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I hope you're right. We've seen Pace zero in on players and overpay to get them (moving up for Trubisky & Floyd, Anthony Miller for future pick, Shaheen being a round or so early for how raw he was). I'm sure RT will be at the top of the list of draft needs as you said. They will probably convert a bunch of base salary to bonus with Mack & Jackson, extend Fuller (and maybe Hicks). I just hope that they spread out the dead cap when they have to start cutting guys.

Sign the best FA veteran, including Dak if he makes it to FA. Draft a QB in Rd 2,3,4 wherever value comes to you Franchise Robinson and find a way to keep him for 2021 Next year, let Nick go, if the FA is still there and good you continuw developing a young QB. If the FA is a 1-2 year deal type like Fitz you draft another value QB until you have a room full of young guys. If one of them puts it together you ride with them. If not you end up drafting high and have the ammo to get the QB. All the while you are filling out the OL, DL, etc. But Pace will blow his load for someone this year, no doubt.

Texans trade: Deshaun Watson Bears trade: 2021 1st rd pick 2022 1st rd pick 2023 1st rd pick Nick Foles I'd do it if that was the price. I know Pace would do it ARob may be willing to come back more easily (I'd franchise him anyway) A bunch of guys are getting cut/restructured to get under the cap (when does the final number get set, anyway?)

I want a kick that hits the upright to be worth 4 points or something

I didnt' realize how crazy the Easterby situation is until I read that SI article. It's unbelieveable

Given how long it took to get a gameplan suited to Mitch I'm hesitant to ask this team leadership to draft a 2nd round (or raw f1st rd) QB and develop them. But I think it's a chance you have to take as long as you don't want to trade 3 #1 picks to get to teh top of the draft.

The Tankathon mock has us taking Trask in Rd 2 with a G and T in 1 and 3. I'd be OK with a 2nd rd QB. As for the line, I think Massie is cut this offseason but Leno is back. I'd resign Ifedi to another $1M deal to back up RT and try to draft a T in the first two rounds. Take a QB that falls in round 1-3 but don't force it. Interior line actually seems OK with Whitehair/Mustipher/Bars knowing that Daniels will push one to a back up role. I don't know if either Simmons or Hambright are worthwhile developmental pieces but I think both profile as G, and we're currently pretty darn thin at T.

I was looking at the Trubisky trade the other day. The 2017 3rd rounder given up was used on Alvin Kamara. The 2018 3rd rounder given up was used on Fred Warner.

41-25 had been the final score of an NFL game only once prior to this past week. It was a scoragami! (Twitter account with every NFL game score combination in history)

Well said A couple awesome Pace overpays (trades with actual picks) Bears get - Trubisky #2 Bears give - Solomon Thomas #3(could have been DeShaun) Alvin Kamara (2017 3rd) Tedric Thompson (2017 4th picked Eddie Jackson one pick after this pick by trading up) Fred Warner (2018 3rd rounder) Bears get - Anthony Miller (2018 2nd) Bears give - Antonio Callaway (2018 4th) Mecole Hardman (2019 2nd) Of course there are lots of over draft examples - 2020 Kmet 2019 Montgomery, Ridley, really you could say the whole draft 2018 A Miller, 2017 Trubisky, Shaheen 2016 Floyd (I thought we were trading up for Tunsil) 2015 White, Grasu I can't fault him for 4th round on, he's had some really good picks. But he does not value picks appropriately and also overpays in FA, notably Graham and Quinn here recently.

I tend to discredit the later round picks so much that I wouldn't even think to package them to move up, but I also didn't realize they had any additional picks in those later rounds. That being said, what would (2) 6th round picks get you? I cant imagine too much, 5 slots in the 3rd? Per "the chart" 2 high sixths might get you one slot in the mid first round. Realistically no one want two sixth though. They'll just demand a mid 4th which is the same point value (which the Bears happen to lack). In the mid 1st, 3 slots would be like a late third though. Eta misunderstood the original question.. In the third it could be 5 spots. If we're talking comp picks which are like high sevenths, which about adds up. I personally don't like that as a trade up though. 3 for 1 trades are icky to me in the middle rounds. Nothing is official by they project to have 2 6ths and a 7th from comp picks. And +1 from Shaheen and (-1) from Piniero, both a 6th or 7th, so roughly net even. I think Over The Cap shows the comp pick limit hitting after the Bears second 6th rounder, so no 7th round comp pick. I heard that Shaheen being resigned triggered his conditional pick to go from 7th to 6th (no idea how to verify that). Piniero is to Oak. So they would have 1 2 3 4 -> to Minnesota 5 6 6 from Miami 6 Comp 6 Comp

Yep. That's exactly right. I don't see him having value, but let's just say you could trade him for a conditional 7th rounder with the condition being he wins MVP- whatever outrageous condition where you're just giving him away and the receiving team basically has a 11.5M 1 year deal with options (effectively) and no dead cap. I'm still skepitkal you could find someone so I think you're now at the point of attaching something of value to him like a draft pick. But in theory it works for both teams, 11.5m total net savings for the Bears (spread out over 2 years for cap purposes). Free trial for the receiving team. Yeah, I agree he is not an attractive trade target for any teams out there, but I knew his contract status off the top of my head. It is pretty nice for an acquiring team to have the luxury of no dead cap. Why does his 11.5 spread over two years? I was thinking the dead cap for a trade is exactly like a cut, and there is a provision where a team can designate a player as a post-June cut so that they can look for a new job early and the cutting team can spread the cap hit over two years instead of one.

