2014-15 NFC North/NFL Thread

[GGGG]

I notice some people are always anti-ESPN here.

I've stopped watching ESPN outside of live sports for a couple years now.  It makes my life so much simpler. 

[Hards Alumni]

I used to watch the draft on Saturdays with my friends.  Now it is this total blown out of proportion weekend long saga that has to start at 7pm on a Thursday (?).  It used to be fun.  Now I watch my team draft in the first round (if it isn't way too late already on a work night) and move on.  As a side note, fifteen minutes was always far too long for teams to make a pick; five minutes would work better on TV, and would move the pace along.

GMs make wrong picks every single year so I guess I can say they are wrong all the time.

Those same GMs don't get to keep their jobs forever like Kiper does.  He is a blow hard, and the worst part is he pretends to be a know it all.

[ChitownSpaceForRent]

Big risk with the Jags taking Bortles. Could send them back another 5 years if it doesnt pan out.

[MUeng]

I've stopped watching ESPN outside of live sports for a couple years now.  It makes my life so much simpler. 

Same here. Life has been so peaceful.  Sometimes I ask myself why I ever watched Skip Bayless and Steven A. Smith argue for hours about insignificant stuff.

[jesmu84]

Donald still on the board for the bears...

Some surprises so far.

Is Brady Quinn consoling manziel?

[ChitownSpaceForRent]

God effin damn it. Screw the Rams. Time to trade down.

[tompopsicle]

Did the Bears troll Marquette by selecting a player from VaTech?!

[ChitownSpaceForRent]

Bears management, making awful first round selections since 1985

[🏀]

Ha

[Lennys Tap]

Bears management, making awful first round selections since 1985

Last year's pick wasn't awful - he was awesome.

[ChitownSpaceForRent]

Last year's pick wasn't awful - he was awesome.

But for every Urlacher and Long you have McNown, Carimi, Williams, McClellan, Benson etc...

[ChitownSpaceForRent]

Also im calling Johnny Football to the Cards. Oops, nm.

[JWags85]

But for every Urlacher and Long you have McNown, Carimi, Williams, McClellan, Benson etc...

To be fair, Emery has had 2 drafts and is 50-50 with his first round picks. Fuller can play CB or S.  They didn't reach to get him.  I wanted Pryor or Clinton-Dix, but this wasn't a bad pick at all.  I don't know what people are throwing shade at it.

[wadesworld]

Ha

Ha.

[ChitownSpaceForRent]

To be fair, Emery has had 2 drafts and is 50-50 with his first round picks. Fuller can play CB or S.  They didn't reach to get him.  I wanted Pryor or Clinton-Dix, but this wasn't a bad pick at all.  I don't know what people are throwing shade at it.

Because it wasnt Pryor or Ha Ha. Im not looking forward to a safety positions that has MD Jennings starting. Saftey and DT were the biggest need and Emery didnt address it when there was a ton of talent available.

[GGGG]

But for every Urlacher and Long you have McNown, Carimi, Williams, McClellan, Benson etc...

Every team has it's share of first round misses.  Drafts should be graded on what teams do in the middle rounds more than anything.  That's where quality depth is built.

[MU B2002]

Big risk with the Jags taking Bortles. Could send them back another 5 years if it doesnt pan out.

As a Jags season ticket holder, I was hoping for Watkins, and then take a QB in round 2 or 3.  Bortles scares me, as seems like Gabbert 2.0.  But hey, at least his girlfriend is hot.

[Hards Alumni]

Every team has it's share of first round misses.  Drafts should be graded on what teams do in the middle rounds more than anything.  That's where quality depth is built.

For all the accolades that Ted Thompson gets as a draft master, he whiffs a lot in the first round as well.  Everyone does.

[Spotcheck Billy]

I just saw the Bears extended Marshall for 3 years/$30m

[wadesworld]

I just saw the Bears extended Marshall for 3 years/$30m

Won't matter who they have at WR if they don't get a QB.

[muarmy81]

Won't matter who they have at WR if they don't get a QB.

Whether you like or hate cutler you can't argue with Marshall's production the past two years: 100+ receptions both years
1,000+ yards each year
12,11 TD's

This is even with backups in place during much of that time

[wadesworld]

Whether you like or hate cutler you can't argue with Marshall's production the past two years: 100+ receptions both years
1,000+ yards each year
12,11 TD's

This is even with backups in place during much of that time

Yup, Marshall is a stud. I just mean in terms of the Bears' success as a team. Although the 1 thing Marshall may want to do is keep quiet during Packers week. Hasn't had a whole lot of success head to head against them.

[ChitownSpaceForRent]

Ill still take Cutler over McCown any day of the week and twice on Sunday. Glad Cutler will still have the big guns around him for a long time.

[wadesworld]

Ill still take Cutler over McCown any day of the week and twice on Sunday. Glad Cutler will still have the big guns around him for a long time.

As a Packers fan, I, too, will take Cutler under center for the Bears every day of the week and twice on Sunday.

[Spotcheck Billy]

da Bears former players filing suit, perhaps they need to vacate that lonely SB title? 

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/apnewsbreak-ex-players-nfl-illegally-161358484--nfl.html
A group of retired NFL players says in a lawsuit filed Tuesday that the league, thirsty for profits, illegally supplied them with risky narcotics and other painkillers that numbed their injuries for games and led to medical complications down the road.

The league obtained and administered the drugs illegally, without prescriptions and without warning players of their potential side effects, to speed the return of injured players to the field and maximize profits, the lawsuit alleges. Players say they were never told about broken legs and ankles and instead were fed pills to mask the pain. One says that instead of surgery, he was given anti-inflammatories and skipped practices so he could play in money-making games. And others say that after years of free pills from the NFL, they retired from the league addicted to the painkillers.

The drug lawsuit names eight players, including three members of the NFL champion 1985 Chicago Bears: Hall of Fame defensive end Richard Dent, offensive lineman Keith Van Horne, and quarterback Jim McMahon. Lawyers seek class-action status, and they say in the filing that more than 500 other former players have signed on to the lawsuit.

McMahon says in the lawsuit that he suffered a broken neck and ankle during his career but rather than sitting out, he received medications and was pushed back on to the field. Team doctors and trainers never told him about the injuries, according to the lawsuit.

McMahon also became addicted to painkillers, at one point taking more than 100 Percocet pills per month, even in the offseason, the lawsuit says. Team-employed doctors and trainers illegally administered the drugs, the lawsuit alleges, because they didn't get prescriptions, keep records or explain side effects.

Van Horne played an entire season on a broken leg and wasn't told about the injury for five years, ''during which time he was fed a constant diet of pills to deal with the pain,'' the lawsuit says.

Among the eight named plaintiffs, six were also plaintiffs in concussion-related litigation, including McMahon and Van Horne.