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I most definitely don't want one of those.

If the Bears get the 1st pick, I want them to trade out of it but stay in the top 5-10 range. If they don't trade it, however, I think you have one of two choices: 1) Get the #1 FA at OT, and then draft someone who can kill opposing QBs. 2) Get the #1 FA at DE/OLB, and then draft someone who can protect the Bears' QB. My preference: FA - Von Miller - That's it. Throw absolutely everything at him: max contract, as many years as he wants, hookers, Lou Malnati's, whatever. If he wants the Bears to use a roster spot on his cousin, do it. I don't care. Make Leonard Floyd carry his bags and wash his jock strap until he proves his worth as an opposite edge rusher. Draft 1) Cam Robinson - OT - Alabama - Enough messing around. Find the bookend of the decade and have him protect your future QB. 2) Chad Kelly - QB - OleMiss - Meet your QB of the future. His pedigree speaks for itself. 3) Sidney Jones - DB - Wash - Good ball skills, lockdown corner. 4) Evan Engram - TE - OleMiss - Meet your TE of the future. He's fast as hell, has great hands, runs great routes, and will be Kelly's best friend. 4) Budda Baker, S, Wash - Everyone wants continuity, right? Well, this is how it's done. Get a good player at an appropriate spot, and team him with a guy he has played beside for a few years. Fill in the holes with remaining guys.

All good points, but there are still many issues. Whitehair is an out of position rookie, Sitton only has a few years left, and neither OT is worth a damn. I don't care that Long lobbied for Massie. The Bears had a severe deficiency at OT and they never addressed it in the draft. These tackles have been getting beaten a lot, and it's disrupting the entire offense.

Completely agree. And I'm fine giving tons of looks to various non-starters in order to see what they have. This team needs to get a very, very high draft pick, and nail it, or trade it for a bounty and pick multiple good players.

Does anyone else think the Bears have a significant number of injuries, more than most teams, because the field at Soldier Field sucks? There have been issued with the playing surface for years.

Cutler should have told McPhee to put on a helmet and strap up. Oh wait.

Is it overreacting after 2 games of the same BS has been happening for years? Doesn't matter who serves the shit sandwich when you take a bite.

Good post. In a morbid way, I want Cutler gone after this year just so everyone can stop blaming him. Sure, he's not great, but he is good, and would be better if this team had a freaking clue how to protect a QB. It's as if the owners refuse to allow any coaching staff to invest significantly in protecting the most important position on the team.

This whole thread is moot if the Bears spent one of those fourth round picks on Dak Prescott. I'm fine with trading Alshon at this point, however, because the season is already done. Also, I don't like that trade.

For a rookie, I was happy with Whitehair. He needs to figure out stunts a bit better, which may be solved with some cohesion between him and the OGs.

He was sizing Watt up the entire time. Of course, it's probably because he and everyone else knew that the Bears don't have a good tackle on the roster.

Oh, we definitely agreed. I was big on Prescott. He was a one-man show at MSU. In terms of what the Bears should have done, especially considering all the trades, the fact that they ended up with three picks in the 4th round, the idea nearly everyone considered the Kwiatkowski pick a reach, and that they doubled-up on secondary in the same round, there is no reason they didn't find a QB. And that was exactly where they would have taken Dak Prescott, ahead of the extra pick the Cowgirls received.

No. Absolutely not. You can't trust backups from NE. They can make Uncle Rico look good. He leaves NE and the story changes. Besides, Cutler did fine. Guess who failed yet again?

I didn't even see it, and I'm glad you deleted it. I'm sick of hearing about it. I want to hear and read about football.

Great post. I really wanted Dak Prescott as our #2.

That line made me laugh because it sounds like what I wrote in my tagline from however long ago.

Interpret however you wish. But grabbing a few guys who are high reward, low risk is great if one pans out. It's bad when two retire and the others perform minimally. They should have never cut Slausson. Without cutting him, maybe they don't have to take the risk on one of those other veteran toss-up players. The Bears had Alshon, White, Royal, and a few other promising guys, yet still decided to at least spend minimal time on WR. They should do the same with OL. This has been proven for over a decade. Good to great OL + Average to bad skill positions > good to great skill positions + Average to bad OL

The fact that the OL was already questionable, and they played like garbage, just further supports the fact that they should have paid some attention to it in FA since it was not going to be a priority in the draft. The draft was clearly about giving the defense weapons.

Did he ever have on the field issues or fights while with the Bears? My memory isn't the best, but I don't recall anything like this happening while he was in Chicago. Pretty much everyone seems to think he was a tool off the field, however.

This sucks. We need the young talent to survive. Especially the OL, because it appears the plan was/is to develop the talent already in the roster.

Wait, let me get this right... A guy who had iffy hands, who was pretty clearly linked to be the cause of some Cutler INTs, who bitched all the time, who held out of OTAs, who was a weird dude in general, who likely didn't get along with most in the clubhouse, and STILL had career years with Cutler throwing him the ball, wants to talk any sort of trash whatsoever? Yeah, glad that dickhead is gone.

Hey, if he gets swallowed up half the time, and gets sacks half the time, I'm guessing he gets swallowed up a lot more when he draws double-teams as the season progresses. Enter McPhee, Young, Houston, et al.

You can't put the playoff fault on BM, no matter how much you dislike him. BM ripped the league a new asshole on an average Jets team. He caught more TDs than anyone in the NFL. And don't pretend for a second he's not the primary reason Ryan Freaking Fitzpatrick had a career year. He may have been a bad fit for the Bears, their staff, their personnel, their age concerns, and their locker room. But he certainly wasn't the reason the Bears lost on the field, or why they didn't win a playoff game while he was in Chicago. And he's not the reason the Jets failed to win either.

Recently I was at a charity 7-on-7 event that had multiple NFL players. I got a chance to talk to all of them in one-on-on settings. I probably shouldn't divulge who was there, or who said what, but there was a mix of incoming rookies, an all-pro guy, and a few veterans. More than one guy who has played in the SEC. Unfortunately, all were pretty negative about Leonard Floyd. They all think he's fast, explosive even, but they think he's going to get swallowed up by the blockers in the NFL. One player specifically said, "All you have to do is put one hand on him, and he's out of the play." The players are not the scouts, but they generally have a decent feel about other players. I'm genuinely worried about Floyd right now.

I don't think it's true competition for a starting role since he's not really a pass-catching TE. Miller is much more of a pass threat.