Cards Sign LB Jack Gibbens and DL Andrew Billings

[jf-08]

Cardinals Load Up On Depth With Jack Gibbens, Andrew Billings

Wingard also signs contract as expected

www.azcardinals.com

 

[jf-08]

Billings, going into his ninth season, is a 6-foot-1, 340-pound nose tackle who started 14 of his 17 games for a stout Bears defense last season. He figures to slide into the role vacated when Dalvin Tomlinson was released.


Gibbens, going into his fifth season, had his best year for New England after playing for Tennessee for three seasons (Cardinals GM Monti Ossenfort was in the Titans front office when he arrived as an undrafted free agent.) Gibbens started eight games and played all 17, with 81 tackles, eight tackles for loss, a sack, a forced fumble and four pass breakups.

 

[Adrian]

PHNX Cardinals
@PHNX_Cardinals
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The Arizona Cardinals have bolstered their defense with the signing of New England Patriots LB Jack Gibbens.

Gibbens played 113 combined snaps in the Pats playoff run to the Super Bowl.

 

[Adrian]

Ari Meirov
@MySportsUpdate
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28m
The #Cardinals have signed former #Bears DT Andrew Billings

Billings has started 39 games over the last three years for Chicago.

 

[ASUCHRIS]

Underbelly! Underbelly!

 

[LoyaltyisaCurse]

Billings, going into his ninth season, is a 6-foot-1, 340-pound nose tackle who started 14 of his 17 games for a stout Bears defense last season. He figures to slide into the role vacated when Dalvin Tomlinson was released.


Gibbens, going into his fifth season, had his best year for New England after playing for Tennessee for three seasons (Cardinals GM Monti Ossenfort was in the Titans front office when he arrived as an undrafted free agent.) Gibbens started eight games and played all 17, with 81 tackles, eight tackles for loss, a sack, a forced fumble and four pass breakups.

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[jf-08]

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I bet he's the butte of many jokes.

 

[LoyaltyisaCurse]

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[LoyaltyisaCurse]

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[some dumb guy]

(Cardinals GM Monti Ossenfort was in the Titans front office

Holy crap, I'm not sure what's wrong with me but as I read this...I read Titanic
Cardinals...Ossenfort...Titanic....Oh my LOL

 

[Cardinal88]

I feel these are two good signings considering. Now we have a little more depth at both positions.

 

[Stout]

FML.

 

[Cheesebeef]

I feel these are two good signings considering. Now we have a little more depth at both positions.

I’ll never understand this.

You don’t have good depth if you have few legitimate starters.

 

[ASUCHRIS]

I’ll never understand this.

You don’t have good depth if you have few legitimate starters.

Once again, our top end talent is a complete joke. Monti has shown basically no ability to find above average starters, whether it be in FA or the draft.

 

[Mr. Boldin]

A stout Bears defense? Lmao

 

[NashDishesDimes]

Once again, our top end talent is a complete joke. Monti has shown basically no ability to find above average starters, whether it be in FA or the draft.

I want the guy outta here as much as you do but nolan and will johnson may be really good

 

[BritCard]

Andrew Billings has been a solid NFL starter for 8 years for the Bengals, Raiders and Bears and has 109 NFL games under his belt.

Under selling his career to call him depth. He's been one of the better NTs in the league.

But he's still a NT and is only going to play about 40% of snaps so hard to be bothered about it either way. But a decent part of the rotation on a slim DL depth chart.

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Bears fans think very highly of him

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[Cbus cardsfan]

I remember thinking going into free agency, if Monti could somehow find a way to sign Roy Lopez, Andrew Billings, Jack Gibbens on defense to go with Gardner Minshew and Elijah Wilkinson on offense, we'd be set.

 

[BritCard]

I remember thinking going into free agency, if Monti could somehow find a way to sign Roy Lopez, Andrew Billings, Jack Gibbens on defense to go with Gardner Minshew and Elijah Wilkinson on offense, we'd be set.

These are the kinds of players FA is for. It's very rare for top guys without some concerns to hit FA and even rarer for those guys to work out.

Trey Hendrickson was one of the best players in FA and he's 31 and coming off a season ending injury. The bust rate for high value FA signings is very high.

Last year was one of the best for some time with Darnold, Milton WIlliams, Davante Adams, and Josh Sweat all working out.

But Dan Moore, Stefon Diggs, Justin Fields, Aaron Banks were also massive highly paid busts.

I remember last year we all wanted to sign Will Fries to play Guard. He had the same pass blocking grade as Evan Brown and gave up 2 more sacks.

Looking for stars or great starters in FA is largely a fools game and the house is going to win more often than not. They should come from the draft and trade.

 

[Stout]

I’ll never understand this.

You don’t have good depth if you have few legitimate starters.

That's all we have signed! We have signed so many non-starters on the DL there's no more space in the DL room! Not unless Monti wants to start cutting his own FA signings before a year has even passed.

 

[BullheadCardFan]

I remember last year we all wanted to sign Will Fries to play Guard. He had the same pass blocking grade as Evan Brown and gave up 2 more sacks.

I was one of those who thought he would have been a good addition to the Oline

Sounds like he wasn't much of an upgrade

 

[DVontel]

Billings was bad last year.

 

[BritCard]

Billings was bad last year.

He was, but good many years before. The question is whether he's cooked or was just playing hurt or struggled in a defense with no pass rush help.

But I expect it will be cheap to find out.

 

[MadCardDisease]

Andrew Billings named the Bears 2025 Ed Block Courage Award Winner

Your best source for quality Chicago Bears news, rumors, analysis, stats and scores from the fan perspective.

www.windycitygridiron.com

 

[Veer]

These aren't Billy B's Patriots who signed 11 average former UDFAs or career journeymen, and still dominated because a defensive genius was game planning. Monti trying to copy it doesn't work, he just doesn't seem to know it yet.