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I can't wait to see what comes out about Antonio Richardson. He was one of the best tackles in college football his Sophomore year, and completely dominated Clowney in their matchup. Last year he played at about 60% after injuring his knee, and he had a worse year, but still played well overall. His knee must be completely ruined. Otherwise, I can't fathom why no one has taken him. And I'm a little upset that we just drafted an OT, but not Tiny. It's the 7th round. He's a guy you take a chance on.

I found this interesting. Looks like he played LB and TE at some point in college (or it's a typo, and they meant "high school"). Makes sense considering his size/speed/strength. I like his attitude about covering punts. http://www.chicagofootball.com/2014/05/10/...-round/ar05u13/

QUOTE (zenryan @ May 10, 2014 -> 04:10 PM) nfl.com scouting review As the resident Miami fan, what are your thoughts on O'Donnell?

Love the Fales pick mostly because he's the perfect type of QB for Trestman. I like the idea of a developmental QB, even if they rarely pan out. When Emery made those comments about not taking one, I had been hoping he was bluffing. Not sure about taking a punter, but whatever. At least this O'Donnell guy looks the part. 6'4" 220, 4.6 40 with 23 reps on the bench. Impressive for a punter. I cannot believe Ahmad Dixon, Marcus Roberson, and Tiny Richardson are still on the board.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ May 9, 2014 -> 08:26 PM) Awesome pick. Absolutely. I'm totally on board with this one.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ May 9, 2014 -> 07:47 PM) Fuller is actually one of the few which was a solid value where he was taken (along w/Jeffrey). This looks like Emery getting cute. We should have moved down, imo. Emery loves getting cute. He continues to frustrate the hell out of me. You said it earlier, but the Ravens are having a hell of a draft. Every year I feel like they end up getting guys where we all go "man, what a great pick. I can't believe that guy fell so far." Newsome is a hell of a GM.

QUOTE (Boogua @ May 9, 2014 -> 07:48 PM) I think we should have actually moved up once Jernigan fell so much. That was my hope as well. Once the Ravens snagged him, I was hoping we could find a partner to trade down because my favorites were all gone.

God damn it. He did it again... Ferguson wasn't even the best DT on his team. Anthony Johnson was better. I watch a ton of SEC football and he never stood out to me at all. This is exactly what I said about Bostic last year, and so far, I've been proven right. God, I hope I'm so wrong. But this is another questionable pick.

QUOTE (Greyone @ May 9, 2014 -> 12:31 PM) What if it is for that Eric Berry situation in reality. Grab a high 2nd and still have your 2nd for a DT. I still just don't understand why KC would deal him. I feel like if it was a possibility, Emery should have made that deal immediately. Berry, albeit more expensive, would be better than any Safety in this draft. He just turned 25 and is a 3-time Pro Bowler. The only season he didn't make it was when he tore his ACL.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ May 9, 2014 -> 06:42 AM) Lucky if he hits I guess. What about also getting a starting right tackle later in the draft? It was a good draft. I'm not saying it wasn't a good draft. But I think it could have been an even better draft. Think people lost sight of what I was saying. I said that I love Long and that he's the man. But even so, we could have gone a different route that would have ended up with us having a better draft. That's how I feel about this. Earlier I posted that I actually like Fuller a good bit. I just didn't see him as the best fit at #14, especially with the deep CB class.

QUOTE (bmags @ May 9, 2014 -> 07:01 AM) Also I love the anyone with football knowledge would have made that pick line. Then why was he there? Couldn't SF have used him? No clue why he was there. He never should have been. Huge mistake by NFL front offices. I always thought he was very close to AJ Green/Julio Jones level. He got a little out of shape for the beginning of his Junior year at SC and people freaked. It never bothered me. As soon as he got to the 2nd round, I was immediately wanting us to do whatever it took to grab him.

