Rory Sparrow
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not happening..I'll take a bet on it.
Already have one avatar bet re: David Montgomery...but I'm willing to take on other action if you are.
not happening..I'll take a bet on it.
Because you asked. And to be clear, my emotion is pretty much out of it at this point. I enjoy analysis, so if this wasn't enjoyable for me to dive more deeply into, I would just let it go.I genuinely want to know.
What was it about Cam Meredith that inspired you to believe he was clearly a WR1/WR2 in the NFL?
So 71 yards difference between the two tender amounts or 4.4 yards per game. Maybe Pace thought he was in a window that small, but with hindsight he clearly didn't mind losing Cam, I just don't know why he got tendered at all then. Unless you think you are hitting a window of 4.4 yards per game, the right options were to either not tender him at all, or tender him at the original round. Tendering him at the original round meant either 1) Pace had a VERY narrow window of his value OR 2) He misread the market.
I think the Bears are showing players across the league that if they come play for the Bears and suffer an injury they will still take care of them. Just like paying Zach Miller a million dollars knowing full well he wasn't going to play.Yes, I said the same thing at the time. Pace's 'tendering' of Meredith and still letting him go for peanuts made no sense. If Pace thought Meredith would always be 'damaged goods', then why tender him in the first place?
It could be, but he was paid throughout 2017 without playing. At some point you need to pay the guys that are actually helping the team win. One full year on IR seems like enough to me.I think the Bears are showing players across the league that if they come play for the Bears and suffer an injury they will still take care of them. Just like paying Zach Miller a million dollars knowing full well he wasn't going to play.
Maybe Pace said I'll give you 2 million dollars for next year even though you won't play because we take care of our own. But if there is some dumb ass team that thinks you will play and pay you more then you should go and get it.
Could not agree more, he was the shining corn in an otherwise shitty WR corp and we thought he was more than just shit...myself included.Shows you how starved Bears fan wear/are for a great WR, that people were freaking out about a UDFA with one year of 800 yard receiving and the only reason he was even on the field was due to our entire WR core going down.
What a shame, dude was developing into such a great route runner.
GIF tribute:
Yes i remember @remydat cuntingRemember all of the cunting over him leaving? Good times.
I went after Windy about it back when he was being hyped, and I genuinely want to know.
What was it about Cam Meredith that inspired you to believe he was clearly a WR1/WR2 in the NFL?
I liked his contributions, I liked him, but I saw him as an above average WR who could be our WR3/WR4 and slide up into WR2 in case of injury.
He had one big year where he padded stats because he was just the only WR healthy who was worth throwing to, and even then you never saw him do anything spectacular.
He never demolished any top corners or burned defenses consistently or made circus catches or broke tackles and outran the defense for big TDs or big yards to get 1st downs.
He ran solid routes and generally caught what was thrown his way, which is a great guy to have as depth, but not really what you pine for in a WR1 or WR2 IMO.
I just never understood what people saw in him that I was missing, and I never will, assuming it existed, because the ACL injury has ruined his career it seems.
My favorite was Mark Bradley. I really thought he was gonna be a superstar but after he got hurt his career went nowhere.Bears fans have a pretty long list of WRs who were going to be big, but I guess when you look at M. Robinson and M. Booker you've also had success with those under the radar players.
My favorite was Mark Bradley. I really thought he was gonna be a superstar but after he got hurt his career went nowhere.
Who?Devin Aromashadu is a top ten bears WR. Change my mind
Who?