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Has to have all 4 letters I believe. Firetruck Edit- or not

I honestly feel we'll struggle to reach that number if we even miss out on one major FA target. Unless we are also active with trades. Wonder if that 120 would include Soriano or not. Because to say $120 is basically where we were at would kind if indicate we're not including money being paid to former players, no?

Arian Foster - Q v Ind Zac Stacy - Q v Ten CJ Spiller - P vs K.C. Assuming all do end up being available, pick two. But Foster is the late game and if he is a late scratch my options are Donald Brown or Deji Karim. So the question is really, is Karim (with a sitting Foster) or Brown a better bet than CJ Spiller, or at least close enough to take the risk. And if Foster is out, which is the better bet.

Flacco. I don't have a sit/start yet, but I have three questionable RB's (Spiller, Foster, Stacy) and one on a bye (Bush) so you can expect me back later this week. I have a waiver claim in for one of the Hou backups (Karim), but will have no other RB options so I should probably grab another. Any suggestions? (Tolbert/Thomas/Obonnaya/Bolden/D.Brown are some of the names available)

Care to give me a google map link of the location? I'm not too familiar with the area. Roughly Roosevelt and Canal is what I think. Not sure exact lot, as the tracks obviously cause issues. Roosevelt el stop is close-ish but a bit of a hike compared to now. Bus access would be easier tho, especially from Union and Ogilve metra trains. Edit - never mind closer east than I was thinking so great walking distance to Roosevelt stop. Tim would have to change his site name though. South Loop Baseball

This isn't serious is it? Doesn't seem too far off to me if Trout continues his pace (which would make him one of the greatest players of all-time at the age of 26). It's not serious in that he won't hit FA. He'll give LA a nice hometown deal of 8/225 so that he can hit FA again in his early 30s and get a record 10/750M contract.

Jackson, Nicks, Randle, Ellington

Stacy-HB Wallace-Flex I'd probably go Manning over Pryor, Mcfadden should be back this week healthy enough to take a large % of carries and Manning will likely be in a shoot-out with Philly (despite their recent struggles) Hmm not sure if I even trust him in a shoot-out. He can just be downright terrible and a shoot-out cause him to throw picks as he forces the ball. I'm thinking Palmer and Smith are safer bets, even with a little lower upside. Regarding Pryor, I was surprised that they are 3rd vs QBs so far. They haven't faced any really good QBs though. Probably the best they did face was Cutler, and not counting the injury shortened week, that was his worst performance. Most other guys have had fairly standard weeks, outside of Locker and Geno Smith, who is all over the place no matter what.

The only thing I worry about with Peyton is if they are still going to have anything to play for in weeks 16 and 17, the midst of playoff fantasy football. Otherwise, yea I'd do pretty much any combo. FYI- I did start a trade thread as well.

I'll join but a good chance I'm gonna have to miss the draft. I don't mind auto drafting as long as others don't mind it.

I am totally on board with Watkins in the draft... assuming that like 90% of that cap space Bears will have this offseason (plus cutting Peppers), goes toward the D. The other 10% goes to re-signing Cutler. I don't think you can pass up a talent like Watkins if we end up in a position to draft him, but I think you need more than FA to build up the D so it puts some pressure to find some mid round hits. There should be some good DL available though in the first and I don't ultimately think we'll be in a position to draft Watkins by combination of him shooting up boards and the Bears not finishing with a worse enough record. Even without Cutler, I'm a little more bullish on the Bears than finishing top 10 range. If you can get Watkins, you might have to. He's likely to be BPA at that point in the draft. And he'll bridge the gap from Marshall. If Watkins can develop like Jeffery (and he's a better talent), you go from Marshall/Jeffery to Jeffery/Watkins and that's probably not much dropoff from right now. Agreed on your evaluation. It definitely lets us part with Marshall after his current deal and hopefully Wilson develops as your slot guy. Jeffrey, Watkins, Wilson could be lethal in a couple years. As much as I would miss Marshall, parting with him after the current deal is probably gonna be the smartest move. Still just question if we will even be in that position. I see a DL in our future.

