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Starks goes to the Ravens - they have a history of great safeties and they just got another one.

Yeah if Simmons will be back by week 5 or something, that changes everything.

Zabel already went, but those are all good names, but i dont think the bottom of it under Simmons are necessarily better than Amagadje? Theyre good later picks for depth and development, but they arent gonna start right away. I like all those names up top tho.

yeah he's a good player. this is one of the names that kept coming up in as available in my mocks on various sites in the second round, along with Landon Jackson, Malakai Starks and Nic Scourton. Good quality for the 2nd round if hes still there. And please an LT in there too (praying to Halas and Payton)

GB got Golden the fast WR. sucks, but we have a good secondary.

That's one argument. I see Kmet as average. He will have this year to prove it. Now PLEASE not Mike Green to GB.

If Simmons is the player he was in college by week 5 then HELL yes. I might even take that guy over Banks! But I dont know how to value the injury.

This is interesting. Eric Galko is the director of operations for the East-West Shrine Bowl. And he also founded Optimum Scouting just tweeted this:

I like Ersery better, but yeah. And also Simmons is out there if you can wait for him to heal.

Something that is making me laugh is that Justin Fields just got Membou LOL I have the same opinion of both.

If we end up with Ersery, I will survive it LOL

Our top needs are still definitely LT and HB. and you dont want to leave defense undrafted. Going TE definitely throws the draft out of rhythm as far as addressing the D. I guess the HB has to wait for the 3rd round. 2nd round picks gotta be LT and D i think?

He'll be here this year, but an inline blocker is not worth the cap space he takes up for next year. A couple months ago when we were talking cuts for cap space, i brought up Kmet, and figured he stays this year and is gone next year. Time will tell of course.

all good points.

Well I was half right. He was the 3rd OT taken, and i have him rated first. We will see how Campbell and Banks do in the next couple years to know. Membou will end up like Davis did for us - probably a guard, who's heart isnt in it - thats my prediction. We'll know in 2 years LOL

agree.

I did say a few months ago that Kmet was on the bubble... Johnson needs one he can count on, and Johnson is great at the break of his route, like Keenan Allen. He is far superior at getting open than Warren is. I wanted an OT. I wanted Banks, and then onve he was gone I would have traded down for Ersery, but i dont hate Loveland as a player at all. Ive been saying Loveland was better than Warren this whole time too.

I guess we know what Johnson thinks of Kmet. I see OT and HB as being our biggest holes, but if you dont believe in Kmet, then TE would be pretty important too.

I wanted an OT, and when Banks was gone, I wanted a trade down. It's easy to be disappointed in the move. But none of that changes Loveland as a player. He's a great route runner who can get open at the top of the route. He does a lot of what Kennan Allen did last year. His NFL comp is Tyler Eifert, and that's not a bad guy to have at all. I hope Johnson makes us love Loveland. In my mind, I feel like we might trade up into the bottom of the first for an OT. But maybe someone falls to #39.

SO far the top three went in order, not to the teams expected necessarily but the board is the same. Now at pick 4, new England is the first possible landing spot for an OT. THis is a big pick.

I just mean Cunningham keeps Poles from getting too nervous and trading up.

Here's something to chew on: Does the fact that Jacksonville didn't hire Ian Cunningham make it less likely that the Bears will trade up for Jeanty? I remember Cunningham keeping Poles from trading up for Odunze. If he wasnt here this year, maybe Poles would be more untethered? And the irony is that rpoerts say we are talking to the Jags about a trade up. And like I just said, talking and doing are two different things. But if Jacksonville have Cunningham at GM, would it have made a Bears trade with them more likely? Irony! lol

I want the beef, but the kid in me wants Jeanty.

Poles doesnt really hae to leak it. If you think about it, this is the guy who interviewed a thousand coaches when he knew it was Ben Johnson all along. He is definitely thorough. He's also said the phones have been ringing. So my guess is that he was in talks with everyone asking the price to move up, to move down etc. Not because hes going to do it, but just to have all the data for any scenario. So then a bunch of GMs talk to eachother, and they share the info that Poles is feeling around. Then Schefter hears it and reports it. So it's TRUE, but it doesn't mean Poles is actually doing anything either. That's my guess.

LOL