR with the broken ankle, yes, he was relatively healthy last year.(Gotcha Donnybrook!)

 

[Donnybrook]

Hey at least Benson remained relatively healthy last season. There are no guarantees with Forte. I don't blame Bears fan for wanting to add another running back.

If you don't want to count the 5 1/2 games missed and landing on IR with the broken ankle, yes, he was relatively healthy last year.(Gotcha Donnybrook!)

From PFW:

Bears satisfied with RB corps — for better or worse

Raised eyebrows were the order of the day when Bears head coach Lovie Smith announced that the Bears had no intention of going after a veteran running back to replace the released Cedric Benson on the roster. Shortly after the team’s final OTA session on Wednesday, Smith said he was more than satisfied with a RB corps featuring second-round draft pick Matt Forté and holdovers Adrian Peterson and Garrett Wolfe as Forté’s primary backups. But with most daily team observers in agreement that neither Peterson nor Wolfe is capable of serving as an every-down back should Forté go down for the count, the Bears’ apparent reluctance to seriously consider veteran options such as Kevin Jones, — who has made it known he would love to land in Chicago — and Ron Dayne is a bit baffling, in addition to being a pretty dramatic leap of faith in the unproven Forte’s direction. The good news is that, based on the team’s minicamp action, Forté has, by all accounts, displayed a solid, focused work ethic as well as extremely soft hands out of the backfield — two qualities that the disappointing Benson lacked. “Forté certainly appears to have all the tools of a three-down back, and the Bears have praised him for really getting into the playbook,” a longtime team insider told PFW. “But we won’t see how well he runs between the tackles until training camp.”

 

[cacksman]

I'm VERY excited about seeing Shaun Alexander in a Bear's uniform.

If he's a real option, he might be a nice fit. Not getting the sarcasm.

Alexander is done. Fork has been stuck so deep in him its painful to watch. However, I'll gladly defer to your list of great 30+ running backs that returned to respectability after two embarrassing seasons.

CAn you please give it up with the SA hate. Alexander not as bad as some make him out to be. I was actually looking forward to seeing him run behind an oline that didnt suck horribly this year.