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mmmc_35 wrote:
wab wrote:Was a weird one for sure. Weirdest I think I can ever remember.
Yeah, normally I may not agree with a pick, or trade, but I under stand it. This year is total confusion. Pace has a lot of depth to fill in.

this was, hands down, the most confusing, perplexing, and surprising Bears draft day I can recall in my lifetime

I hope all that weirdness translates into good things
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For those that are worried about what the experts think:

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Holy Shit - We got Justin Fields!

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Hiphopopotamos wrote:For those that are worried about what the experts think:

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fuck em ... they don't know a damn thing more than we do in spite of being paid to know more and having more resources to find out

I guess I've grown even less patient with people presenting things they pulled from their asses as some sort of magical revelation we should all hold as gospel ... my disappointment with this started years ago with Mel Kiper and has only gone to lower depths since
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Hiphopopotamos wrote:For those that are worried about what the experts think:

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UOK wrote:
Hiphopopotamos wrote:For those that are worried about what the experts think:

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UOK wrote:
Hiphopopotamos wrote:For those that are worried about what the experts think:

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Cut your hair, hippie.
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Hiphopopotamos wrote:
UOK wrote:
Hiphopopotamos wrote:For those that are worried about what the experts think:

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Cut your hair, hippie.
I can't even pick on him for that, cos he at least has hair.
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dplank wrote:I agree with Rich here
RichH55 wrote: Dplank is correct
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Hiphopopotamos wrote:
UOK wrote:
Hiphopopotamos wrote:For those that are worried about what the experts think:

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Cut your hair, hippie.
I'm dating a hair stylist now. She makes sure it's short, so fear not.
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If we take the Bears' draft as a whole, they came out OK from a value standpoint. The picks they held entering the draft were worth 3,179 points on the Jimmy Johnson trade chart. The picks they held in the end were worth 3,113 points, counting 2018 picks that were part of the Bears' trades.

The difference in value equates to the 114th overall pick, a small price to pay for a team to make sure it gets the quarterback it wants. The deficit equates to the 48th overall pick if we use the trade chart Chase Stuart produced for his site, Football Perspective.
Yet Pace was "fleeced"? Give me a fucking break :lol:
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Admittedly it felt like it ant the time. Once my rage and confusion subsided, I realized it was a hell of a deal.
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Every year I do a "who would I have drafted" mock draft. Every year but this year I have gone asking with what ever trades were made. This year it took until pick 15 I said I wouldn't have traded up. So this is how the draft I think should have went.

Clearly I was on the Mahomes wagon.

3 Mahomes, Patrick QB
45 Chidobe Awuzie CB
67 Jordan Willis Edge
111 Bucky Hodges TE
117 Chad Hansen WR
119 Roderick Johnson OT
147 Desmond King S
197 Jeremiah Ledbetter 5T
221 Christopher Carson RB
UF Connor Harris LB
UF. Cole Hikutini TE
UF. Carroll Phillips Edge
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