My top 10 OG:

1. Kelvin Banks Jr., Texas
2. Wyatt Milum, WVU
3. Tyler Booker, Ala
4. Jonah Savaiinaea, AZ
5. Grey Zabel, NDS
6. Donovan Jackson, OSU
7. Cameron Williams, TX
8. Emery Jones Jr, LSU
9. Tate Ratledge, Georgia
10. Hayden Conner, TX

Some of these guys are listed as OT, and could play ...

HisRoyalSweetness wrote: Sun Feb 09, 2025 1:26 pm

Arkansasbear wrote: Sun Feb 09, 2025 12:09 pm I wish someone would limit the number of voices in my head. Some of them have crazy ideas.

Are those the voices that for the past 40 years have been whispering this is the year the Bears are going to win another championship? Crazy ideas indeed!

Those are the more rational ones.

The Passing Game Coordinator didn't talk to the starting QB? Wow, just Wow.


It’s really not that unreasonable. It sounds like Browns main job was advanced scouting. He’d watch tape of upcoming opponents defense and identify what works or doesn’t work. He fed that info to Waldron to help ...

https://x.com/henrycmckenna/status/1882088088870277545?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1882088088870277545%7Ctwgr%5Ebfa27c1e98def7549653306ddb477a3734d949fb%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.si.com%2Fnfl%2Fshocking-espn-graphic-shows-how-much-refs-have-favored-chiefs ...

Yep. REALLY bad only managed to land us the best QB prospect we have ever had who looks like he could be an all-time NFL great.

And they almost beat the Eagles in the NFC Championship, right?


He’s clearly missed on some moves but to call him REALLY bad at his job is way overboard IMO. I ...

Heinz D. wrote: Thu Feb 06, 2025 4:06 am

dplank wrote: Wed Feb 05, 2025 8:45 pm lol, it’s hard to defend that pick honestly. A hurt Ivy League guy in the 3rd isn’t typically a recipe for success

Yup. Ryan Poles is REALLY bad at his job...

Yep. REALLY bad only managed to land us the best QB prospect we have ever had who looks like he could be an all-time NFL great.

As exhibit 1, I present Ryan Pace. He did it for Mack (granted he was 2 years younger) and Mack was holding out due to a contract dispute. I haven't heard anything from Garrett's camp that part of why he wants out is more money. He's still going to get paid around $40M the next 2 years. It's a ...

Kiran may turn out to be a very good player, it’s impossible to say yet. My only problem with the pick was that he clearly needed a year in the NFL before he’d be ready to contribute, and we had didn’t have that luxury last year. With that debacle now behind us, let’s see what he can do. Thayer ...

Well then that folds into the trade comp considerations. No way am I giving up even just 1 first round pick if Inhave to turn around and pay him like 30M or something. I can’t see anyone doing that.


As exhibit 1, I present Ryan Pace. He did it for Mack (granted he was 2 years younger) and Mack ...

The more I play with these sims the more I love this draft for the Bears. There are guards, 3Ts, big DEs, and (now that @Moriarty coached me up) big RBs, everywhere.


It's a good draft overall and fits pretty well for us.
If you consider our biggest needs G, DT, C, DE, WR, HB


G: great
DT ...

The Browns are idiots to not trade him IMO. That’s another team that needs a reboot and trading him would jump start that.


I think it comes down to what they can get and the cap situation. Bu t tend to agree. I just don't know how many teams would be willing to give up something akin to a Mack ...

G08 wrote: Tue Feb 04, 2025 9:02 pm

Rusty Trombagent wrote: Tue Feb 04, 2025 8:56 pm

Wab's Kia Sorrento can do that easy

Edited to 19-20 MPH

So I gotta know, what had you typed the first time?

For those of you across the pond....if Birmingham isn't a big travel, Black Sabbath have announced one final live show at their birthplace with the full original lineup: Ozzy, Iommi, Butler, AND BILL WARD! Yes, they are old AF, but goddammit I wish I could go to that. Bill Ward is one of my ...

Can Ozzy even talk? While I love me some Sabbath, I just wonder how well this will come off. I think the music will probably be fine, the Oz Man, not so sure.


He cannot talk, but he can sing. There was an SNL skit a while back (I think his wife was the host maybe) where Ozzie would try to say ...

