re: Alex Brown taking shots at the Bears (revised)

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What a bunch of retards. Guy's human and was looking forward to playing with a former teammate. I'm sure he's feeling some pain. Cut the dude some slack already.

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Tracy Porter was way out in butt frick Egypt and had to be police escorted to the stadium and still held the team picture up for over an hour.

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One afternoon, maybe a month or two ago, Kirwin suggested that after the draft but before training camp many veterans would be released. He explained that what happens is that during the OTA's and mini-camps teams are able to see (on a limited basis) what they have. Many focus on rookies, but you don't learn much there. What really stands out is his assessment of what happens with veterans. Teams see where an older vet is physically after a few months off. So what you have now that almost all minicamps and ota's are completed is a fair evaluation of what your team has/needs at each position heading into training camp.

Take any position and give a grade to each player on the roster who can play that position. This grade takes into account what the player did last year, the players age and injury history, cost vs production analysis, and how the player looks in the OTA's. Maybe a veteran hit the proverbial wall with age. Maybe the young player who should have taken a step forward took two backwards. Maybe everyone stood pat, but when compared to what teams in your division did to exploit the position match-up wise, standing pat isn't good enough.

Regardless, a GM takes that grade and looks at all options either on the open market or available for trade. And if free agent x grades out better, does his cost match what you believe he would give you on the field? If it does, would bringing him in hinder the development of a younger player. For example, if a veteran who would come at a cheap price could only give you slightly better production than an inexperienced younster, is it worthwhile, does making that move really make you better in the long run? Is it worth keeping a veteran whose production could be replaced at a cheaper price or whose production doesn't match his price? If the player would definately upgrade the position and start, does are his contract demands viable when taking your cap, his "shelf life", and future contracts you need to get done into consideration?

Kirwins biggest point was that in all these evaluations this year with its unique circumstance of being uncapped would lead to many veterans in the next month being cut-- a trend that goes against most of our logic about an uncapped year. He speculated that once these camps broke, many veterans would get walking papers. McCray is a good example of this. But this soon to be influx of veterans on the open market will provide teams with more of a chance to fill a position that wasn't adequately addressed in FA and the draft. Kind of like the June 1 cuts of past years.

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alexbrown96 There has been so many people asking me about this I guess I will share it.... Today I went over to Halas Hall and to my surprise I escorted

alexbrown96 To my surprise I was escorted out if the building. I guess I understand it somewhat but damn didn't think I would get kicked out! Who Dat!!

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He was talking about Chicago and yall were all over the poor guy, Yall owe him an apology!!

So lets see em'

They should read; "We are sorry Mr. Alex, we misjudged you and jump to conclusions.Forgive our retardation please!!"

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karimarbrown Classless RT @espn Chicago Bears escort New Orleans Saints defensive end Alex Brown out of Halas Hall - ESPN ..

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@alexbrown96 don't worry we will escort them out of the playoffs on the way to a two dat.

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