CaliforniaRaisin

Looking at Twitter reaction and clearly I am the low guy on Dunning. Way too much infatuation with team control.

Right now, I'm feeling: Rick Smith- President of Football Operations (former Texans GM before O'Brien) Ed Dodds (Colts asst GM) or Joe Hortiz (Ravens asst GM)- GM Brandon Staley - HC (Rams DC, former Bears asst under Fangio) Shane Waldron- OC (Rams QB coach, passing game coordinator) Jay Rodgers- DC (Current Bears DL coach, former asst under Fangio) Dodds seemingly was a package deal with Robert Saleh last year when Cleveland was interested, but Cleveland went with another HC. So, he may be of a lot of interest to Detroit. If that's still the case, give me Hortiz. But yes, I went with a defensive head coach. He has Bears ties and his name is Staley! But the ideal pairing is a Fangio disciple led defense with an offensive coach from the Shanahan tree. Best of both worlds. Waldron could bring in a veteran consultant since all these guys are young. But Rodgers and Staley overlapped under Fangio, and allows the Bears to keep and promote maybe their only good position coach. Oh, I like what I've seen of Staley.

And Michael Rucker was the only name listed in BA's lengthy Rule 5 preview: https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/2020-mlb-rule-5-draft-preview-version-20/

Trask goes to Florida so that's probably his second car.

Raw is absolutely right. You can and should trade up for a game-changing QB, just have to get the pick right. No one is saying Kansas City (10th overall for 27 overall, a 3rd rounder and a 1st rounder the next year) or Houston (12 for 27 and a first rounder the next year) traded too much for Mahomes and Watson. Obviously they should avoid trading a first rounder but they shouldn't have to at their current trajectory. They can and should backfill draft picks in other ways, yes (trade veterans, compensation picks, trade downs in non-QB scenarios). Also, if you don't have conviction on the QBs available, don't force one and work on filling the many other holes on the team. The Bears will probably get another chance at the top QBs in 2022. Good post except the word conviction is hereby banned post-Pace era. That is a dirty word now lol. Hah. Honestly, I forgot Pace used it. I was channeling my inner-Jim Deshaies.

THE TEAM LACKS DEPTH, AND THEY LACK DEPTH BECAUSE THEY'VE TRADED AWAY PICKS. THEY CANT AFFORD TO KEEP DOING THAT sry capslock eta: look at it this way, they don't have a #2 WR, no #2 RB, no #1 TE (there's hope for Kmet), and all of their OLine backups are 7th rd or UFA's. You know what helps a team fill out those backups at reasonable prices? draft picks. Sure, this off season could be different with the CAP being low, but you're just likely to get older players who will command more salary anyway Raw is absolutely right. You can and should trade up for a game-changing QB, just have to get the pick right. No one is saying Kansas City (10th overall for 27 overall, a 3rd rounder and a 1st rounder the next year) or Houston (12 for 25 and a first rounder the next year) traded too much for Mahomes and Watson. Obviously they should avoid trading a first rounder but they shouldn't have to at their current trajectory. They can and should backfill draft picks in other ways, yes (trade veterans, compensation picks, trade downs in non-QB scenarios). Also, if you don't have conviction on the QBs available, don't force one and work on filling the many other holes on the team. The Bears will probably get another chance at the top QBs in 2022.

Brendon Little made Jonathan Mayo’s 10 to watch in this week’s Rule 5 Draft:

Okay, now even I believe the Bears will clean house. Hopefully to include Philips.

Lmaooooo

The PG Staff had a mock draft: https://www.perfectgame.org/Articles/View.aspx?article=18907&src=hmrep Jud Fabian went 1.1 over Kumar Rocker.

Can't believe McCarthy quit on the Cowboys once Dak got hurt.

Not a top prospect list but it’s somehing from the national media.

This list now includes pro IFA prospects, including ones who won’t be posted or free agents for a few years. Eric Longenhagen continues to be the low man with Christians Hernandez, compared to BA and MLB. He has him ranked 5th with this write-up: Moises Ballesteros didn’t rank in Longenhagen’s top 40 pro and amateur prospects. Here is some of the fallout from not increasing bonuses and not allowing trades: The Cubs are probably close to their cap already with Hernandez and Ballesteros so they probably can’t get sneak in and add additional talent next month. The 2021 IFAs Longenhagen doesn’t have linked to a team right now are: C Jesús Galiz, SS Yeferson Tineo, OF/P Oscar Colas and OF Yoeliqui Cespedes. All could be pushed to 2022 if they can’t find a team soon.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.mlb.com/amp/news/oscar-luis-colas-to-petition-for-mlb-free-agency.html

Jay probably could have ran a decent RPO, at least athletically. Perhaps not mentally. By the end of his run I guess they were doing a tiny bit of it. Also is Trask as big of an arm talent as Jay was? Comparison aside, that's kind of the point though too. I'm not necessarily opposed to the fact that we're resigned to possibly reaching on QBs, but I'm not sure Nagy need figure into it. Let's not worry about a system guy. I kind of rhink a lot about the success Buffalo is seeing with Allen this year. It took a few years but they developed him underneath a D head coach and a OC who wasn't a big system guy. Compared to Mitch's development, light years better and they were similarly risky/raw projects. I thought Trask has the "big arm". whatever, if he is a slow, big noodle armed QB (anything less the Cutler with Trask's profile would be noodle-armed IMO), I want nothing to do with him mid 1st, there are likely to be far more talented options available mid 1 like OT, WR, EDGE, etc. All of which we need. (Now that I say this, we is most certainly the second coming of Roethlisberger...) If we take a project, I'd rather draft JT Daniels in the 3rd/4th whatever. He's always had the talent, its the injury that derailed him in college. JT Daniels is well known enough that I can't see him falling that far even with the abbreviated number of games he's played. That said, I think he's headed back to school and will have a chance to threaten Sam Howell for top QB in 2022.

Dane Brugler at the Athletic had a mock draft today. Had Trevor Lawrence going at 1, Zach Wilson at 2, Justin Fields at 6, Trey Lance at 8 and had the Bears getting Northwestern OL Rashawn Slater at 14 (the second OL drafted after Penei Sewell). One might disagree with the specific order of the QBs drafted but it does seem reasonable to think that the top 4 QBs would be gone by 8. Hopefully the Bears can lose their way into the top 8 (and Washington can win their division) because Pace will definitely trade away too many draft picks to flail at another QB. I really hope Pace doesn't get another chance to pick a QB.

I like what I've read of Dobbs. I'm not sure they're going to part with Pace or Nagy this offseason.

Do you guys think the Bears will ever have a good QB?

Sound like South Bend and Eugene will both be high-A affiliates next year so it’s not shocking the Cubs would pick the one much closer. I imagine Myrtle Beach will probably become their A-ball affiliate so the Cubs don’t have to worry about going to Florida or getting one of the hitter-friendly affiliates in California. https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/mlb-nears-decision-on-120-full-season-minor-league-clubs-for-2021/