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Same.

Also interesting to hear Poles comment on the possibility of Wright at LT. Not sure I 100% believe it, but I’ve always wondered if it was a consideration. Wright did play a year in college at LT.

I just get the free Substack. Too cheap to get deeper into the quagmire.

If he drops - I think it would be because teams are focused on offensive side of the ball or say a team like Panthers maybe prefers DB to DT. I highly doubt he falls - but if he did I would run in and make my pick quickly. The 3 players at this point where I think I would run in and make the pick - Carter (not happening), Graham, and I think I've convinced myself Jeanty (that he is more LT or name your Top 3 RB talent than he is a Top 10 back). I don't feel as strongly on the LT prospects as they all have flaws - but I certainly would support the selection of either of them and understand if they did it. Mason Graham might be a bit undersized, but he's high character, high motor, and looks like he is just a flat out monster inside (and getting that interior pass rush is game wrecking in the NFL these days).

Campbell is more of a LT than Membo because he played the position as a true freshman for 3 years in the same conference as Membo who played 94 percent of his snaps at RT. The only knock on Campbell is short arms and Membo is being projected to LT because of his Combine workouts.

I was that and then not too long after saw this projection of Simmons at #10. Very interesting. https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6290474/2025/04/22/nfl-draft-mock-draft-coaches-top-10-2025/?campaign=13296962&source=athletic_targeted_email&userId=16310

Lately I've seen him drop in the draft, and have no idea why. Easy answer no one knows what they're talking about. Would love to get a blue chip player.

Does everyone know who Brandon Thorn is? He's supposed to be a OL guru. He has a sub stack that costs money to get his newsletter. He did his annual report ( My guys) listing his 32 top OL in the draft . He puts out a teaser giving you his favorite guy in each round. Does anyone get that? This year ( as a late first round pick) Simmons. if he wasn't injured, he said would have been the first T off the board. Round 2 is Booker Round 3 is Rutledge Round 4 and later Izzy Trapilo I was curious of his full ranking.

Mason Graham is my wing and a prayer please fall to the Bears pick.

I get what you are saying with this. It's kinda like when the KC exec had Mahommes stuck in his head, because he saw IT, and was hammering Reid to watch the tape. Reid watched the tape and also saw IT. A consensus was formed and a plan was made. I'm glad you see IT with Banks. I like him too and would not bitch if we drafted him. At our pick, if Campbell is there, I think we pick him over Banks. If we luck out and one of the five, special players, fall to us; I'm officially picking Jeanty or Warren at ten. Jeanty is generational. Warren is a bigger version of Brock Bowers. That's where I see IT, but someone else may completely disagree. ANYONE, can see IT. They can be right out maybe I luck out.

I get where you're coming from. Without knowing how much tape you watched, I am to assume your opinion is more valuable than someone that literally watches every minute of tape on a player in his whole career. Tapes of practices, maybe met in person , looks at all the measurements. I can't say they all do that but I do know Dane Brugler does that. I plumbed for 55 years of which I'm going to stop working altogether when I go home. I worked with people that had 5 maybe 10 years experience and think they're the genius in the room. I just let them talk. Plumbing isn't brain surgery but 50 years of experience does put you in a place most workers never get to . I never puff my chest out, let people talk. Then one day there's a problem they can't figure out and ask me for my help. I probably have dealt with that before. My point is experience matters in most cases.

Yeah I know. All I have is my eyes and my ears and whatever i can discern myself: my opinion. I dont know where these guys get their information, or maybe better said, how much not important information they let into their decision making process. I see what I see, and no one, no matter how well credentialed, can shake me from saying I saw what i saw. It's like if you see a UFO. Everyone can tell you it's impossible, and you didn't see it. But if you actually saw it, then no one can tell you you didn't. It's a bad example because i dont believe in UFOs, but if I saw one, no matter how much pressure i was under, I wouldnt ever break and say i didnt see it. No matter how many experts told me I didnt. I saw Banks and Campbell. It was easy to see. ANYONE could see it. I guess when you start adding in combine numbers, and narratives it gets harder to see. So i dont do that. I just saw them play. And anyone who thinks Campbell is better than Banks based on the film is crazy. That's the truth. Now should we take Banks or Golden, or Graham or Jeanty - those are difficult questions. I dont have an answer that's right to those. I just have my opinion. I cant see on film that Jeanty will help the team more than Banks (or vice versa) thats really complicated. Good people can debate that either way. But with Banks and Campbell playing the same position, apples to apples, it was clear and solid. Banks is better. It's like when I said JF would never be the man. After a certain amount of tape, it isnt a question anymore. It becomes, just a fact. It has nothing to do with my ego or anything like that. It's just i saw what i saw. You can see it too. Anyone can. I dont care what the pundits say. If they disagree theyre either stupid, lying or taking garbage data into the equation.

