The Fashanu stuff is picking up steam. I'm guessing some to a lot of it comes from this: https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/draft/news/2024-nfl-draft-bears-likely-no-1-pick-caleb-williams-reveals-who-he-wants-chicago-to-take-at-no-9-overall/ Williams said he would select a former teammate. When asked wh...

wab wrote: ↑Thu Apr 25, 2024 10:57 am This whole Byron Murphy thing is starting to go off the rails.

Yes, getting excessive.

But I'd be a lot happier with it at 14 than 9, at least.

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At first I thought they were just being giant, entitled babies.

Then I got to the end...

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I'm not crazy about the Bear selection.
But aside from that, I think it's extremely plausible. Arguably, you could flip Nabors and Odunze, but that's also fairly trivial, especially from a Bears at 9 standpoint.

UOK wrote: ↑Thu Apr 25, 2024 8:59 am and there's a 100% chance that it's not going to be a solution that makes anyone happy.

Well, that's for sure.

When 4.6B dollars is involved, some people are going to make out like bandits and some people are going to get fucked.

“My guy” is Tory Taylor. My obsession with punters continues…. Well, yeah, what's not to like? "Taylor was a three-time All-American and in his final season was a unanimous first-team All-American and won the Ray Guy Award for the nation's best punter. He also holds the Big Ten Conference reco...

Atkins&Rebel wrote: ↑Wed Apr 24, 2024 6:43 pm
Odunze is heavily favored to go at pick 9 in mock drafts. A small % has the Bears trading out of 9.

I think that's skewed, though, in that many mockers do few/no trades, because they just don't want to deal with the complexity and messiness.

3. $2 billion from the Bears. $300 million from the NFL. $900 million from bonds. The city has had to cover bond payments 2 out of the past 3 years because hotel tax revenues were less than projected. So $3.2 billion out A projected $4.6 billion might be accounted for; where does the other $1.4 bil...

Some local Dallas guys are speculating that the Niners are trying to package Brandon Aiyuk plus their 1st and 2nd round picks to move up to 9 so they can take one of the top tackles. I don't know if there's legs to it, but it's at least a rumor on Dallas sports radio. :? Have they been locked in a ...

So 'only' 900M in privately funded bonds, instead of 2.3B? Why, that's such a bargain, you can't pass it up!


I don't suppose there was a whisper about the 589M still owed on Soldier Field?
Or the 50M still owed on Guaranteed Rate Field?

Smoke screen. Not sure which way you mean. Smoke screening that you want to trade down when you don't doesn't make much sense, in most scenarios. You could theoretically convince a team shortly after you "yeah, you don't need to trade up to get player X ahead of us, because we're trading down&...

Draft expert Todd McShay made an appearance on Wednesday's episode of The Ryen Russillo Podcast (34:50 mark) and said, "I'm hearing Chicago at No. 9 wants to bail out." https://www.si.com/nfl/2024/04/22/2024-nfl-draft-team-needs-targets-predictions-picks Other teams have gotten the sense ...

UOK wrote: ↑Wed Apr 24, 2024 12:23 pm

IotaNet wrote: ↑Wed Apr 24, 2024 11:57 am The press conference will be live at noon at: https://www.chicagobears.com/

They opened this press conference with...a prayer? What the fuck?

That's so people can't say "the downtown stadium 'plan' doesn't have a prayer"

I'll stick with Marshawn Kneeland and raise y'all Tip Reiman. From what I've seen, Johnson's got Adam Shaheen athleticism: impressive numbers for someone that size, but his play doesn't really bear them out. He's a good blocker, which is absolutely what we should be looking for in a TE. But Reiman'...

RichH55 wrote: ↑Wed Apr 24, 2024 9:01 am

Moriarty wrote: ↑Wed Apr 24, 2024 9:00 am

I definitely like him.

If he goes low enough and we acquire enough extra picks, I'm down.

Why not just with the 3rd we already have?

It's not high enough on my priority list

I've got that pick penciled in for WR, ideally

I really want the Texas monster in the 3rd now (some even have him slipping to 4th) He can't give you 80% of the snaps ......50% is absolutely pushing it But he can give you dominant snaps Absolutely perfect guy for a rotation I definitely like him. If he goes low enough and we acquire enough extra...

And now, my final simulation before the draft. If you've paid any attention to my previous drafts, it's all familiar names. But I thought this one was pretty incredible because very nearly every selection out of 12, I was able to get a player where that spot was about the lowest they could realistic...

PFF, GBN, Draftek all have him in the 40s.
I think he clearly belongs in that area.


My only objection is Maaaaaason, and only because they just drafted 2.

https://twitter.com/kpowell720/status/1782505198889455723?t=ZB_TMCMULHOi8MFU6WhNcA&s=19 BOOM!!! Only the NFL could make some renderings of an imaginary building a major media event, lol. Yeah, making some drawings and saying "hey, we've got 2B of the 4B we'll need all figured out" isn...

I'm predicting 7 I personally would steer for even more. People have been repeating "this is a bad draft at the bottom". I think that's overblown. I can find TONS of R4-5 players I would LOVE to have on the roster. Less so in 6/7, but R6/7 is always a longshot. And even there, the Bears de...

https://heavy.com/sports/chicago-bears/ol-larry-borom-trade-chip/ I didn't realize it, but Borom had enough snaps in his first 3 years to trigger the automatic pay escalators https://overthecap.com/proven-performance-escalator (He's the only one this year, but a truckload of Bears will hit it in 25...

My nephew in the Denver area was pissed at this trade. He asked if he could change his alliance to the Bears. Told him he just needed to wait and see what is going to happen in both cities. He seems to forget, I guess he is only 30, the dreadful Bears history regarding QBs. That's silly. It's a goo...

Just this year

Kind of a forced exercise, because I'm absolutely trading down and absolutely getting high quality offers.


Probably Alt

https://heavy.com/sports/chicago-bears/ol-larry-borom-trade-chip/ I didn't realize it, but Borom had enough snaps in his first 3 years to trigger the automatic pay escalators https://overthecap.com/proven-performance-escalator (He's the only one this year, but a truckload of Bears will hit it in 25 ...

Some Edge stats:

Bears currently have 4 2024 selections.

How many do they ultimately end up making before the draft is over?



Bonus called shot points for any additional info: trade partners, rounds, 2025 pick additions/subtractions

If we accept we aren't winning a SB this year (I think this is reasonable) then why would Poles send a 4th round pick for Allen AND draft a WR at 9? If the intention is to let Allen walk, then spending a 4th round pick on him in a year we aren't winning a SB is pretty wasteful. If the intention is ...