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  1. WrigleyField 22
    I'd still pick WR in the first 2 rounds. Actually still leaning toward 1st round. I think you can find OL and DL in Free agency. The Bears still don't have a stud #1 WR. Best way is to take one and take one early in the draft. Assuming that they finish top 10 there really are like 3 positions, and maybe a 4th in play : WR, DE, OT. Maybe DT if he's a perfect 3T who's very highly rated. If there isn't value at those spots, just trade down. But I hope they do enough in FA not to feel forced toward any one spot at the top of the draft.
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    I doubt he's in consideration for C, but at least helps the IOL depth once he's back.
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    Yeah, I think this is all coming together. I know people were skeptical about what the team thought about Fields being that they gave him nothing to work with. I know people were skeptical about the defensive coaching hire. But as I said all offseason, I think Poles believed in Fields, he just wasn't going to bet his career on him succeeding by going HAM year 1. Fields has shown enough, so far. And the defensive hire makes sense now that they are seemingly going all-in on Fields. Poles will hopefully add the talent there. Eberflus will be able to get the talent and mold them the way he wants. Sunday really opened my eyes. IDK if I said this here or twitter, but we all want Fields to throw 50 times in a game to see what happens, and Dallas was the opportunity to do so. They were behind big, he was playing well. But they didn't because I really felt for the first time they were protecting him from a fierce pass rush instead of protecting him from mistakes or playing to not lose. Taking him out of the game late really sealed the deal that they were doing this. I actually smiled when I saw Siemien on the field. This staff knows they can't drop Fields back 50 times and keep him upright all season. 100% agree on all this.
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    To play devil's advocate, we saw this approach under Trestman. Best offense the Bears have had and a historically bad defense ruined the season. The Bears have a ways to go to get to a 20ppg, 5 y/p defense after losing Roquan. Quinn isn't a big factor, but Smith was....and they already needed pretty much everything else on the front 7. But yeah, I don't care about a crippled defense in a rebuilding season. But they are going to have to put significant resources into that side of the ball this offseason as well. Not just on the offensive side. I think he's just talking about this season. No way Eberflus is going to be happy with an all offense/no defense team long term. I mean no one should. Most SB winners are like top 10 in both. As long as they aren't meatball "D first this is Chicago bears football baby" derp it's fine.
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    I wouldn't be opposed to that. We know that Mooney and Claypool are starting caliber WR's in the NFL. I can't say any of the others fall into that category. We hope Harry will be one, but he was let go for next to nothing for a reason. I surely hope Poles was the smartest guy in the room when he took a chance on Harry and Leatherwood. Playing time will tell. I don't think Harry and Leatherwood were about him being smart. It's low risk, high-reward moves for former 1st round picks that may have been in bad situations. Belichick is weird, he may have just not liked Harry for whatever reason. Leatherwood did get chances, but maybe the Raiders didn't have a scheme fit for him? IDK, but those are moves a bad team should make 100x out of 100. Yep. Literally the only benefit of being bad and tanking is just taking a pss at every vaguely interesting opportunity and hoping 1 out of 20 hits.
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    And they added a WR with two 60/860 seasons since I made this post! Losing every week 49-35 is gonna be so freaky-weird (except the reverse for DET x2) Oh and when they lose 63-14 to Buffalo. But maybe they'll be coasting by Christmas Eve.
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    McGlinchey the other big OT name.
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    I now wish the Smith/Claypool trades happened a week ago so Chase could be up to speed for this one. The Dolphins pass D is atrocious. 275 yards per game with a 100 QB rating against. Just allowed 300 yards to Goff. Allowed 300 to Lamar running the same offense Fields has in the last 2. The Dolphins haven't rushed the passer very well either. Chubb will help with that, but not sure how much this week. Assuming he doesn't get 50-60 reps, the Bears may be able to protect Fields much better than they have the last few weeks. They've faced some of the best pass rushes in the last 3-4 games. If ever there was a game where Justin throws 35 times..... His best route is the go route anyways. He can get up to speed enough for 30ish plays I bet. Use that ND education lol
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    Yea I think trenches on both sides will be the FA focus and very likely R1 focus. I'm sure Miami will resign Chubb who woulda been the biggest edge name. Davenport next biggest edge name possible after him. Lots of OT possible to hit market. I'd put money on that spot being one of their big signings. They'll need to sign some bodies at LB with Morrow being a FA. But hopefully not a $20M LB like Smith. Edmunds is the biggest LB on market. Spotrac who's valuations I don't necessarily trust put him at 4/57. He might be closer to Vander Esch probably another LB in that $10M type range among LB FA.
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    If the NE and DAL games are an indication, Harry has passed St Brown already. Probably still 12-18 snaps for him, but not much more. Man, I was never a fan of Pringle signing. I know you can't predixt injuries, but what a waste. It wound up costing the Bears a 3rd or 4th round comp too. I was fine with the signing. The lack of OL help is and was the reason to be upset this offseason. Bears were never gonna be in a position to collect on the comp pick though. In 2024 they might have a chance at being comp pick players and if a Claypool extension doesn't happen he could be part of that. So from that standpoint they set up their timing well by pushing a 2023 CFA vet to a 2024 CFA vet. That's all assuming the franchise tag wasn't on the table, which I think was a safe bet. Based on multiple career holdout/ins with Smith, a franchise tag was not a route you wanted to take.
