Randle El rejects Bear's offer

[That Guy]

Originally Posted by jermus22

I'm with you. Why are we going after him when have other major needs right now? We should concentrate on re-signing key free agents like Ryan Clark, Khary Campbell, and Ade Jimoh and look for a TE, pass rushing DE, and 3rd string QB in free agency. Weakside linebacker and nickleback can be addressed in the 2nd and 4th rounds, and depth at any positions like C-G, S (assuming we don't re-sign Omar Stoutmire), WR (preferably a return specialist), TE, DL, and/or possibly help at P and K could be addressed in the lower rounds of the draft. I can't understand why we're looking at guys like Randle El and Archuleta when we have other glaring needs. It will just hurt our cap in the long run and possibly hurt team cohesion by not allowing us to re-sign other guys. :confused-

we've offered a tender to jimoh and clemons, we are looking for a blocking TE, carter is a pass rushing DE (and that makes wynn DE/DT depth) and collins is a #3 QB and got flown by private jet straight from his vacation to washington saturday morning. You want depth at WR that's a return specialist... what do you think R'El is?

you say you want safety depth, yet you don't understand why we'd want archuleta?

we can get a punter undrafted. all the kicers suck this year.

according to the facts, everything you're worried about is being taken care of.

[RedskinPete]

I have to tell you ever time Brown returned kicks and punts I hoped he wouldn't turn it over! El returning thins will be great!

[drew54]

He is an excellent return man. That right there is worth the additional 12 million we gave him over the Bears offer.

Now if only we had a kicker that could get the ball into the endzone on kickoffs instead of the 20 yard line, John Hall style.

[That Guy]

its 7 years 31 mill... sounds like the exact same deal moss got

we just got lloyd and R'El could be #3 or #4 on the depth chart, so you gotta pay the guy more. as least we won't fumble returns now.

OL, CB, LB, K, P left to go (with no one targetted yet). P can still be done in the draft (or undrafted), OL/CB we can fix one with the 2nd pick and hope beyond hope someone in the late rounds can step up, or try for a FA (CB #3 is much cheaper in FA than backup OL, which is SUPER cheap in the draft). kicker is FA or bust. there are no FA punters.