Draft Dodging

I can hear Mike North now.

It’s a little redundant. It goes like this.

Blah blah blah blah blah they didn’t draft a quarterback blah blah blah blah blah Grossman stinks blah blah blah blah blah respect my authorit-eye blah blah blah blah blah 27 interceptions since 2006.

Yes, the Bears do not have a quarterback, but in the words of draft day uber-nerd John Rice, “Ask yourself who the best quarterback is in their division. John [freaking] Kitna.”

In other words you don’t need a quarterback to compete in the North.

Rice, an architectural analysis major (whatever the hell that is) at Philadelphia University was quick to point out that while the Bears draft was questionable, it stuck to one of the basic fundamentals of football - a quality o-line can make a bad quarterback good and a good quarterback great.

One of the inarguable truths about Rex Grossman is that when threatened he gets skittish. Now obviously 1^st round pick Chris Williams isn’t going to come into the NFL and dominate the way he did at Vandy (he’s allowed zero sacks in his previous 11 games) it sets the groundwork for what could be one of the best offensive lines in the NFL.

So (and of course this is all hypothetical) let’s say the Bears’ o-line makes Rex a little better (and let’s not forget that when Rex is on top of his game he’s actually a very good quarterback), and the added depth at wide receiver improves him a little more, then the Bears have a chance to be one of the better offensive teams in the NFC.

But what about the rest of the draft? The Bears have taken heat for their entire draft, beyond the quarterback position. Again I default to Fried Rice:

“They addressed every other position that was an issue, they just may not have addressed the positions with the best possible players. And [explitive] Tom Brady was drafted 199^th, let’s talk about this in a year.”

Well put Ricie