Griese to replace Grossman at QB for Bears

[SportsWorld]

http://www.nfl.com/news/story?id=09000d ... nfirm=true

The NFL Network's Adam Schefter has confirmed that Brian Griese will start at quarterback Sunday for the Chicago Bears.

Griese will replace Rex Grossman, who threw three interceptions as the Chicago Bears fell to the Dallas Cowboys 34-10 on Sunday night and did not get a vote of confidence from his coach a day later.

Our national nightmare is over!

[CBS7]

I was pretty darn happy when I read the title.

[NLK]

I'll believe our nightmare is over if Griese plays well enough to put points on the board (even if we get 10 FGs, so long we win the time of posession) in order to overcome our losses on Defense (TH out for a month).

But overall I'm relieved. I'm not going to jump for joy yet.

[N_Greene]

I am so relieved to hear this. After Sunday I vowed to not watch another Bears game as long as Grossman was Quarterbacking.

[richard]

great news, but i can't help but think who do the bears look to if griese gets injured??

[Monkeyfeng06]

hip hip hooray!

congrat! this might be a superbowl bound roster move.

[N_Greene]

If Griese goes down, it better be Orton. I actually wouldn't mind seeing Orton start in the first place. Whether he sucks or not is pure conjecture at this point. All we really know is that he can manage a game and is like 10-2 or something like that.

[richard]

If Griese goes down, it better be Orton. I actually wouldn't mind seeing Orton start in the first place. Whether he sucks or not is pure conjecture at this point. All we really know is that he can manage a game and is like 10-2 or something like that.

that would mean that this move is unofficially the end of the grossman era. i certainly hope that would be true.

[N_Greene]

I mean HOW MUCH LONGER?!?!?!?!?

No NFL Franchise should have to live through this.

God can you please give us a good quarterback?

I mean Steve Fuller, Bob Avellini, Moses Moreno, Cade McNown, Will Furer, Rex Grossman, etc....?

I remember my dad having a coronary because of Bob Avellini when I was a kid. No child should have to remember the name of Bob Avellini because of what he did to their father. I thought his full name was MotherF******* Bob Avellini.

[NLK]

I'll say, after listening to Waddle & Silvy, which had Charles "Peanut" Tillman, I feel our Bears will rebound.

http://espn.andohs.net/espnpod2/espnrad ... 070925.mp3

Peanut sort of mocks Jay Mariotti, stick with Rex (this was this morning), though he played well against T.O.

At least Rex has one less INT than Drew Brees! Maybe this is what RG will need to rejuvenate himself and to become a better QB!

[NoSkyy]

Yay! Time for a change.

Sadly, this is the end of Rex Grossman, probably. He's in his contract year and he got benched. He's probably never going to play in the NFL again.

[CBS7]

Meh, you never know. Some team needing a 3rd string QB might call him a few years from now.

[NLK]

Sadly, this is the end of Rex Grossman, probably. He's in his contract year and he got benched. He's probably never going to play in the NFL again.

Nah. He's still young enough, he'll land somewhere. However, don't be shocked if he remains here in a Bears Uniform. I won't be. He's got potential, its just that we asked for that potential to be here now, and that didn't happen. But it doesn't mean it not going to happen ever. Eventually I do see the light clicking on for RG. Call me but I think this benching will do him some real good, hopefully developing crazy desire to prove himself.

[Bulltalk]

I mean HOW MUCH LONGER?!?!?!?!?

No NFL Franchise should have to live through this.

God can you please give us a good quarterback?

I mean Steve Fuller, Bob Avellini, Moses Moreno, Cade McNown, Will Furer, Rex Grossman, etc....?

I remember my dad having a coronary because of Bob Avellini when I was a kid. No child should have to remember the name of Bob Avellini because of what he did to their father. I thought his full name was MotherF******* Bob Avellini.

It's not to be. You can add Jack Concanon, Bobby Douglass, Doug Flutie, Mike Phipps to that list. And more. One might exclude Jim McMahon from that list, but he was always injured, so I can't.

How a franchise can go 50 years without a top flight quarterback is beyond comprehension. You would think it would happen by accident, if not by intent.

[Ben]

Ah, Bob Avellini. I'm glad to see that others are old enough to remember him, too. Don't be too hard on the guy-- he did throw 33 TD passes in his 9-year career (almost 4 per year!) to go along with his 69 interceptions. And he saw real playing time. Unbelievable.

Jim Harbaugh had the potential to be pretty good with us. I was really happy to see him succeed with Indy after he left us; it felt like a vindication. I had been a big fan of his at Michigan and I always felt that we used him badly.

But when Jim Harbaugh is the best your franchise can do at QB over 50 years you're in big trouble. Vince Evans had a few good games for us circa 1980 and got some people's hopes up but he was quite poor overall. And McMahon was never really all that great-- he was a punky QB and a good sparkplug for a while but wasn't a top-flight QB.

I'm really glad to see Griese getting the start-- another Michigan product!-- but I don't look to him to be anything special. I was desperately hoping that we would trade up last year and snag Matt Leinart; I still think that it would not have broken the bank. But I knew that it was never going to happen. We're more or less fated to have mediocre QBs at the absolute best.

[BigUps]

If Lovie is making this move, you have to think that the Bears aren't considering resigning Rex in the off season. It wouldn't make sense at this point from both perspectives. We obviously don't think he can handle it and he probably wants a fresh start. With that said, you'd think Rex would fall to QB3 and Orton would move to QB2. If Rex is gone, let him be gone. I'd suggest cutting him, but he's knows the offense and we know he can come in and somewhat run a team. But demoting him may be the right thing to do. Orton may (oh dear, here goes nothing) actually be our future.

[Joe Jackson]

Orton still has a good deal of potential.

And he looked improved and promising in pre-season.
Of course, so did the rest of the offense. ( except ironically, Grossman, who looked just as gross as he has in the first three games.)

I am also more hopeful than most about Griese's prospects. I believe he has enough maturity and experience that if the line protects him just a little bit he will be excellent. Provided our receivers pick it up a little and start getting a little separation and catching the ball.
And I also believe strongly that Moose needs to be phased out very quickly. (not out, but into a secondary role.) Bradley is big enough and strong enough to be the possession receiver and he's a helluva lot faster and quicker at this point. Mike H also needs to get some action, then if Bradley goes down you have both him and Moose for backups.

[BigUps]

JJ, I couldn't agree more about Bradley. I don't get how he's fallen to a WR5 role. Either something happened that we don't know about, he hasn't fully recovered from his knee injury, he's just not good or they are mis-evaluating his skill. I just find it odd that he's fallen so quickly and I haven't really seen a reason why. I'd like to see him more and less Moose.

About the only thing good about Moose anymore is the chant after he catches a ball.

[dougthonus]

Is it odd that Bradley has fallen so quickly, or odd that we evaluated the #3 WR on his college team as a 2nd rounder in the draft.

[emperorjones]

I mean HOW MUCH LONGER?!?!?!?!?

No NFL Franchise should have to live through this.

God can you please give us a good quarterback?

I mean Steve Fuller, Bob Avellini, Moses Moreno, Cade McNown, Will Furer, Rex Grossman, etc....?

I remember my dad having a coronary because of Bob Avellini when I was a kid. No child should have to remember the name of Bob Avellini because of what he did to their father. I thought his full name was MotherF******* Bob Avellini.

Take it easy on Bob. I challenge anyone to name a QB that took a sack as well as Bob A. He was the stuff of highlights league wide. Anyone remember when he lost his front teeth on a sack (I think against Detroit).