Hard to imagine a guy that looks and talks like Mark Davis is garnering a lot of respect around the league.

Players want to be in Oakland.

The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.

better not miss on Logan Ryan

The Bears continued to stockpile options at cornerback Saturday, signing former Cardinals player Marcus Cooper to a three-year deal.

Cooper started 24 times in his career, appearing for the Chiefs from 2013-15 and the Cardinals last year. In 2016, he started 13 games and recorded four interceptions, including one returned for a touchdown. The Cardinals traded a conditional seventh-round pick for him at the end of last preseason. He was drafted in the seventh round in 2013 but waived by the 49ers before their first regular-season game.

At 6-2, 192 pounds, Cooper has the size the Bears like at outside cornerback. He joins a recent spate of veteran cornerback signees — the Bears announced the signing of Prince Amukamara and the re-signing of Johnthan Banks on Saturday.

I have MANY years of experience in trying to appreciate steaming piles of dogshit.

Why would they have not been in on Pryor for the small money he ended up getting?

Are you stoned or pissed off, or both, when you create these postings?

I asked the same thing.

I think Pace is in over his head.

Laurence Holmes is a fucking weirdo, a nerd in denial, and a wannabe. Not a very good radio host either.

The Pryor non-signing is indefensible.

The Pryor non-signing is indefensible.

You guys are all acting as if Pryor is some sure thing All-Pro future performer. I doubt that. even so, given where the Bears are in the process what good would taking that chance really do for a one year contract?

What the hell, I would. Post op is OK right? Right?!?!?!

Jason La Confora weighs in on the Bears free agency approach.

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The Bears have left some teams in the league a little baffled by some of their moves. The Mike Glennon contract, worth a legit $15 million a year, is viewed as being much higher than it needed to be, with the Jets and some others having lukewarm interest at best.

Giving $7.5 million to corner Prince Amukamura for one year -- after he was relatively ineffective last year on a one-year, $5 million contract in Jacksonville in a prove-it scenario -- raised some eyebrows.

And the Bears paying oft-injured ex-Steeler Markus Wheaton the same money in 2017 as receivers like Brandon Marshall, Terrelle Pryor and Torrey Smith got on the open market is a head-scratcher as well. The Steelers, who evaluate receivers as well as any franchise in the game, are still very much in the market for receiving depth even after the Antonio Brown signing, but they wouldn’t pay Wheaton close to that money and they think he’s a great kid and all.

The Bears could counter that most of these deals are only a one-year commitment, but I’d counter that with so many jobs on the line there given the struggles of the John Fox-Ryan Pace regime, one year might be all they have.


Thank the Gods for Theo & Bowman.

Pryor was really good with the Browns last year and I couldnt even tell you who their QB was for the majority of the year. I just think it speaks volumes that a guy that has started to show that he can be a player in this league isn't offered a contract by the Bears but a player like Wheaton is. I was really hoping they would have reached out and made an offer for multiple years but I guess not.

29 other teams also did not. Wheaton maybe has bigger upside to gamble on? But I do not know their thinking there. As for Pryor I have watched him since he was playing HS football and basketball against my kid's HS. He is tremendously athletic and bcak then was clearly a man among boys. It is possible he can become great but for me its a gamble to have him more than a third receiver on a good team. If the Bears were closer I would not have minded them signing him.

I get a laugh when people say...

Fire Pace, he didnt sign x

Or not signing x is indefensible...

etc etc

Ever think that maybe.....maybe we spoke to them and they were not remotely interested in coming to our cluster of a football team?

I get a laugh when people say...

Fire Pace, he didnt sign x

Or not signing x is indefensible...

etc etc

Ever think that maybe.....maybe we spoke to them and they were not remotely interested in coming to our cluster of a football team?

Deiondre Hall to safety is interesting. Also I'm a bit surprised Fuller hasn't been cut yet, it kind of leads me to believe they are going to give him a second chance with this coaching staff. Not saying he'll even make it through training camp, or that if he does we should care, but when you load up on a bunch of former 1st-round guys sometimes that talent that got them drafted so high has a delayed onset.