I was expecting to see “Babich fired, turner fired, everyone else fired.”

Have to say I was a little disappointed.

This just means that they won’t make a run at any of the really good FA’s available at other positions. I’m fine with JA making a move for a vetern QB to compete with Orton, but, if we go into next season and the only addition to the offense are a bunch of rookies and JP Losman then I’m going to fully commit to the Indian and start watching hockey instead of football. In the end it doesn’t really matter who is playing QB (unless you can get a premeir QB) because at the end of the day, he is still going to be throwing the ball to Rasheed Davis and some other people who just aren’t good.

I hope he (JA) stays with it. He does have a decent place to start from offense with RB and 3rd REC but needs QB and 2 REC’s.

I’m going to go ahead and feel sorry for you guys in advance if you sign J.P. Losman as part of a goal of QB competition. Kyle Orton would wipe the floor with Losman in a competition like that, and you’d have a pouty, turnover-happy reserve for it. Cross your fingers, Bears fans…

Will Jerry Angelo go out and bring in another mid-tier P-O-S QB like Simms or Losman to compete (and lose) against Orton?

Or, will he finally grow a sack… be bold… and make a deal for a real QB (McNabb, Palmer, Hasselback) or even experiment with Vince Young?

Is Jerry Angelo really that stupid? He has a bad habit of demoralizing this team by taking away players who are leaders in the locker room and instead replacing them with guys who could be more talented, but are universally hated. Thomas Jones was a leader among the team, and the Bears traded him away so their prima donna Cedric Benson would stop having fits in the locker room. That obviously worked well as he led the Bears to one of the worst rushing averages among any team last year, and ended up getting cut for failing to stay out of trouble. Now neither of those two runningbacks is on our team, and I bet you can’t guess which one still keeps in touch with the team and which one doesn’t.

Now the Bears have a guy in Kyle Orton who is both talented and a hard worker. He’s a leader among his teammates, as evidenced by overwhelming support from his team to keep him the starter next year. I think Jerry Angelo is making a huge mistake at the same level as the Cedric Benson/Thomas Jones debacle, and risks demoralizing the team by substituting a team leader for someone who might not even play any better under this system. The reality is that there aren’t many quarterbacks who would do well with the options provided by the Bears. Besides the tight ends (who are phenomenal in my opinion), Orton didn’t have many reliable options. There’s old, washed up Marty Booker who drops more passes than he catches, Brandon Lloyd who can’t stay healthy, the cornerback-to-wide receiver experiments in Rasheed Davis and Devin Hester, and a third round rookie who had one ball thrown his way all season. There’s a reason Forte caught more balls than all the Bears wide receivers put together, because he’s a far more reliable option than the wide receivers. How many quarterbacks are going to thrive under those conditions? Certainly not Matt Cassel, who was surrounded by three pro-bowl caliber wide receivers in New England. Angelo should keep a team leader in place, and instead give Orton the weapons to thrive. Bring in T.J. Houshmandzadeh as the major free agent acquisition in the off-season, and continue drafting replacements for our aging offensive line. Angelo’s incompetence was clearly shown when he got rid of Thomas Jones, and if he makes the same mistake by wasting money on bringing in a quarterback who will suffer in the Bears’ shoddy offensive system, he should just be fired.

I’d rather have a rookie making rookie mistakes then a guy like Losman making rookie mistakes.

I might be late on this thread, but I really want to see the bears get a “Big Tackle” to replace Dusty, when he leaves. Dusty has been a bust and i hope he has a good career just somewhere else. he has shown he is not a dependable guy on the field. The bears need at least 1 300+ dt to take the pressure off the rest of the line defending the run. if the bears have to place 8 guys in the box to stop the run. your d line needs an overhaul. a big dt will allow lance and Brian to be better and might allow the ends some freedom to get to the qb better.