Generally, it's fine to say "we can't fix everything in one year. We want to have the right guys." But - At DE, you currently have: 2 vets with mild upside, who are on 1 yr deals, and could both very easily not return next year (like nearly all of the same type of guys they brought in las...

geez, that guy was going in the second round in alot of mocks. bummer we didn;t sign him If Carter makes the Vikings as a practice squad player we could grab him because we had a worse record last year right? Unless Congress intervenes, I believe he has to honor his three year commitment to the arm...

Mel is good. Anyone who's done it as long as him will have plenty of misses and hits to cherry pick. The best in the business are usually "right" about half the time. I don’t think his evaluations are that good, and he staked his professional reputation on Jimmy Clausen and claimed he’d q...

I wasn't too interested in "center only" guys in the draft. If they went IOL I really do think they needed a guy with G versatility which cut out a lot of the smaller, less lengthy guys. Especially by day 3. Whitehair/Patrick is *okay*. There's little upside, but hopefully not big downsid...

Center is going to be the big problem just like it was last year with Ghost starting. Whitehair has been tanking all last season, he is done. Patrick can’t stay fit for a full set of downs. Center is going to get Fields hurt …….again. Don’t agree. Greg Gabriel was very dismissive of the idea of the...

The late run on EDGE players in the first and then so many going early in the second kind of killed it. I think they would have been reaching for guys everywhere else.

otis wrote: ↑Fri Apr 28, 2023 8:46 pm I hate trading up.

Yep, I like the player, hate the trade up.

For all the talks about Carter. None of us nor is anybody in the media actually in the room with him evaluating him. Poles sniffed around him and caught a whiff of something he didn’t like. Here’s the thing about Carter: His legal problems, then his performance at the combine, followed by him showi...

This noise about his character and laziness better be addressed. He gave up zero sacks in the SEC last year, no sacks for 14 straight games. And he shut down the #3 pick in this draft. I don’t know about the character and laziness stuff but on tape this is a guy who is still blocking guys from his ...

Didn’t Kmet just have his most productive season in terms of touchdowns last year? People were calling for Kmet to be replaced in this draft at the beginning of the season and are now expecting him to be extended, so that conjecture doesn’t make sense to me.

Why do you hate Justin Fields?

Very interesting commentary about Carter here … https://twitter.com/eriklambert1/status/1650118194906951680?s=61&t=8Uh1a5_I2j5CQUots3_L5Q Yeah, but remember Justin Fields was a last one in, first one out type guy according to some insiders during the predaft process. And that couldn’t be furthe...

My guess, if they stay at 9 will be one of Porter Jr / Bijan / Wright Where's the thumbs down button when you need it? Ugh, I would not be pleased with these unless it came via trade down. I've whittled down my happy list to: 1. Carter / Anderson / Tyree Wilson 2. Paris Johnson / Bro Jones / Skoron...

The concerns about Carter's effort and motor seem to be getting louder. I've heard a number of pundits talk about it in the last week or so including Matt Waldman and David Kaplin when I've listened to parts of TTNL's 'Keep it 100' shows. Any concerns about playing less than 400 snaps a season were...

wab wrote: ↑Sun Apr 16, 2023 5:12 pm Tippman can play any position on the OL and actually fits the OT profile more than the interior profile.

https://www.nfl.com/prospects/joe-tippm ... a99e2db1c4

It looks like he’s only got 32 3/4 arms. Under 33 almost always means interior offensive lineman for NFL teams.

I think they're definitely to probably correct on 1-3, 5 4 is the only one I question. It probably won't happen, because the odds of taking any 1 specific player at a place like 20ish is virtually always < 50%. But I'm unconvinced they are particularly down on him. Billingsly, for example, doesn't ...

This is turning out to be a frustrating draft to try and figure out what we are going to do. I can poke holes and find flaws in every prospect we could land at #9. This is an honest question: Has there ever been a draft where it was "easy" to figure out what we were going to do, and then ...

Dear Arlington Heights: For cities with NFL stadiums, it’s always something By Rick Morrissey A word of warning to our friends in Arlington Heights: It’s always something when an NFL stadium plops down in your town. If you’ve paid any attention to the Bears and Soldier Field over the years, you alr...

Wounded Bear wrote: ↑Fri Feb 17, 2023 3:22 pm I can’t wait for the new helmets with “AH” on them. That will look so cool.

I’ don’t know I’m still waiting for the Jets and Giants to put the NJ for New Jersey in their helmets.

Don’t hold your breath, the Chicago Bears is a trademarked term that the Bears own.

Well, I understand the positives of this, but: 1) Why tip your hand even further about your need for OT in the draft? 2) For a guy who said the last regime moved people too much - Teven's 14th NFL start will be at his 4th position since being drafted. Well, the fact that he is going into year 3 and...

I recently found out that the reason Mustipher and the Bears offensive line were ranked so highly by ESPN analytics is because if you don’t hold a block long enough their automated tracking data considers it a free rush and not a lost pass block rep. Someone posted a clip of an Eagles DT throwing M...

I’m not sure what you’re referring to as an assumption but the interior of the line being a weakness is not. There are numerous examples of guys not recognizing stunts and giving free rushes and Mustipher was often useless as a pass blocker. I recently found out that the reason Mustipher and the Be...

1. Will Anderson 2. Tyree Wilson 3. Paris Johnson, Jr 4. Christian Gonzalez 5. Broderick Jones After a Trade Down 6. JSN 7. Devon Witherspoon 8. Lukas Van Ness 9. Anton Harrison/Darnell Wright Jalen Carter would be off my board until I saw some evidence he got out of the downward spiral he appeared ...

So came across this “updated” “A CLOSER LOOK AT THE REASON FOR SOME OF THE 55 SACKS FIELDS TOOK IN 2022 WAS THE PLAY ALONG THE INTERIOR OF THE LINE. THAT LED THE BEARS TO ADD DAVIS, WHO STARTED 54 GAMES AT RIGHT GUARD FOR TENNESSEE IN THE PAST FOUR SEASONS. THE EXPECTATION IS THAT TEVEN JENKINS WIL...

Absolutely yes. That said, Flus should not be beyond judgement or criticism either, right? It does seem as though it's an automatic assumption that "Flus has a valid point and Jenkins is a turd" sort of vibe, and I just don't accept that. Look what we learned about Nagy after we all fell ...

They had an established QB and traded up to 10 and it was still majorly criticized by a lot of people and a lot of their fans at the time, especially since Mahomes comp out of college was Jay Cutler. When you earn your way into the top 10 the expectation is someone is going to come in and help you ...

You’re literally required to spend and you have to make an honest assessment of where your roster is before getting into bidding wars over specific guys. The Bears roster is still too depleted for that because Pace bungled multiple drafts. Also, you don’t have to spend money via free agency, you ca...

To me a sure sigh of wave 3 is the 1 year deals. Multi year deals are gonna be pretty few and far between from here on out. That's a sign it's wave 3, for sure. I'm looking at the roster and I see most position groups already have their "camp body" types already filled. As I understand it...

There’s a huge difference in perception and expectations on a top 10 pick and a late first round pick. You can take a flyer on a guy on day three like Dominique Robinson and it’s expected and accepted that it’s going to take time for a converted WR to play at a high level—if it even ever happens. A...