I agree last time in the top 10. I would say 20 and lower going forward. I also agree the majority of starting LTs were picked in the top 15. The 10 highest paid LTs 5 = top 15, 1 =20, 1=23, 1= 53, 1= 4th round 1= 7th round. So if we want one, 10 probably needs to address that. Only a few were day 1 kicking butt, most were developed. Campbell, Membou, Banks considered the top 3 by most scouts. If they seem one destintin for stardom, I'm all in. It's for them to decide not me. I personally think Campbell will eventually be a OG, Membou will be a RT. So we can only hope Banks is the man or someone else they may want.

Echo chambers don't agree.

I already think that, Mathew Golden. We're not going to be picking this high again. 4.25 speed. Do not discount Ben adding a weapon with speed. I'm not asking for that but that would surprise everyone.

For me it’s simple. If Jeanty is there he’s the pick. If not they may trade back for additional draft capital.

one way or another we should end up with some pretty good names with our first 2 round picks.

I predict this will be the last year the Bears pick at 10 or even under 20 going forward. The Bears have a shot to fill some premium positions (LT, DE, DT) with 3 picks in the top 42 slots that they may not have the opportunity to do this again for many years. They could possibly even have a shot to draft the best RB to come around in 7 years (Barkley). When the Bears are on the clock, I really want to see how they think if Banks, Graham, & Mykel Williams, are available. Then Poles will throw a knuckle ball and strike us all out selecting someone non of us projected.

The film I saw wasnt close. Im not saying everyone doesnt have good and bad reps, but when you look at the style and technique, and not just whether they kept their guy blocked or not, then you see a clear difference. I do understand you desire for Jeanty. I feel like the disciplined thing to do is to take banks if hes there, but im not sure im right about that. if they take Jeanty, I will worry about LT, but I'll be over the moon for Chicago to have another star HB.

The Banks vs Campbell debate is real. They both have really good and somewhat bad film, against great competition. Membou is an upside dilemma of another sort. The solid appraoch says draft the trenches. At ten, I'm not sure the guy will equal the value of one of the top six that will hopefully fall.

youre right of course. and once you get out of the first 10 or 20 picks, it gets a lot grayer and thats where the scouts earn their money. But looking at Banks and Campbell, it's hard to imagine what human bias would make someone think Campbell was better on film. On stats, on measurables, 40 yard dashes, and what other people said about them sure it can get confusing. But i truly think if all of us on this board, watch the film i did, we would all see it the same way. Banks glides, Campbell seems like clumsy chaos. Now regarding Jeanty, thats different. If the question is Banks (or whoever) vs Jeanty, thats not science I agree. It's apples and oranges, and multidimensional, and different people can have different ideas. Im not saying its obvious to take Banks over Jeanty! I couldnt possibly. Im saying taking Banks over Campbell, thats apples to apples.

This sums up a lot. People see things in different ways. The how, what and why of a football player is not a science. It's an educated feel. Back to seeing things differently. Rinse and repeat. I have this unshakeable vibe on Ashton Jeanty and it makes no sense for what my philosophy is. The human element can never be validated...

We all just have opinions right and wrong. I mention highly respected people and their opinions and it's an echo chamber. You keep mentioning Draft Buzz and Phil and his dad. Explain to me how that's different? NFL drafting is not a science like chemistry, there is no wrong or right opinions before a draft. After the draft 50% of the first round picks fail. It doesn't matter who I like or you like that's just fantasy football. I think we are trying to predict who the Bears pick. It's not whether mine or your opinion turns out true. Technically we won't know the answer to these questions for 3 years. That's the amount of time most prospects take to develop. I still think Caleb will be the best QB out of the last draft but he surely wasn't last year. We can't base a statement in one year of information. Also both could be all pro players or not. The point is this debate of ours is passionate, entertaining or stupid but it actually doesn't matter, it's just sport conversations NFL fans have. I have a lot of Packers fans as friends. This really isn't any different than those conservation's but it's more fun when the Bears are better. I look at podcasts,, articles, mock drafts not because I'm trying to think I'm smarter than them , it's just entertainment. We are in the dawn of a consistent winning bear's team and we all should be very happy. I think it's actually going to happen this time.

