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At one point someone asked if you could weld metal to plastic. Better question is can we weld Foles' head onto Trubisky's body?

Meh but he's good on special teams. I hope he has competition for a roster spot.

Unless something or someone very opportunistic (and cheap) happens I think we're done here: Nichols, Goldman, Hicks with RRH, Abdullah, and now Urban as backups

She's his PR agent as well. It's a good depth signing.

Like Floyd he has enough athleticism to catch someone if they flush him his way.

Reading around the web it appears Mingo will be a core special teams player..something we didn't get anything from Lynch so that's a plus.

Yes soon we will be in that lull before the draft where teams wait to see who they draft before filling out the roster on min-type deals. As a player you don't want to fall into that gap, at least I wouldn't because sometimes you get left on the outside looking in. IIRC it was about this time last year we signed HHCD.

Excellent summary. It feels like we will find one decent vet OG soon or right after the draft. I'd still like a good SS if we can squeeze that in, but it appears it will be either a decent SS or OG because I don't think we can do both. I saw one mock that had us taking S Grant Delpit at #43. That's a 1st Rd talent if he drops and he would make our secondary really good.

I believe there is a discount or reduced hit against the cap but they still count. Not sure if that was revised in the new CBA.

Wow. In many ways , he's an equal to Leonard Floyd. I don't know what happened to him last year but the two years prior, a little less on the sacks. 2017: 47 tackles, 35 solo 2 sacks 2018: 48 tackles, 37 solo 1 sacks Floyd: 2018: 47 tackles, 34 solo 4 sacks 2019: 40 tackles, 27 solo 3 sacks And a whole lot cheaper. This has to be close to a vet min deal but he's not a bad 3rd wheel considering what we lived with last year in Lynch. It let's Quinn and Mack do the real hunting when it's needed most. Now we can add one more in the draft and there are some decent OLB prospects even down into Day 3.

From what I've read he's a career backup S, and a decent one at that but also good on special teams. I'd say we have our depth at Safety now with Bush and Lucas but we need a starting partner for BoJack. I'd love to see Vonn Bell on this defense but I don't see anyway we can afford him. He's another player in the mold of Trevathan not real flashy but smart and in the right position to do his job.

We'll be drafting a RB. The kid from Memphis Antonio Gibson or later AJ Dillon are my targets on day 3. We have to draft someone from Memphis don't we?

Never felt he had the athletic tools to do much. He's only good in a straight line, doesn't really have the size or strength to do much head on either. He's not that much different from Irving.

Just searched nothing yet....but Spotrac did list his value at $1mil so maybe you are right.

I suspect he's earning at least $3-4mil.

Yes we could do that with this defense. Just make it elite because all the right pieces are there. Get a running game and let it ride with a mediocre QB. Many Superbowls have been won on the back of a great D.

Pace is laying low as usual. There have been rumors over at DBB that Robinson's extension has been agreed upon but not announced because the Bears have to complete some other deals to clear cap space. No matter what Pace does we won't find a lot more space. Burns' deal might prevent us from signing one the best remaining safeties. https://twitter.com/dabearsblog?ref_src=twsrc^tfw|twcamp^embeddedtimeline|twterm^profile%3Adabearsblog&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fdabearsblog.com%2F

Where did you find this was min deal? I know it's one year but I haven't found the dollar value yet.

Pace is filling out the bottom of the roster. https://www.windycitygridiron.com/2020/3/21/21189114/chicago-bears-bring-back-isaiah-irving-free-agency-edge-khalil-mack-robert-quinn-outside-linebacker

I can't imagine Pace locking up that much cap space on two safeties...and for many years to come. Somewhere soon he has to get spending on a QB or we ride with a rookie/Foles next year, and the year after, and the year after.

He was playing decently his first two seasons and he can flat out run. We talked about him a lot as a possible option for the Bears when he was in the draft years ago.

Wow this is surprising. He can run with anyone but was always a bit light on the tackling side of things. If he can get his technique down we might have something but at worst we have added experienced depth behind Tolliver. It's really similar to what we did with Prince a few years back. Toss in a rookie on day 3 to fill out the roster but we could also be done here: NB Skrine with Shelley as his backup, CB: Fuller, Tolliver, Burns, and for depth/practice squad we still have Denmark and Joseph and this signing from the CFL Tre Roberson (not expecting much from him).

Not much on that list is worth getting excited about but neither is Graham. The only one I'd consider would Joseph and I think he got overpaid equally as much as Graham... about 50% more than I expected. Joseph has never even played a full season gets you 1 INT a year and gets between 40-50 solo tackles. Ebron's stats match up very well with Graham's. Certainly we could have had similar performance on the field for less money and I expected us to go that direction. The only thing I can think of is we really wanted Graham's leadership for the young TEs on the roster. Over at the Colts Chris Ballard worked for the Bears for years and was always held in high regard. When he publicly said we have no interest in re-signing Ebron it was about as damning a statement you will see from a GM on a player. Whatever happened there, and they had QB issues, it is clear Pace was aware and didn't want Ebron in our locker room. Regardless I'm still not happy about paying $8mil/yr for Graham. If he can help the young guys Horsted and Holtz to improve then he just might make me feel like he's worth $6mil/yr.

Yes we're seeing comp picks headed our way like never before. Even last years castoff Jordan Howard picked up 2yr $10mil.

That would have been much more appropriate. I know there was some desperation there and it really seems like Nagy pushes Pace's buttons at this one position. We over-spent on Burton when he was a FA too. In the meantime there hasn't really been any development from the players on the bottom end of the roster. All I can say and hope for is that Graham was running better in the 2019 highlights I saw as compared to what I remembered. Hopefully the Bears have him lose a bit of weight to gain back some quickness and speed. Let the other TE (Harris not Shaheen) handle the heavy inline blocking job.