Is this yahoo or ESPN?

Guy in my league has given up and looking for keepers and offered me this; Brady, DeMarco Murray, Chiefs D, Steve Smith (none are keeper eligible or worthwhile at cost) In return he wants Alshon Jeffrey ($4 keeper) Michael Crabtree ($3 keeper) and Andrew Luck ($24 keeper). I still have plenty of good keeper options into next year and can only keep 3 (though none probably as strong of value as Jeffrey) The question is what is my improvement this year? I'm not sold on Murray and while Brady could out produce Luck going forward, I'm not certain. I feel I'm likely downgrading from Jeffrey to Smith. So the big prize is the Chiefs D who have bee awesome, but I've had pretty good success playing the waiver wire game and have NE and Carolina currently which look like pretty good bets to cover the most of the last 9 weeks based on matchups. But if I felt good about the Chiefs continuing their play, it may be good enough. However they still have Denver on the schedule twice which has to make you pause at any D. I can post full rosters too if anyone is interested.

Starting early as this is my worst bye week One RB, One Flex CJ Spiller v NO , Zac Stacy v Sea, Jaquizz Rodgers v Ari, Mike Wallace v NE. Do have an open roster spot too if any waiver suggestions. Also on my QB bye week and right now it's Terrell Pryor v Pit and ESPN is only projecting 9 pts, which surprised me. Are on of these waiver QBs better bets? Palmer v Atl A. Smith v Cle Manning v Phi G. Smith v Cin

I am totally on board with Watkins in the draft... assuming that like 90% of that cap space Bears will have this offseason (plus cutting Peppers), goes toward the D. The other 10% goes to re-signing Cutler. I don't think you can pass up a talent like Watkins if we end up in a position to draft him, but I think you need more than FA to build up the D so it puts some pressure to find some mid round hits. There should be some good DL available though in the first and I don't ultimately think we'll be in a position to draft Watkins by combination of him shooting up boards and the Bears not finishing with a worse enough record. Even without Cutler, I'm a little more bullish on the Bears than finishing top 10 range.

Uh, Cutler?

I think it keeps guys interested deeper into the season. Also it gives some additional strategy of picking consistent week to week players.

I think it keeps guys interested deeper into the season. Also it gives some additional strategy of picking consistent week to week players.

Jay-Absolutely Garza- Maybe, but they kept Boggs to basically do nothing, so they must see something in him and he could be a replacement at cheap'" Slauson- As long as its teams friendly. Could get by with "another Slauson" next year if the price is too high Melton- I'm not even sure a prove it deal is worthwhile. As we hit the defense the question really becomes, is Tucker back and/or are we a 4-3 Cover 2 defense? Anderson- See above re: 4-3/cover 2, but he is a good LB, but LB is also the defensive position I least want to put money into DJ- I think you put it well. Peanut and Jennings- I don't even want to think about it, but I really want to keep Peanut and as he ages I have visions in my head of him making a Charles Woodson-like transition to a top notch safety in a few years. Wright- Even if we can do better in FA or draft, is he gonna get enough elsewhere that we couldn't bring him back as a 3rd safety? Despite his weaknesses I'm not totally buying into PF's ranking of him as the worst regular safety in football. A better pash rush would make our defensive backs looks much better. Without looking up the rest of the league's stats, we have to have the worst pass rush in the league, right?

Can we also talk about Treastman and his use of the end around? I'm astonished he keeps getting relatively strong results out of it (especially since its always to Jeffrey), when I feel like coordinators of old who used to try it always ended up in a 3 yard loss. What the heck is different?