How exactly does the cap hit work when trading? Does the players cap hit simply transfer from one team to the next? At one point in time I thought that the pro-rated signing bonus accelerated into the season that the player was acquired. This would make high salary/signing bonus guys impossible to trade, though I guess any trade could have a restructure built into it. The old team immediately takes any dead money hit in the form of prorated signing bonuses, all accelerated. The new teams gets all base salary cap hits, both guaranteed or unguaranteed. So for Stafford: The Lions would take a dead cap hit of 19M for prorated salary. I'm not exactly sure what happens with his roster bonus though. It's due March 17 in 2021 and 2022 ($10M each year) so he might have to be traded before then for the Lions to not pick that up. But with a 33M cap hit the Lions still would end up net positive to trade him in that scenario. So certainly not impossible. And IMO the dead cap part is overblown. It's dead cap for a reason, it's a sunk cost. The savings is the annual salary that you get out of. And you can almost always move around other salaries to offset for the acceleration aspect of that contract. And yea any restructure could happen as part of the trade, though only on unguaranteed portions I believe. Awesome, thanks. I keep reading people saying "trade ____, cut _____" and I'm trying to figure out who they could trade with the cap effects. I thought it was more complex for some reason. The low cap next year is going to be crazy - players will get cut to get the team under cap, then there may be a ton of players available with no cap space to pay them. I'm trying to game out how it will work but a lot of teams (Bears included) are way over that figure and will have a hard time signing anyone. Bears will be in purgatory for another year, unable to spend their way out with quick fixes Question - if the Bears traded Robert Quinn (humor me on this), his dead cap hits the 2021 cap, and the new team has him with no future dead cap liability? He could be a one year rental and then cut before 2022 and whatever cap hit he would have had was already eaten by the Bears?

How exactly does the cap hit work when trading? Does the players cap hit simply transfer from one team to the next? At one point in time I thought that the pro-rated signing bonus accelerated into the season that the player was acquired. This would make high salary/signing bonus guys impossible to trade, though I guess any trade could have a restructure built into it.

Watched this in real time then 50 times on all the highlights - Once Hopkins jumps and the ball is arriving is it illegal for one of the three BUF defenders to just grab his arm and pull it down? All three jumped with him and he of course jumped the highest and put the clamps on it. Nobody played him catching it instead of the ball.

Biggs says these guys are out Montgomery, hopefully Lamar Miller will suit up Trubisky Jenkins McManis Questionable Whitehair Kmet Spriggs Mingo Robinson Doubtful Mustihper Best case OLine looks like Leno Bars/Coward Whitehair Ifedi Spriggs

This is going to be awful. Glad we didn't sign the Buffalo G last week

I like the video I'm seeing of Zach Wilson; great arm, mobile, very accurate

I can't see this team beating the Saints. Almost certain losses: Saints, Titans, Packers, Packers Almost certain wins: Jaguars Toss Ups: Vikings, Lions, Texans, Vikings If they go 3-1 in the toss ups, that's 9-7

Completely agree. I was flummoxd when the offseason ended with no #2 RB. Cohen is a 3rd down back at best. Patterson would be an emergency RB like in NE, and trick play guy. Still if Montgomery sprains an ankle there is no RB unless you count Nall. Maybe he can do it, but he hasn't yet and never plays. Nall was in on a few plays on Sunday fwiw eta: I'd like to see Nall get the ball more. he's big and doesn't totally lack speed, ran a 4.58 40. Yeah, I meant beyond a few snaps. We don't know if he can be a primary ball carrier.

And Brady would have been there if Brees hadn't decided to come back. I know they love him there, (and Brady had some issues week 1) but man they have to be pissed if he really is done and could have had TB12 ready to takeover.

Completely agree. I was flummoxd when the offseason ended with no #2 RB. Cohen is a 3rd down back at best. Patterson would be an emergency RB like in NE, and trick play guy. Still if Montgomery sprains an ankle there is no RB unless you count Nall. Maybe he can do it, but he hasn't yet and never plays.

The Giants in desperate need to protect an aging Eli Manning skipped over Tunsil and picked Eli Apple instead. Bonkers. I'm convinced the Giants were going to take Leonard Floyd (was a popular pick in mocks) and the Bears screwed them by trading in front of them for him, and they panic picked Apple. Nevermind the fact that the Bears should have actually picked Tunsil as well. I remember this draft. When the trade up happened I assumed Tunsil would be the pick.

The beat writers are saying that Nagy won't overdo it with Trubisky praise, or pump him up. I'm convinced that it's because Mitch looked good in training camp only to freeze once the actual games start, he's a little gun shy in building him up (and giving him the tough love compared to coddling him in the past). I can't help but think that Mitch will continue to look better in camp than Foles, essentially forcing the team to see if Mitch can do it in the games or not. Maybe Mitch starts with a very short leash? Or does the coaching staff say "fool me once, but not again" and start Foles? Foles will have to outperform or at least keep up with practice Mitch for this to happen. Whoever starts will be facing the Lions, Giants, and Falcons, then the Colts, Bucs, and Panthers. Only the Colts seem like a really strong defensive team, but I am not up to speed with current projections. If whoever starts can't get it done in these first 6 weeks it's an easy decision to pull them and move on to the other guy.

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