Comments on: With Olin Kreutz gone, Bears sign Chris Spencer

By: deweyaxewound

deweyaxewound — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 19:35:44 +0000

@tecmobowl34,

Amen. Like most Bears fans, I’m sentimentally attached to Kreutz after all these years — but his play no longer matched his rep. He was VERY rapidily diminishing from “leader” to “liability”.

Intangibles aside, I’d rather have the performance on the field when it counts (now whether Spencer is the answer to that…I’m still skeptical).

But I think you’re right on when it comes to the contract and pay — Kreutz could’ve easily let the 500K go in order to stay with his team, to stay in familiar surroundings, knowing the offense, and to finish his career and retire as a BEAR. Not to mention staying on a team that’s “close”.

If his relationship with the players/team/city means as much as people think, why not sacrifice the (relatively) small amount?

I think in the end many of you who are weeping, wailing, and gnashing your teeth like this is the end of the world may come to see differently, that this is probably a blessing in disguise.

Better play at center, fewer penalties, and Jay takes over as unquestioned leader of the offense.
I guess we’ll see.

P.S. Lions fans have become this year’s version of last year’s Vikings fans — off-season paper champs, chest thumpers, obnoxious braggadocius blowhards.

Games are played in the field, kitties, not in draft rooms, not on message boards. And no matter what you THINK you have in talent, you also have injuries, arrests, training camp, pre-season, coaching changes, referees (haha), and countless other variables that turn LOSING franchises (like yours) into WINNING franchises (like ours).
So until you DO finish with more than 6 wins, you haven’t. So quit acting like the Lions are “the sh!t” — cause you haven’t earned that “the” yet.

By: tecmobowl34

tecmobowl34 — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 04:04:12 +0000

Bears fans freaking out about this need to chill, he was overrated, old, mistake-prone, heavily flagged in bad situations, and basically a punk in negotiations. He acts like the Bears didn’t pay him his whole career. $4M for an ancient center who gets penalized twice a game isn’t an unfair offer, and he wiped his ass with it. Get bent dude, good luck getting that offer on the open market. I guarantee he gets nowhere near that when he lands.

By: tecmobowl34

tecmobowl34 — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 04:01:13 +0000

joeyballgame4 says: Jul 31, 2011 4:46 PM

fairley and suh will surely kill cutler now…

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there were going to kill him anyway. Kreutz wasn’t going to stop those guys. Unless he was holding them and getting flagged for it on his own goal line, or false starting (which is hard for a center to do). I’m a bears season ticket holder by the way

By: bearyballs

bearyballs — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 03:45:46 +0000

This is complete BS! Angelo and company are ruining the team! I am tired of wasting year after year of having our dream of winning a superbowl come crashing down. We as Bears fans need to let the organization know that we will not tolerate this crap! Time is precious and it’s clear that we care more then these a$$ clowns do! Enough is enough! Clear house and bring Cowher in!

By: jutts

jutts — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 01:48:37 +0000

Angello and his fat @ssed buddy Ruskell. They both couldn’t pick a winner in their nose let alone a football player……………………

By: philriverslovespenis

philriverslovespenis — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 00:08:13 +0000

romosexualtendencies69 says:Jul 31, 2011 5:43 PM

Bears looks like they may be racing the Vikings to determine who will finish last in the Central
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You’re stupid. Stay on your Cowboys posts. Speaking of which, I think they will be racing the Redskins for the AL West title.

By: edavidberg

edavidberg — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 00:01:24 +0000

Kreutz was on a fast decline. The Bears Oline sucked but they got Carimi and hopefully Webb solidifies the other tackle position. Garza is actually solid, and Williams will hopefully not be terrible at the other guard spot. I felt like last year the Bears O Line would land them at 4 and 12 but they surprised me. They should be better this year.

Angelo still sucks and needs to be fired though.

By: jacohans11

jacohans11 — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 00:00:19 +0000

Another thing the loss of Kreutz could provide is a chance for Cutler to take control of this team. All of the media has been saying Cutler is not tough and not a leader. Well, with Cutler reportedly ready to change his mentality this season maybe the chance to become this offensive leader will help in that quest.

By: markuh

markuh — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 23:26:46 +0000

To anyone wondering why Seahawks never had a run game since Alexander his Last year here. This is your guy. One of the worst run blocking centers I have ever seen. You know it’s bad when we saw back up centers outperform this guy. Good luck lolll

By: snoqualmieterry

snoqualmieterry — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 23:15:43 +0000

As a hawk fan I hope we can find spencers replacement. Is it going to be unger.?

