written in the times today by the #1 shemale fluffer in town, Moronotti. I bet your mom wishes she aborted you all those years ago huh Jay? good to see the garbage you dook out on your worthless column isn’t even valid a couple hours after printing. I’m glad i subscribe to the other paper.

in any case it is good to see #23 start practicing, i am guessing angelo or someone reached out in good faith and said you will get paid but you need to be here? now hopefully these small injuries to veterans and rookies alike go away soon. never again do any of us want to see the infamous hammy pull saga of a couple years ago.

only because hester doesn’t make enough money to sit around too long, and he doesn’t have enough time at the position to really gt any more money.

but more because angelo sounded like it was already happening and maybe hester jumped the gun a bit. maybe not.

So, I’m guessing Hester realized the bad PR move he made, and showed up for camp.

For the record though: This is completely the Bears fault… they want him to play WR… and their offensively-challenged head coach thinks that Hester is a #1 WR.

Therefore… his agent says, he should be paid like a #1 WR.

...this was a no-brainer. Hester probably won’t get true #1 money, but to say he hasn’t earned a raise is ridiculous.

If some guy came in at RB and re-wrote the record book at that position he’d get a raise after 2 years as well.

He’s worth every $ spent, ESPECIALLY if teams ‘stop kicking to him’ – meaning they’ll be aiming out of bounds and risking mo’ shanks, etc. He’s a field position sponge and we need him.

But I picture he, wife and his agent in a beach house waiting for a fax to come in with JA’s newest offer. The offer is terrible and Hester looks at his agent, “What should I do?” Hester’s wife says, “Don’t ask you’re agent, this is our decision.” She says to him “You’re going to play out the rest of your shy contract, then you’re going to become a free agent.” Hester says, “You’re the sh Marcie.” And somehow that’s a compliment. To be calle “the sh*.” So Devin returns to practice the next day.

is an exponentially growing case for why JA should be fired, and fired in a manner something to the tune of the Willie Randolph firing, maybe even worse, if possible. Forgive me if this comes off as a crazy rant, but I’ve given a lot of thought to this since it was first suggested that the Bears proactively seek to restructure the contract in the spring.

Forget the complications and unique considerations involved in making this deal for just a minute. To this point, Hester has been a gift to the team’s scoring tally above and beyond any and all initial expectations following his draft selection, been officially made the new, exciting face of the franchise, been the anti-Tank-Johnson as far as character and humility go, and has taken without any objection the PR/marketing pitch the organization has thrown out there pointing to him as the savior of the offense and all the pressure and expectations that come with that while knowing the organization is stalling on his contract negotiations because they might, in reality, have other options to go with for their WR corps. If a football game didn’t involve roughly 30-35 contributors, I would even go so far as to say that this guy is the up-and-coming Michael Jordan equivalent for this franchise and it’s bottom line as far as star power / fan appeal goes. And given all that, you’re going to tell me that they can’t resolve the issue of how to up his bottom-dollar contract to make him feel respected and appreciated before the start of training camp, supposedly just because it’s too unique of a situation? And then they go out and publicly lambaste the guy’s decision to not show up at training camp when it’s clear that they’re entertaining other options? Forget the uniqueness of the contract considerations, because the uniqueness of this business decision / managerial failure / highway robbery is far and away the more perplexing situation.

I could carry on about this probably for several days, but at the end of the day, the simple point remains that Devin Hester has far and away outplayed his rookie contract because in his first two years he has contributed to this team – just as a returner – more than anybody ever could have imagined he would have on his draft day. And I mean that keeping in mind that the Bears drafted him in the second round primarily as a solution to their awful, terrible return game in 2005 (R.I.P. R.W. McQuarters). Nevermind the added bonus - widely recognized in the draft that year, I might add, for those thinking that this suggested WR move came out of nowhere - that hester was so gifted that it was assumed he could become a successful CB or a WR at some point way down the line, if given the time.

I am pretty sure that he’s publicly stated that he wants a contract that’s something like what a 1st or 2nd round pick would get if such a pick were clearly expected to come in and start. Take a small discount (20% ???) to what that would be, given the fact that you’ve signed some promising free agents and draft picks, and make the guy happy already. It’s not rocket science here, JA.