2015 Bears Offseason (Foxy new Head Coach page 104)

[Guest]

To expand on 6.24%, in 2014 league average dead cap space looks to have been conservatively 14M per team (quick and dirty-rounded down all figure to the M). Rookie minimum was 420k and if you paid that min to all backups, ST starters, and one starter (30 spots) you are at another 12.6. So 26.6 in 2014. That's spot on at 20% of your cap in 2014. That would put your average starter at 3.8% of the cap each of your 21 remaining starters. Which comes right in at about $5M. Now clearly not all 21 are gonna make near that, but likely quite a few will exceed that cap figure. So in the grand scheme of things, even with the rookie QBs winning Super Bowls, it indicates teams do commit significant resources of their cap into their QBs- and that's taking some pretty conservative assumptions with your backups. The 10% figure is so arbitrary, as is limiting to SB winners.

[Banedon]

PFF ranks the Bears O-line 15th...

 

https://www.profootballfocus.com/blog/2015/01/08/2014-pff-offensive-line-rankings/3/

[Guest]

Chicago Bears ‏@ChicagoBears 32s33 seconds ago

BREAKING: The #Bears have hired Ryan Pace as their new general manager.

[gscool89]

Chicago Bears ‏@ChicagoBears 32s33 seconds ago

BREAKING: The #Bears have hired Ryan Pace as their new general manager.

Hahahahaha what?

[Banedon]

Wtf

[Thed Hoyerstein]

wait what

[gscool89]

So Todd Bowles is our coach basically?

[Thed Hoyerstein]

i think they misspelled Chris Ballard

[Banedon]

So Todd Bowles is our coach basically?

 

Bowles is interviewing all over the place. I don't think there's any guarantee he wants the Bears.

[UMFan83]

Wow. Wasn't expecting that.

 

What do we know about him?

[gscool89]

Wow. Wasn't expecting that.

 

What do we know about him?

RT @BradBiggs: Pace was with the #Saints for the last 14 seasons and spent the last two as the team's director of player personnel

[UMFan83]

How's his relationship with Sean Payton?

[Banedon]

Reports are that the Saints really didn't want to lose him.

[UMFan83]

Reports are that the Saints really didn't want to lose him.

 

 

Yeah there was an article 2-3 days ago that said he wasn't expected to leave NO

[Banedon]

Bernstein asks a good question...did Ballard turn them down?

[gscool89]

These guys aren't very happy:

http://saintsreport.com/forums/f2/bears-hire-ryan-pace-gm-336574/

[jersey cubs fan]

Eastern Illinois Defense End who spent his entire post-college career in NFL front office work. I can live with the storyline.

[UMFan83]

@BearReport: I'm told Bears were on verge of hiring Ballard but Pace blew them away in his interview. Team went other direction.

[Butterscup1679666578]

I don't know anything about this guy. Ok see ya later Edited January 8, 2015 by Butterscup

[Banedon]

Zaidman is suggesting that they may have passed on Ballard to go in an "whole new direction".

[jersey cubs fan]

"He is really good at what he does," Payton said about Pace last week. "He's a big part of what we do. He's very talented and I know he has been promoted here a few times, and deservedly so.

 

"I get fired up when he comes to see me first thing this morning. His mind is already racing. I know he is all-in."

 

Loomis said Pace would stay in charge of college and pro scouting for the Saints if he does not leave.

[Banedon]

Press conference at 11am tomorrow.

[Guest]

Pretty happy with this TBH

[Guest]

Adam Schefter ‏@AdamSchefter 32s33 seconds ago

New Bears GM Ryan Pace wasting no time jumping into job: taking part in Chicago's interview of Todd Bowles.

[jersey cubs fan]

Zaidman is suggesting that they may have passed on Ballard to go in an "whole new direction".

 

I hope this wasn't a different for different's sake situation. But I do like that he is very different from Emery. He's young, not a "lifer" who paid his dues. He didn't spend 20 years teach S&C in college. He's a handsome man in the mold of Theo Epstein..., ok I'm done.

 

My understanding of the Saints is they are not a feature back team, they rotate multiple guys with varying skillsets. I like that type of approach to the roster.