Monday Night Musings: What's the Bears first free agency move?

Aaron Kampman

The trio of stooges are in "save your job" mode, and Ted Phillips is the one who authorizes the spending. They have no 1st day draft picks to help make an immediate impact on the field, and therefore must use free agency to improve the roster in order to win next year.

If they sign the right guys, they’ll win games and keep their jobs. If they fail, they’ll lose their jobs, and they’re not on the hook for the bad contracts anyway.

*Don’t mind my cut and paste from another comment of mine.

we can bring in, overpay and move out of his natural position?

Recall that the Bears didn’t have any interest in Darren Sharper, because he “freelances.” And, also recall that Lovie had a conflict with Ricky Manning Jr, because he was freelancing, despite intercepting a bunch of passes.

Well… Rolle is another safety who likes to freelance. Something’s gotta give, but I’d wager it won’t be Lovie’s ego.

I think we can land Peppers, for better or worse. Possibly Rolle but it seems like he wants to stay in AZ and that they might try to sign him back.

I don’t know why Sean Jensen states in his article that Matt Forte is “entrenched.” If we can get an RB (or 2?) to share the load with him, spell him for a third of the downs, or replace him altogether, I’m all for it.

I’ve been watching football for over 30 years, and I can’t recall an RB ever starting all 16 games, and getting the bulk of the carries, and still not rushing for a 1,000 yards. “Entrenched” my ass…

Sign Peppers and Rhodes, Clark, or Rolle then draft the best available at RB, OL , DB. Then I wake up.

…… Julius Peppers .

i would do it, but i don’t think the bears will. Rolle would be nice. sign peppers and draft kam chancellor, that’d be nice.

If we don’t get either and resign Adewale ill be furious

Peppers or Kampman. My opinion is we get defensive help via FA and use the draft to get Oline help. It just seems obvious to me with so many solid players on defense available and our many needs on defense that that is where we should get our defensive help.

They’ll land either Peppers or Kampman early on the first or second day of free-agency. Lesser players will wait, cause there’s less demand for them.

Bears management have no choice but to make a BIG no make that HUGE impact in free agency….there are multiple players available at the positions we need and if the Bears dont do something there’s a strong possibility they will lose Bear fans along the way…They better do something HUGE to infuse some excitement in the fanbase or it just might be a long season

Look for him to go to a team in the southeast, closer to his family in Florida. Then, once he has the big contract inked he’ll become the next Tommie Harris (2007-2009).

I would really love to add Sproles to the conversation. He’s a great change up back in the nickle offense. He’d fit in this system like a glove. Imagine our nickle package w/Sproles & Hester in the slot. It would guarantee one on one matchups at the X,&Z not to mention the Y(TE/slot). Imagine Hester slot,Sproles in the backfield,D.A.,& Knox at flanker & split,& either Olsen or Bennett at the Y or in some cases both in an empty backfield w/Cutler pulling the trigger? Sound to me like defensive coordinators will be fueled on caffeine game day due to a lack of sleep all week trying to stop 3rd downs..

i think it really depends on the bidding for peppers.. id go 12 million no more.. if it gets too high then i say spread the dough and get three impact players, rumor has it they are targeting manu whas his name a tight end that martz loves first.. should be interesting

go all in with this defensive philosophy, with some all pros. then draft (if not kam chancellor) Gerhart or Riley Cooper. Receiver is still a major need for this team, a couple of games from Aromashadu is promising but should not be an entitlement to a starting position over a veteran #1.

But I’m saying Peppers gonna get paid!! Hope Kampman’s knee is better… but in reality what is new with projected rookie free agents?

-Scratch their chins…

Not only is he explosive as a complementary back, but is also a stud on ST, which can finally allow us to move Daniel Manning.

The first signing will be a strong safety that spent last year on someone elses practice squad that the Bears can mold into the next free safety/nickle/outside corner/returner because Manning will probably high tail it out next year, and we all know that Angelo and Smith think they need at least one DB on the team that will play 3 or 4 positions at once.

Brandon Manumaleuna. Martz wants him and he’s an easy signing because he’s not highly coveted by anyone else. Kampman or Peppers will take a while to get done, say next week some time. The more I look into it, I see Rhodes as the next best choice at FS. After that, I do see an Olsen for Boldin trade. I hear Marshall’s name at WR, but I just do not see how that deal gets done. I bet the Bears let Manning go and use the 3rd round compensation on the best available DB (FS IMO) and the other 3rd rounder on an o-lineman (probably RT for the value, but OG is a better bet/need). Then fill in the best RB in the 4th and a few “gems” in the later rounds. Now that’s all realistic and makes good sense, so I’m not going to hold my breath.

A D lineman that they’ll try to convert to O line.
An O lineman that they’ll try to convert to D line.
A cornerback that they’ll try to turn into a safety.
A tight end that they’ll try to convert to fullback (Nah, they love them some McKie)
A QB they’ll try to make into a WR.
A safety they’ll try to convert to LB (hey, it worked once).