Question: Who Would You Pick for Your 'All-Payne' Team? - @Kevin_Payne

by KevinPayne on Mar 16, 2010 10:55 AM CDT

What's up, Bears fans? I wanna answer another question for you guys, and today's comes from SpleenSplitter. He asks...

"If you were putting together an "All-Payne" team and the first player you picked had to be someone off of the current Bears roster, who would you pick 1st, yourself excluded of course, and why?"

That's a really hard question to answer, because it's hard to choose players without knowing what this All-Payne team's needs are. However, I think I've got a couple shoe-ins I can mention who I know I'd most definitely pick.

On defense, I'd have to with Brian Urlacher, because of his consistency in what he's been able to do on the field for so long. I mean his presence, alone, intimidates entire teams! He's a freak of nature: he's crazy strong, crazy big and crazy quick (I think he ran a 4.4 forty!). When you couple his athleticism with his smarts, you've got yourself a team leader who's able to make everyone around him improve their own abilities. And, personally, he makes my job a lot easier, because he's able to cover so much ground out there.

With my second pick - especially for offense and special teams - I gotta go with Devin Hester, because that guy can do amazing things with a football when it's in his hands. In the two short years he's been in the NFL, I gotta say that he's probably already a Hall of Famer. I could ramble on and on about how good this guy is, and, maybe, I'll do just that in a future blog post.

So those are my two picks. Brian Urlacher would be my first and Devin Hester would be my second. But, like I said above, in order to pick the proper players, you gotta have a better understanding of what your team's needs are.

So there you have it, SpleenSplitter. I'm sorry I didn't give you an entire squad of All-Payne'ers, but I think we've now established a good starting point.

(SpleenSplitter... Email me a secret phrase and your mailing address to KevinPayneNFL at G Mail dot com, and then type that same phrase in your SBNation profile's "About Me" section. I'll match them up to verify you, so I can mail an autograph your way. Thanks, man.)

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I rule!

Thanks so much for answering my question and no, I wouldn’t expect a whole team. Just really wanted a player’s perspective on who they (you) might consider to be “the guy”.

So there ya’ go to all the “trade Urlacher” knuckleheads. To quote our fellow fanatic No It All, “GTFO”.

Again, it’s so cool of you to take the time to hang with us at WCG. Thanks so much!

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by Pete Dixon on Mar 16, 2010 11:15 AM CDT reply actions

URLACHER ALL DAY

by Bear Lovin 21 on Mar 16, 2010 11:22 AM CDT reply actions

Hey Payne, I just got a pick with you on Madden, Nice Job!!! Hahahaha

"How sad, another victim of the Night Nurses from Jersey."

by ANYTIME09 on Mar 16, 2010 11:26 AM CDT reply actions

Ya can't have an " All Payne " team without Urlacher !!!!

And I really like the photo at the top , it seems fimilar to me ?! :-)

by MidWayMonster54 on Mar 16, 2010 11:29 AM CDT reply actions

I spy

Sexy Rexy in that pic…

by BBANGUS on Mar 16, 2010 11:43 AM CDT up reply actions

Archuleta too

"If I were a food critic being asked to write about the meal and experience at Waffle House, I would provide a drawing of two happy fat people giving each other a high five."

by BearNecessities on Mar 16, 2010 12:02 PM CDT up reply actions

I spy me some DUSTY

by Bear Lovin 21 on Mar 16, 2010 1:19 PM CDT up reply actions

i hope sex cannon

is still in the league next year if he isn’t the backup at houston.

by reefermadness3 on Mar 16, 2010 1:25 PM CDT up reply actions

He was looking

at joining the Redskins last I heard

by tommite622 on Mar 16, 2010 1:42 PM CDT up reply actions

oh good

small chance he could start there

by reefermadness3 on Mar 16, 2010 2:26 PM CDT up reply actions

Seattle could work too, maybe.

possible challenge Leinert in ARZ or the Rams?

"If I were a food critic being asked to write about the meal and experience at Waffle House, I would provide a drawing of two happy fat people giving each other a high five."

by BearNecessities on Mar 16, 2010 2:52 PM CDT up reply actions

I actually thought that he could start in StL.....

Grossman wasn’t great here, but he was a victim of Ron Turner as much as anyone, and maybe more so. For an example, Look at the offensive playcalling of Peyton Manning in te Super Bowl, v Ron Turners calls in the same game. Peyton nearly got picked of by Tillman due to conditions, and adjusted his game to the short yardage type. Turner didn’t , and Rex got the blame almost entirely to himself.

I don’t want to see Grossman back here, but I would love to see him succeed somewhere else, if for no other reason than to cast away any future ideas that maybe Turner should get a round three in Chicago.

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1 : The act of doing the same thing over and over again while expecting different results.

by Timothy Hockemeyer on Mar 16, 2010 3:00 PM CDT up reply actions