Most boring offseason in years?

alexwilkins · Sun Mar 17, 2019 9:16 pm

Good GM, good coach, good developing quarterback, good o-line, great weapons, great defense. I know it’s a good thing, but jeeze the draft can’t come fast enough.

IotaNet · Sun Mar 17, 2019 9:29 pm

alexwilkins wrote:Good GM, good coach, good developing quarterback, good o-line, great weapons, great defense. I know it’s a good thing, but jeeze the draft can’t come fast enough.

I’ve commented on this before and like I’ve been saying, I’ll take this kind of boring for a few years.

One point however— part of our boredom is that we don’t have a 1st or 2nd round draft pick. That makes mock drafts impossible to forecast and basically irrelevant.

That said, I’m NOT complaining!

G08 · Mon Mar 18, 2019 12:25 am

Extremely boring, normally I'd be balls deep looking at potential first and second round picks but this off-season I've got nuffin.

The Marshall Plan · Mon Mar 18, 2019 5:42 am

alexwilkins wrote:Good GM, good coach, good developing quarterback, good o-line, great weapons, great defense. I know it’s a good thing, but jeeze the draft can’t come fast enough.

Yeah this has been a weird offseason. For me it's been more anticipation to get the regular season going because of how last season ended. I figured free agency wouldn't be that exciting which is why I went so nuts when I thought we could get Bell. If we end the draft with a future RB and an OL or two I'll be happy.

Mon Mar 18, 2019 8:27 am

Intensely.

Boris13c · Mon Mar 18, 2019 8:30 am

I will gladly accept "comfortably boring" over "WTF are they doing!?!" any day of the week

Mon Mar 18, 2019 8:47 am

Boris13c wrote:I will gladly accept "comfortably boring" over "WTF are they doing!?!" any day of the week

Absolutely. I feel like this is the 'bye week' of offseasons.

Mon Mar 18, 2019 8:55 am

It certainly is weird. Not even just Bears related, but a weird offseason overall...weird trades, weird players getting weird money, weird draft prospects that don't match the needs of the teams in the top 10....

The whole thing is odd.

Mikefive · Mon Mar 18, 2019 10:22 am

That's what happens when you don't have much salary cap $$$ and no draft picks until day 3. Boring? Sure. Weird? No doubt. Bad? Nope.

Mon Mar 18, 2019 10:23 am

Mikefive wrote:That's what happens when you don't have much salary cap $$$ and no draft picks until day 3. Boring? Sure. Weird? No doubt. Bad? Nope.

Bears still have about $17M in cap space left.

Mon Mar 18, 2019 11:07 am

Mikefive wrote:That's what happens when you are returning 21 of 22 starters on a 12-4 team. Boring? Sure. Weird? No doubt. Bad? Nope.

Fixed it for you.

IotaNet · Mon Mar 18, 2019 11:12 am

UOK wrote: ... I feel like this is the 'bye week' of offseasons.

Dude -

I know you're "taking an indefinite hiatus from the blogging game" but why don't you give us something to read? As well as you write, surely you can come up with something on your blog for us action-starved fans to talk about.

Mon Mar 18, 2019 11:15 am

IotaNet wrote:
UOK wrote: ... I feel like this is the 'bye week' of offseasons.
Dude -

I know you're "taking an indefinite hiatus from the blogging game" but why don't you give us something to read? As well as you write, surely you can come up with something on your blog for us action-starved fans to talk about.

Haha, I may just forgo hosting a blog and just write stuff and post it on the board here.

If I find some time I'll put something together.

IotaNet · Mon Mar 18, 2019 11:22 am

wab wrote:
Mikefive wrote:That's what happens when you are returning 21 of 22 starters on a 12-4 team. Boring? Sure. Weird? No doubt. Bad? Nope.
Fixed it for you.

This.