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My tentative off season plan: Sign and Trade a future second rounder and our first rounder for Bosh. We do the sign and trade so that Bosh can get his 6th year and 10.5% raise. Toronto agrees to get some picks. The pick would be nice to keep for some depth, but I have some other ideas anyways. Sign Ray Allen to a 3 yr/12.4M deal structured as 4/4.2/4.2. If possible make the third year a team option. Bring over Turkish center Omer Asik to a 4 yr/$7.84M deal starting at $1.75M with max raises. 4th year Player Option. Sign Brad Miller to the vet minimum. Fill out roster with minimum contract PG, SG, and SF. Rose-Hinrich Allen-Hinrich Deng-Johnson Bosh-Gibson Noah-Miller-Asik

Well if we were likely to release him anyways, I'll take any pick, even a 7th rounder.

Hmmm interesting. I'd rather keep him and let him, Afalava, and Harris battle for a starting spot, but he does look like the #3 to me at this point, so if we took Bullocks instead it wouldn't be a huge deal.

So we traded Williams for Bowman, in a roundabout way :) Looking at depth now though, I see this: FS-Wright, Manning SS- Harris, Afalava, Payne (not necessarily in order, this spot is wide open) Bullocks will struggle to make the team, and Steltz is definitely gone IMO. Whether or not Bullocks makes it depends on how deep we go at other positions, such as DL or OL. At LB we have: Pisa, Urlacher, Briggs, Roach, Hillenmeyer, Shaw. Thats six, although Shaw is pretty much exclusively a special teamer. Hopefully we stay healthier at LB this year. Pisa and Urlacher missed 29 combined starts last year. I think they are trying to get Shaw on the field more because he was so good on ST. And I wouldn't be surprised to see Matt Mayberry make the team. I don't know anything about Mayberry, but just from a numbers standpoint, that's a lot of LB unless someone else goes. 11 DBs 6 LB 9 DL 7 OL 4 RB 1 FB 3 TE 6 WR 2 QB 1 LS 1 P 1 K That's 52 roster spots there, so you'd have 1 roster spot left. I could easily see another DL and OL, or a 3rd QB if we pick up a vet. Don't think we'd take 7 LB.

So we traded Williams for Bowman, in a roundabout way :) Looking at depth now though, I see this: FS-Wright, Manning SS- Harris, Afalava, Payne (not necessarily in order, this spot is wide open) Bullocks will struggle to make the team, and Steltz is definitely gone IMO. Whether or not Bullocks makes it depends on how deep we go at other positions, such as DL or OL. At LB we have: Pisa, Urlacher, Briggs, Roach, Hillenmeyer, Shaw. Thats six, although Shaw is pretty much exclusively a special teamer. Hopefully we stay healthier at LB this year. Pisa and Urlacher missed 29 combined starts last year.

While I don't think this is cool like the Sox and Cubs probably hope it is/becomes I don't understand the outrage in this thread.

I don't see why thats necessary in addition to drafting LeFevour. They're obviously displeased with Hanie and Basanez. I don't know about that. They could conceivably sign a back up veteran, still keep Hanie, have 3 QBs on the roster, and keep LeFevour around on the practice squad. I think I'd prefer to have 2 QBs again, so it comes down to Hanie vs other veteran (I've heard them linked the McCown) as the backup, with LeFevour on the Practice Squad.

J'Marcus Webb - OT Massive OT from a small school. Tice is enamored with him. Maybe he can start in a couple years.

I don't think he will be the main backup. Either Hanie or another vet (McCown is apparently on the radar) will be the #2. LeFevour will have to prove that he is valuable enough as a #3QB to beat out a #7LB or #7CB or something like that. Last year, of course, they only took 2 QB's and if they do that again, I wouldn't imagine LeFevour would be one of them.

Hey, I played against Lefevour in high school, so I like this pick.

Joshua Moore. Anyone know anything about him?

Would have loved some OL too, but gotta love that value here. At this point, just have to expect us to keep going BPA. Address the OL with some FA and get a couple developmental guys with UDFA if you don't draft any, but anyone we pick now isn't likely to make an immediae impact.

Brandon Spikes in the 4th would be ridiculous. There's always a chance for someone to fall but that is two rounds lower than almost everyone says he is valued at. He's as slow as some OT's. He could fall.

I question how much Williams could actually bring us, but if we can get a decent pick out of it, sure.

The stuff I've read says he is a 4-3 NT as well. He certainly has athleticism, not just size.

The Bulls are bad at rebounding. what? they finished first in the league in total rebounds per game. Poor stat. The Bulls are at least average at rebounding though.

No chance. Cavs won't get blown out.

From Jeff Risdon: http://forums.realgm.com/boards/viewtopic.php?f=141&t=893257&start=315#p23156647 http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/draft/players/1265317?tag=pageRow;pageContainer

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Not without a sign in trade in which Deng or Hinrich and some combination went out in exchange. I don't want Wade though to be perfectly honest. Him and Rose's skills will not compliment each other at all and each will be less effective. If the Bulls want the best bang for their buck this offseason (outside of Lebron of course) they should target Bosh as their main FA. Him and Ros playing pick and roll would be awesome. Just add some additional shooters and defenders. After signing Wade or Bosh by the way, we'd have roughly $4.3M to spend on another FA piece. Totally agree on hoping they end up with Bosh as opposed to Wade. Is that $4.3 million with the raised cap? Yes, it is based on a 56.1M cap figure. It also assumes that Chris Richard's salary next year is completely unguranteed, which I assume it is. At worst, you'd have to add an additional cap liability of $380,785, which is the difference of having Richard's salary as a cap hold, and having the minimum salary as a cap hold. Chris Bosh_________$16,568,908 Luol Deng__________$11,345,000 Kirk Hinrich_________$9,000,000 Derrick Rose________$5,546,160 Free Agent_________$4,483,100 Joakim Noah________$3,128,536 James Johnson______$1,713,600 #17 Pick____________$1,302,600 Taj Gibson__________$1,117,680 Min Cap Hold_________$473,604 Min Cap Hold_________$473,604 Min Cap Hold_________$473,604 Min Cap Hold_________$473,604 Total Salary_______$56,100,000 I thought rookie scale salaries don't count towards the cap. First rounders do. Although, they can sign anywhere within I believe +-20% of that cap hold, and almost everyone gets the +20% number, so their actual salary will be larger than the hold.

Read more: http://football.realgm.com/src_twelfthwriter/61/20100420/25_fearless_draft_predictions/#ixzz0ln6nKAR7 Give away the farm for Eric Berry. But has Jerry done that the last couple of years, or just for Cutler? Yea, I thought it was an odd quote since Cutler was really the only example of dealing a first. They did give up a second for Gaines Adams though, so who knows.

Little tidbit from Jeff Risdon at RealGM in his "25 Fearless Draft Predictions" article. Read more: http://football.realgm.com/src_twelfthwriter/61/20100420/25_fearless_draft_predictions/#ixzz0ln6nKAR7

True. I'll be watching.

Why did you include the NFL draft. Are the Bears trading up?

They can't.