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Random question. Taken completely in isolation what would you find more value in when considering trades for 1.1 overall: a high 2nd round pick this year (lets say top 5) or a 1st round pick in 2025? If it matters pretend that the team is a run of the mill NFL club in terms of competence, so there's no way to know if it will be a higher 1st or a lower 1st in 2 years.

Brady Hoke’s brother? PASS

Seems crazy to not even have Davis in the top 7 Cubs prospects

Sure know how to pick ‘em don’t I?

Everton makes absolutely no moves to bring in players during the window while selling off one of their best players. They sit in 19th and have the most difficult remaining schedule in the Premier League. They seemed resigned to their fate...they even hired a coach who's most notable accomplishment is getting Burnley promoted twice. I follow Everton because I committed to like 15 years ago and in those 15 years they've given me almost no reason to continue to root for them....might be looking for a new team soon, anyone want to recruit me?

Good, now everyone can shut up about Harbaugh still being in the mix.

I haven't had a chance to dig through the numbers yet, but this redditor put together a ridiculous amount of data about Fields both last year and this year. Just skimming it, there is a ton of interesting info here.

Last time #1 was traded it happened 2 weeks before the draft. The 49ers trade to #3 happened in like March. Yeah its possible it doesn't happen until draft day but it seems much more likely that a trade is made anytime between now and a few days before the draft. A trade like this isn't a minor trade, it will radically alter team's draft plans, so the preference is to do it sooner.

I understand where you are coming from but I don't think the Bears have the luxury of using draft capital on a QB too many other holes to fill that are more likely to impact the team next year. Maybe a 7th if one makes sense or UDFA

at least he got out of the Chicago winter and went some place warmer

Great hockey player, complete piece of horsefeathers person

Feel like the Purdy injury helped his stock. People were saying Purdy wasn’t that good and it was just the system. I get it Josh Johnson is a journeyman QB who hasn’t been relevant in years and did not prep with the starters this week. But Purdy was Mr. Irrelevant and as a rookie led an admittedly talented and well coached team to the conference title game. He’s definitely something. Maybe not a good QB on another team but a decent one

I lost track of where the cap space number was going to be but this is saying we were anticipating $110m - $120m and the actual figure is $92m

hell yeah lets go

Wtf Will happily grab him if he’s sitting there in the 2nd round lol

Yes please

Gio again: Cant wait to see him in a World Cup for the US

Yeah I was a fan of his most of the time...he was doing the Waddle and Silvy appearances and was wildly entertaining, a side of him that he didn't otherwise show to the public (but we'd see later with his reality tv appearances and unfortunately his podcast). There were also stories out there about him doing a lot of charity behind the scenes, particularly for juvenile diabetes, but he went out of his way to try to keep it out of the media. On the field his inconsistency always made me believe that he wasn't given the right tools around him to succeed, and in some ways that is definitely true, but after several years you are who you are for better or worse. Unfortunately it turned out he was a right wing trumpist douche so horsefeathers him

He's 4-36 from 3 since injuring his hand recently, and just said he has trouble shooting and handling the ball but he's going to continue to gut it out. Even though he's actively hurting the team by playing. wtf

This is completely random but was talking to my friend whose not a Bears fan and somehow we started talking about the 2011 Bears. I knew all this information already, but somehow going back through it really reminded me of how snake bitten the Bears were during that era 2010 season ends in the NFC championship game against our archrivals when our starting QB tears his MCL in the first half leaving a 3rd string QB to play the second half. Rodgers played like horsefeathers and the Packers offense only scored 14 points in the game, thus we probably win with any sort of competent offense. But that's 2010, just mentioning this to set the stage for 2011.... after a slow 2-3 start, the Bears reel off 5 wins in a row to go to 7-3 and firmly in the playoff picture. I remember the discussion at the time being that the Bears should be considered legit contenders in the NFC. But all this horsefeathering horsefeathers all happened to torpedo the season: -Cutler breaks his thumb making a tackle on an INT that wasn't his fault in the final minutes of a game that the Bears were winning by 11 points. Completely unnecessary INT, completely unnecessary attempted tackle, completely fluke injury. But he's only expected to miss 6 weeks meaning he can come back for the playoffs if the Bears make it. -Ultimately 3-3 in our final 6 games would have gotten us into the playoffs as we had already won the tiebreaker over the eventual 10-6 6 seed Falcons. This is the schedule we had remaining: @ Raiders (7-8 without the result of the Bears game) - Hanie played bad but the Bears were driving for the winning score late. Hanie completes a pass and rushes to the line to spike it. Inexplicably he takes a step back before actually spiking the ball, making the play intentional grounding and necessitating a 10 second run off which ends the game vs Chiefs (6-9) - The Bears lose 10-3 as the offense does absolutely nothing and the only offensive TD of the game, the difference in the game, was a hail mary at the end of the first half by Tyler Palko. @Broncos (7-8) - The Bears were up 10-0 with just over 2 minutes left in the game. The Broncos score a TD from Tebow to Demariyus Thomas with 2:08 left. The onside kick was unsuccessful, so the Bears had the ball at midfield with 2:05 left and the Broncos had 0 timeouts. Assuming the first play lasts until the 2 minute warning, the Bears can get the time down to about 25 seconds left if they punt back to the Broncos. And since they're at midfield a punt probably really pins the Broncos back. Of course anyone reading a Bears thread on the 15th most popular Cubs website out there knows what happened. Barber runs out of bounds, the Broncos get it back with 1:06 left instead of 25 seconds, Prater kicks a difficult 59 yard FG, the Bears get the ball back in OT and drive all the way to the Broncos 38. Barber gets the ball and looks to be putting the Bears in reasonable FG range and a first down when he inexplicably fumbles the ball away. Tebow leads the Broncos down the field and Prater kicks another 50+ yard FG to win it. Just a dumbfounding loss if I've ever seen one Seahawks (6-9) - Don't remember anything about this game but it looks like we got trounced @Packers (14-1) - A loss eliminates the Bears @Vikings (3-12) - Yay we finally win one. Really easy horsefeathering schedule that you'd think even with Hanie starting you could go 3-3 in. And they easily could have gone 3-3 even though Hanie played like garbage! It was right there. A couple ridiculous plays away from a 10-6 Bears team with a healthy Cutler being the team no one wants to face in the playoffs. Then to finish the trilogy, the Bears start next year 7-1, falter down the stretch but still finish 10-6 and are unfortunate enough to be one of the rare 10-6 teams that misses the playoffs because the Packers rolled over against the Vikings on SNF (before of course beating them the next week). Despite leading the team to 11-5 and the NFC championship game, then 7-3 before the starting QB got hurt, then 10-6 Lovie is canned and we hire a CFL coach to replace him. OK I'm done venting

Amazing at the end they had 2 tries to inbound the ball down 2, first time Lavine is the inbounder, so obviously DeRozan was double teamed and they had to call their last time out (which is critical in a game where its very likely you'll need to advance the ball). Then the second time they forced a bad throw into Vuc for essentially a game ending TO. Just brilliant stuff from our amazing tactician coach.

Almost posted in here when they were up 21 near halftime saying that maybe the Bulls will turn out to be decent but something told me to hold off.

I don't know who 90% of those dudes are he had to have slipped 2-3 fake names in there