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What is spotrac and why would the Bears negotiate a deal that gives them a $22m cap hit this year after talking about how damaging the one year cap hit is for franchise tags?

So, the "it's a 3 year deal" thing from yesterday may be false? An extra 11.5 mill in immediate cap room would be huge for this year. I see and am OK with both sides honestly, as we've still got room, with ability for more, if needed.(if its a 22.5 mill 1st year hit) Well I don't think the 3-year deal talk was ever literal. The point was that after 3 years you can then theoretically cut him and get through the cap trouble in just one season. This makes it look like a 5 year deal, and possibly 4.

He originally labeled the last guy as a S with the same verbiage about pass rush and sacks and it was confusing.

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It's too soon to know if he'll be a solid long term tackle. Despite his flaws, he's young, raw and showed flashes his rookie year. I'd being back Britton and let the two compete for the starting spot next year. Besides, Long will eventually be a good tackle so I wouldn't bother expending more resources on tackle; go C or G. As long as they do invest in C or G they can afford to ignore T for an offseason, but the line itself needs to be addressed every year.

http://deadspin.com/fifth-third-ballpark-is-on-fire-1493937225 Now that's a fire.

It's not just as possible, and even if they are productive, they probably wouldn't be as productive. If you can get a playmaker in the first you don't pass just because you think you can get a decent player in the 2nd or 3rd. There's no point in specifically targeting WR early, but there is also no point in pretending it would be a horrible idea to draft a WR in the first.

It's BPA to an unnecessary extreme, especially considering the incredible depth of this year's WR class. In other words, it would be completely unnecessary? Wilson hasn't done anything and was a very late pick who may never do anything. Bennett hasn't done much and may be gone, and Marshall turns 30 this offseason. If you can get a 1st round WR to be productive within a year or two you can get away with not paying Marshall ~$10m/year as you prepare to sign Jeffery to his first big post rookie contract. It would hardly be crazy to draft a highly touted WR with the first round pick.

The best player available should take priority. Defense can be improved with depth. And WR turnover happens quickly. Doesn't seem like Emery is going offense very often in the draft, based on his comments yesterday though. But who knows. It's pretty clear he's more comfortable with his picks on the offensive side. Right, not very often. The very often is for the defense, which can be improved with depth.

What has AJ McCarron done for the SEC? Quarterbacked two national championship teams? Carried himself as a role model? Snagged Katherine Webb? Didn't he have to beat SEC teams to accomplish that?

The best player available should take priority. Defense can be improved with depth. And WR turnover happens quickly.

What has AJ McCarron done for the SEC?

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One would think the word "progressive" wouldn't have negative connotations either, but for a certain segment of the population it does.

A Schiano man does not let anybody use him as a backup for anything, besides birth control.

You should probably stop talking. This is straight up idiotic nonsense.

You don't have to draw a straight line between the two injuries for it to be illustrative of the point. "Injuries beget injuries" means not only that you can hurt yourself compensating for one injury, but also that injuries(and especially 2nd and 3rd injuries like Cutler has already sustained) happen to players who (for whatever reason) are more prone to injuries. Correlation does not equal causation. It is absolutely unfair and ridiculous to only talk about his health since he broke his thumb but ignore what happened before that. Your theory is wrong and the only support is that if you pick out a guy with multiple injuries that will, by definition, "support" the idea that one injury somehow led to another. Injuries do not beget injuries. Tom Brady missed a whole season with an extremely damaging leg injury that has not led another injury. Drew Brees injured his shoulder early in his career and hasn't led to anything since. Payton Manning broke his neck, missed a season and has played 32 of 32 games since. Their injuries did not beget injuries because injuries do not beget injuries. That's some old wive's tale nonsense right there. If you were talking about running backs you would have something to talk about. If you were talking about a running QB who got himself hit, and thus injured by those hits, you'd have something to talk about.

If 2010 is irrelevant then why is 2011 relevant? Because it's when he sustained the first of several different injuries that have caused him to miss time, illustrating that injuries beget injuries. He's missed 5 of his last 16 and 6 of his last 32 games, so it's not as if 2011 was aberrant in that comparison. EDIT: I'm not even saying that Bears fans should be afraid of losing a whole season of Cutler because of injuries, like that pitcher comparison below. But missing several games a year is no joke when the Bears have missed the playoffs by a combined 4 games the last 3 years, and you're paying your QB 17 million on an offense-first team. You are treating him like a pitcher, acting as though a broken thumb somehow led to a strained groin.

Seems to me that quite a few people are equating quarterbacks with pitchers when it comes to injuries.

If 2010 is irrelevant then why is 2011 relevant?

I've already seen people fret over this being too long at 7 years, and for being worth more than Flacco in total despite being spread over more years. People are dumb.

I don't know what an injury rate is but Cutler has been healthy enough to play more than most other QBs during his career.

I love when people complain about the length of NFL contracts.