QUOTE (scs787 @ May 8, 2014 -> 11:39 PM) This is the most intriguing post I've read. Perhaps that scout was a Bears scout and this is the plan. Edit...Speaking of intriguing, I have no clue why the Chiefs would wanna do this or if there's any legitimacy behind it but supposedly Eric Berry could be had for a 2R pick(and then some probably). http://sportsmockery.com/messageboard/post...at-a-good-price After a quick google search it does seem like there may be some legs to it, but I don't see any of the big sites reporting it.....Cap wise I'm not sure how the Bears would do it though. I'd absolutely love for it to be true and the Bears are the team that makes it happen... Yes. From a talent standpoint, there's absolutely no question. EB is awesome. Not sure how it would work under the cap, but surely they could find a way to make it work to pick up someone of his caliber. That said... I don't see the Chiefs actually trading him. Wouldn't be a very smart move to move a 25 year old, 3-time Pro Bowl Safety.

QUOTE (scs787 @ May 8, 2014 -> 11:15 PM) I really dislike it as well, but trying to rationalize a bit Having 3 good CBs out there, in this league, would be nice though. Esp. with the new DEs they brought in. I believe Houston and Young were both near the top of the league in hurries/hits last year, and Jared Allen is Jared Allen. You let those guys pin their ears back and rush the passer with good coverage behind them and all of a sudden a lot of those hurries/hits turn into sacks. Given what was on the board I def would have gone S, but I suppose Emery wasn't lying when he was talking about how he'd like to be talking extension with Conte next year and that he'd be competing for a job. I thought that meant that he wouldn't go S really early, and I may have been right on that. Right now with Hageman/Tuitt/Jernigan and even Nix still out there not "reaching" for one of those guys may turn out to be solid. It'll be interesting to see what they do if one or 2 of those guys are there as well as the 2 FSU guys Brooks/Joyner, who I think might have day 1 starting ability, who they take. I probably couldn't pass on one of those DLmen. I still like Ed Reynolds, Brock Vereen, a little intrigued by Huff, and really intrigued, maybe not so much from a talent perspective, about the possibility of converting a guy like SJB, Antone Exum, Keith Mcgill, or Jaylen Watkins in the 3rd. I know you had to feel sick when Donald was one pick away from (likely) being a Bear and St. Louis stole him away. I wouldn't be surprised if all 4 of those DT went pretty quickly. I'd love if one of them fell, but I could also see Emery pulling an Alshon Jeffery-move and trading up a few spots if one of them gets close enough to 51.

QUOTE (Boogua @ May 8, 2014 -> 11:20 PM) And in the next paragraph he said we should have taken David DeCastro, a guard, in the previous years first round. I do agree that we should have taken DeCastro there though. I thought he was a great value, but I think he tore his acl his rookie season. We would have still had some issues. Ha, touche. I was very contradicting, wasn't I? Just a little heated over here. I just thought Long was a very risky pick at 20th overall considering the learning curve he was supposed to have. Whereas DeCastro wasn't even projected to be around at our pick and would have been a good value. Also, you never know with the ACL tear. It happened during a game, so it's very possible he would have been fine with us. Anyway... not that any of that matters now. I still think we could have gotten a good, contributing 3rd CB tomorrow night if we had taken a S tonight. And we all would have been happy.

QUOTE (Jake @ May 8, 2014 -> 11:14 PM) IMO, you can't say don't draft a G in the first round out of principle, but then say it's a bad idea to pick a CB when there are great S on the board Why? Safety is probably the 2nd most important position on defense these days, behind DL. On the other hand: in order of importance of building a winning football team, Guard would be towards the bottom of the list.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ May 8, 2014 -> 10:53 PM) You are wrong about Dix Evan, I'm telling you. Pryor is who we should have took if we wanted a safety. It will be okay. Maybe I am. I went back-and-forth all off-season on which Safety I preferred. But whatever the case, one of them should have been taken there. Immediate impact starter at our weakest position. I'm scared at the idea of Conte and Mundy being our starters next year.

I don't think y'all realize how deep of a CB class this is and how thin at Safety. You take the top rated Safety in Round 1 (Pryor or Clinton-Dix, whoever you prefer) and then still have the ability to add a very quality CB in Round 2 or 3. DT is pretty deep too, which is a rarity. Again, let me reiterate: I like Fuller but I don't like the pick.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ May 8, 2014 -> 10:45 PM) Id say last years draft was pretty darn good. Sort of... I love Long. He's the man. But I like to point out that we still took a Guard in the 1st round. That's generally a poor idea. We could have taken Larry Warford in the 2nd and he would have had a similar impact. And let's be honest, Emery lucked out. We took a guy who started 4 games in college and wasn't considered NFL-ready. Nobody saw the type of year he had coming. Or if you want to go way back: if Emery had taken David DeCastro like he should have in 2012 instead of McClellin, then OG wouldn't have been a need at all last year, and we could have filled a different need with that 1st pick. I'll say it: I'm not sold on Emery. His free agent moves have been good. His drafting makes me scratch my head more often than not. Jeffery was a fantastic pick but anybody with football knowledge could have made that pick. I was screaming for us to trade up and get him when he started falling. Otherwise, everybody has been a reach.

