Bear Goggles On » alan faneca released http://beargoggleson.com A Chicago Bears Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and more. Tue, 21 May 2013 10:03:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 The Alan Faneca Question http://beargoggleson.com/2010/04/26/the-alan-faneca-question/ http://beargoggleson.com/2010/04/26/the-alan-faneca-question/#comments Tue, 27 Apr 2010 04:31:36 +0000 Boomer http://beargoggleson.com/?p=5523 As soon as news broke on Saturday that the Jets were going to release Alan Faneca, Bears fans started drooling.  Even if Jerry Angelo wasn’t going to address offensive line in the draft, this could be the answer to their prayers.  Let’s take a closer look to see if this move really makes sense. Bears [...]

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]]> As soon as news broke on Saturday that the Jets were going to release Alan Faneca, Bears fans started drooling.  Even if Jerry Angelo wasn’t going to address offensive line in the draft, this could be the answer to their prayers.  Let’s take a closer look to see if this move really makes sense.

Bears fans have seen both sides of this type of situation.  Of course, Orlando Pace is fresh in our minds for how signing a veteran offensive lineman is NOT supposed to work.  Pace quickly demonstrated that his best days were behind him.

On the other hand, a few years ago, the Bears took a chance on a aged Ruben Brown, who was on the street after the Bills let me go.  Brown was extremely productive and fortified the Bears’ offensive line en route to a Super Bowl appearance.  So which is Faneca?  I’m a numbers guy, so let’s look at some numbers:

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