One of the big questions coming into training camp was what kind of help could materialize for the offensive line as the season got going.
The Chicago Bears made a hard push for Willie Colon before he opted to return to the Pittsburgh Steelers, and now that the team announced a two-year contract for center Chris Spencer, that could be it.
General manager Jerry Angelo, in explaining the decision to move on from 13-year veteran Olin Kreutz, made it sound like the Bears will not be pursuing more offensive linemen to add to the competitive mix.
“Hey, it’s tough,” Angelo said. “These offensive linemen are tough to find. We’ve got a good nucleus of young guys with traits that we look for but they’ve got to come together. We just can’t run up and down the starting line, get a guy with a few games under his belt with NFL experience and think that’s the answer.
"They’ve got to come together. We like our young players. We need to start developing our young players and how are you going to develop them if you don’t play them. And if you don’t play them, how do they know you believe in them? So, it’s a Catch-22.
“We brought in an experienced center that is still in the prime of his career. It’s the best we could do. That’s all we could do."
Angelo thinks the line is in bad enough shape that we'll offer Colon 5yr/$32m but now we're going to pretend the line is OK as-is and we're going to roll with what we have ?
