Bears trade Marshall to Jets (pending physical)

[Risen Star]

I heard it was mid to late round pick.

So now the market is set for great leadership.

 

[Risen Star]

Is he going to throw to hisself?

Give it two years max. He'll be whining his way out of New York if he can.

 

[Toruk_Makto]

LOL. This is rich.

You go with those phantom reports about his great leadership. I'll go with everything else I've ever read on the head case. He is one of the last players I'd want around a rebuilding team.

Apparently the Bears agree with me. Since they just shipped out their "great leader" who should "age gracefully".

You mean reports from years ago when he was going through mental issues was as yet undiagnosed?

Since being treated he's been a model citizen, great player and allegedly great teammate. So much so that the organization you claim thinks he is a cancer signed him to an extension.

He also has been a vocal advocate for mental health issues.

Seems like a stand up guy. I'd gladly take him for a 6th rounder.

 

[Risen Star]

You mean reports from years ago when he was going through mental issues was as yet undiagnosed?

Since being treated he's been a model citizen, great player and allegedly great teammate. So much so that the organization you claim thinks he is a cancer signed him to an extension.

He also has been a vocal advocate for mental health issues.

Seems like a stand up guy. I'd gladly take him for a 6th rounder.

Years ago up to this year. Which is why, like, the Bears just moved him and stuff. Not because he was this great leader with many great years ahead.

You're embarrassing yourself.

 

[Toruk_Makto]

Years ago up to this year. Which is why, like, the Bears just moved him and stuff. Not because he was this great leader with many great years ahead.

You're embarrassing yourself.

Yeah because whether a player is moved is all about if they are a headache or not.

Or you could look at it intelligently and say there is another team that makes more sense for Brandon at this time. A team willing to pay him millions of dollars and has done more due diligence into him than you and I have.

Look everyone Risen claims to know more about Brandon than the entire Jets organization!

 

[TellerMorrow34]

I don't know what all it has to do with but this is what I think is going to happen.

They're likely to decide to move on from Cutler. So they're going to be looking for a new franchise QB.

Jefferies is younger, and the better WR, at this stage and he's about to have to be paid.

They're moving on from Brandon not because he's a bad guy, or causes them lots of issues, but because they don't want to pay him what he's making when they're about to have to pay another WR a ton of money and will have no QB.

 

[joseephuss]

Marshall is going to save a ton of money on airfare next season. He no longer has to commute from Chicago to New York during his off days for his Inside the NFL gig.

 

[big dog cowboy]

I'm going to guess it's probably a fourth or lower. The Bears wanted Marshall gone. And he's probably seen his best days. If the Bears got a third or better, consider it I-65 robbery.

Now being reported on ESPN it was a 5th rounder.

 

[tyke1doe]

Now being reported on ESPN it was a 5th rounder.

Thanks for the update.

 

[Longboysfan]

Wouldn't surprise me if the Jets gave then this year's 2nd rounder...

Even though it's the Jets....
Lets give them some consideration for knowing what they're doing.

 

[DFWJC]

Even though it's the Jets....
Lets give them some consideration for knowing what they're doing.

Yeah...I actually underestimated them ...lol

 

[Risen Star]

Yeah because whether a player is moved is all about if they are a headache or not.

Or you could look at it intelligently and say there is another team that makes more sense for Brandon at this time. A team willing to pay him millions of dollars and has done more due diligence into him than you and I have.

Look everyone Risen claims to know more about Brandon than the entire Jets organization!

Common sense tells you that if he was this great leader with a bright future the Bears wouldn't look to ship him so cheaply.

But congratulations for being the only person on the planet unaware that Brandon Marshall is a team cancer. Yet another team has decided they want no part of him and this somehow has you convinced he's a changed man.

 

[Toruk_Makto]

Common sense tells you that if he was this great leader with a bright future the Bears wouldn't look to ship him so cheaply.

But congratulations for being the only person on the planet unaware that Brandon Marshall is a team cancer. Yet another team has decided they want no part of him and this somehow has you convinced he's a changed man.

Peyton Manning cut.

