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I have to say, I am more happy about this than I expected to be.
As soon as the fans began chanting “Griese! Griese! …” my first thought was how that would effect the other players on the team, not about Grossman. I think there is far too much damage done to the confidence of the other players now for the Bears to force them to play with Grossman anymore… So I think it’s the right decision.
With time away, Grossman might sort his demons out, might get re-signed by the Bears during the off-season and come back next year, or the year after, a new man. If not? Good luck to the man – I just hope that a man the Chicago Bears spent four years training doesn’t become the next great Quarterback alongside names like Elway, Favre, Marino and Manning – if he’s not playing for the Bears!
I do still think this town is too touch on a Quarterback… A few minutes of playing Madden ’08 makes you realise if it’s difficult when you have almost a birds-eye view of the field, it must be supremely difficult in real-life. The tough thing too is that when you’re a Quarterback, you can screw up once and that’s it – the opposition might get the ball. If you’re pretty much any other player on offense, you get 3 chances to make the catch or the run for 10 yards. I know that sentence doesn’t make a whole lot of sense, but what I’m trying to say is that QB is a massive-pressure position… I guess not being American I maybe don’t see a few of the failures as “failures” and have come to accept them as inevitable parts of the game – because I didn’t grow up through school and college having a coach shouting at me?
Ah well, I hope Brian Griese can handle the pressure and bring the Bears back on-track. It’s annoying because I’ve been playing with Griese as QB all season in Madden ’08 and we’ve kicked ass. ;)
I would have to say this is the best decision the bears have made but I also believe they have dug a hole with Grossman. Had they used some resources and possibly retrieved a QB that was a young guy in the corner that they could use like a Jay Cutler or even David Carr I think they would be sitting on a dynasty other then a old skool veteran. But now its like rebuilding the offense for next year and hopefully Greise can win some games for them. They put everything in one basket with Grossman and now its paying off in a very bad way.
In a fantasy world right now I thinnk I would pick up Jim Sorgi from Inianapolis he is a young guy, has been phenominal in pre-season each year and I would have to say that he could be a great starter right off the bat since hes been learnign from Peyton Manning all of these years.
I don’t know how I feel about Greise’s playing ability, he’s good but his passes aren’t all that sharp nor does he get properly in sync with his teammates. Of course Grossman’s falling apart at the seams so there’s no option. I think Grossman gets frustrated really easily and isn’t able to move on from a mistake. When the game isn’t going his way he doesn’t know how to gain control or get in a zone with his receivers. As fans we do tend to give the QBs the majority of the credit as well as the majority of the blame, more so than is deserved sometimes, but its part of the territory.