I dont have an echo chamber, because I dont care what any of them say! I just look at the film, and make up my own mind. Maybe I'm wrong on my own, but it's not because of an echo chamber! When you (or anyone!) reads the writers, then the narratives start to pile up, and people find patterns, like faces in clouds. We cant help it. Its the nature of believing there are such things as draft experts, and that what they say is data. It isn't. Brugler (for example) doesnt know any more than the other experts do. And I can prove it: If you ask 10 chemistry experts a chemistry question, they will all give you the same correct answer. That is a strong indication that being a chemistry expert means you know about chemistry. This goes for many fields of study and expertise. BUT if you ask 10 top draft experts who the Bears will pick at 10, they will all disagree! Therefore, even if one is right, then you can say 9 out of 10 draft experts are wrong about any given question. Maybe even 10 out of 10. When all the experts disagree, that means being an expert doesn't mean anything. So their opinion is as good as anyone elses. And Im surprised at it frankly. When I look at film of Campbell and Banks it isnt even close for me. It just pops out. I feel like any random person if they watched the film I watched, and looked for the traits i listed a few posts earlier, or even just how smooth they look doing it, would see it too, as clear as day. It's really obvious. How these experts can possibly say Campbell is the better prospect is confounding. It's like saying 2+2=5 - to me it isn't murky, or "one guy is better at ______ and the other is better at ________" it's just so obvious. Banks is better than Campbell in every way. So the experts are reading too much, or theyre looking at 40 times or something. I haven't looked at Campbell's or Banks' combine numbers once. I dont care what the common single phrase about a player is "short arms" or "hasnt progressed" and we all know how deceiving stats can be. These arent data points, they're STORIES for an audience that wants to read them. In an example you'll agree with, look at Erik Lambert! In the past 2 weeks he has stories that claim we're definitely taking at least 15 different players, including Jeanty, Omarion Hampton and TreVayon Henderson at RB with pick 10! He's got CBs, DTs, all three OTs. 15 different answers and rumors. This isnt informative journalism - it's not even MEANT to be - its STORYTELLING. And being right isnt as important as being entertaining. Being provacative is more important than being right! We live in a world of sports writers, many of whom write, as if it were the truth, that Caleb had a really bad rookie year, I have to call BS. I dont know why theyre so stupid. I dont know what affects them so that presumably intelligent people start saying these things. It's kind of scary really. So far from reality. Makes you wonder about other experts in politics, or economics, or medicine or anything! But no matter how many experts say that Membou or Omarion Hampton are top notch football players, I can see the emperor is naked. He just is. Can they possibly develop in the NFL? Of course. Theyre kids. Who can say when the light might go on for a 23 year old and suddenly they get it? But we CAN value where they're at right now as a prospect, what traits they show, what they put on the film. and if you look past how may sacks they're deemed responsible for by PFF, and instead just look at how they do their blocking on film as an athlete; anchor, bend etc etc then the good ones are easy to see from the bad ones. I dont have a show or a way to get clicks on this. I'm just a Bears fan talking about what we should do. So stories aside, I can tell you factually that Banks is a lot better than Campbell or Membou as a LT prospect. And I can tell you that Banks has everything he needs to become a great NFL player. at LT The rest is just insane. Now, we CAN debate things like whether Jeanty is a better pick than Banks. That's not something you can see on tape. That's a much more complicated, because it's two different positions, etc. But player evals themselves at the top of the draft should be easy. If youre a top 10 pick, it should shine in an obvious way on the tape. And it does. He's not even "OT1 in a draft that is lacking in OTs" thats a narrative. Who the other OTs are doesnt change him as a prospect. He's just a singular person, and you can watch his tape and project him into the NFL based on his current level. Banks is a lot better than Campbell or Membou. It's not really an opinion. The film is the film.

You're correct, not any different than your echo chamber. If Banks is as good as you say he is is, he will be gone before 10. Most predicted the teens. We'll see who's opinion wins out.