If Poles thinks he’s the goods it works for me. I prefer one of the DEs but so long as it’s DL I’m happy.

Umbali wrote: ↑Wed Apr 17, 2024 10:07 pm Yo! Can we get the league reactivated on the espn site so we can start staring at our rosters and obsessing on the draft? Thanks

Yea I wanna set my keepers

Fautanu can play tackle in the pros. He's got the physique plus decent arms (34.5"). But it would be shocking for Poles to pass on 3 blue-chippers at positions of need and ignore DL for a 3rd rounder in a draft not noted for depth. The Bears have the opportunity to really make noise with 2 top...

I'm really feel strongly that Poles should be using our other 1st on the DL, whether that be a DT or DE. So I don't want to trade down too far here, if at all. We ranked 17th in DVOA on defense, and we've gone backwards personnel wise this offseason. We swapped EJax for Byard, which may be an upgrad...

Arkansasbear wrote: ↑Wed Apr 17, 2024 8:01 pm His foot could like Tommie Harris’ knee - causes him to slide a bit / is great for a time / then nothing.

Foot problems with large men are as scary as knee problems for WR/RBs. They are typically chronic

Zero chance we are trading up

Nothing we haven't been over before. If the top ten go as expected with Minny trading up for a QB IMHO the most likely of the top position players to still be on the board is Odunze. If that's the case I don't think it would be wise to pass on him at all. I still think it might go CW, Odunze, DE/Ed...

A "not as flattering" scouts survey on CW's 'intangibles'.... https://theathletic.com/5420456/2024/04/17/nfl-draft-quarterbacks-rankings-intangibles/?source=dailyemail&campaign=601983&userId=6537469 Ranks him last in this article, and talks a fair amount about the crying incident ...

hahahah thanks Ark!!

You have the making of a great book on that thumb drive man...

A "not as flattering" scouts survey on CW's 'intangibles'.... https://theathletic.com/5420456/2024/04/17/nfl-draft-quarterbacks-rankings-intangibles/?source=dailyemail&campaign=601983&userId=6537469 Ranks him last in this article, and talks a fair amount about the crying incident (...

Co-signed How do you like this for a Receiver corps? (Especially tor a rookie QB) : DJ Moore: 6′ 0″ / 209 lbs / 4.42 Keenan Allen: 6′ 2″ / 211 lbs / 4.71 Rome Odunze: 6′ 3″ / 216 lbs / 4.45 Cole Kmet: 6′ 6″ / 260 lbs / 4.70 Gerald Everett: 6′ 3″ / 249 lbs / 4.62 That WORKS for me! Kinda feels like ...

The problem with this is that if you go edge in round 1, the draft is so deep at WR you're going to find a damn good one in the third, maybe even in a trade down from the third. I still think that Brendan Rice makes a whole lot of sense as Caleb is already familiar with him. But there's also somebo...

New ESPN+ article placing the eligible QB's into Tiers for the upcoming draft. I won't violate the paywall but here's a snippet on CW: https://www.espn.com/nfl/insider/story/_/id/39914870/2024-nfl-draft-quarterback-tiers-scouts-executives-caleb-williams-jayden-daniels-drake-maye Tier 1 Caleb William...

So haven't been on here in a few days, but I want everyone to know at some point this after noon, I will be working "howler monkeys" into my ruling. (dealing with parents who have had their kids come into state custody and working to get them back so it will be easy at some point to do th...

IMO playing to the strengths of the draft means getting good players later in the draft than usually would be there. So I favor taking a WR at 75, or many of the various trade down scenarios that have been kicked around and taking one in the 2nd.

Watch Poles take a CB and all our heads explode.

wulfy wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2024 12:55 pm

Arkansasbear wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2024 12:18 pm

Over the weekend I looked a lot at the WRs I do like him a lot more now.

Soak it in, Ark!

He's every Floridaman's wet dream

If a WR goes down, we still have a viable #1 WR on the team, along with Kmet, Everett and Swift. In no way is that not acceptable support for CW, that's still plenty. Even with losing our WR1 it's a better unit than Fields EVER had. However, if a Sweat goes down, our defense plummets to a bottom 10...

Barring a team hopping up to 7, I think that's probably the case. The biggest difference in the 3rd WR vs the 3rd DE is that the 3rd DE is going to see more opportunities than the 3rd WR. If you have them graded equally then that's definitely something that will (should) come into play. Respectfull...

Next year I think we will actually be in line for comp picks, so this may work

TMP is right. What in the heck are we talking about Fields in this Caleb Williams thread for - it just pisses people off all over again. Be a good sport Art - just leave it alone. That's the other half to the equation here. Let's not gang up on Plank or anybody else about JF1. There are people that...

One of Odunze or Turner will be there at 9. Take whichever is there and it’s a win.

Several other scenarios were available, this wasn’t a linear choice. Brother, you got to let this go for now. It's April. It was you and me back-to-back to the end on this, but JF1 is gone. I know as Bears Fans our lives have been riddled with QB bullshit almost too long to list and we still bring ...

Imo, Justin Fields’ lack of development as a passer made trading back for yet another “haul” unlikely. A struggling 4th year QB with a 5th year option decision looming likely made acquiring a quality oc problematic and set the stage for the kind of QB uncertainty now facing Minnesota and Las Vegas....

That’s because highly touted QBs still rarely become elite pros. The odds are what they are, and the forecasting is near impossible. Always remember that most GMs had Trubisky a better prospect than Mahomes. Not all, but most. That’s how futile forecasting college QBs is, no matter how much tape yo...

From Aaron Schatz, a top analytics guy at ESPN: 75% chance that Caleb Williams will be an adequate starter, 21% chance that he's elite: "Williams is the consensus top QB in the draft for good reason. He won the Heisman Trophy in 2022 and followed it up with a very strong 2023. He threw for mor...

Well, a first for me last night. Me, being the good husband I am, attend a concert last night of people I knew nothing about and had never heard any of the artists' music. My wife is a country music fan. Me, not so much. It was Ashley Cooke, Mitchell Tenpenny and Jordan Davis. I can say it was not ...

One thing that keeps popping up we seldom discuss is the possibility of using 2025 pick(s) to add another Day Two 2024 pick. I'd like to think that Poles has put that in the hopper as well so if a player he has a 1st round grade on drops to where he feels he can make a trade and get him I'd love to...

I think the best way to mitigate a traumatized fanbase is to wreak havoc on the opponents. That said, a top 5 defense would go a long way towards gratification - if not fulfillment - at least for me. Last year, of the top 9 defenses using DVOA all made the playoffs. The run stopped at #10, the Jags...

If looking narrowly at 2024 season, DE is a significantly bigger need than WR. We already have a top 5 WR duo.

That said, I agree that’s not how Poles will make his decision. He’s paid to think long term and that’s what he will do.