f*** you, Emery. 3rd straight year you've done this. What the f*** are you doing? And with that, all of the Safeties are gone. We're stuck with what we have. Conte and Mundy starting at Safety. Yikes. What a joke. Hope he's f***ing happy. I like Fuller. But not at 14. And not when the top two Safeties in the draft are still on the board. Further, this is a very deep CB class. Could have gotten a "contributor" in the 2nd-3rd round. In the 1st, you have to take an immediate starter. Not a guy you "expect to contribute." That Emery quote just pisses me off. It's like when he talked about McClellin being a guy who could contribute on special teams. f*** that. You need to take immediate impact guys in the 1st round (unless it's a QB). Then the Packers take our man Clinton-Dix and laugh in our faces. He'll end up picking off Cutler and we're all going to hurt because he could have been ours. I can just see him making some big play to beat the Bears and send the Packers to the playoffs. They beat us on the field and in the off-season every year. I'm getting sick of it.

Lost my flag football championship tonight by 4 points. It was a fun season, but man, we were so close. I've finally got my legs back under me and feel like I'm back to high school speed/quickness. I wasn't sure that I'd get back to that point. Feels really good to outrun/juke people consistently again.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Apr 30, 2014 -> 03:54 PM) Having two good tight ends is never a bad thing. It's a further extension of the offensive line with the ability to catch a few passes, it opens up more underneath passing routes (which can also, to some extent, allow guys like Marshall and Geoffriees to stretch the field with fewer guys around them), and it allows you to motion one of those guys or use them in different spots, such as full back or motioning out of the backfield. My thoughts exactly. It can create some major match-up problems like the Patriots had with Gronk and Hernandez.

QUOTE (scs787 @ Apr 30, 2014 -> 12:09 PM) So we're doing a community mock draft over on talkbears and I was put in charge of the Bears. I went with Donald in the first and faced a real interesting choice in the 2nd. I had planned to go FS but HHCD, Pryor, Buccanon, Ward, and Joyner were all gone. Terrence Brooks, who I kinda like, was the top ranked FS there...butttt I had RaShede Hageman staring at me as the clear BPA. I really think Ratliff should be a rotational player at this point in his career, and Hageman offers the versatility Emery likes(Can play anywhere on the DL). Given the situation who would you take? Hageman? Brooks? Marcus Roberson? Phillip Gaines? "Shock the world" with Allen Robinson or Austin Serafain-Jenkins? I went all Tommie Harris/Tank Johnson on the draft and went with Hageman with guys like Ed Reynolds, Dion Bailey, Tre Boston, Antone Exum, and Brook Vereen in mind to play centerfield. Tell you what, this is probably a bit of an unpopular choice, but I think I would have gone with Sefarian-Jenkins if all of those Safeties were gone. TE is clearly a need. Many would argue that it's not a 2nd round need because of having Bennett. But heck, having 2 TE's who are huge and capable of being difference makers in both the pass and run game would be a very nice thing to have. Plus, if Bennett goes down, the TE position becomes incredibly weak. Hageman would be a very good value at 51, but the DT depth is so great in this draft that if you did want to take a 2nd one, there should be plenty of solid guys, who could contribute as rookies, in rounds 3-5.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Apr 28, 2014 -> 10:06 PM) His rotations wouldn't have won this series. The Wizards are clearly the better team here. The bulls clearly still have Kirk Hinrich as a primary scoring option. And this is so depressing to think about.

QUOTE (He_Gawn @ Apr 28, 2014 -> 07:48 AM) As long as you can tolerate the floater and the blunts, you'll like him. Ha, I'll take it.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Apr 28, 2014 -> 11:18 AM) For all his faults as a player, Dunn seems like an A+ human being For sure. Classy move by Dunn.