Irish_Sweetness
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 04/28/2013 - 3:08pm Respond Show all 4 comments  There is no way long would have been there for our 2nd pick. If im choosing between Travis Frederick and Long i'd take Long. 04/28/2013 - 3:34pm  What's the point of asking this? (As I believe you once said) If my Aunt had balls she'd be my Uncle. We have who we have, concentrate on that. Every team (or its fans) can look back after the fact and wonder about what-if, but it's pointless. Could Emery have waited to pick #50 to get Long? Who knows, and who cares? He didn't want to risk it -- that's how much they liked him. Would Swope have fit the team better than Mills? Clearly Emery and Trestman didn't think so. Regardless, it doesn't matter now -- unless you have a time machine. Or unless you care more about chewing out and grousing about Emery than you do about the current team. Just let it go. Anyway, having said all that, hope you're doing well, Irish. Bear down, buddy! 04/28/2013 - 3:39pm  If my aunty had balls ... touche. But a girl can dream. HAd we traded out of the first we could still have had Warford and Schwenke though ..... 04/29/2013 - 4:55am Might be true, but it takes 2 to tango. Supposedly they fielded offers to trade down, but Emery said none were of enough value. Sometimes you're just in a spot nobody wants badly enough to give you equal or better compensation for it. It's easy to criticize what we see as failure to get maximum value out of a pick, but generally that just isn't possible -- GMs just try to help improve the team as a whole the best they can in the face of almost total uncertainty (31 other teams acting according to their own valuations). When teams love a certain player, they generally don't get too cute with dancing around with trades down -- it's too easy to get egg on your face, and worse lose out on a player you really wanted and could have had. It's one thing to question whether Emery put too much faith into indicators of potential for a particular player, but nitpicking over "reach" picks falls squarely in meatball fan territory (BTW I'm not saying you are). Every team (even supposed gold standard drafting ones like NE, BAL, PIT, NYG, etc) makes so-called "reach" picks -- all it takes is 1) a prospect with limited bonafides, and 2) a team with a lot of confidence in their scouting that really believes that player's got what it takes. 04/30/2013 - 12:43am |
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04/28/2013 - 6:15am Respond Show all 6 comments  LONG HAS BEEN SNAPPING THE BALL. Center is easy. 04/28/2013 - 8:38am Hell, Patrick Manelly could be the back up. 04/28/2013 - 8:39am  Edwin Williams is our backup center. 04/28/2013 - 9:09am I'd prefer he was our starter over Robocrap Garza. 04/28/2013 - 2:03pm I'd like to know if Slauson can move over to center. That way we could do: Bushrod/Long/Slauson/Carimi/Webb, which I think is our best five guys. 04/28/2013 - 4:46pm Then have Britton and Brown as backup guards, Williams as a backup center, and Scott as swing tackle. 04/28/2013 - 4:47pm |
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04/13/2013 - 7:05am Respond  You're right. But I think Manti will be productive at the end of the day. Ogletree or Teo is fine with me, you won't see me bashing the Bears if he were the 1st rd pick, no behavioral issues but fans being more willing to take a player with a criminal background is just dumb. 04/14/2013 - 5:06pm |
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07/18/2012 - 9:59am Respond Click Start > Run, type MSCONFIG in the little window and hit return. When the config utility starts up, click the startup tab and deselect any of that stuff you don't need loading up when you turn on your computer. Peace. 07/20/2012 - 8:43am |
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04/14/2012 - 10:29am Respond  Did you watch the rest of the games that he started? He's worse than Webb, although not by much. 04/14/2012 - 11:36am  I just broke down that game again yesterday (Bears vs Vikings Wk 16 2009). Williams does look more natural at tackle than he does at guard. Off of the top of my head w/o reviewing my notes, he did well at times and then gave up key sacks at other times. He can stop Allen's bullrush (doesn't have much of one), but he struggled against his quickness resorting to holding him on several occasions, though he was only called for one if I recall correctly. He still gives up penetration in both the passing game against strong rushers, but more so in short yardage running situations. I haven't broken down Webb again recently so I can't confidently speak to as which one would be better at this time. 04/14/2012 - 2:39pm Good call. So what about Gabe at LT, and we put Lance back in at RT? 04/16/2012 - 11:51pm |
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04/05/2012 - 3:48pm Respond  If Dont'a is our man, I think Emery can pull off a trade back (cause he's not seen as a top 20 prospect) and so that's some extra draft picks to build depth, maybe on the OL. 04/05/2012 - 4:32pm |
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