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Caleb's 3rd season, 2nd under Ben Johnson. 2nd season for DA at DC, no other major coaches left. This is the SB window. The last time the Bears had back-to-back winning seasons and playoff appearances was 2005 and 2006, finishing 11-5 and then 13-3, ultimately losing the SB. However, the last time they won playoff games in back-to-back seasons was 1984 and 1985, culminating in the historic SB win. The 84-91 stretch was awesome but so frustrating. They should've had 2 Super Bowls and probably 3 visits. Way too many one and dones.

So they basically traded Hendrickson and #10 for Lawrence. That's beyond terrible.

To have Burrow, Chase, and Higgins for the last 5 years and not have a playoff appearance in the last 3 is crazy. They peaked too early, in Burrow's 2nd season making it all the way to the Super Bowl. Pretty wild to look back and see that they had a 20-16 lead in the Super Bowl at the 2-min warning in the 4th quarter and lost.

As expected, but I assume they are still working on an extension.

A top 10 pick for a 29-yr old DT is wild. Bengals lost Hendricks and Pick #10 for Lawrence. Yeah Gabriel needs to stop being so absolute on everything.

With Receivers Odunze, Burden, and Loveland as top 40 picks, I just don't see the Bears drafting another one in the first few rounds. There are other areas of need even if WR is truly BPA there.

Glad we didn't get Vrabel. 👀

What is absolutely crazy about this is if Cunningham goes to another team to be the GM (the same position he is now), but doesn't have a President of Football Operations over him, the Falcons would get comp picks. If the league really cared about any of this, they would require teams to be structured the same way, just like they do for players and the roster limits. To me, they should force all teams to make the GM the head football guy, and they can make as many fake positions they want around that position, but that one is the head football decision maker. If they add a President, it is not recognized by the league.

The defense was way worse than most metrics. It was clearly a bottom-5 unit. Bottom 5 in yards per play, both for the rush and pass, 5th most Passing TDs allowed, and bottom 5 in TFL.

From the league meetings, it sounds like Trapilo will be out for the entire season.

The Mock Draft Consensus has McNeil-Warren, McDonald, Woods, and Young as the highest probable. On the Big Board, 25-29 have some good players (Woods -DL, McNeil-Warren-S, Parker-Edge, Miller-OT, McDonald-DT) with 3 of the top 5 listed as probable for the Bears. I would not be too upset if they went Safety at 25, BUTTTTTTT, I would hate to put that much capital into the Safety position considering they just gave out their biggest FA contract to Bryant. DT needs some love.

Yeah, I think those guys are untouchable; you could probably extend that to include Darnell Wright as well.

I doubt CLE wants Bagent. They are still paying Watson, and just drafted Sanders and Gabriel. At CB, they already have Ward and Campbell both making $20M a year, so I doubt they would want Stevenson or Johnson. At TE, they have Fannin, but Kmet could be a vet option. So Sweat makes the most sense, they would get a downgrade at Edge, but gain multiple picks. Instead of creating a hole that you ultimately have to fill with one of the picks. The other thing to think about is the cap situation, if the Browns trade Garrett before June 1st, which would be required if they wanted to get picks in this year's draft, they would accelerate an additional $17M to this year's cap while adding the new player's salary (if a player was traded to them). It can be done, but makes for challenging situation. They would ultimately be better off doing a post June 1st trade, but then wouldn't get any picks until 2027.

The Bears need to get Day 1 starters out of their first 3 picks. 3 picks in the top 60. Depending on the position group, you should be able to get a top 3 guy at 3 different positions.

You would think that CLE's defense would be at least a top 10 unit once with Garrett, yet since he entered the league in 2017, the highest the defense finished in scoring was 13th, twice, and ironically, the only two times they have been in the top 20. So without him, are they literally the worst defense in the league every year?