Runningback injuries. Andre Brown gets hurt during my draft (okay he was my #5 RB. No big deal) Shane Vereen gets hurt week one (still my #4, big 3 intact) Reggie Bush hurt in week two and misses week 3. CJ Spiller gets hurt during the game week 4, puts up one point. Definitely contributes to his stupid shared workload and low carries going forward this season. Arian Foster gets hurt in the first quarter today. One point. I might be off a week or so on some of these, but mid-game injuries are the worst. And this week one of my backups only got 17 yards rushing, which would usually make me feel better, because hey, what else could I have done. Even if I knew Foster would exit with one point, what could I have done differently? Oh except he gets two stupid reception TDs so I'm just starting at a wasted 17 points from Jaquizs Rodgers stumbled into and 13 points from Zak Stacy, while my hobbled Big three RB give me 10 POINTS! Saving grace is the pitiful performance from my opponent and Andrew Luck this week.

I want to switch to the 3-4. It would extend Briggs' career, fit Greene better, and give Shea one last chance So what do the current Bears look like in a 3-4 Melton and Wotton at DE. Peppers and McClellin at OLB, with Peppers probably also going in at DE some. Bostic and Briggs in the middle. Might as well just let go of Anderson and Williams since their contracts are up . Paea is stuck not fitting really anywhere but could probably situationally play NT or DE depending on situation. Definitely need some additional OLB and a true NT. The good news is our offense doesn't stand to lose a lot next year with I believe Slauson and Garza being the only FA question marks, and the biggest missing piece probably being a speedy slot receiver, so you should really be able to commit some resources to revamping the D (even if we stay in a 4-3). Obvious you have to lock up Jay too but I'm taking that as a given. Paea should work as a 3-4 DE, rotating to NT when the NT needs a rest. I think you have to bring back one of the free agent LBs because one of the reasons you consider switching to the 3-4 is the depth at LB. But are any of them really OLB in the 3-4? Williams has 3-4 experience and I believe played inside when he did. Briggs, Bostic, Anderson and Greene all seem like ILB to me. Bostic and Greene are maybe athletic enough to get by on the outside, but aren't really prototypical 3-4 OLB. So I see a lot of 4-3 LB depth. As far as Tucker goes, I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt. The big thing I liked about him was he talked about wanting to keep up the turnover creation, and thus far we've mostly lived up to it. His track record isn't great, but he also has never had great players really. He does have 3-4 experience too, so we could experiment with a mixed defense with him, and based on our personnel could probably handle it with just a couple additions. I'd give him another year with a couple new young faces to help the defense and evaluate again. If he doesn't improve the defense enough next year, I don't think you've lost a ton in that one year, as long as this off season you are putting the commitment into bringing in new players. Its a shame Marenelli didn't want to stick around, although maybe he saw the ship sinking and correctly jumped ship when he could.

I want to switch to the 3-4. It would extend Briggs' career, fit Greene better, and give Shea one last chance So what do the current Bears look like in a 3-4 Melton and Wotton at DE. Peppers and McClellin at OLB, with Peppers probably also going in at DE some. Bostic and Briggs in the middle. Might as well just let go of Anderson and Williams since their contracts are up . Paea is stuck not fitting really anywhere but could probably situationally play NT or DE depending on situation. Definitely need some additional OLB and a true NT. The good news is our offense doesn't stand to lose a lot next year with I believe Slauson and Garza being the only FA question marks, and the biggest missing piece probably being a speedy slot receiver, so you should really be able to commit some resources to revamping the D (even if we stay in a 4-3). Obvious you have to lock up Jay too but I'm taking that as a given.

Hey I don't like watching games with any other fans. I was in college for the Bears SB and had a SB party with my fraternity. And while there were no Indy fans, nothing was worse than those [expletive] smug Cleveland Brown fans (seriously Cleveland of all [expletive] places) trying to mask their own pitiful existence(cuz they're from [expletive] Cleveland) and sorrow over Ohio States sorry ass performance that year but railing against the large Bears contingency there.

I look at the Nets and don't see a team but a random collection of talent with a complete unknown at coach. They don't scare me, even if healthy. I mean the Bulls beat them and I'll take the addition of DRose over their additions. Actually no one in the NBA had a bigger offseason then the Bulls so bring it on NBA, all of you.