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#Post#: 271841--------------------------------------------------
Re: 2016 Chicago Bears
By: Sportster Date: May 26, 2016, 3:26 pm
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lol, yeah sure Dal. We should have left all those great
secondary players in place, we were 4th after all.....
seriously, dude....
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Re: 2016 Chicago Bears
By: dallasbear Date: May 26, 2016, 3:32 pm
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I'm not worried about Fuller - he's not pro-bowl quality or even
sniffing pro-bowl quality but he's solid. I'm not that
comfortable with Porter and wish we had a young up and comer
pressing him.
We don't.
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Re: 2016 Chicago Bears
By: Sportster Date: May 26, 2016, 3:37 pm
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So far he's a body filling a spot. He hasn't come close to
fulfilling his first round pick status. If he doesn't pick it
up, he will likely end up as his replacements backup or be
traded. You play how you practice, generally. There's always the
story of the perennial pro bowler 'sitting it out' and lighting
it up on gameday. This is not Fuller's history....
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Re: 2016 Chicago Bears
By: dallasbear Date: May 26, 2016, 4:47 pm
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At this point it doesn't matter where he was drafted and that
he's not fulfilling a first round status - what matters is
whether he's playing up to what your paying him (he is) AND
whether you have an upgrade to take his job (Bears don't).
BTW, there are 59 NFL cornerbacks making more than Fuller on an
annual basis - I'd bet that there aren't 59 NFL cornerbacks that
are better.
Hopefully, we generate a better pass rush and Fuller has a
better year.
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Re: 2016 Chicago Bears
By: boogie Date: May 27, 2016, 8:59 am
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LAKE FOREST — When the Bears traded up for long and lean Leonard
Floyd last month, they bet on Floyd and their veteran coaches,
but also the strength and conditioning staff to mold his body
into NFL form.
Perhaps the work Jason George and his assistants did with
Hroniss Grasu over the past year helped persuade Ryan Pace to
make such a gamble.
Grasu arrived in Chicago as a third-rounder last spring with
sterling intangibles to become a long-term center fixture; he
just needed to add bulk after playing in the Ducks' hyper-speed
spread attack at around 290 pounds.
Fast-forward a year and Grasu tips the scales at 310 — "all good
weight," he said.
"That’s the heaviest I’ve ever been, but I don’t feel like it,"
Grasu said Wednesday following the Bears' OTA. "I feel like I’m
in the 290s. My body-fat percentage is the same as it was before
when I was in the high-290s, 300. So it’s all good."
He credits entrusting the Bears, his own trainer Ryan Flaherty,
and his family's culinary background in helping the
transformation. Grasu said he could've put on the weight
quickly, but he's benefited more from a more gradual and natural
process.
"Just put it on slowly... But my weight’s up there and I feel
good out there. I’m stronger and it should be good," he said.
Grasu's strength limitations were noticeable in his first
preseason and on his first NFL series, which ended in Pro Bowl
nose guard Dontari Poe overowering Grasu en route to a
strip-sack of Jay Cutler resulting in a safety. But to his
credit, Grasu made impressive strides throughout his eight
rookie starts despite admitting, like all rookies, learning the
systems was another lengthy process.
"... I thought I knew a lot about the playbook, but once I got
through this offseason I realized, wow, it's crazy what Year One
to Year Two, how much you can get better at," Grasu said.
His expectations as a sophomore, then, are to play with a lot
more confidence, which will help unlock Grasu's added strength
but also the speed and agility Chicago is prioritizing more in
its O-line this season.
And any confidence issues he endured as a rookie, Grasu said,
will become a teaching point for second-round guard Cody
Whitehair. Grasu plans to mentor Whitehair, just as Matt Slauson
and Will Montgomery did for him, while continuing to reap the
beneits from the experience of new teammates, Manny Ramirez and
Ted Larsen.
"[Whitehair] got drafted here and I just told him, your rookie
year will be the hardest year and everyone expects great things
out of you, but just trust yourself, trust that you're a very
good player," he said.
Indeed, Grasu's growth — both figuratively and literally — has
made him more confident as he attempts to win his starting job
again. It's a new year, and a second opportunity for Grasu to
establish himself as a fixture in the middle of the Bears'
revamped line.
"No longer a rookie," summarized Grasu of his in-house
evaluation after last season. "Got to take the next step of
being one of the leaders on the offensive line. By playing
center, you're naturally in a position to lead the offensive
line, and luckily I have guys around me that are great leaders.
"The whole offensive line unit, we're gonna lead this offense
and lead this team together and we're very confident in our
room, confident in our team to take the next step forward."
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Re: 2016 Chicago Bears
By: dallasbear Date: May 27, 2016, 9:23 am
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Grasu will also benefit from playing right next to Kyle Long
(both played together at Oregon).
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Re: 2016 Chicago Bears
By: boogie Date: May 27, 2016, 12:17 pm
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He does sort of have a point:
Wait, Alshon Jeffery can come to town to throw out the first
pitch and conduct the seventh-inning stretch at Saturday’s Cubs
game but he can’t come to town to work out with his teammates
during scheduled offseason team activities at Halas Hall this
week?
John Fox, as footbally as a football coach can get, must hate
this. Hate this. Hate this. Hate this. I don’t care what he says
or how he tries to play it off, Fox is all football all the
time, and demands that of his team or you won’t be on his team.
See your neighborhood “Black Unicorn’’ for details.
Fox wants everybody on the roster to get on the field, and he
wants it now and forever, because voluntary is mandatory in
Fox’s world. Anything less is heresy. You hear that, Alshon
Judas?
Apparently not. Jeffery has refused to join his teammates, many
of whom are new, because he has chosen to work out in Florida
after signing his one-year, franchise player contract. This
seems as much a dare as a program.
Maybe the oft-injured Jeffery is working hard to get in shape
and remains healthy all season, maybe not. But right now it
looks like Jeffery is working hardest at getting traded.
#Post#: 271911--------------------------------------------------
Re: 2016 Chicago Bears
By: Sportster Date: May 27, 2016, 12:49 pm
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He may be working out with a well regarded trainer and Fox is ok
with that. Don't know...
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Re: 2016 Chicago Bears
By: boogie Date: May 27, 2016, 1:13 pm
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Yeah that is what I hope for, but come on man, he took a day to
go to Wrigley to see a game....
#Post#: 271936--------------------------------------------------
Re: 2016 Chicago Bears
By: Jackiejokeman Date: May 27, 2016, 3:33 pm
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If you build a DEFENSIVE LINE ... LINEBACKER CORP ...
that can dominate consistently ... lets keep that statement in
mind ,
what would you need more in the secondary ?
Safety's that can take advantage of DEFENSIVE LINE & LINEBACKER
control ...
or Cornerbacks that handle things when things are out of
control ?
Now you have to ask yourself ... can DL & LB call
[font=Verdana]the shots before it gets to secondary ? [/font]
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