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I dont know the rules around it, but one of the salary cap calculators has provisions for pre and post June 1st trades, so there must be some distinction.

agree. I do think he was a player and they could have found a position for him, but if they arent gonna use him, then they shouldnt keep him.

right, and doesnt consider it a need. smh

all good stuff, except at the very end, he lists needs and doesnt say anything about OLT.

wow I didnt realize he had such a low back end. Great news.

yeah Fuller is in the spotlight for sure.

cutting Leno as a post June first cap saves us $9M on the cap...

hahahahaha

Now I dunno if they will trade him, or decline matching offers and take the two first round picks or what, but we tagged him. And if we did get two more first round picks, and we could package two of them to get a rookie QB and use one on an OLT, it might be an improvement for the offense, regardless of how good Robinson is as a WR. https://www.chicagobears.com/news/bears-put-franchise-tag-on-robinson

yeah something like this.

Trubisky can't read a defense. And no QB can shine without pass protection. Foles would be "ok" if he had protection. A lot of QBs would. Alex Smith is an option. But I'd like to see someone from an early pick in the draft behind (and coming up on) Foles or whoever is the placekeeper.

and Long doesnt really love the current Bears leadership either. It's all about clicks, nothing more.

Hope so. Too bad we cant get a new coach cheap too.

yes youre right about both. i suppose Wilson wouldnt need any leverage with the Bears in this. Good point.

which is weird, because if you want to help your friend, and he has told you that he is leaning toward Chicago, then tweeting this lowers Wilson's price...

hmmm, thanks for sharing that, I didnt know and was starting to wonder where all the tags where.

I agree with all of this. Also, given the cap contraction, there will be a lot of vets available for short cheap deals hoping to get paid next year when the cap grows again. THis is not the year for a cap casualty vet to sign a long term deal, so there will be players available at every position more than usual this year.

nope. I lost that one last year because Nagy and Pace were too stupid to fix it, and i thought they couldnt be THAT stupid. You were right, they are. What I know is that if it was MY team, he'd be gone. I'm not being negative for pessimism's sake. I want the Bears to be great, but i think the only way that happens is after we fire Nagy. I think that should have happened already. Now we're just waiting and I dont see any reason to think this team and this coach can win a Superbowl. Being a little better isnt the goal. Especially if you have to mortgage the future to get to that 9-7 place. Yuck.

lol we are going around in circles. the last couple of years should make this clear already. Leno is a major liability, and Nagy and Pace are failing.

yeah but do you think if you add Wilson to this current roster that we'd be Superbowl bound?

exactly. this is out of control, and at this point it is McCaskey who has done this.

I think we are exactly where our record says we are - 8 and 8, I dont think we are one or two pieces away from anything. Im not sure we actually disagree, since you're talking about the mid point in the league too. I dont believe Nagy and Pace will be around for the 2022 season, so I wish we had figured that out at the end of the 2019 season.

absolutely agree, let's just hope they cant trade away the future trying to make this year work.

my only hope is that McCaskey is making them live with the mess they created for a year, and has limited what they can do with future draft picks.

Oh I know it's not gonna happen. Not this year anyway.