Bears sign Germain Ifeidi. Pundits immediately assume he is the starter-de-jour at RG. The 3rd most penalized OLinemen of 2019, 2nd in False Starts for OLinemen.
The upside is he’s only 25 as of today, and a former first round pick. He’s played tackle exclusively I think, so a move to the inside would limit his false starts you’d think also. We need depth at the very least, so it’s worth a shot on a one year deal.
As we know its all about creating competition and this will certainly do that. It will be fascinating to see between Ifeidi and Leno who can consistently get off the ball quicker before its snapped.
I really don’t get the false start thing. From the day you start playing football it’s drilled into your head, “know the snap count”. If you jump, the team runs. Most learn real quick when you have a bunch of big guys pissed off at you because you fucked up something so easy. But it was always the same idiot. Don’t get it.
You must have never played offense in your life. It sounds easy on paper, but you could forget the count on a particular play, get anxious because of movement by the defender. People are making lots of noise especially at NFL games and you may not even hear the cadence. What I find amazing is that defenders jump offsides. I played both ways and I had maybe 4 false starts on the oline, but I never jumped offsides on defense. I just watched the ball, and I usually 99% of the time got a better jump than the oline men who knew the snap count. I was quicker off the ball on defense than I was on offense. It doesn’t make sense but it is true. Defenders have the advantage because they aren’t tied down until the ball is snapped.
I played multiple spots on both sides of the ball, including center. Forgetting the snap count is inexcusable. Period.
Modern day Brandon Marshall. Also Vikes will have a new HC/Front office this time next year after he trashes that lockerroom. Packers would be competition for the division, but a 3rd place schedule, the defense, and playoff expansion actually gives me a shred of optimism of the bears chances (provided there's a season) to make the playoffs. Charles Leno and Germaine Ifedi starting on the same OLine, Nagy's run scheme, and Mitch starting any games are now making me walk to my fridge for a quarantine beer ('Le Jus' by the Alarmist located in Sauganash on the north side). Draft's in a week guys. I love this year. Dead buzz from the virus during what would annoyingly be "mock draft season."
I would say he’s even worse than Marshall ever was. Such a selfish asshole. LeJus is awesome! Love that beer, definitely one of my top picks as I love the NEIPA’s. Anything from Phase Three is great, my favorite being Perpetual Sounds. But my absolute favorite these days is M-43 by Old Nation out of MI. Fucking so good.
Seriously Patg? In terms of personality and how he carried himself off the field, Marshall was far more mature and professional. He busted his ass in Chicago for 3 years and played hurt too. And he showed leadership by privately calling out the QB after several lackluster efforts. He never tried to be the center of attention unlike OBJ. OBJ is a lot closer to TO than Marshall. I do hope the Vikings make that trade. They always seem to disappoint when expectations are high. Imagine the tension after a couple of stinkers from Cousins. Be way worse than it was when Diggs was throwing his QB under the bus to the media.
OBJ's far more talented, but Freddie Kitchens in his joke year as HC had more of a spine than Trestman ever did when it came to Marshall, so more friction from Cleveland. Trestman just enabled a lockerroom of complacency and idiocy. Phase Three's maple-coffee imperial stout is fantastically boozy. The only one I had, but nonetheless quality. Le Jus is phenominal, but Green Screen (taproom exclusive) from Alarmist is better, IMO for a NEIPA. Otherwise I've had a myriad of Belgians; Plumpass from Twisted Hippo, Fox in the Snow/Very Very Far/Aqua Predator from Off Color, Half Wit from 10-Ninety in Glenview, Terrible from Unibroue, but otherwise cream ale from Temperance in Evanston, and Alpha King. Made sure to stock up... Marshall could look personable for the camera, like when he talked about his mental disorder and why he chose the neon green cleats to support it (before the fines/bad publicity of him going after Gooddell after Gooddell said not to wear them came afterwards) whereas OBJ can do 'Head and Shoulders' commercials with his ramen noodles hair. But otherwise? I see 6 in one basket and half-dozen in the other. Marshall threw his team and coaches under the bus. Matt Forte didn't get along with him and had it out with him here and in New York when both were on the jets, and he's the mild mannered lifetime Bear we saw as the lockerroom leader at he time. Don't get me wrong, when Brandon Marshall was good, he was one of the better/best WRs in football (Behind Megatron, Andre Johnson, Fitz, and Marques Colston at the time he was a bear)--I'm not contesting that, or when he called out the lockerroom for complacency, and called out Jay for sucking. But. There's a reason Denver, Miami, Bears, Jets, Giants, and Seahawks all didn't keep him long. We agree talent had nothing to do with it. OBJ is following suit, minus championing a cause like mental illness publicly/on 'The View.' Both are talented divas and douches. I hope the Vikings make the trade too because they'd be on the fast track to bottom-feed and rebuild for a couple of years. Their defense just lost some valueable pieces over the past couple of weeks. They released Everson Griffen (coming off a probowl year) for the money, lost Linval Joseph and Steve Weatherly on their DLine, lost pretty much their entire secondary except Harrison Smith. A defense taking a big step back mixed with a few stinkers from Kirk Cousins and OBJ's mouth would mean better chances for the Bears for the division and to make the playoffs. It also means the Vikes will be under new management soon enough and OBJ likely looking for another home in 2021-22 season.
