The latest rumor has the Bears shopping Brandon Marshall. Do you care if he stays or goes? I don’t, and let me tell you why.
First off, the guy I really want to go is #6. I’d much rather see the Bears keep Marshall and dump Cutler, regardless of what the alternative at QB is. Why are we shopping Marshall now? Is it because Cutler and his relationship has deteriorated? Are the Bears choosing Cutler again? If it’s for that reason, we definitely shouldn’t trade Marshall. I have some other reasons…
His focus hasn’t been on the field, or at least, wasn’t on the field this year. Can you blame him? Uh… yeah. Part of the reason the Bears were so bad WAS the lack of focus. It wasn’t only Marshall. Unfortunately, BBQ Briggs set that example early. By the way, he’s just been informed he won’t be offered a contract. Anybody who knows, knows that Briggs was a beast in his hey day, and that he was one of the great Bears linebackers of all time. Don’t just remember him for this past year or two; it’s not a reflection of who he was for the Bears in his career. It’s sad that the great players of those Bears teams, Kreutz, Urlacher, Hester, now Briggs, and next Tillman, will not voluntarily retire as Bears. OK, back to Marshall. The only consistent thing he did all year was film his weekly show. It wasn’t only that, but talking crap to Robbie Gould… of all the guys. His head was never the same. Then his Twitter fight challenges… really? All of this going on as the Bears nosedived.
He was outspoken, and I can’t hate him for that. He has been a pretty good citizen off the field, as he controls his bi polar disorder, so I can’t be mad at him for that. On the field, when he’s on, he was awesome; he was one of the best Bears WR of all time, I would say. So why then get rid of him? I didn’t say I WANTED to trade him, I just said it really didn’t matter.
The real reason it doesn’t matter is this: How many playoff games has Brandon Marshall been to in his career? The same as you and me combined. He’s NOT a winner. Period. For someone who is so individually great, none of his teams ever made the playoffs with him. The same is true for Cutler. 2 playoff games in his career, I believe, and one of them, was the Packers debacle. These guys are NOT winners. So what does it really matter if we dump them or not?
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Speaking of alternatives, what would our WR corps look like without him? Is Alshon a #1? He’ll want to get paid like one, and that’s coming up. What about Marquise Wilson? He never really got a chance after he broke his collarbone in preseason. The Bears are inviting Brian Hartline to camp too. Somebody mentioned Andre Johnson; I’ve always liked him. He wouldn’t be a bad replacement if this happens.
At the end of the day, I’d rather see Marshall stay then go. I’m just not that emotionally tied up in that decision. The whole Cutler-Marshall thing had its moments, but at the end of the day, took us to the playoffs zero times. Now that Emery is gone, Trestman is gone… the experiment is over. Man I’d really wish we’d get rid of Cutler somehow, although as of this coming Monday, $10 million of his contract will kick in… Breaking news this weekend??? So Cutler will probably be back… why not Marshall too then? At least he had the balls to call Cutler out, when somebody should have been doing so all along.
These are not easy decisions, but ones that I’m not losing sleep over. The one I’m most worried about is Forte. I understand that RBs are less valuable nowadays, but it’s almost getting to a point where they are undervalued. McCoy traded for a LB? That just doesn’t seem right. There are only a handful of top RBs; Forte and McCoy are in that group.
So what happens with Brandon? You make the call.
bullwinkle
take his injuries to talk radio…..he can’t get hurt there.
i’d try to sign peanut to a reduced contract. he should take a cut to stay with the Bears. nobody else is gonna match his Bears salary, so, offer him a pay cut and keep him around. he may have lost a step, but he’s still one of the smartest db’s around.
Mo
Keep him! We have been searching for a WR like this and now we want to dump him? Makes no sense. Even if the cry baby stays, we trade an A1WR? Bad call!!
LD#19
He GONE! One cancer out the way! $7 million more now to fill 10 voids in talent at other positions.
nostradummass
Marshall is gone, but I was indifferent to him before the announcement. Marshall had some real attitude problems beyond his bi-polar. At least in NYC he can do his radio show and make practice on the same day (depending on what time the Jets practice.) I wouldn’t necessarily hold it against anyone that they have not been in playoff games, but the aura around Cutler and Marshall as superstars is fiction, not real. They have had decent, not great but decent, supporting casts in both Denver and Chicago and still don’t get above average results. The tangible and clear results suggest that they both deliver middle-of-the-pack results. Given their natural talents or gifts, that is clearly unfortunate.
And…. I agree with bullwinkle. Sign Peanut just in case he can play for another year or two and bring his enthusiasm to the locker room with him. If Ryan Pace blows a huge chunk of cap space this year, he will be making a BIG mistake. Only Suh is perhaps worth a big contract and the Bears could get Suh and still have a big chunk of cap space. No one else available (at least in my humble opinion), will help build a real winner until maybe 2017, or probably mot like 2018 or 2019–what Pace and Fox should be shooting for as of now–they just don’t have a deep enough, wide enough, or young enough core of real talent currently to take a shot at the Superbowl in 2015 or 2016.
MK
See ya bmarsh…good to have you but not bad to be without you. Bmarsh is replaceable. Plus, he is getting older, injured often, and a guy who could be cancerous in the clubhouse, especially when combined with jay. Clear the cap space and the locker room of these clowns who are more about themselves than DA BEARS! Only guy left is jay…what do you say? He’ll have his day…can he still play? Not for us, but he just may…circle around and pray…that DA BEARS get rid of that A-hole!