Payton!34
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Is it me or is the list of available free agents for this upcoming season less than impressive???
It seems to me that the last couple of years the amount of quality free agents has been dwindling. The increase in amount of spending per team has had the opposite effect than what I think the NFL had anticipated. Teams are now able to afford their draft picks and holding on to them more and more than previous years.
This is the right way to do it as richer teams can’t go out and buy winning teams. You win through the draft and now almost every team can afford the guys that turn out to be good players. The teams that draft the best will be the better teams unless of course they have shitty coaches but teams that draft well usually have excellent coaching staffs.
Maybe I’m just being pessimistic because of the Bears being a shitty team for the better part of the last two decades. I’m also bitter because we seem to not be able to or willing to pay our good draft picks like Jefferey for example. It’s frustrating that we have a team and culture where guys leave for less money because we stink.
I’m very excited about the coaching staff that has been put together but I’m pessimistic about our GM given his history with free agency and also his affinity to letting our most talented players go without a replacement already in place. I understand the idea of getting younger but I think Pace has let his ego get the better of him and the team. He seems to want zero to do with players and coaches that he didn’t draft, sign or hire. Then have the balls and tell the fans that we aren’t in a rebuild. Teams are always rebuilding with the future in mind due to the amount injuries or just aging. The fact is that players don’t play very long as a whole.
1. How would you rate the list of Free Agents as a whole?
2. who do you think we should go after?
3. Who do you think Pace will go after?
4. Do you think we continue to lose out on initial targeted players? (We seem to lose out on our actual favorites the past couple of years)
5. Do you think the guys we target will actually want to come here now versus the past couple of years? Why or why not?
It seems to me that the last couple of years the amount of quality free agents has been dwindling. The increase in amount of spending per team has had the opposite effect than what I think the NFL had anticipated. Teams are now able to afford their draft picks and holding on to them more and more than previous years.
This is the right way to do it as richer teams can’t go out and buy winning teams. You win through the draft and now almost every team can afford the guys that turn out to be good players. The teams that draft the best will be the better teams unless of course they have shitty coaches but teams that draft well usually have excellent coaching staffs.
Maybe I’m just being pessimistic because of the Bears being a shitty team for the better part of the last two decades. I’m also bitter because we seem to not be able to or willing to pay our good draft picks like Jefferey for example. It’s frustrating that we have a team and culture where guys leave for less money because we stink.
I’m very excited about the coaching staff that has been put together but I’m pessimistic about our GM given his history with free agency and also his affinity to letting our most talented players go without a replacement already in place. I understand the idea of getting younger but I think Pace has let his ego get the better of him and the team. He seems to want zero to do with players and coaches that he didn’t draft, sign or hire. Then have the balls and tell the fans that we aren’t in a rebuild. Teams are always rebuilding with the future in mind due to the amount injuries or just aging. The fact is that players don’t play very long as a whole.
1. How would you rate the list of Free Agents as a whole?
2. who do you think we should go after?
3. Who do you think Pace will go after?
4. Do you think we continue to lose out on initial targeted players? (We seem to lose out on our actual favorites the past couple of years)
5. Do you think the guys we target will actually want to come here now versus the past couple of years? Why or why not?