Yeah I don't think the BM comparison fits at all personally. Its true both could run their mouth, but with Marshall I always felt it ultimately came from more of a team orientated place, certainly in Chicago, which is really where I care about. He wanted to win. He believed in standards being met. It was when those two things didn't happen that he'd fire off both barrels. And lets be honest, he had plenty of reason. Marshall put up monster numbers all over the league and did it in spite of a lot of shitty QB play and dogshit teams. OBJ is just your typical whiny bitch WR. I don't get the impression he gives a shit about the team, he just gets upset when he doesn't see the ball enough. Its kinda ironic this talk about the Vikes trading for him when the whole thing about Diggs was he was a similar type of whiner. In fact I think OBJ is worse. I'd like to see them give up a little more than a 2 & a 5. A 2 & a 3 would give me a good laugh.
I think its cheap to say "he wanted to win/believed in standards being met and because both didn't happen, he had reason to be the douche he was." Everybody wants to win, Ev. As much as many on the board/most bears fans don't like him, I'm pretty sure Jay Cutler wanted to win games too. I'm pretty sure Mel Tucker wanted to win, as incompetent as he was calling a professional defensive scheme (feel free to blame him for Alabama becoming the 2nd best college team to Clemson--now he's a Head Coach at Michigan State). I'm pretty sure Marc Trestman wanted to win. The difference? When the going got rough, BM opened his mouth to blame anybody and everybody else at the time not BM or Marty Bennett didn't. That doesn't mean I excuse the complacency and lack of execution or expect anybody else to forgive the bad years of Emery/Trestman. Its actually given me so much more appreciation for having Allen Robinson, a guy who has EVERY reason to bitch from playing in Jacksonville with Blake Bortles and an incompetent offense chosen by Gus Bradley (a defensive HC) to an inconsistent play caller in Nagy to one-read Mitch. But he doesn't. He's the good soldier. Unrelated--but please lock him up Pace. Hold onto something Ev, we agree. OBJ is a typical whiny little bitch WR. Anything to make a divisional rival weaker. Vikings have a lot of draft picks this year, including two (later) 1st rounders, one 2nd, and two 3rds--or 5 picks in the top 105. I brought up their defense taking a few steps back due to contracts/releases/salary cap situation--but 5 picks is enough to get that on track for another year or two.
Wow, that looks very close to saying all players want to win equally pat. There are all kinds of things I could do with a statement like that but I'll be nice and just say that's silly. And you bring up Quitler?? Step back a second and think about what you're saying here. Yes, Brandon Marshall wanted to win more than Cutler. Personally I think he wanted to win more than OBJ as well. I'm not saying everything Marshall did off the field was ok, im just telling you why he did it. OBJ wanted the ball. BM wanted wins. Rightly or wrongly held everyone to a very high standard, himself included I might add. They're not the same imo.
Sherrick McMannis resigned and Trey Burton gets cut. Curious to see if Pace eats Burton's dead money this year or next. With the new CBA, teams can punt dead money to next year. I fail to believe any player who gets to the NFL goes without any desire to win, Jay being no exception. Execution is an entirely different subject, particularly when it comes to his shortcomings, so go nuts on ripping him there. Shitwad is more objectively applicable than 'Quitler' from Jay's time here, hence execution v will to win. Like him or not, Jay got his ass beat up week after week and hung tough, short of the Giants game with a J'Marcus Webb pièce de résistance at left tackle, and when Jay couldn't stand and the NFC championship game where he tried to come back and couldn't plant his knee. Did he throw crippling interceptions at inopportune times and have piss poor mechanics with no desire to improve? Sure. I fail to see Marshall as anything more special when it came to desire to win. Every receiver thinks they're open. When the going was bad, Jay didn't bitch. Marshall did. Often. There's a reason Jay was here for 8 years and Marshall only 3. That, and take Allen Robinson who has every reason to be a diva right now. But he doesn't. Because he's not a douche. Which is why the rumblings of him getting an extension will also be the reason that he will be here longer than the 3 years Marshall was.
Everyone wants to win, but it's obviously more important for some than it is for others. OBJ being a classic example of where his brand and his targets are more important to him than winning. Cutler could be a tough SOB at times. I always credited him for that. I don't think he quit in the NFC Championship game. He played abysmally in that game before he got hurt. I also think his lackluster performances in the second half of the season cost us a playoff appearance in 2012. He never seemed to care if we were losing 52-0 to GB or if we were beating up on the Lions. He didn't seem hurt by losing. He never got excited about winning. Hardly the characteristics of a great leader or a winner. Marshall was only here 3 years because he would have been 31 by the start of the 2015 season. Allen Robinson has been here 2 years and is not even 27. That's the difference. Obviously. I'm not going to pretend Marshall was perfect. He definitely had diva qualities. But he worked hard, held himself accountable, at least for while he was on the Bears made it clear his goal was to win. The eye test, his actions, and words all backed that up.
The Chicago Bears cut Trey Burton who had a 100% completion percentage and TD rate after the Bears traded for his favourite receiver.
