Heinz D. Posted January 19, 2020 Share Posted January 19, 2020 (edited) 6 hours ago, Sugashane said: To be fair, there wasn't much upside to having Knox, Hester, and Bennett as his top 3 WRs. lol You're right, but...I think we'd probably all have a different opinion of Knox if he hadn't gotten hurt. Hester should never have been converted to WR though, and Bennett was too streaky to be more than (pretty much) average. Edited January 19, 2020 by Heinz D. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sugashane Posted January 19, 2020 Share Posted January 19, 2020 ️ 1 hour ago, Heinz D. said: You're right, but...I think we'd probably all have a different opinion of Know if he hadn't gotten hurt. Hester should never have been converted to WR though, and Bennett was too streaky to be more than (pretty much) average. Agreed, I liked Knox. I think Knox could have been a top deep threat in the NFL. DeSean Jackson lite. Never could run a full route tree and maddeningly lazy when needing to highpoint the ball, but he could get behind about anyone. Hester to WR was fine to me, him being more than a 4 or maybe a 3 was bad. If we had traded the pick used for Brandon Hardin to trade for Marshall (nd not stupidly trading Olsen) we are looking at - X/Z - Marshall - Jeffery Slots - Knox - Hester TE - Olsen That is elite, and Hester could have filled that role well IMO. Knox could take the top off, Hester could be a secondary deep threat and also an under receiver to get in space, and with the safeties keeping deep due to Knox you'd see Marshal, Jeffery, and Olsen feasting in the intermediate. OL would still have been an issue but there is enough talent to still put points up in bunches IMO. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beardown3231 Posted January 19, 2020 Share Posted January 19, 2020 2 hours ago, Heinz D. said: You're right, but...I think we'd probably all have a different opinion of Know if he hadn't gotten hurt. Hester should never have been converted to WR though, and Bennett was too streaky to be more than (pretty much) average. I'm of the opinion that if Knox hadn't fell and caused the Cutler broken thumb, they go deep into January & maybe February that year. For that I can never forgive him, so forget his injury: I would've had a different opinion of him had he not fallen over for no reason. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nads786 Posted January 19, 2020 Share Posted January 19, 2020 2 hours ago, Sugashane said: To be fair, there wasn't much upside to having Knox, Hester, and Bennett as his top 3 WRs. lol He should have used Olsen much more though and would have been better to have been moved to a full-time slot WR than to be traded for a 3rd. I don't think any coach could have made that a 10-15 ranked offense (not counting all the ST TDs of course). His offensive line was also not very good either. He didn't have a ton of the pieces he needed to execute his offense, and Cutler was not the ideal QB for his scheme. I always thought it was a bad fit. I was always hoping to have Cutler paired with a Shannhan discipline to allow him to maximize his half the field reads. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G08 Posted January 19, 2020 Share Posted January 19, 2020 41 minutes ago, Nads786 said: His offensive line was also not very good either. He didn't have a ton of the pieces he needed to execute his offense, and Cutler was not the ideal QB for his scheme. I always thought it was a bad fit. I was always hoping to have Cutler paired with a Shannhan discipline to allow him to maximize his half the field reads. I've always said, the worst thing that happened to Jay Cutler's career was getting traded to the Chicago Bears. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beardown3231 Posted January 19, 2020 Share Posted January 19, 2020 22 hours ago, Heinz D. said: In our defense, we had no idea that Martz was incapable of coaching without All-Pros at several key positions... Yet the offense was rolling before Cutler snapped his thumb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G08 Posted January 19, 2020 Share Posted January 19, 2020 52 minutes ago, beardown3231 said: Yet the offense was rolling before Cutler snapped his thumb I still say his best game as a Bear was that exact Chargers game you referenced. I think we bled the final 9 minutes of the game with a QB who had a broken thumb. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nads786 Posted January 20, 2020 Share Posted January 20, 2020 17 hours ago, beardown3231 said: Yet the offense was rolling before Cutler snapped his thumb Martz and Cutler were rolling that year. Really disappointing season. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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