Check out this blurb on the Bears over on ProFootball Weekly:http://www.profootballweekly.com/PFW/The+Way+We+Hear+It/default.htm?mode=nfcnorth
Have to say I hope what Hub & the boys are deducing from Angelo's press conference is correct. Orton deserves a shot to be #1, and at the very least is a much cheaper and equally effective #2 to what Griese offered this year.
I was especially pleased by what they had to say about the RB position. We have guys with talent, and while I would like to see someone brought in to compete with Benson, it has been proven time & again this decade that the success of a team's running game is not predicated on the RB, but rather on the o-line and the play-calling. Naturally the quality of the offensive coordinator's play calling has to be good for any aspect of the offense to be successful. But I'll take a great o-line with an average running back any day over a great running back with an average offensive line.
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Good points. But did you see Michael Turner against the Colts? He looked good.
I mean REAL GOOD. Hey everyone, come take a look at good looking Michael Turner is!
Haha....that guy runs like a Palomino!
Turner is the best available option, and I'm not against him coming. But he is going to be expensive, to the point that singing him might compromise our ability to address some of our more important needs in free agency (O-line, and arguably WR).
I think if you fix the o-line, let Rex/Orton/Griese/whoever else COMPETE for the starting QB job, and upgrade the currently horrendous talent at WR, the running game will improve noticably even without bringing in a new RB. Not that we shouldn't get a new RB, but I don't think signing the marquee free agent at the position is the smartest way to address the position given our other needs.
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