“I wanted to get to where I was going and be able to learn the offense and be able to jump in right this week”, Sitton said Monday.
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“The longer it took, the harder it would have been to learn the offense”.
“I would say we’re better prepared this year than the last two Miami experiences”, McCarthy said Tuesday, before the team’s first practice of the week.
The Bears did not have anybody in camp competing with Gould, and Pace said they did not look to trade him.
“We’ll probably be working five receivers this week”, McCarthy said. “He’s right up the road”. We had a few other teams interested.
“I don’t. I think they’re going to play their defense”, he said.
Green Bay Packers wide receiver Jordy Nelson will play on Sunday, September 11th in the Packers’ first regular season matchup vs. the Jaguars in Jacksonville. Although he will play his former team twice a season, he insists that his decision to sign with a long-time rival had nothing to do with seeking revenge against the Packers.
“I wanted to get the decision made as quickly as I could”, he said. “It’s only two-and-a-half hours from home or Green Bay”. That was actually a factor.
“Honestly, it didn’t have anything to do with sticking it to the Packers”, Sitton told The Journal Sentinel. “Been here eight years now, and one of the most surprising cuts that I’ve seen”.
“I like the weather up here”, Sitton deadpanned. Every decision we make is in the best interest of improving all aspects of our program. “It”s too damn hot in the South.”.
If Sitton can stay as healthy as a Bear as he did as a Packer – no sure thing, given the Bears’ injury luck – he helps solidify a Bears offensive line that has been in flux since Fox got here.
“Well, the personnel side of the National Football League is always fluid, whether it’s offseason, in season, postseason”, Fox said.
Sitton’s departure does create $6.55 million in additional salary cap space, which will give the Packers more money to extend player contracts for those players set to become free agents at the end of the season. But with just one veteran signing and some promising medical news over the holiday weekend, general manager Ryan Pace and Co. appear to have seriously accelerated their construction project.
The unit now has to deal with replacing the departed Josh Sitton at left guard, and JC Tretter is taking over for the injured Corey Linsley at center, but neither development has dampened the possibilities and expectations that have been building for the start of the season.
That would render Fox’s ground game ambidextrous – how’d you like to run left behind Long and Sitton or right behind Whitehair and the massive Massie? “He makes a lot of stuff look easy”. You never see him stressed or exposed. This is a good player that’s getting released a week before the season. “That shows up when you meet with him and all the research we did on him echoed that as well”.
Martzke said A & W will honor the half price Sitton burger on Mondays for a week or so, but the surprise of the Packers cutting Sitton had an impact.
“That’ll come in time with Lane”, Lang said.
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“That’s the first thing that pops into your head”, Pace said Monday at Halas Hall. So it’s basically learning a new language.
