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LOL, Bears fans are now saying the NFC North is theirs and they are Super Bowl contenders. Did they forget they still have that bum Cutler as their QB?
bigtrain21":g8x70hgc said:HawkFan72":g8x70hgc said:Here's the real reason Allen isn't a Seahawk.
Sources also said that Allen’s wife was not enamored with Seattle in her two visits here and didn’t like the city. Really? Maybe she was here on a couple of typical, rainy and gray winter days, but enjoy those winters in Chicago.
http://espn.go.com/blog/seattle-seahawks/post/_/id/5164/jared-allen-got-the-better-offer-he-wanted
Reports were she visited one time and it was a really nice day if I remember correctly. I call BS. He made that up.
This, a thousand times this.kidhawk":27cu3a39 said:On some teams, Allen would be worth that, but for us he was a luxury, just like last year having Clemons, Avril & Bennett all on the same defense was a luxury. We can't afford luxuries anymore. Our first priority has to be keeping the core of this team together. I would have loved to see what our defense could have done with Allen on it, but I'm also glad we are being smart with our money and hopefully using it to re-sign our own
HansGruber":16sazo9v said:Would have come down to Jared Allen or Sherm/Thomas.
With Bennett already on the roster, it was a luxury move. We've got some good depth already at DE. We can draft late for depth and not worry about a thing.
And you don't sign an old guy like Allen at the expense of a HOFer like Sherman and/or Thomas in their prime.
Hilarious listening to Cubs fans talking Superbowl. They'd never get past the NFCW. NFCN is a joke.
MVP53":1qcnayoc said:HansGruber":1qcnayoc said:Would have come down to Jared Allen or Sherm/Thomas.
With Bennett already on the roster, it was a luxury move. We've got some good depth already at DE. We can draft late for depth and not worry about a thing.
And you don't sign an old guy like Allen at the expense of a HOFer like Sherman and/or Thomas in their prime.
Hilarious listening to Cubs fans talking Superbowl. They'd never get past the NFCW. NFCN is a joke.
I really don't think Schneider would have offered Allen a deal that would have put any Earl/Sherm extensions in jeopardy.
If you truly believe it was an Allen or Earl/Sherm situation, then you believe Schneider values Allen more than Earl/Sherm, since he made an offer to Allen.
HansGruber":20hfozab said:It was a desperate move by Chicago to put butts in the seats.
They lost the only meaningful battle when Bennett signed with Seattle. That would have been a setback. This is just the Seahawks shrugging, saying meh, and moving on with younger guys.
Seattle gets to keep Thomas and Sherman, and that is great great news.
HawkFan72":banm23dh said:HansGruber":banm23dh said:It was a desperate move by Chicago to put butts in the seats.
They lost the only meaningful battle when Bennett signed with Seattle. That would have been a setback. This is just the Seahawks shrugging, saying meh, and moving on with younger guys.
Seattle gets to keep Thomas and Sherman, and that is great great news.
And Bennett is only a Seahawk because he was willing to take less to stay. The Bears offered him reportedly $34m and we offered $28m (though the guarantees were "close").
I think the Seahawks would have drawn the same line in the sand for Bennett, and we are just fortunate that he wanted to stay so badly.
In a one-on-one with NFL Media's Stacey Dales, Allen explained why the Bears made sense.
"My process this whole time was that I really wanted to be thorough on what I did," he said. "I didn't want to just jump at the highest money. I didn't want to just try to pick who's going to win the Super Bowl.
"I wanted to make sure that a) they had a quarterback, because if you have a quarterback, you have a chance. B) it had to be scheme or system that I fit into, and c) I wanted to be with, and part of that being, would be believing in the system and believing in the staff that I'm playing for, and really being on the same page philosophically about what they're trying to accomplish."