Chicago Bears: Five players the Bears will likely cut before the season
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Mike Glennon
Duh.
Whether you rolled your eyes when the signing first happened or after watching Glennon utterly fail on the football field, this one’s a no-brainer.
And at least from this standpoint, the Glennon move didn’t really cripple the Chicago Bears too much.
Everyone who was upset about the Bears signing Glennon for three years, $45 million can relax. In cutting Glennon this offseason, Chicago will only pay the $18.5 million they guaranteed him total ($16 million last year, $2.5 million this year).
See? That’s not THAT bad. And it also seems to indicate that the Bears knew that they wanted Mitch Trubisky to take the reins by Year 2 of his career, one way or another. This more or less seals it.
mike glennon looked bad, sat on the oak for a couple years and became an $18 million quarterback. i just don't know how anyone evaluated what he became while sitting on the bench.
— bomani (@bomani_jones) February 9, 2018
At his current value (and perhaps no matter what), Glennon offers nothing that the Chicago Bears can benefit from.
He’s expensive, not really experienced enough to be considered a “mentor” and is just plain bad at football.
If you want a veteran mentor for Trubisky, keep Mark Sanchez and perhaps sign another vet that hits the street to compete for a backup spot. We can live with that. And Sanchez would probably serve better as a backup than Glennon (though that isn’t saying much).
Ryan Pace rolled the dice with Glennon both to serve as a bridge and just to see if there was anything there he could mine from him.
There wasn’t. At the very least, though, he gave Trubisky four games to watch and learn, though what he learned from Glennon I can’t really say.
So…thanks for the memories?