An assessment by Brandon Thorn of Bleacher Report (an OL guru?) rating guys coming out this year:

https://www.sportsmockery.com/chicago-bears/top-o-line-expert-reveals-who-chicago-bears-likely-take-in-1st-round/

Ozzy Trapilo is the 6'8" OT from Boston College. He didn't give up sacks. Will ...

I lobbied so friggin hard on the old board for Hurts....I just thought he had the makeup of a winner, I don't know why but I was really adamant about him. I wasn't all the way out on Mitch yet, but like you said I was thinking he'd be a great hedge and a better complimentary backup than what we ...

Browns are sticking by to not trading him:

https://athlonsports.com/nfl/cleveland-browns/browns-make-firm-decision-myles-garrett-trade-announcement

In looking at his contract (https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/player/_/id/21742/myles-garrett), he has a base salaries of $1.2M ('25) and $1.3M ('26) that ...

It's a slow Super week, so I'll give something SB related and try to turn it around to the Bears.
I'll eat crow on Jalen Hurts as I didn't think he would be a good pro. Tagavailoa beat him out in Alabama. Hurts ended up as a late second round pick (#53). The four QB's picked in the first round ...

It’s a fast paced “game of inches”, there’s too much missed to go without replay. That would be an absolute disaster. The games don’t need to be shortened either, that’s not a thing, they only play 17.

They need to expand replay and make more use of realtime corrections with the sky judge. They ...

Loving the coaching staff.

As for the line, I expect the Bears will land Smith. Also on Dalman vs Shelton, Dalman is a better center. Talk of him being next to "one of the best guards in football" will be moot if the Bears land Smith first.

Smith will be a 1st wave FA signing and Dalman a 2nd ...

I would not be surprised if the Bears draft 2 RBs. However, none will be Jeanty.


I'd be extremely surprise if we drafted 2. I think one has about a 75% chance of happening. Mild surprise if we didn't draft 1, but huge surprise to me if we did 2. I think they will bring in an UDFA at that spot.

They could use it as a mechanism to tag and trade Smith though, as long as the trade happens.


They could but it would be a HUGE risk. And it would probably not be viewed favorably by agents or players to hamstring Smith like that. They are almost guaranteed to get a 3rd round comp pick for ...

One thing I've learned over the past few years is that when fans keep mocking the same guy in the 2nd round, that player inevitably is taken MUCH earlier than expected and is long gone before then. This years version of that is Jack Sawyer IMO. He will go in the 1st round.


The opposite occurs a ...

At this point, just get rid of all replay, eliminate the networks from replaying on tv and just go with the calls as they happen.

Eliminate 30-45 minutes of BS and there are no controversies because there is no replay to agonize over.


I"m actually kind of okay with getting rid of it all ...

https://x.com/nfldraftscout/status/1886811216653508901


"8 in the top 250" is fine

but "2 in the top 150 and 6 in 150-250" tells a very different story


I would expect that the 2nd one is also true or very close to it.
If not, then he'd have my attention.


And likely one in the top 50 if ...

Yeah, I don't believe height in and of itself is a detriment in pass protection for a RB. They aren't stonewalling dudes, just getting in the way to buy time.


I think it's more about overall size. The Cohens of the world are never going to excel at pass blocking but 5'9" and 200 plus a guy ...

https://x.com/nolpup/status/1884036602714021965


The only question I have is how much of those selection have to do with the coach vs the player.

Warford was a second round pick who was all rookie for Detroit and made the pro bowl before he went to the Saints
Peat was drafted 13th overall by ...

I hear you, but as yet we don’t know if Trey Smith is going to hit FA. KC could also tag and trade, which changes the calculation again. And we don’t know if Trey Smith wants to come to Chicago.

Poles needs to find out what the Browns would accept.

Sure. And Garrett might not be traded...and ...

FWIW - Matt Miller and Lance Zerlein’s latest mocks both have Chicago taking Kelvin Banks Jr with the 10th pick. In both cases Banks is the second OL drafted (Will Campbell going earlier).


Zierlein also has Mason Graham going with pick 11 to the 49ers. If that happened I'd imagine there will ...

Anyone watching Paradise on HULU?

Saw an add the other day and looking like it might be worth watching.


It's on my list but I haven't started it yet. I just binged season 2 of The Recruit yesterday.


Is that another HULU show? I do the bundle with ESPN for HULU but I don't think I ever use ...