Ricky Manning Jr. To Be Traded, No Surprise

by WCG on Jul 1, 2008 11:51 AM CDT Comment 9 comments

Based on observation and surprising no one, Bears CB Ricky Manning Jr, currently in depth chart abyss is likely to be on the trading block once training camp starts.

He wasn't even involved in the nickel package during the offseason program and was running third on the depth chart, doing more watching than participating. Barring a major change, it's expected Manning will be on the trading block when training camp opens. He's a veteran with starting experience who has proven to be durable. He's handling the situation well and seems open to the idea of a change of scenery. Manning is probably best suited for a team that doesn't play cover two and is best in man-to-man coverage. If the Bears stay healthy in the secondary, he could find a new home in August.

Again this move surprises no one and really does not affect anything unless CBs go down after he is traded.

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Hopefully

we can get a late round pick out of him. I’m sure many teams are interested in acquiring a starting caliber, veteran corner-back.

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by thecoolest on Jul 1, 2008 4:47 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Trade

I hope this doesn’t turn into a Chris Harris situation where we miss him in the middle of week 1.

by Guancous on Jul 1, 2008 4:56 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

With Daniel Manning and Tumaine McBride fighting their hardest to Keep Zachary Bowman off of their heels, or CB situation currently has insane depth. And that’s not counting Corey Graham who played great on ST last year.

by HesterSteals1st on Jul 1, 2008 5:16 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

i will never understand

his role on this team, and how it appears they mismanaged it. It never made sens how they used him, sans 06 in the nickel.

by mike b on Jul 1, 2008 11:41 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

i agree with mike b

theres a shock. I remember him flying around and getting turnovers in bulk, like against seattle week 4 in 06.

you would think that a defensive cover 2 team would have an established nickel back as a part of their core. It troubles me to see a revolving door at this position.

Looks like manning moving to nickely made him expendable. I just hate for this team to keep loosing proven play makers.
In all likelihood we will get draft picks out of this. A 3rd or 4th would seem right. It’d be cool if we could stock pile picks and trade up next year and grab another rb. Get a real two back combo going.

by rahulsriram on Jul 2, 2008 9:39 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

i think

they have devalued him too much for that high of a pick compensation. they took never heard of before the draft not too good daniel manning and made him a corner instead of letting RMJ play last year, i think that may screw them a bit. and it didn’t make sense.

by mike b on Jul 2, 2008 9:45 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Worse... I couldn't figure out for the life of me WHY

Manning Jr wasn’t starting at CB along with McBride when Vasher and Tillman were both down last year? Instead, they moved Danieal Manning from safety to CB (weakening two positions at once). Danieal got roasted at CB during that stretch.

It was just another on the list of piss poor decisions by our coaching staff last year. Right up there with deciding not to use Hester on kickoffs on opening day in San Diego, because Lovie thought… well, they wont kick to him anyway. What a moron. Even when they don’t kick to him, we get the ball at the 40.

Then earlier of course, comes one of my favorites: dumping our D-Line coach after the Superbowl, because Lovie wanted Mark Anderson to start over Alex Brown, but our old D-Line coach favored Alex (and correctly so). So, Lovie handed Mark Anderson the starting gig… pissed off Alex Brown (who wanted to be traded), and ruined our run defense, until the last quarter of the season when he finally admitted his mistake and returned Alex Brown to the starting line-up. Notice how much better our D played in those final games?

Then again, on opening day in San Diego, our starting DT Dusty D, was for some inexplainable reason playing special teams and blew his knee out… done for the year. Why the hell would Dusty be playing ST, especially when we were counting on him so highly for the season and already worried about our depth at DT?

I could go on and on with this. I’ll stop here. Let’s just say it wasn’t the players who ruined last season (aside from the non motivated $17 mil Cedric Buston)... it was the coaching staff.

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by SackMan on Jul 2, 2008 10:25 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

We've done a pretty nice job of bringing in fresh CB talent every year

And you can never have enough CBs in this league. If we trade Manning Jr, we should be able to get pretty darn good value for him… everyone needs CBs.

I'm not going to even bother trying to update this sig everyday anymore... that's what the standings column on ESPN is for.
Updated on May 25, 2008

by SackMan on Jul 2, 2008 10:14 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Does nobody remember?

That RMJ completely sucked last year? Sure he played great in ‘06 but ‘07 was just pitiful.

As for Anderson, He got 12 sacks and you really thought it was a bad idea to get him more playing time? Sure, hindsight is great, but if they HADN’T tried it people would just be complaining about MA not getting a chance.

by HesterSteals1st on Jul 2, 2008 8:19 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs