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To me, it came down to a skill position player. CB gave us a smidgeon of productivity, so I voted for David Terrell.
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yeah that quraterback from cal would of been nice over cedric benson
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I gotta go with Michael Haynes.... 14th overall pick.... 61 career tackles, 5.5 Sacks, 2 FF, 1 INT over essentially 3 years with the Bears.... he went to the Saints and didn't even play for them.
14th overall in 2003 and wasn't even good enough to catch on as a rotational guy or a situational rusher or a ST/backup guy.... just 3 shitty years and he was done.
And to my knowledge he wasn't dealing with any major injuries, he was just bad... at least most of the other busts had injury components..... Carimi, Williams, Bazuin, Bradley..... not to excuse picks with injury history as Angelo loved those dudes, but Haynes was a healthy 14th overall pick who flat out was bad at football on the NFL level, to me that is the worst bust.
14th overall in 2003 and wasn't even good enough to catch on as a rotational guy or a situational rusher or a ST/backup guy.... just 3 shitty years and he was done.
And to my knowledge he wasn't dealing with any major injuries, he was just bad... at least most of the other busts had injury components..... Carimi, Williams, Bazuin, Bradley..... not to excuse picks with injury history as Angelo loved those dudes, but Haynes was a healthy 14th overall pick who flat out was bad at football on the NFL level, to me that is the worst bust.
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I disagree with the Benson votes. He's not a perennial pro bowler that you might expect from that high of a pick but he's had a solid career. Granted mostly not with the Bears.
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I thought about leaving him off as well for that reason but I figured a lot of people would have manstruated if I did
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Which means he was a bust for us. His good years in Cinci mean nothing to us.
The only things he accomplished in Chicago were fumbling on our own 20 in the Super Bowl and pushing Thomas Jones out of town despite being greatly inferior.
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I actually thought he did pretty well in 2005, and maybe early part of 2006, as a "speller" for Jones
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Yeah I don't get the full on Benson was a total bust theory, he wasn't really that bad on the field even while with the Bears. Hell even Chris Williams managed to turn in a decent year as a Left Guard in 2010, & part of 2011. Carimi & McClellin are just plain bad, real bad. The Bears got nothing out of Carimi, & I wouldn't be shocked if the Shea at LB experiment is a complete disaster, basically rendering him as useless also.
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Benson was a top 5 pick that did nothing for the Bears, I don't care that he had a mediocre career with other teams. He was a major BUST for the Bears. Other guys taken later in the draft or in later rounds don't measure up to the value lost when your team has the chance to draft in the top 5 and fail miserably. Bust doesn't simply mean worst overall player it also means worst value. If you simply want worst overall player that was obviously Bazuin since he never played at all as a 2nd rounder.
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'greed. Wasn't it like 4th overall too. I hate Benson on a personal level.
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The only thing he did was get a much better RB ran out of town.
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I don't think Jones got run out of town. He demanded a trade.
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It was because of getting replaced by Benson doe right? I may be wrong.
inb4 bot calls me passive aggressive.
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Jones and Benson had quite a storied rivalry right? 
to my understanding, people were punking Benson out the instant he got on the team, the whole Jones/Benson thing was more Jones than Benson. didn't Kreutz like punch Benson out at practice once too? granted, Benson talked a lot of shit and thought he was the second coming, but people relentlessly fucked with him too, and we all know he's not the most stable of dudes as well. there were other things about him and gluten, he cut it from his diet, blah blah.
I think Benson is head and shoulders above guys like Gilbert and Bazuin that didn't do shit. he was a decent enough spellback and he scored touchdowns.. his best years were probably behind Jones, 2007 he flat out sucked. ran with his chin on his dick. Faulk completely busted him out on NFL Network about his ypc one day, which I thought was awesome. "he runs the ball 3 times and you have to punt". the Bulldozer just didn't have it during his Bears years.
also people whining about them not drafting Rodgers instead, please stop. if the Bears drafted him with their absolute ineptitude at not just offense, but the quarterback position especially, he wouldn't be the superstar he is today. if Grossman were drafted by any other team he would've been unleashing the dragon on teams for 11 years now.
I choose Bazuin, cause he can't jump out of pools and I hate his name.
to my understanding, people were punking Benson out the instant he got on the team, the whole Jones/Benson thing was more Jones than Benson. didn't Kreutz like punch Benson out at practice once too? granted, Benson talked a lot of shit and thought he was the second coming, but people relentlessly fucked with him too, and we all know he's not the most stable of dudes as well. there were other things about him and gluten, he cut it from his diet, blah blah.I think Benson is head and shoulders above guys like Gilbert and Bazuin that didn't do shit. he was a decent enough spellback and he scored touchdowns.. his best years were probably behind Jones, 2007 he flat out sucked. ran with his chin on his dick. Faulk completely busted him out on NFL Network about his ypc one day, which I thought was awesome. "he runs the ball 3 times and you have to punt". the Bulldozer just didn't have it during his Bears years.
also people whining about them not drafting Rodgers instead, please stop. if the Bears drafted him with their absolute ineptitude at not just offense, but the quarterback position especially, he wouldn't be the superstar he is today. if Grossman were drafted by any other team he would've been unleashing the dragon on teams for 11 years now.
I choose Bazuin, cause he can't jump out of pools and I hate his name.
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Bazuin or McLellin. Both utterly useless. Benson is nowhere near as much an on-field bust as these two.
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Went with Terrell. 8th overall pick and never even broke 700 yards in any of his five seasons (not to mention only 9 TDs over that span). It's kind of hard not to go with Haynes though; fuck, Shea has actually eclipsed some of Haynes' career stats...and that's just sad.
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Michael Haynes couldn't even find the playing field
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To me, because of the team's needs at the time, Williams and Carimi are the biggest busts.
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Yeah, reading all these answers, there's a case to be made for any of them really.
Fuck you Jerry Angelo.
Fuck you Jerry Angelo.
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I vote Shea cause I can't get over how you pass up Chandler Jones for that fuck.
