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If you could guarantee me one of the big 3 receivers at 9, then I would not really want Mike Williams, who would barely see the field in 12 personnel or push our rookie to not seeing the field. If you guarantee me that one of the big 3 receivers are not there, then getting a big receiver would be extremely helpful. You can't guarantee me one of the big 3 are there, the bears sign williams, they are there, and we pass on them for jared verse...well I will just hate that. So I guess I'd prefer the risk and go after a renfrow/samuel smaller slot guy. Or Noah Brown/craig reynolds.

They should go after Arias. I love the Yankees fit more than any other team. Multiple good packages.

I said a much lowered ask. This board would have been apoplectic at that deal in November now it’s like “oh it’s just like the Ortiz deal cool”

Yeah I was going to say… this is a much much lowered ask

Maybe what caught up with the bears is none of those trades - wentz, darnold, rosen, etc worked out at all so now league may be super skeptical on that growth path. ESP with 6 QBs in top 75 or so.

Is it saving face for Poles or for Justin?

For all the discussion of Fields passing, I do think the number one thing that teams don't want to deal with is possessions being DOA because he adds another 2-3 sacks per game. It just makes it really hard to be a high scoring offense with those kind of things happening.

It's pretty wild. Minshew was essentially Justin Fields the passer but without Justin Fields the runner, and still they'd rather shell out $13 mill / year than trade for a guy making peanuts for a year.

LMAO and seconds later it appears to have been leverage against Minshew, whom they just signed.

literally shocked this is real haha I'm not surprised Getsy would still work with Fields, but boy did it seem like the game of telephone among fake accounts. So annoying you can never tell.

does not seem that the mcvay tree coaches are excited by him. Feel like chargers are more likely to trade for him.

Not they day I wanted

I just think Swift is not a smart ballplayer. But whatever. Poles has a quota of one move i hate every fa period.

Woof

people love the joke about the legal tampering period, and though it is probably different than what NFL intended, I think there is value to having a few days for publicly known agreements where players could see if they misjudged with their agents and still had opportunity to back out. It isn't common, but if so, it allows a player who may be in their "one shot" at a big deal to evaluate. Their agent will get crunched, but it's their fault anyway.

So bears basically punting on AH but the big news is their demand is apparently not to own their own stadium. They will contribute to a publicly funded one. Some chatter about this being a missed opportunity for the mccaskeys but I dont see, as a bears fan, why I should care about their loss revenue in sucking money from gambling addicts in AH will truly affect the bears operations. The nfl is so shared now in its operating costs. The bears may well get a better deal in their power and revenue collected from the stadium (I.e. non bears events). I was pro Arlington heights but honestly so grossed out by the ubiquitous of gambling now would much rather this than a franchise half owned by Ballys

Well, if cousins signs with falcons we are talking about teams paying for a back up and that opens up a lot more. Just…you know. At backup prices.

I agree. Bears got around what they wanted AAV wise (7th highest cb salary), Jaylon gets to hang his hat on the guarantees. Both are real.

Man Fields is getting absolutely trashed from all corners right now. Not looking good for a 2nd round pick.

Could be, though I think Bates could be one of the few players that, if cut, would see a raise on the free agent market compared to their current deal. I'd guess that's where they pinned the value on it, guaranteed his rights plus at a contract they'd like. But they better be right about his evals...they weren't about patrick.

Ekeler looked so slow last year.

One of paddy’s friends probably

is he actually good or just more nepo favors from Paddy

this is probably all true but a secret great thing that could happen is yoan actually being good and doing a solid for us so we can recoup something.

Giolito was my fav player during the rebuild. THis sucks. Happy in one sense that it happened now vs last year. But clearly going to be brutal given this is #2.