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    Harry. I'm on the bandwagon already, yes. Don't even hate St. Brown as the 4th even. Can Velus earn the 5th WR gadget role over Pettis? Would help if he could be trusted to field punts. Does Pringle have a role when he gets healthy? Lot of bodies. Mooney is gonna play. Claypool is gonna play. They kind of need to see what they have in Velus and Harry. But St. Brown has kind of earned a right to play. Pettis has the highest YPC on the team and lead in TD receptions. Pringle was productive last year for KC and they had hopes for him, but probably no reason to give him a ton of reps at this point, he has 0 chance of being back in 2023. If the NE and DAL games are an indication, Harry has passed St Brown already. Probably still 12-18 snaps for him, but not much more. Man, I was never a fan of Pringle signing. I know you can't predixt injuries, but what a waste.
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    They can't get the ball down the field. They have Bears level OL talent and their QBs have noodle arms. They were doing that out of necessity to get him the ball. From a 14.5 ypc career guy to about 9 this year. I don't see any reason he can't be that 14ypc guy again right away. There's no way Trubisky and Pickett are more noodle armed then end of career Ben right?
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    Who are you considering the 3rd? Harry. I'm on the bandwagon already, yes. Don't even hate St. Brown as the 4th even. Can Velus earn the 5th WR gadget role over Pettis? Would help if he could be trusted to field punts. Does Pringle have a role when he gets healthy?
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    Per PFF, Pittsburgh has just totally messed with his usage this year. His first two years he was primarily an outside guy, getting most of his targets in the deep and intermediate depth. In 2022 he's being used mostly as a slot, getting over half his targets in the short game. Would this price have been any issue in the offseason when he was off two 59/860+ campaigns? I think the Bears can run 11 personnel with 3 starting caliber WR now. Hope Fields trusts Claypool immediately.
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    He ended up +1 on draft picks after both swaps. Good arbitrage, even though the net pick value ends up being like a mid 4th to low 3rd when factoring in the 2nd swap. And he got an extra 17 cheap games out of the player swap, independent of how you see the value between the two.
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    Nearly every major Poles addition is a 90th percentile RAS guy. He has a type. ... He essentially flipped a very good off ball LB for a pretty good WR, and even paid a slight premium on it, BUT still ended up +1 on the pick ledger despite the premium. I will never agree with Poles' sit on hands 2022 FA approach, but I'm a lot more confident he "gets it".
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    Definitely an overpay, and really not slight either. But I'll take thr past 24 hours 10 times out 10 for where the Bears are and need to be. It's a lot, but better than sitting still would have been. Excited to watch the back 9 games now that Fields has another solid weapon. Line still suspect, but I think options open up.
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    Objectively a steep price, but I'm okay with it. Poles hasn't fleeced anyone in any deal, but when you look at the context of all the trades together, I like the direction.
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    Yea, I like it a lot less being their own 2. But I think we can safely put to rest concerns that Poles doesn't understand modern positional valuation. In absolutely vaccum the Roquan trade is alike a B and this one a C-. Altogether, I think it's a win though. Honestly though, let's see if Poles has anymore moves in him.
  20. WrigleyField 22
    No, it's the coach's best option now, but it's a pretty sorry excuse for it to be also. Like this shouldn't be their ideal offense in 2023 and beyond. But Poles wanted to tank, so they're here for remainder of 2022.
  21. WrigleyField 22
    Not quite the ideal age, but eff it. Flip some picks
  22. WrigleyField 22
    Didn't he offer a buyout after week 2 also? Shoulda taken it! Hell even before last week I think they were at like 15th DVOA. Bet he would given a buyout option :lol:
  23. WrigleyField 22
    Bears offense, maybe actually average (even though the basis of that is 100% about running ability) Their defense: bad, and just got worse. The SoS outlook... Very skewed, and maybe gonna leave for some weird not at all Bears like games. The next 9 weeks is the closest thing to must watch football as can be for a team not in the playoff hunt running a glorified wing T offense.
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    To be clear, I don't want to see them move up the draft necessarily. I think they need to move at least one of their 2nds to get a star player who they'll extend. Basically, they can have flipped Roquan for a roughly equivalent young player, just one who fits their plans better. If they're trading Ro and just using the pick... The math of how they'll spend all their cash makes less and less sense. And that will happen at the offseason. If they can flip a 5th for a flyer on a WR before 3:00 today that would be an okay move too. But a bigger move has to happen this offseason. Some team is gonna look to offload a player they don't wanna pay to extend and as long as their 1st isn't offered up, they should be agressive I think.
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    In regards to using all 9 picks, the 10 he used last year were 7 pretty low value picks. He was just stockpiling bodies for a roster that had lots of holes throughout. With more high value picks and a huge incoming FA splurge, I don't think there's necessarily gonna be as many holes. And he could still trade down if he wants to create picks. He needs to use one of his picks on a star level talent trade I think. The math just won't add up otherwise.
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