According to the current 2025 big board at the NFL mock database, there are 12 DTs inside the top 53 players (which is nuts!) and 5 EDGE prospects in the top 25. Poles plans ahead. I think this draft pretty much proved that. He will probably take 2 or 3 DLine next draft when we have all those sweet...

Your "Johnson" is "distinguished?" Mine's not. Mine's a cad, a dirty rotten scoundrel I constantly have to suppress. lol You want meatball? How's this--Caleb becomes the first rookie QB to win the Super Bowl. :welcome: :wave2: :banana: :headbang: :toast: But then, that could just...

I'd hate to see Jenkins go. He's the one high end player the Bears have on the O-line. Maybe Wright will join him at that level but he wasn't close as a rookie. We're all excited right now, and understandably so, about all the talent at the offensive skill positions but the O-line is still a signif...

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...

A bit bummed we didn't get Leonard Taylor III. Does he really have a better chance of making the Giants' roster than ours?

Holy shit!

Gotta love seeing the offensive line finally addressed in the draft: 6 ol in three years of Poles' drafts, two in the first three round.

Outstanding pick, it seems that all my Sundays/Mondays/Thursdays bitching about not pinning teams inside the 10 yardline/5 yardline may be coming to an end! For real, this guy played a huge role in saving Iowa's offense. His ability to flip fields and pin offenses inside the 10 yard line will be a ...

I hate the idea of the Bears being on Hard Knocks, particularly as they're bringing a rookie QB along. Having said that, I'd watch the shit out of that show.

Both can block really, really well, and I agree that Reiman might be a better blocker. He's certainly stronger. But I completely disagree with respect to the receiving and route running. Despite his athleticism, Reiman seems klunky to me. Not near as smooth as Johnson. And it shows in the wide disp...

I see him trading down here. And with his concentration on offense, could he pick Theo Johnson next? I it would fit his plan for this draft--fix the offense.

Bye Bye Borum. I hate to say this as he's my favorite Bear, but I also think this spells the end for Tevin Jenkins after this year, whether he stays healthy or not. I don't believe that Poles wants to pay him the money next year, not when the kid doesn't fit his offensive lineman profile. He's alwa...

wab wrote: ↑Fri Apr 26, 2024 9:59 am

wab wrote: ↑Thu Apr 25, 2024 11:15 pm The Penix thing still blows my mind. It’s like the whole Glennon/Trubisky situation.

What's even more insane (hilarious) is that Kirk Cousins was at the Falcons draft event with the fans right before they picked Penix.

Cousins got dicked.

Okay, I guess it's about time for me to do this. First pick: #1 overall Caleb. I'm not selecting anybody else, because if we don't get Caleb, I don't want to win this thing. Second pick: ~9-20 Latu Verse Odunze Third pick: Rounds ~2-3 Brenden Rice. WR, USC Kris Jenkins. DT, Legette Fourth pick: Roun...

Been doing a lot of 3rd round and down guys. Some of the listed prospects may be late 2nd but have a chance to gwt into the third. Here are the top 4 "my guys" and then a list of others I like. 1. Jermaine Burton, Alabama, WR- very good hands, great deep threat, and experienced. Great get...

Not sure that I'd compare Williams and McGregor. To me, he's more like (Chicago's own, kind of) Emanuel Augustus: smart, crafty, and self-disciplined in a way that can be difficult to appreciate when he seems to go completely off-script. No such thing as too much Augustus or too much Micky Ward, or...

Ditka’s dictaphone wrote: ↑Wed Apr 24, 2024 10:56 am I think he’ll stay, he’s a Bear

In that interview with Poles and him, they did seem to get along extremely well together.

I wonder how he would survive Flus' "HITS" Training Camp though?

Both can block really, really well, and I agree that Reiman might be a better blocker. He's certainly stronger. But I completely disagree with respect to the receiving and route running. Despite his athleticism, Reiman seems klunky to me. Not near as smooth as Johnson. And it shows in the wide disp...

And have the Packers defenses generally been better than ours? In general I'd say no. We have typically drafted much better for defense than they have while they kicked our asses with their offenses. But let's look at another factor. Over the past 22 years where as GB typically been drafting? More ...

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'...

Jeopardy? Borom?

I think Poles likes tough guys who don't count a man blocked until he is pancaked Maybe he can mention that to Darnell Wright and Braxton Jones this offseason and tell them to watch Jenkins to see how that's done. So many times on tape Wright seemed to stop after his initial block rather than go lo...

Hey, nobody was worse than me. I pimped him in the first, then we even had a shot at him in the fourth and traded down instead. :ashamed: Worse pick ever in my twenty plus year Picnic Basket. Did you not have Akili in a basket? Nope. I thought he was going to go in the Top 3, and I specifically sai...

Damn.

Leaf had problems that went beyond just his ego. He had significant behavioral issues that the Chargers just flat out ignored. He also got legit fat right before the draft and blew off scheduled visits with the Colts. There were red flags all over the place, but there wasn't as much of a peek behin...

I still gotta chuckle about how fans want to keep drafting for defense because that's a Bears tradition. So pass on a more elite player at #9 so we can draft two or three more less elite players with a later 1st round pick and a couple day two picks. Quantity over top quality. We already know how t...

I am officially out of the "My Guy" business. Last year, I was ALL IN on Adetomiwa Adebawore (AA). I even had some folks on the board swayed. I just KNEW he was going to come into the league and light it up. And if we didn't draft him high, we were gonna miss out. Dude got drafted in the ...

With Swift's injury history, we can't afford to get rid of Herbert. In four years, Swift has missed at least three games in three of them.

G08 wrote: ↑Mon Apr 22, 2024 4:06 pm

wab wrote: ↑Mon Apr 22, 2024 4:01 pm I'm hoping for the "drop ATL to 32" scenario because it helps the Bears so much. I wouldn't mind if they lost the #8 pick all together.

Agreed wholeheartedly, GET ME IN FRONT OF THAT PACECAR!

Wasn't that what caused the Falcons problems in the first place.