Wow, I thought the ARob thing was dead. Here's how I saw it:

1. He tore his ACL and rehabbed it. OK. Good, but now he's a gamble going into a second contract/franchise tag year.
2. Someone here said that the average #yards gained by a WR in the first season after rehabbing an ACL is 850. Accepting that as somewhere around correct, he gained 754 last year, somewhat in the range.
3. They could have franchised him last year for, you tell me, $XX million and gotten those 754 yards while attempting to negotiate an extension.
4. He was, and is, still damaged goods...the jury is still out on that ACL.
5. He didn't even want to be here. That extension would never have been negotiated, he would gotten franchise tag money for another year of disinterested play.
6. Repeat after me: he didn't want to be here.

Let someone else pay him the big money and the Bears did. Good for them and good for him and wish him luck. Just imagine the boo-hooing and the front office roasting here if we gave him the $40-50 million contract and he gained 754 yards.

IMO, if there ever was a guy to let walk, it was him. Solid FO decision.

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