Its Been A While...Chicago Bears Notes and a great new website you should check out

It's been a while since I've posted anything to the blog, I've been pretty busy. There are a couple of things I'd like to talk about...

First of all, some good news for me. I will be interning at ESPN Radio 1000 in Chicago this summer. I'm so excited to learn from the best of the best when it comes to sports.

Bear-ly any Legitimate Receivers

I realized I haven't posted anything about the Chicago Bears getting Jay Cutler. First and foremost, I like this trade alot. Cutler is a great QB that can definitely do alot of things that Kyle Orton cannot do.

That being said, this trade means absolutely nothing if the Bears don't follow it up by getting a legitimate big name receiver. The way the receiving corp has been the past couple years, I can't help but agree with Musin Muhammad's assertions that Chicago is where wide receivers go to die. Jay Cutler will be no better than Kyle Orton if he has to throw to group of receivers the bears currently have. If Ron Turner is going to have Cutler do the same things Orton did as QB (ie dump it off to Matt Forte, constantly throw the the Tight Ends), we might as well have kept Orton and never made this trade.
Here are the Bears receivers on the current roster and their career stats.

Rashied Davis: 74 receptions for 913 yards and 4 touchdowns in 4 NFL Seasons. A decent receiver but certainly not a #1 guy.
Devin Hester: 71 receptions for 964 yards and 5 touchdowns in 2 seasons as a wide receiver. Hester continues to improve as a receiver and is probably the best receiver on the team right now. However, his impact as a kick returner has greatly declined since becoming a receiver.
Earl Bennett: A great college receiver at Vanderbilt (236 receptions and 20 TD's), but Bennett has no catches in his rookie season with the Bears. Recently, he told the media that he didn't learn the playbook until Week 7.
Devin Aromashodu: 7 receptions for 96 yards with the Colts last year in his first NFL season
John Broussard: 4 receptions for 126 yards and 1 touchdown with the Jaguars last year in his only NFL season
Brandon Rideau: Played in only 2 games for the Bears last year, accumulating no statistics

Needless to say, the Bears receiving corp is inexperienced at best. Honestly, they are awful, simple as that. Newly signed lineman Orlando Pace is trying to persuade Torry Holt to come to the Bears.

Check out a great new site devoted to Chicago Sports

Lastly, there is a great new website for Chicago sports fans, it will be the best site out there. It just started yesterday. The newly created ESPNChicago.com offers a daily "Chicago SportsCenter" video report as well as columnists covering the Windy City's major sports teams. Columnists on the site include ESPN.com writers Gene Wojciechowski, Scoop Jackson, Wayne Drehs, and Jon Greenberg, as well as Chicago baseball beat reporter Bruce Levine and ESPN Radio's own Jeff Dickerson and Tom Waddle, among others. I've been checking out the site all morning and it is going to be great, I plan on checking it every day to get my daily Chicago sports news.
This is the first website launched by ESPN devoted to a single city or region.