David

kboom!

damn it

http://www.fangraphs.com/leaders.aspx?pos=all&stats=bat&lg=all&qual=0&type=1&season=2017&month=13&season1=2017&ind=0&team=0,ts&rost=0&age=0&filter=&players=0&sort=16,d

Was especially not fun to see a day after finding out Eaton tore his ACL that way (and of course CPatt was similar too)

Because the general public and the mainstream sports media are filled with idiots. It's a lot like the narrative with Cutler's contract and the outrage over the dollar figure. Glennon is kind of inconsequential. But, if you were signing a guy JUST to placehold, why not just bring back Hoyer? You could have used the difference in money to have added Gilmore or one of the other guys you missed on. In the end, it won't matter. Pace gets judged on Trubisky. If he flops, Pace is gone after 2018. If he's good, the media will write the "Pace had serious stones" type of articles to admit they were wrong. Was cap space really even an issue? As for the answer, I guess it was insurance in case they couldn't get Trubisky as well as a gamble on a little upside? I don't know. He's a lot better than Hoyer, IMO. Don't really see the downside of it. What kind of return could we get for Glennon if he has a halfway decent year next year?

Because the general public and the mainstream sports media are filled with idiots. It's a lot like the narrative with Cutler's contract and the outrage over the dollar figure.

https://www.profootballfocus.com/draft-pffs-2017-nfl-draft-recap-for-all-32-teams/?utm_content=buffer1aff8&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=nfl

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/eddie-vedder-covers-talking-heads-the-who-at-boston-benefit-w479648 Len, Gammons, and Theo play on keep on rockin in the free world...not sure if any others.

I remember reading something that said he doesn't do anything great. He's just solid across the board. Like a 3rd starter. to me, solid at everything = very good quarterback. especially when his biggest strengths appear to be basically most important parts of QBing- accuracy with ball placement and decision making. aside - some of those comments from those sources are all out meatballery

This contradicts a lot of the reports that came out early. http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/columnists/ct-mitch-trubisky-bears-biggs-spt-0430-20170429-story.html

the almost literal man among boys highlights of shaheen vs his d2 competition are quite hilarious

The success rate being better in the first round than any other round doesn't mean the success rate is 100%. Geez. Here's Derwood Heyman chiming in again with absolutely nothing!

I'm curious, from those who don't like Trubisky, as to what they see as the major knocks against him. Is it just the red shirt and one year wonder thing? Skill wise he seems to have everything, both physically and mentally (in terms of reading defense and going through progressions and such). He seems a little quiet, but that's about it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPBtAZktCVU Just stumbled onto this

If they are THAT bad, which is obviously in the range of possibilities, it seems like a great opportunity to get a crazypants RG3 type haul for the pick. 5 win over/under, with only SF and Cleveland behind.... yeah i saw that with our schedule, i don't think it's crazy. i'd probably take the over if you put a gun to my head though. it's hard to be THAT bad, especially with a competent QB, which I think glennon is, and what likely will be a decent defense. my guess is something like 6 or 7.

his future is in the hands of the offensive line, that must keep Glennon healthy enough while losing 15 games. And then maybe next year they will try to draft actual football players. Oh, I'm going to be annoyed if they get another incredibly high draft pick in a draft where there are possibly 3 franchise QBs. If they are THAT bad, which is obviously in the range of possibilities, it seems like a great opportunity to get a crazypants RG3 type haul for the pick.

I didn't WANT a QB (as I was pretty vocal about), so I guess this isn't directed at me, but if they were going to take one in the first, Trubisky was the one I liked best. I do respect the conviction and the balls it took for Pace to do this, and if he's as good as they obviously think, none of it matters. QB is a weird position and I don't love the whole "well if your guy gets taken you can get this other guy who is publicly viewed similarly" with it. Not in the first or second round, at least. Gotta say, everything I've read about and seen with Trubisky in the last few days has me very impressed. As for the rest of the draft, who the horsefeathers knows either. I know by now not to give a horsefeathers about how pundits rate drafts in the immediate aftermath. The whole thing with the media blasting the Bears draft a day after like they have any idea if it's actually good or not is hilarious to me. It's the job of scouts and the FO to find and pick who they think are good players. At the very least, they've earned some benefit of the doubt from me with how solid last year's draft (and I'll give a little credit for Goldman in 2015). There's some intrigue with the players they took. I can't wait to see Shaheen in preseason. Jackson was a good value. Let's actually see them play first. I really don't get the "respect the balls" idea. It wasn't a ballsy move at all in my mind. Just think he's sticking his neck out and had to know how much horsefeathers was going to be flung his way. Ultimately, that's just noise, I suppose. I do get your angle that it buys him more time, if anything.

Man, Trubisky is a horsefeathering stud

I didn't WANT a QB (as I was pretty vocal about), so I guess this isn't directed at me, but if they were going to take one in the first, Trubisky was the one I liked best. I do respect the conviction and the balls it took for Pace to do this, and if he's as good as they obviously think, none of it matters. QB is a weird position and I don't love the whole "well if your guy gets taken you can get this other guy who is publicly viewed similarly" with it. Not in the first or second round, at least. Gotta say, everything I've read about and seen with Trubisky in the last few days has me very impressed. As for the rest of the draft, who the horsefeathers knows either. I know by now not to give a horsefeathers about how pundits rate drafts in the immediate aftermath. The whole thing with the media blasting the Bears draft a day after like they have any idea if it's actually good or not is hilarious to me. It's the job of scouts and the FO to find and pick who they think are good players. At the very least, they've earned some benefit of the doubt from me with how solid last year's draft (and I'll give a little credit for Goldman in 2015). There's some intrigue with the players they took. I can't wait to see Shaheen in preseason. Jackson was a good value. Let's actually see them play first.

Trout's actually been a mediocre to slightly below CF for a while now, but obviously the fact that he can be that while providing the offense he does makes him immensely valuable. For his career he's at -0.2 UZR/150

[tweet] [/tweet] I forgot who said it (I think it was mikey) in a game thread the other day, but looks like he might've been right about bosio's absence

i'm admittedly making assumptions about what you are terming to be "successful" here, but if you think that it's 50/50, i feel like you should be ecstatic with the pick.

You know what's less likely than convincing good players to come to Chicago and play with Jimmy? Becoming championship contenders by trading away one of the best players in the league in his prime for draft picks and being absolutely horrible for years. But everybody wants to do that like it's some magic pill. Working horsefeathering great in Minnesota and Philadelphia, tho! Hell, New Orleans drafted Anthony Davis, he has turned into a superstar, and they've tasted the playoffs once.

Forgot Gordon Hayward is a free agent too

I'd take being something like the Clippers of the last few years in the East I get the concerns about his health but I'd take the shot.