Bears week 7

[NorthsideAvenger]

6 hours ago, raw said:

I disagree. Would likely take at least 1 first round pick, if not 2 similar to the Mack trade. He has a big contract and the Bears, for a change, actually have players they probably want to re-sign in the future.

I'd love a bookend DE, but I'd prefer to spend money on offense wherever possible. 

Poles has been aggressive in the past (Claypool and Sweat trades, for example) but I don't believe he will trade for Crosby/Garrett this year. Ask me again next year.  

I do agree trading for Crosby/Garrett this year is ultra aggressive, one that the Bears are not ready to make. 

 

 

[Irrelevant Dude]

Mike Ditka turned 85 yesterday.  That's a guy I never would have expected to still be around at 80, let alone 85.

[NotKyle]

I think the Bears are showing themselves to be pretty good at identifying offensive line depth.

Davis (starter), Bates (probable starter) and Borom (swing tackle) have all been hurt or played themselves out (depending on how generous you want to be with Davis) and the line is still humming along with adequateness.  

Bill Murray is on a one-year deal but I'd probably want him back for cheap depth next year. He's 27 but he's a d-line convert in his third year playing o-line.  He played half a game against the Panthers and it looked pretty clean (albeit with the caveat that the Panthers looked like they had completely given up at that point).

We took Amegadjie with the 75th pick overall this draft knowing that he'd be a project, but I assume they'll want to see him at least competing for a top backup spot, if not a starting job, next training camp.  He's been getting into games the last few weeks on special teams and in jumbo packages.  

He could still be a tackle if he developed a ton, but we're pretty set at RT and LT at the NFL level is such a huge ask.  But I could see them moving him to guard, which is less demanding, and he has above-average starter potential.  
 

[mul21]

On 10/19/2024 at 1:01 PM, raw said:

Teven's going to be a tough call. The guard FA market has fallen into tiers. The top tier guys get 20M per. Then there is a 16-18M market. Then a 10-13M market, which kinda has a bunch of guys that are lesser (but healthier) players than Jenkins. 

Scheduled to be FAs after this year is 1 top tier guy (Trey Smith, KC) who is likely to break the 20M barrier, dare I say easily? Then there's a couple old guys Zach Martin and Kevin Zeitler, who I'd have 0 interest in. Then there's old friend, James Daniels...which isn't happening. That just leaves Teven and Aaron Banks (SF). Teven is slightly younger and familiar with the offense.

The question becomes does Jenkins value himself in the 16-18M range or 10-13 Mil range. I don't think 3/30 gets it done. Maybe 3-40 does though. But he may be a guy you let test the market and pivot back to if he's not getting the offers he wants. I don't see him taking a 1-year deal with his injury history.

I feel like whenever there's a jailbreak on a blitz, Jenkins is involved.  It happened a few times last season and I thought then it was on the center because they were just so bad last year.  I've seen it again a couple times this year, yesterday included.  LB comes on a slightly delayed blitz and it's a guy Jenkins should pick up with the LT taking the DE and he just runs free to the QB.  Is he just missing those or is that a tough enough assignment it happens to even the best guys?

[raw]

4 minutes ago, mul21 said:

I feel like whenever there's a jailbreak on a blitz, Jenkins is involved.  It happened a few times last season and I thought then it was on the center because they were just so bad last year.  I've seen it again a couple times this year, yesterday included.  LB comes on a slightly delayed blitz and it's a guy Jenkins should pick up with the LT taking the DE and he just runs free to the QB.  Is he just missing those or is that a tough enough assignment it happens to even the best guys?

Yeah, he's probably missing those. And there's probably a good reason teams are running that blitz at his side.