By: illiniftw

illiniftw — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 22:36:56 +0000

Somebody needs to stand outside Soldier Field with a petition to get Angelo fired! Then if every fan signs it maybe we can get somethin done!

By: paolid

paolid — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 22:20:26 +0000

The bears are going to be a disaster this year. Kreutz is a far superior center compared to spencer. The only reason that olin’s performance has declined is that he is in an offense that is run by mike martz that forces the qb to hold onto the ball forever. I’m a lions fan, so I know that martz’s offense just does’t work anymore in this league first hand. You can’t expect your linemen to maintain blocks for ten + seconds. Hey bears, good luck vs. Detroit’s front four.

By: beefbus

beefbus — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 22:19:24 +0000

Kreutz was rated the 33rd best center in the league last season. There are only 32 teams! Spencer at least has some youth on his side, while Olin has consistently gotten blown up on running plays.

By: calitexans

calitexans — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 22:04:06 +0000

wow i can’t believe this did any of you bear watch of the games last dude was getting blown up every time i watched any of you games. He’s been garbage for tge ladt 2 or 3 years

By: qtownchawk

qtownchawk — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 21:48:12 +0000

as a hawks fan, id like to thank the chicago bears for taking tim ruskell off of seattles hands. get used to moves like this.

how do I know how bad of a gm this guy is? only two guys that were hawks when he was gm are still around.

By: romosexualtendencies69

romosexualtendencies69 — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 21:43:41 +0000

Bears looks like they may be racing the Vikings to determine who will finish last in the Central

By: mosdamz

mosdamz — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 21:40:28 +0000

I’m confident this will end up being a positive for the Bears. #57 has often been more of a distraction than anything else, and not truly much of a leader, the O-line has a been a weakness for the Bears for a few seasons now and when you proclaim yourself the leader of that bad unit at some point that “leader” needs to be held accountable! I’m glad he is gone let him flap his gums and disrupt some other team for a few years.

By: fedxnavy

fedxnavy — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 21:23:41 +0000

AS a Packer fan, I must say Why r the Bears getting
rid of all there great Players? Olsen and now kreutz

By: deiong

deiong — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 21:22:10 +0000

Olin Kreutz had a horrible yar last year, watching last years games he made a ton of stupid moving violations at some serisously bad times. he might have been good at some point, and im not in the lockerroom so from that point of view maybe they did lose a good leader, but he made a lot of stupid mistakes last year ones that hurt the team more then anything. im not sad to see him gone..

By: mictins

mictins — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 21:21:51 +0000

but the lack of signing some linemen is dumb…

By: mictins

mictins — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 21:20:04 +0000

People relax!! cutler was gonna get killed back there with olin too, its time to move on.

By: sfkforever

sfkforever — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 21:14:08 +0000

wow…mike martz got to much stroke for his worthless scheme this is an embarrassment terrible FA period…Bears have went from pretty good to pretty suck…just wow

By: snccoach

snccoach — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 21:13:29 +0000

So let me get this straight: You won’t pay Olin the 4.5 mil for a one year deal, but you will pay a salary greater than or equal to that number for an inferior/oft-injured player (Spencer), and make it a multi-year deal? Executive leadership at it’s best Jerry.

By: vahawker

vahawker — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 20:57:28 +0000

Tim Numbskull strikes again. Condolences to you Bear fans..gonna suck till he’s canned

By: bearyballs

bearyballs — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 20:53:07 +0000

Someone needs to get the Bears front office drug tested! This is ridiculous!!!!

By: dl2011

dl2011 — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 20:47:20 +0000

Can’t wait to watch this bum try and block Suh, Williams and Fairley this year…Heads up Jay!!

By: joeyballgame4

joeyballgame4 — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 20:46:36 +0000

fairley and suh will surely kill cutler now…

By: bearsrulepackdrool

bearsrulepackdrool — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 20:41:48 +0000

Kreutz was a leader in the lockerroom but he was a horrible blocker and made bad decisions.

I don’t know how many games there were late last year (I know at least one was against Seattle), where Cutler was getting sacked with a safety blitz on the outside. As a center you have to call that shift and he just KEPT missing the call.

He was getting old and was going to get replaced eventually.

By: bpjensen

bpjensen — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 20:28:37 +0000

Caleb Hanie better keep his arm warm every game. I don’t think Cutler is going to survive. 52 sacks from last year may feel like a vacation after this season.

By: jsbake7

jsbake7 — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 20:27:15 +0000

Shameful… Angelo needs to be fired yesterday