Who Brought This Back Up? Oh, Wait... It Was Bears Players

that if his trial is set for after the 2009 season, a one year contract is win win for everybody. Also, if he gets suspended, it’s 2 games tops. What he did was stupid, not malicious.

he already turned down an agreement for like 2 months jail time, right? I would think that means that he feels he can get less than that…. that being said, I’m all for a 1-yr, performance-based incentive-laden contract…but I still have faith in the corp we have…

Eric, I agree with your “stupid, not malicious” comment 100%. There are people in the NFL who’ve done a lot worse and are still playing (ahem, Ray Lewis). I also agree that a 1-year performance-based contract would not hurt the Bears.

If it doesn’t work out, we’ll move on next year with our future studs still in tact (Forte, Cutler, Hester, etc.). But if it does work out, the sky is the limit.

He’s 31, so we should try to milk the last great years he has left.

with his future still uncertain? IDK, not necessarily the best thing, but if the deal is loaded based on performance, if the can’t play, then he can’t perform, right? then we don’t lose out as much? It’s all speculation, and I don’t really know much about contracts/payments, but it’s just something else to think about…

Until his situation has some kind of finality… theres no point in really leaning one way or the other.

He’s bigger, commands double teams and game planning, awesome red zone threat, deep threat, just as much heart and passion, and likely much cheaper right now.

Legal issues are obviously a concern, but he like I said before this article, he made a bad decision, he isn’t a criminal.

but could you explain the accusations? Chad 85, yea… T.O., yea… but I’ve never really heard of Plaxico’s “diva-ness”

until his legal stuff is ironed out. With a prison sentence and Goodell suspension, that 1 year deal will probably be expired before he sees the field.

That got to keep Williams through their playoff run. They wouldn’t have won the division if it weren’t for their shananagans. Cheaters!!!!!

He got cut during a probation on the team for a suspension of DUI. Tank didn’t do just the gun thing and we accepted that as long as he was able to change. We still cut him too soon. We should have waited to see if he were guilty, just like Benson. Glad Benson’s gone in the end, but we should have waited it out.

Larry has inside information but doesn’t release it. That is why his articles are so accurate about players and who will start and who is really getting coaches eye and stuff. He’s heard something about considering Plaxico from the inside because he just made a 180. Early he trashed the Plaxico idea because “he won’t likely see the field in 09” and also because of character. Now he likes the idea. Of course! Your job is to spin what the Bears are about to do or just did.

has publicly thrown 3 quarterbacks under the bus. Lots of teammates have called out T.O. as he has called out plenty of teammates. I can not think of one time a teammate has called Plax a cancer or Plax calling out a teammate. To compare the two is ridiculous. T.O. has obviously done more damage. You don’t like Plax’s work ethic, fine, but Tommie Harris does the same thing with practices. You think he ends up on the wrong side of the law too often, fine, but before the gun charge it has all been misdemeanors, dropped charges, and civil lawsuits. Nothing criminal. So here it is, the Plax is a Cancer crowd, I want a link to a teammate calling him a cancer.

As far as Johnson, I would love for him to be a Bear, but does it seem like Cinncy really wants to trade him. If they did, they probably could have got a 1st rounder from Philly before the draft. I don’t see them settling for a secound rounder now.

Doesn’t sound like a cancer to me. Ask Manning, Jacobs, and the defense if they didn’t miss Plaxico and want him back this year. You have a very short memory. Those guys were pleading to keep him. Here are some videos. Listen to how is teammates talk about him. Check out page 2, 3, and 4.

http://www.nfl.com/videos/new-york-giants?page=2

and great points… i would’ve mentioned how you went a lttle “CYBIL” on me at the end, but i have to admit… the idea is starting to grow on me.

Well Pittsburgh was quite a while to go and Hines was not over the hill yet. Heck he’s still performing very well, but a little beat up. Also, Burress was not the Burress of today. He is much better. Just like us letting Berrian go. We weren’t going to pay a huge some for potential. Hines was proven to be worth the money. Plax was showing potential. They passed because of money. Lots of teams do that.

In NY, he got let go because he didn’t want to give the organization money back and resign at a lower price. They wanted to keep him, but not pay him and they were leveraging court stuff against him. He refused to renogotiate. The team felt screwed that he got the new contract and then was hurt and had legal issues. They wanted money back. Maybe a little of it was a PR thing, and trying to just move forward and not be handicapped by the long wait to find out his status, but most of it was money.