WrigleyField 22
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Everything posted by WrigleyField 22
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Young guy. 27 in July but spent 2021 on IR 29 career starts. Seems more like a Will, not Sam? Edit- Maybe he can be either
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He is a douche, but I know of at least this one Oh I've seen the Watson part, but no one saying Bears are in on him.
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DBB is such a douche (also I haven't seen a single national guy echo this)
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Yep. Want some sure things for Fields support and FA is better for some sure things even if it isn't efficient.
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Still think he could hit wave 3 FA hard enough on O to be true BPA, but we'll see how the next 3 days shake out. I'm sure he could, what I'm saying is even if they did that, I still want the BOPA. There's some D players that look like they'd be good adds. I would be most interested in a CB with one of the first 3 people picks at least. Some intriguing LB, but positionally I know that's less important. But also a strong edge class and that's suddenly a more realistic value spot for the Bears than it was a week ago. I'm okay with a balanced approach all in all. Just don't wanna see them pigeonholed because at 39 and 49, it's really tough to predict what will actually be there. If I had to mock my perfect draft and not have to reach, it would prob be Trade down for an extra 4th Rd.2.1 - WR Rd.2.2 - OL Rd. 3 - CB Rd. 4 - DL Rd.5. 1 - RB or WR Rd 5.2 - LB Rd 6 - OL
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It's a bit ridiculous. The Bears have a ton of roster spots to fill so they are going to add FAs. I always figured we would be shopping from more of the secondary tier of FAs anyways. Give the dude a chance to execute his plan. What do they want, go on a FA signing spree like the Jags are? I think we've been down that road before more than once, got us here with a completely revamped leadership team and few draft picks to help rebuild the team. Build through the draft first. For us, that means getting the draft picks to begin with. Gonna take time... I want them to spend money. I think it's false you have to "first draft". They can walk and talk at same time. That said I'm not sure there's necessarily a inherently better way to spend it vis a vie big splashes on day 1/2 verse mid-range signings. The only preference I do have is keeping CFA signings at a net defecit as often as possible. But that can be employed in either strategy. Willing to see things out and judge the offseason as a whole rather than bits and pieces of it (and even then grading the offseason is meaningless until games are played).
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Same. BOPA Still think he could hit wave 3 FA hard enough on O to be true BPA, but we'll see how the next 3 days shake out.
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DBB posting a bunch about the OL this afternoon, but all feels very editorialized and spinny. And I'm not even sure we should assume his sources are gonna be that close to Poles thought processes (been theorized his source is close to Ted) But fwiw he basically said: Poles wants Armstead Had no interest in Daniels Not sure in Jenkins is T Not sure if Borom is starter Old FAs wont solve their issues. Connected all those tweets IF true basically mean needing to draft 2 or 3 OL starters, depending on Armstead outcome. I'm not convinced.
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I think theres a little bit of conflating correlation and causation with analysis like this sometimes. Bad teams aren't ncessarily bad because they overspend in FA. They're overspending in FA because they drafted poorly. If you're bad, you can splurge big in FA and still try to improve the draft part. NFL isn't great for tanking benefits. Careers are too short and schedule too much variance. There are certain narrow ways where FA spending inhibits draft development, but if anything it actually could mean the best bet is spending big in just a few areas rather than spreading around too much. And you have to spend a 90% target in actual cash so it's hard to underspend and if eventually you roll all that space over and have like a 100M cap room year you're basically guaranteed to spend it inefficiently then because you can't spend thst much all at once efficiently (or it would be very difficult).
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Just guessing here. But 60M AAV in spending was my target heading into yesterday. Ogunjobi is 13 of that so let's say 40-45 left to spend. Need starters or main rotation pieces minimally at WRx2 OLx2 or 3 MIKE LB CB S So 7 or 8 starters still needed. And some rotation pieces maybe in that sub 2M range. A lot of non CFA options available in the remaining group, especially OL. They could conceivably fill out their depth in wave 3 of FA and have no glaring hole heading into draft.
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We've just hit 24 hour mark of FA and it appears all of Poles goodwill on Bears Twitter is officially gone lol.
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At only 3/27 too. I'd have easily gone up to 3/30. That should count as a Rd 5 comp debit for Bears 2023 comp pick. As it stands now though, Ogunjobi offsets that. But there are a lot of compelling non CFA FA the Bears can build their line with (though it'd be a little old).
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New CBA negotiations
WrigleyField 22 replied to Transmogrified Tiger's topic in General Baseball Talk
Just end the games in ties. -
Also unless you're just sitting out FA you aren't getting much younger than Ogunjobi. His deal will go through his age 30 season.
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Also mark this down as a likely 4th round credit (negative) for the 2023 comp pick formula.
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While we have no prior for Poles, I'm going to guess this will be a small year 1 cap hit. 12M signing bonus, 1.35 Y1 and 13M Y2 guaranteed? That's a 5.35 Y1 cap hit if no void years or 3.75 Y1 cap hit if 2 void years added.
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That's a big number
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In former Bears new, Trubisky is signing with the Steelers.
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That's kind of a weird thing to say. I understand a path is being laid, but they aren't literally closer to a Super Bowl than they were a few days ago (except for the fact the earth has completed another rotation and there's one less day until the next SB).
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So apparently Cowboys looking for a third to trade Cooper. That's a somewhat compelling proposition.
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No one had to say that
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Trevathan and Cohen probably. I feel like would have kept Cohen (unless the medical reports are dire) because he doesn't understand or care about the concept of sunk cost Pace wasn't really bad about walking from sunk costs and mistakes. There were a couple bad examples of it on a player level (and generally I guess the team level), but he cut mistakes loose pretty quickly IMO and often salvaged something.
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I don't even know it was necessarily about that. They had $47Mil cap hit in 2022 tied to the DE position. That's just an irresponsible amount. Having Gipson there certainly helped make the decision easier. But I think it simply came down to wanting to take resources from the defense and put them toward the offense, and the fact that they had limited draft capital. Mack was the best, most realistic player to get them much need draft capital and it just so happened that he was also at the most expensive position on the roster with the best depth. Yep. Bears were like a home theater with 3 big screens and no surround sound system. Gotta at least see the whole plan come together. Clearly everything is on the table.
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Agreed. I wasn't expecting a 1st. I was hopeful for 2023 3rd or 2022 4th. I don't think Poles got fleeced, but this I'm at a "this could work out" mindset than thinking it was a slam dunk.
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My baseline before was the Bears should hand out 50M of long term AAV in each of 2022 and 2023, but you can basically bump that to at least 60M and maybe up to 70M each year now.
