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There is a lot of talent going to the Senior Bowl this tear, would be sweet if the Bears staff gets the nod if they do not make the playoffs. Seems like more day 2 picks than usual, might be due to the shortened season.

QBs - Mond, Ehlinger, Book, Trask, Newman, Franks

OL - Munford, Eichenberg, Radunz, Trey Smith, Landon Dickerson

DL - Marvin Wilson, Onwuzurike, Carlos Basham,

S - Grant, Nasirildeen, Deablo, LeCounte

TE - Poljian, Long, Yeboah

WR - Marquez Stevenson, Shi Smith, Tylan Wallace, Amari Rodgers
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Invaluable for some of these quarterbacks who need the tape.
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If I recall correctly we picked up some good mid-to-late round players when Bears staff coached at the Senior Bowl a few years back. If only my middle-aged brain could remember who they were ..

Edit: OK, all I can find is Jordan Morgan, an OG drafted in the 5th round. So maybe not.
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Trask's senior bowl could be a dealbreaker
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Mac Jones, Devonta Smit, and Alex Leatherwood have accepted invites. There is a lot of talent going at most positions, CB class is a little weak but the rest are pretty solid.

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Mac Jones, Mond, and Newman are all on one team. Ehlinger, Book, and Franks are the QBs on the other team with Trask pulling out. They should of split that a little better.
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Unless Trask's ankle is broke he is a fucking moron. He had a chance to really push his stock here.
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mmmc_35 wrote: Tue Jan 26, 2021 12:21 am Unless Trask's ankle is broke he is a fucking moron. He had a chance to really push his stock here.
Mmm, I don't know.

He's already on tape torching opponents like Alabama and Georgia. It's not like scouts need to see what he can do against high-end competition.
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Yeah his last game yeah threw 3 ints and looked like shit. He had a chance to show the mental side against some good qbs. Hes a moron.
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Trask not participating is a big deal. It's a big deal if his ankle is serious, because he's going to be behind in the evaluation process and without combine medicals, there will be questions about his health.

It's also a big deal if it's not serious because it's going to put his toughness and willingness to compete in question.
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mmmc_35 wrote: Tue Jan 26, 2021 2:52 pm Yeah his last game yeah threw 3 ints and looked like shit. He had a chance to show the mental side against some good qbs. Hes a moron.
I think anyone who has a scouting or GM job understands that leading a JV unit against Oklahoma is kind of tough.
wab wrote: Tue Jan 26, 2021 3:04 pm It's also a big deal if it's not serious because it's going to put his toughness and willingness to compete in question.
I dunno. QBs skipping happens. In a quick search I see: Joe Burrow, AJ McCarron, Deshaun Watson. My recollection is that there's more. (And that's not counting ones who accepted, then said they were hurt, like Trask - which he might be.)
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A great performance might have elevated his draft stock. He seems like one of those tweeners, should be a high 2nd rounder but could slip into the lower 1st if a team gets anxious about drafting a QB as happens every year.
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There's a lot of churn around DeVonta Smith too. Folks are saying he's closer to 165 than 175. As good as he was at Bama, if he comes in at say 6'0" 170lbs, with sub par timed speed... man that's a tough sell in the top 10.

If you look at him and Ja'Marr Chase, there's not much difference in height, but Chase looks like a grown ass man. Smith just "seems" frail.
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Reading reports Jones clearly was the best QB. Sounds like there was a decided gap between he and Mond.
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Watching live now... Mond throws an easy ball but his accuracy is scattershot.
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Excellent placement on a back shoulder, but Mond really needs to learn to take some heat off the throws into the flat. That's twice now he put the receiver in a bad spot with no RAC opp.
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Mond seems to be setting in, if you can sit him for a year or two and let him marinate he could be interesting.

Has a Kaepernick feel to him.
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And he just banged a slant for a TD, put it on the numbers.
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Mond's good is very, very good.
Mond's bad is head-in-hands bad.

Temper your expectations accordingly.
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thunderspirit wrote: Sat Jan 30, 2021 4:55 pm Mond's good is very, very good.
Mond's bad is head-in-hands bad.

Temper your expectations accordingly.
For sure, talent is there though if you can sit and mold him.
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G08 wrote: Sat Jan 30, 2021 5:24 pm
thunderspirit wrote: Sat Jan 30, 2021 4:55 pm Mond's good is very, very good.
Mond's bad is head-in-hands bad.

Temper your expectations accordingly.
For sure, talent is there though if you can sit and mold him.
There is.

Don't misunderstand my pessimism. I want to like Mond, a lot. He's got NFL-caliber physical talent, has 30+ starts in the SEC, and is athletic enough to make plays with his legs if needed. There's no question he has poise, commands the huddle, and TAMU won 26 games over his last three years as a starter.

On the other hand, a senior QB who wasn't named a team captain gives me pause. And the inexplicable errors put me off, because with his experience he shouldn't be making some of them. Maybe I'm being too critical; every QB makes errors. I just feel like I see too many.

And then there's his tutelage under "QB guru" Jimbo Fisher, who's brought such luminaries as Josh Booty, Jamarcus Russell, EJ Manuel, and Jameis Winston. :sick: (Perhaps Mond is like Christian Ponder, who was at FSU before Fisher, just as Mond was at TAMU before Fisher.)

If Mond was picked up early on Day 3, I'd probably be okay with the gamble. I suspect he'll go higher than that, and that's a bit too expensive for me. But then of course if he pans out to be a decent starter, the pick was great no matter when, right? LOL.
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I've been struggling to come up with an NFL comp for Mond. I've read comps to Dak Prescott, to Brett Hundley, and to RG3. (Unsurprisingly, all Black QBs.)

Mond appears to lack the decision-making Prescott had coming out (that DUI just before the draft notwithstanding), but at the same time has a ton more poise than Hundley displayed coming out, and of course isn't close to the athlete RG3 was when he was drafted.

I finally hit on it last night: I think he's something akin to Jake Plummer coming out of Arizona State. The college game has changed since then, but the similarities are striking to me.

And that's made me reassess my criticisms a bit. Not being a team captain is still troubling for me, but decision-making can sometimes be improved with good coaching.
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Mond won Senior Bowl MVP. I wonder if this has elevated him to mid- to lower 2nd round. Jones sat out but supposedly looked very good in practices before injuring his ankle. He won't be around at 52. Maybe the Bears can trade down in the first, snag extra picks, grab him in the lower first round and go OL with the next pick.
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Grizzled wrote: Sun Jan 31, 2021 6:00 pm Mond won Senior Bowl MVP. I wonder if this has elevated him to mid- to lower 2nd round. Jones sat out but supposedly looked very good in practices before injuring his ankle. He won't be around at 52. Maybe the Bears can trade down in the first, snag extra picks, grab him in the lower first round and go OL with the next pick.
I think Mond will go higher than most are projecting, but I think a first round pick is too rich. I wouldn't mind a trade down from 20, though. The first two rounds of this draft have solid talent at OL and WR, I'd like to see that addressed.
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I think Mond could conceivably go off the board before Trask.
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wab wrote: Sun Jan 31, 2021 11:07 pm I think Mond could conceivably go off the board before Trask.
JMSO, he should. I've been critical of Mond, but I'm not high on Trask at all.
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Trasks injury history is concerning..It feels like throughout his career, he’s always had availability issues.
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