Marc Bulger Retires

That he is “retiring”, which whens his head, heart and/or body will not be into it (or some combination thereof); most likely because he doesn’t want to deal with the grind of a football season, or wants to spend more time with his family, or maybe he has some aches and injuries that he just wants to finally heal from and not aggravate any more.

In Tyord we trust

He was terrible with the 49er’s last year and is a locker room cancer – plus we have Tyrod who looks to be a better version of Smith.

…as Evan would say. Every starter we lost in Free Agency was replaced and in most cases improved. Leach is a better blocker than McClain, which should obviously be the priority in a FB. McGahee was set to make over $6 million, far too much for a backup RB. Heap was developing a consistency with being injured (remember when he fell to the floor last year without even being hit). Rabach is far more reliable than Chester will ever be. Gaither had poor work ethic and many our thinking Reid may be the steal of the draft. Gregg was going to his starting role to Cody anyways. Carr is more versatile and probably came with a smaller price tag than Wilson. , not to mention our next Shutdown CB was drafted in Jimmy Smith. Zbikowski is more than ready to take over for Landry, and we should all be used to seeing new guys line up next to Reed. So tell me, why be so pessimistic? Ozzie has never given us reason to doubt him, so have a little faith.

Vince Young or Marc Bulger but its not his fault that they decide to go another team or retire when it comes to Marc Bulger case. All ozzie can do is make offers it was said Ozzie made offers to both Heap and Gregg but they chose to go to other teams that were both closest to home where there family is.

I’m not horribly worried about Bulger retiring all in all. He probably won’t see the field and he probably wouldn’t have done well even if he did.

I do agree with you overall though. The team is going to rely on a lot of unproven guys to step up and be as good as last year. But it also seems like we are going to change up our style a little bit and push towards that hard nosed running game and a frantic blitz on defense in order to make the plays we need to, which is something I like seeing from the team.

I myself have been in the same mindset as you, but we also don’t get a chance to see how the players are playing, how those 2nd and 3rd stringers looked last year and so on, so I’m willing to give a little bit to the coaching staff on that one and hope for the best. But anyone saying that we absolutely have gotten better or stayed the same is just a homer in this instance.

How do you know why we cut who we did? I always find it strange when a fan on the internet not only presumes to know what Ozzie Newsome is thinking, but also why he’s wrong.

Pretty easy for me to imagine why he would let Gregg and Heap walk, as well as why he would have zero interest in bringing in a basket case like VY. As for Mason, its no mistake that he has let himm test the market for this long. Clearly Ozzie is comfortable with him leaving.

I think we will be okay with the replacements everywhere except the O-Line and TE.

For TE, I could be pleasantly surprised, but I do not believe for a minute we will get nearly the production and effectiveness from Devon Drew, Pitta and Dickson that we would have from Heap this year and certainly not what Heap provided last year. One of these three guys could breakout and prove me wrong, but I am not holding my breath.

And I hate to say it, I am not feeling real confident about our O-Line at the moment. At LT: Oher, who by any measuring stick, when taking all aspects from his game last year into account, including penalties, was low average. And unless Oher miraculously improves over last season, he will hurt us at some critical point (like getting called on a false start on a critical third and three, which would then be a third and eight, and our young receiver runs a seven yard in and gets stopped one yard short -critical) Starting guards: Grubbs and Yanda -okay, pretty good to outstanding. Center: an aging, potentially gimpy Birk or a (now gimpy?) Rabach. I like Rabach as a backup C/G, especially over Chester, but not as the 16 regular season game plus deep playoff run starter at center. RT: a rookie(!). Said rookie may look absolutely fabulous the first week of August, but let us not get ahead of ourselves here. Let us at least wait until he has gone up against some opposition in some preseason games. And even then, I would still hold judgement as it is only preseason games -no defensive stunts, not going against starters all the time.

Pittsburgh is a tall order for a week one rookie. I would hope that he could play reasonably well. No expectation for greatness week one, but hopefully a passable (you can define passable) performance. Let us face it, Reid could be one of those guys that after a few preseason games, it is realized he has no business being on an NFL field -would not be the first rookie, and certainly would not be the last.

Giving the devil his due, let us say Reid does indeed perform really well, say in the realm of rookie Oher at RT well. He will still be a rookie, which means hitting the rookie wall at some point during the season.

Point is, we still have a lot of question marks up and down our O-line, with really only answers at the guard positions.

his overall quarterback rating was 81.3 which is not bad at all

The Rabach signing makes perfect sense then.

Where did you hear this from?

but there are a TON of suitors for Floyd, so don’t get your hopes up.