(08-13-2019, 12:04 PM)MalabarJag Wrote: (08-13-2019, 10:49 AM)PF* Wrote: - I thought 850 yards was generous but it seems somewhat reasonable. Lee at 70% of 850 or about 700 yards this year? No, I wouldn't bet on it.
- I'm not convinced yet on the ACL being healed. Recent surgical advances have certainly changed the game though.
- I agree to a point on his working hard in a franchise tag year and your Lee/Moncrief argument is valid. On the Jags making a good guess in March, maybe they did.
It wasn't a foregone conclusion that Lee would get hurt and Moncrief would suck, it could have gone the other way, too. Excluding them and looking just at Arob, have the Bears gotten value from their investment in him yet?
From what little I watched of the Bears last year, ARob looked to me to be his former self, cutting and making tough catches. He was never all that fast. He led the Bears in receiving last year, and I'm not convinced Trubisky is any more than mediocre.
I agree the jury is still out on the decision. Robinson could end up as a problem child for the Bears. Lee could come back and have a great season, but the odds are very low, and would have been even if he hadn't been injured. The Jags replaced a potential top-level receiver with two mediocre receivers. At the time I was not so alarmed that they didn't keep Robinson as I was that they signed Lee and Moncrief, especially since the money they paid Moncrief for just one year was a significant fraction of what they would have paid Robinson under the franchise tag (also for just one year). If the Jags had used that money for another position instead of Moncrief that would have been more sensible.
(08-13-2019, 12:04 PM)MalabarJag Wrote: (08-13-2019, 10:49 AM)PF* Wrote: - I thought 850 yards was generous but it seems somewhat reasonable. Lee at 70% of 850 or about 700 yards this year? No, I wouldn't bet on it.
- I'm not convinced yet on the ACL being healed. Recent surgical advances have certainly changed the game though.
- I agree to a point on his working hard in a franchise tag year and your Lee/Moncrief argument is valid. On the Jags making a good guess in March, maybe they did.
It wasn't a foregone conclusion that Lee would get hurt and Moncrief would suck, it could have gone the other way, too. Excluding them and looking just at Arob, have the Bears gotten value from their investment in him yet?
From what little I watched of the Bears last year, ARob looked to me to be his former self, cutting and making tough catches. He was never all that fast. He led the Bears in receiving last year, and I'm not convinced Trubisky is any more than mediocre.
I agree the jury is still out on the decision. Robinson could end up as a problem child for the Bears. Lee could come back and have a great season, but the odds are very low, and would have been even if he hadn't been injured. The Jags replaced a potential top-level receiver with two mediocre receivers. At the time I was not so alarmed that they didn't keep Robinson as I was that they signed Lee and Moncrief, especially since the money they paid Moncrief for just one year was a significant fraction of what they would have paid Robinson under the franchise tag (also for just one year). If the Jags had used that money for another position instead of Moncrief that would have been more sensible.
I, too, was appalled at the money they gave Moncrief and can't understand why they ignore the OL (Smoot over Dan Feeney; Bryan over Will Hernandez, etc) continuously. I've always said that if you build a big, tough offensive line then anyone, including Jags02, could play behind it.
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