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What kind of horsefeathers parades his kids in front of the press conference then chastises the daughter as she quietly gestures to his side? Probably the first time he's parented his actual kids instead of his athletes.

More personable than Nick.

I bet on Hurts right after that season. He stayed at Bama and sat the bench behind Tua, despite being 27-2 as a starter and leading his team to consecutive national championship games (won 1, which obviously Tua took over). He then went to Oklahoma and put up a Heisman level season. He was just a guy I never counted out as an NFL QB. I thought he might be a 6th round pick and mostly a career backup who becomes a head coach after his playing career, but I knew he would have success on some level in the NFL. From all accounts, just a really good dude, who I wished all the success in this league. Man I wanted the Bears to draft him in the 2nd as competition and possible replacement for Trubisky. Basically exactly what Eagles did first few years where he was an option, but they hedged along the way. Instead we got the Foles hedge. Of course I'm happy with situation with Fields too, but even something like that was still possible. Imagine a Fields-Hurts QB room - ha.

Yea it's mainly what the "Effective space" metric always was because you always had to fill out the bottom x number of roster spots (which is now almost all done with futures contracts) I'm going to guess also Reiff's incentives officially hit which was probably several million off the rollover from 2022.

First new hire

Would like this rumor if it wasnt from horsefeathering Allbright

Oooh gotcha. That seems at odds with most current draft boards. But going into the season JSN had that type of hype. And not like he sucked, just was injured.

He’s 5th in Mel’s big board, going to the Jets at 13 in his mock. Well if he really is 5th he probably would be a second rounder under most circumstance so this is him just calling him the Jets idiots then lol

If it's true that Russell Wilson was so clueless that he was literally calling plays from his time in Seattle during the huddle while with Denver confusing everyone, then I'm willing to give Hackett a pass. Pete Carroll certainly didn't seem to miss Russell at all and made it pretty clear. I hadn't heard that one. But I do recall hearing about this with Favre in New York. Basically had one coach dedicated to translating the plays for him, lol.

I love when the mock draft trade engines allow just outlandish scenarios. Fixed the Bears O

Yea the bar is so low that Poles can just take a brunt force approach and end up with a much improved line. People will inevitably freak out about overpaying or whatever but money is the FA game and they have to spend money and there just isn't that much to spend it on internally.

Yea that OL was still bad that year, but it had Marshall at WR. Rookie Alshon and Forte was a good back. Granted Jeffery and Marshall weren't typical Martz WR, but Tice certainly wasn't the answer at OC.

Yea that run was just such a wasted opportunity. That 2012 offense being wasted on a Mike Tice offense is probably the biggest missed opportunity. By 2013 with Trestman the offense exploded but the Ds run was over (certainly accelerated by firing Lovie and then trying to make Tucker still run his D lol)

Can upgrade Scales? Hes our only player to get an All Pro vote! :lol:

Want back at multi year (price contingent) - David Montgomery - DeAndre Houston Carson Want Back at one year near-min/tender - Darrynton Evans - Josh Blackwell - Patrick Scales - Blasingame Indifferent (one year unguaranteed deal only) - Breon Borders - Dieter Eiselen - Andrew Brown - Morrow - Blackson - Lee - Pennel - Harry - Cruikshank - Adams - Armon Watts - Trevon Wesco - Joe Thomas Can leave: - Pettis - Pringle - Reiff - Dozier - Griffin Fire into sun: - Sam Mustipher - Peterman - Boyle - Schofield

I'm guessing neither. He'll be good to go in like 3 months, and should have no long-term issues. The Cowboys signed Gallup for 5/57M last offseason and he actually had a torn ACL. While that's maybe a slight discount, they SHOULD cut Elliot and re-sign Pollard for whatever it takes. Zeke has a 16M cap hit next year and they save 11M if they cut him. I could still see Jerry valuing Zeke at 11M. But that will be a super interesting decision to watch that could have some really interesting ripple effects on the RB market.

