PFF late-seasons offensive line ranking

modo said:

Massie is a middle of the pack RT turning 31.....He will probably get about what he got last year...maybe a little more, but not much.......he is a good enough RT.....

You have a young QB on a team that is expected to be one of the top 6 teams in the League for a chance to win a Superbowl.......experimenting at RT is the last thing you do....and hoping someone can be good enough is not a plan....hope is not a plan.

If the Bears do move on from Massie it better be because they know one of their guys will perform at the level they need or they find a comparable or better player in free agency....

The fan talk about having a guy hopefully "step up" and compete with some nameless draft choice or a scrap heap, proven shitty NFL player is ridiculous....that is how teams get worse.

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modo said:

Massie is a middle of the pack RT turning 31.....He will probably get about what he got last year...maybe a little more, but not much.......he is a good enough RT.....

You have a young QB on a team that is expected to be one of the top 6 teams in the League for a chance to win a Superbowl.......experimenting at RT is the last thing you do....and hoping someone can be good enough is not a plan....hope is not a plan.

If the Bears do move on from Massie it better be because they know one of their guys will perform at the level they need or they find a comparable or better player in free agency....

The fan talk about having a guy hopefully "step up" and compete with some nameless draft choice or a scrap heap, proven shitty NFL player is ridiculous....that is how teams get worse.

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Bearly said:

I'm not hoping and suspect they do the right thing, I just think that the staff already know what that is and am entertaining the notion of Massie not being it. You'd almost always like to keep all your starters and add to that but I'm also aware of this teams lack of draft choices and cap space this offseason. We are not keeping everyone. It's simply a matter of whom.

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Bearly said:

I'm not hoping and suspect they do the right thing, I just think that the staff already know what that is and am entertaining the notion of Massie not being it. You'd almost always like to keep all your starters and add to that but I'm also aware of this teams lack of draft choices and cap space this offseason. We are not keeping everyone. It's simply a matter of whom.

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modo said:

I completely agree with that last statement. They have one starter to replace on defense.....probably the most replaceable guy, Amos. Callahan if you count nickel, I think is more important.

On offense they have Massie........You are trying to develop your young QB and get your offensive scheme going to compete with other high powered offenses...I don't think potentially hamstringing you oline is a good start to the year....

I am not claiming Massie is the be all and end all of the RTs, but he was probably good enough and I don't see many options that will improve your team. Saving a few million with Massie means you need to spend that elsewhere and get better production. Probably means retaining Amos and Callahan instead of one or the other.....not sure that incremental change on defense is worth the potential huge risk at bombing at RT.

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Rory Sparrow said:

Once they bring in Ed Reed to be the secondary coach, they could have Major Wright at SS and still be in good shape. Need to confirm this with msadows, though, as he has his finger on the NFL assistant coach pulse...he was surprised as fuck that Roy Anderson was let go (!), but also said that if Ed Reed came here, Reed's role would have "a major emphasis on the safety position", which is something only an NFL insider would know.

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