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If we are looking for a vet Safety, Eric Rowe was released, a former 2nd round pick:

Oh yeah, he gone for sure. If they release him and Gipson, they save $5.4M on the cap, and Feeney was just over $1M cap hit, so they will still have $4.4M added to the cap

Feeney seems like the OL9 acquisition. Now let's see if there is movement in DE/DT/LB, CB, S, or even WR.

Fair enough, but even last year he was 2nd on the team in ST tackles. I am good with giving young guys a shot.

My alma mater, I am Class of 92'. He seems to have replaced Leatherwood as OL9.

DHC waived by BAL. I wonder if the Bears are interested for S4, instead of AJ Thomas. The Special Teams unit would be really solid with DHC and Dylan Cole anchoring it. Thoughts?

So it looks like the 53-man is going to come down to who OL9 is (Kramer right now), whether they are going to run with 5 DEs, 5 DTs, or 6 LBs, can only have 15 from those 3 groups. If they roll with 6x LBs, the last DL spot will be either Lewis (Edge) or Bell (DT). If they roll with 5 LBs, they can have a 5 DTs and 5 DEs, but Special Teams would be thin. Lastly, CB6 is Jaylon Jones and S4 is AJ Thomas. Those are the 4 fluid positions, OL9, DE5/DT5/LB6, CB6, and S4. So technically 1 spot on offense and 3 on defense. I really don't see very much other movement unless ESB or Velus are cut for a better WR6. Obviously injuries will play a huge role in all of this. However, at the end of the day the guys and slots I listed above will have less than 1% impact on the team's overall performance.

Andrew Brown and Bravvion Roy are gone, both DTs, so they seem content on possibly only the top 4. Daurice Fountain waived, hopefully he stays on the PS. D'Anthony Jones flashed, hopefully he slides over as well. Nsimba Webster was an earlier than expected cut, looks better for Velus with Pettis on IR. I thought Ojemudia played well, but I guess they wanted CB6 to be more ST, which is Jaylon Jones.

My assumption is they met multiple criteria: they weren't even close to making the roster (ie even Peterman ahead of Walker) and they were vets that they wanted to give a chance to get picked up by another team before the market is flooded with low end players.

Has their ever been a Practice Squad player that was so good that they developed into a solid starter anywhere across the league? Like how often does that happen? I know UDFAs work out sometimes, but actual PS players that get promoted or acquired by another team and go on to be very solid? Also, just from looking at production based on starter and bench players, outside of injuries, most players after the top 22 or on offense and defense (bottom 5-6 guys on the 53-man) are just special teams filler players, that never really make an impact on offense or defense. That leads me to believe that the Bears will only keep 4 Edge players, so it will come down to only 2 of Robinson, Green, and Lewis, assuming Gipson is already gone.

This dude threw for 159 TDs and 16,958 yards in college. Regardless of the school and competition, that is a TON of live reps. No wonder he looks so comfortable in the pocket. Fields has all the tools needed to be a franchise QB, he just needs the live reps. The one thing I notice about Fields, and maybe I am wrong, but it almost looks like he tries to be too calm in the pocket, almost like a forced calmness that slows him down too much. It seems deliberate, like he doesn't care about the rush barreling down on him. It doesn't seem to be slow recognition, but more like slow execution. Trust your eyes and let it rip. Am I crazy? Also, I am totally fine with Bagent as the backup. If Fields gets hurt, the season is more than likely over anyway, so why not develop another QB just in case Fields becomes injury prone or never develops into a consistent passer?

OK thanks, we still need a few more payments and keepers.

I'm glad Poles is not hanging onto players just because. Walker and Leatherwood both have dead money. So guys like Gipson and Vildor are easily gone too. Velus fits this mold too.

Awesome, send us some play by plays!

Yeah I see that as well. The get off needs to be instinctual.

Is "iron sharps iron" the new "collaborate"?

I just think the bar is too low for us. We are so accustomed to bad QB play that we are celebrating 3K passing yards. If Justin plays 16 of the 17 games, is it really a stretch to think he can't pass for 225 yds per game (3600 for season)?

The more I look into this, the more I believe Fields is going to easily throw for more than 3500 yards. We are just so tainted by the last two years that we can't see past those. Trubisky averaged 208 yds/g for the Bears. Even in just a 16 game season, he averaged 3328 yds per season. That includes his rookie year where they barely let him pass. Trubisky threw for 3223 yds in 2018 (in 14 games), that was 230 Y/G, which would be 3910 for 17 games. So who did Mitch have to throw to? These were his top 7 targets (ARob, Gabriel, Cohen, Burton, Miller, Howard, and Josh Bellamy)! The leader in receiving yardage was ARob with 754! I forgot how bad that offense was because the defense was so good. Then in 2019, he threw for 3138, in 15 games, that's 3553 in 17 games. His top 7 were: (ARob, Cohen, Miller, Gabriel, Monty, Wims, and Burton). Just compare that to the projected Moore, Mooney, Claypool, Kmet, Tonyan, Herbert, Foreman. Very few guys from those teams would even make this roster, ARob would be WR4, Cohen would be RB3, and Burton would be TE3, but those 3 are it. If Fields can't throw for 3K or more, he is just not it. I believe he will but if he doesn't they will have to move on from him because there are zero excuses when you compare the offenses from the Mitch era.

At this point, the core of the team is set. At most they will churn the bottom 2-3 slots of the roster. Rarely do any of these new additions matter unless there is a surprise cut, injury, or trade.

Yeah, PFF is not good at many things, and rating QBs when there are already stats to do so is silly. It's mainly because his throw to Moore was off, yet if you look at the ball out of his hands, it was just an odd ball. He threw around the defender to Blasingame, and escaped the pocket on the Herbert one. Not much else he could really do.

Good luck, let us know if you get in.

Crazy to think that this went for a 50+ yard TD pass.

Crazy to think both Elliott and Cook are the same age. Elliott came into the NFL one year prior and has 600 more carries, 3300 more yards, and 80 more receptions. Cook is entering the danger zone of career touches, and Elliott is smack dab in the middle of it. Risk of injury or steep decline is super high for Elliott, Cook still probably has a good year to two years left in him.

The Bears have had 80% turnover on their 53-man roster since the 2021 opening day roster. The only players left from that roster are: Fields, Herbert, Mooney, Kmet, Whitehair, Jenkins, Borom, Johnson, Jackson, Santos, and Scales. Assuming Gipson and Vildor miss the cut.

Robinson would not clear waivers. Ebner might, but some teams have crappy RB rooms. It is highly unlikely the Bears keep 5 Edge. Looking back at last year's snap counts, they never suited up more than 4 DEs and only had 3 in Weeks 17 and 18. There is not enough snaps to go around. Same goes for RB, the 3rd RB gets only a few offensive snaps, and the 4th RB rarely gets any. It is still wild to me that almost every player that is no longer on the 53-man from last year would even make the 53-man this year. Outside of Roquan, and maybe DHC as S4 and ST, the other 23 players wouldn't even make this year's roster. Gipson is one of those 23 fighting for a final spot on the back end of the roster. I don't think people outside of Chicago understand the amount of turnover the Bears have had. All they see is DJ Moore, Wright, Edmunds, and maybe Stevenson.