NFC North News: Tarvaris Jackson, John Thornton, Jay Cutler, and the Bears
by Brandon on Jul 14, 2009 8:00 AM CDT
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Print- If QB Tarvaris Jackson makes a trade demand after the Vikings officially sign QB Brett Favre, will anyone care?
- Sean's title sums it up; "John Thornton Almost Signs With Lions." Although they have a lot of shiny new players to show for their aggressive offseason, outside of stealing LB Julian Peterson from Seattle for DT Cory Redding, it's been a lousy offseason for the Lions.
- The idea that QB Jay Cutler will be just like QB Rex Grossman is crazy. Cutler is actually good; Grossman never was. I'm sure Cutler will make the occasional crazy INT, nearly every QB does, but that doesn't make him = Grossman.
- I love Football Outsiders and it pains me to see them project a great 2009 season for the Bears. They expect Chicago will have the best team in the NFC. They have a decent track record with projections too; they projected the Packers breakout 2007 season. The good news is that they expected an 11 win season in Green Bay last year, so they aren't always right.
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Bears? Please.
All signs point to the Pack being Back!
Two interesting issues here
Because I think the success of the Bears depends on the play of Cutler.
He has incredible arm strenght, plus accuracy, and is more mobile than a lot of people think.
We’ll see what he can do with a less than enviable situation in Chi-Town.
Pete Rose was actually banned from baseball for teaching Jeff Francoeur how to play. He made up the gambling stuff to hide his shame.
Is Tarvaris Jackson Serious?
Is he seriously going to demand a trade? Is there a team outside of the Arena League that will take him? To answer your question about the Jackson trade, I would have to say no, no one will care. Except for Jackson and his family.
Found a funny satire article about the Favre circus:
Sports Satire – Vikings Trainer Sent to Mississippi to Help Favre Move Some Furniture
KC Joyner
He’s being contrarian just to be contrarian; that and the fact he wants to be controversial to sell more of his books.
That’s the craziest assumption I’ve ever heard in my life. If Cutler is as bad as Grossman, you’ll get promoted and Jay will be run out of town with JA [Jerry Angelo], Lovie [Smith] and company.’’
That was my response to his Grossman and Cutler comparisons on the sportsnation chat.
Football outsiders- I’m not so sure the Bears will have the best NFC record. Over at WCG, we’re just hoping they make the playoffs.
"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject." -Sir Winston Churchill
I'm guilty of making the link between Grossman and Cutler
It would be easy to defend my comment by saying I threw my favorite Packer of all time into the argument. I’ll still stand by my comment that he won’t be as good because of the lack of receiver depth, but any quarterback are going to struggle with new receivers. There’s also this: the thing that has driven me nuts with Packers defense over the last couple years has been the inability to cover tight ends consistently. Greg Olsen and Dez Clark are pretty solid in the passing game. That has me terrified.
"You just don't know understand how frustrating this is"- Kevin Borseth
Very true...
with the TE talk. Prime examples would be when we played Dallas TO never hurt us but Whitten torched us! If we are playing more zone with the 3-4 it should take away some of those 5-10 yrd crossings that you see with TEs against us.
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