thunderspirit wrote: ↑Thu Apr 25, 2024 8:46 pm Some quoted excerpts from Bob McGinn's annual anony-scout quotes.

Every time I see this, I think it says "angry scout quotes"






which I would also like to read

That's sure not the comparison I'd make I mean, yes, you're bringing a FA and high draft pick in together. But Cousins is a highly paid, proven stud*. Glennon was young and a 3rd round pick who'd had 1.5 very slightly promising first years in the league. It was clear as soon as the draft happened t...

The salary cap is pretty confusing right now. Spotrac just redesigned things and it's hard to follow. But, as best as I can read from OTC and Spotrac both, the Bears only have around 7.5M worth of space. Then you need a little room for emergencies. And neither seem to be including rookie pool, whic...

In his last 3 seasons, Jacob Martin has had 7, 5, and 4 tackles respectively. He's a complete nobody. And DomRob is, and I say this without hyperbole, one of the worst football players I've ever seen get decent P/T here in Chicago. I'm probably over simplifying this, but it just feels to me like DE...

The Marshall Plan wrote: ↑Fri Apr 26, 2024 7:45 am

dplank wrote: ↑Fri Apr 26, 2024 6:49 am

Fuck you you piece of shit

Has G08 gotten arrested for stalking Williams yet?

That's not an overnight project.

It takes time to build Stalking Infrastructure

We had another thread on this somewhere



Remember, they switched from teams to divisions this year

I didn't get to watch last night but sounds like it was interesting at least. Happy with the picks so far, but dang I wanted Bowers. Oh well. Another thing, Im sure there are articles written about this, but first defensive player wasn't taken til pick 15? Tells you something about how GMs value pl...

The Penix thing still blows my mind. It’s like the whole Glennon/Trubisky situation. That's sure not the comparison I'd make I mean, yes, you're bringing a FA and high draft pick in together. But Cousins is a highly paid, proven stud*. Glennon was young and a 3rd round pick who'd had 1.5 very sligh...

Agree on the offensive orgy and the sorry state of the DL. As unexciting as he is, Martin got 700k guaranteed and is probably here to make the team. 1) Sweat 2*) Walker 3) ??? 4) Martin 5) DomRob They have 1 spot desperately needing addressing and could use 2, if the opportunity is there. The Remain...

I woke up this morning and swam with dolphins then laid on 7 mile beach in Grand Cayman. I am now pretty drunk and on my way to Cozumel to go on a sub ride tomorrow. Top that off with the Bears getting the best QB prospect in a decade and this could go down as one of the best days of my life. OK, b...

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.

https://www.aol.com/tom-brady-accused-r ... 56707.html

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.