Team cancer.

 

[joseephuss]

Peyton Manning cut.

Team cancer.

What a terrible comparison.

 

[Toruk_Makto]

What a terrible comparison.

Purposefully obtuse.

 

[MrPeanutbutter]

http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2015/03...ndon-marshall-likely-past-point-of-no-return/

(CBS) At the end of last season, the Bears decided they’d had it with Brandon Marshall.

Amid the tension and chaos of firing a general manager and an entire coaching staff, sources indicated to 670 The Score that team ownership and upper management also came to the conclusion that dealing with Marshall wasn’t worth it, anymore — his divisiveness and selfish, unpredictable attention-grabbing no longer counterbalanced by enough actual value, particularly for a team exiting win-now territory and staring at a rebuild.

The Bears hired consultant Ernie Accorsi to lead their executive search and were soon wowed by the candidacy of Ryan Pace. As a condition of his hiring, Pace was given full control of the final call regarding the head coach and every spot on the roster, conditions discussed and agreed upon explicitly during their negotiations.

With that, Marshall’s future was in Pace’s hands. While previous opinions on him were expressed, the responsibility was transferred then to the newly minted GM to construct a team as he and his coach would see fit.

Prior to Friday morning’s news that Marshall will be traded to the Jets, sources said that Pace and John Fox were dismayed by Marshall’s very public insistence on continuing to fly to New York for his weekly television show, unpleasantly surprised at his on-camera job pandering to Ravens coach John Harbaugh and disappointed that he chose to reveal information from a private meeting at a personal press conference only hours after it occurred. Perhaps most significant, however, were their conversations with teammates who found support for Marshall’s continued presence to be minimal, at best.

Per one source, “No player jumped forward to say, ‘We have to have this guy.'”

The guys in charge now are all about trust and dedication to the job. Pace made that clear in his oblique comments when previously asked directly about Marshall, saying, “Football needs to be the No. 1 priority.” Marshall’s words and actions have long called such commitment into question and made it clear that the team’s life with him week to week carried a risk factor that was potentially distracting and entirely unnecessary.

Once the Bears’ efforts to shop him on the trade market became public, there were conflicting forces at work that set this endgame down an inevitable path — the parting of ways.

Marshall knew he wasn’t wanted, and he knew that everyone knew he wasn’t wanted. Bringing him back to the locker room under such circumstances would have been asking for trouble from someone already proven to be so emotionally fragile and mercurial. It was hard enough to take his childish, phony leadership seriously before and would’ve been utterly impossible now, if not outright silly.

Meanwhile, other teams in the league were aware of all of this. Any potential trade partner could play this chess game out enough moves to see that it probably would’ve ended up with Marshall released and able to sign somewhere on new, friendlier terms.

It was up to Pace to create a market by selling interested teams on the value of exclusivity — that it was worth giving up a middling asset to avoid the uncertainty of Marshall’s free agency, provided he’d agree on a restructuring of his lucrative contract. Pace sold the Jets on that idea, prying a small asset away in exchange for an aging, expensive receiver with noted behavior issues.

It’s indeed a promising start for him and the Bears.

 

[joseephuss]

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap30...ew-york-jets-expected-to-release-percy-harvin

New York Jets expected to release Percy Harvin

In with Brandon Marshall, out with Percy Harvin.

NFL Media Insider Ian Rapoport reported Friday that the New York Jets are expected to release Harvin, their playmaking wideout, after sending a fifth-round pick to the Chicago Bears on Friday for the 30-year-old Marshall.

The move comes as no surprise with Harvin set to make $10.5 million this season. Gang Green is already on the hook to pay $7.5 million to Marshall with another $5 million going to fellow wide receiver Eric Decker.

The thought of Marshall, Decker and Harvin in Chan Gailey's offense was intriguing, but the Jets can use that added cap space to address their frail secondary while prowling around for edge-rushing help.

 

[Nightman]

Now being reported on ESPN it was a 5th rounder.

And we didn't want to place a 2nd round tender on Beasley?

There seem to very some very different valuations going on.