uhh isn't the top of this draft supposed to be really heavy on defensive talent My impression is there is a lot of quality depth at the top of the draft on the DL, with Anderson and Carter leading the way, but I'm not as sure how Anderson and Carter stack up compared to recent guys like Bosa and Chase Young. WrigleyField22 mentioned neither of them stack up to Myles Garrett, and I think that's accurate, although you can make a really good argument Garrett's the best DL prospect to come out in the last decade. There are some concerns with Anderson's size and speed, which might limit his usefulness when he's not rushing the passer, and Carter has some questions about his technique and health. The Combine will help tell the tale, and I think the Bears' D would improve measurably with either, but I don't think the Bears *have* to walk away from this draft with either guy. Yea, Andersons size has been brought up a lot. But then I also saw someone say his listed height/weight is the same as Khalil Mack's at Buffalo and I went down the dubious "scouting off still photos" rabbit hole and kind of left wondering if he's actually too small. Of course it's a trap to focus on a single below average trait and compare it to one great player. BUT, definitely deserves some careful question of what his lack of size hasn't let him do and what specifically it harms. If you can point to elite traits he has that he uses, the less elite traits becomes less important because they're just not relevant to their game. And that comp player was still a top 5 pick, not a nobody who surprised everyone. That RAS guy had a long tweet thread recently talking about WR speed and I'm sure you can apply some of these points to DE athletic traits too (Good thread, but a little rambling) For reference once his testing numbers come combine time. https://ras.football/ras-compare/?&p1=11400&p2=9654&pos=

No That doesn’t mean it’s not a good pick or a successful draft, but when you have #1 and don’t need a qb but do need a ton of other stuff, you need to do something more than draft defense at the top and wait until pick 56 to grab an offensive player. Yep, even an underwhelming package of picks is better than sticking at 1 to me. The Bears will never have anything more valuable that they actually want to give up than the #1 pick. It's like finding a Van Gogh painting in your basement and not getting what you want from an art buyer and just hanging it in your house. Yea, I mean, if they took the exact same package for 1-4 that the Colts got from New York to go 3-6, it would still have about 200 excess points on the Jimmy Johnson chart (Jets realllllly overpaid for Darnold lol). So you could take a little less than 2 current year high seconds and a future second and still justify it straight up on the JJ chart to go 1-4 with Colts. And while people have dreamed up extracting a ransom from Houston, a Trubisky like package to move one slot would still give them 3 extra top 100ish swings.

No That doesn’t mean it’s not a good pick or a successful draft, but when you have #1 and don’t need a qb but do need a ton of other stuff, you need to do something more than draft defense at the top and wait until pick 56 to grab an offensive player. I mean they're lucky it's a decent QB draft and not 2022 or 2013. I don't know if this is off base either, but I also feel like Anderson or Carter aren't a Myles Garret type prospect where staying pat would be more appealing.

That’s the MO Says dumb horsefeathers, get outrage clicks I wish people would realize this more. There are many people out there in the media whose sole purpose is to generate outrage Emmanuel Acho.

What kind of psyops can they run? I'm kidding about the pysop part lol

Just based on these factors: 1. Rumors that Levis is the Colts guy 2. Uneasiness that Houston could actually prefer Anderson and wait for QB next year or trade from 12 Then Levis gaining steam as clear #1 would be good and hopefully force Ballard into moving heaven and earth to get his guy. If there's a wide range of opinions and Houston is somehow not perceived as a threat to Colts, it kills the Bears best trade partner. But this is also where the Bears need to employ a team of pysops to run interference on other teams until they're so jittery they trade up a haul from pure paranoia. Get on it Poles.

For very dumb reasons, I'm cheering for SF to make the SB.

Not just the name. Look at the kid. He's definitely a secret prince who will win victory and the princess on a epic quest.

That draft was insane. 5 QBs drafted in the first round, 3 of them being historic busts (Couch at 1, Akili Smith at 3, McNown at 12), 1 being a solid pro (Culpepper at 11) and one being HOF caliber (McNabb at 2). McNown was a complete disaster but I'd argue that Smith was an even bigger bust and worse pro QB. And Bengals turned down a very similar package to the one Washington eventually accepted from Mike Ditka, trading his whole draft AND the 2000 1+3 for Ricky Williams. Of course then Washington used that extra capital to move back up to 7 in the aformentioned Bears trade. If there was ever a real life Draft Day movie, that was probably the one.