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We got two so far! We need at least two more, if not 4.

Billy Turner, GB is available. I think he played RG for GB last year. Patrick, Turner, Whitehair, Jenkins, Borom with a rookie OT would work for me. Borom played a lot better than people give him credit for. Also, Jenkins got this entire offseason to recover further from his surgery. It feels like it is easy to overpay in the FA market for a few positions like OT. We could always go with Eric Fisher who has worked with both Poles and Flus.

The Bears just need to write the contract in a way that makes it impossible for the Bills to match. The Bills not only have one of the lowest cap spaces remaining, but they are already 7th lowest for next season as well. The Bears on the other hand are 8th in cap space this year AND have the most cap space for 2023 right now.

There are probably only 2-3 players that I would've liked the Bears to have signed so far, but there are still a lot of players left. Also, some guys are taking less and going to contending teams. That is hard to compete against in this market because that is when you overpay. This team is no worse than it was last year (not saying much) but with better coaching, a real scheme, and improvement from Fields, that should give the team a few extra wins. So if they can just marginally improve across the board in FA this year, they will setup nicely for next year.

WRs available: Auden Tate, CIN, 25, 10.5% snaps Dante Pettis, NYG, 26, 7.4% snaps Tre'Quan Smith, NO, 26, 47.7% snaps Zach Pascal, IND, 27, 78.3% snaps Demarcus Robinson, KC, 27, 58.2% snaps Marquez Valdes-Scantling, GB, 27, 40.8% snaps Jamison Crowder, NYJ, 28, 50.2% snaps Keelan Cole, NYJ, 28, 51.3% snaps Adam Humphries, WAS, 28, 58.4% snaps Tajae Sharpe, ATL, 28, 48.5% snaps

Still some decent OL help available. I feel like we need one more, either OT or OG with Patrick expected to be the C. OL sorted by snap% Tackles remaining: Daryl Williams, RT, BUF, 30, 97.8% snaps (SFA) Eric Fisher, LT, IND, 31, 78.5% snaps Brandon Parker, RT, LVR, 27, 77.4% snaps Billy Turner, RT, GB, 31, 72.6% snaps (SFA) Brandon Shell, RT, SEA, 30, 55.6% snaps Guards remaining: Andrew Norwell, LG, JAX, 31, 99.4% snaps Will Hernandez, RG, NYG, 27, 95.2% snaps Ereck Flowers, LG, WAS, 28, 94.1% snaps (SFA) Trai Turner, RG, PIT, 29, 92.4% snaps Connor Williams, LG, DAL, 25, 77.3% snaps

He looks better than ARob last year, by a lot. Mahomes had a few bad passes that Pringle made nice catches on.

Yep, then it slides to Slot Corner depending on where Graham plays. I just said CB2 because I don't know where Graham is going to play.

That's fine, just shift the RT need to LT: Starter holes: WR1, RG1, S2, CB2, LB3 Starter upgrades: LT1 and NT My thought process is you at least want to go into the draft with all the holes filled, then upgrade with the draft. So fill WR1, RG1, S2, CB2, and LB3 before the draft. Obviously if you can get a LT or NT you do that as well. The Bears still have around $25M to spend in FA. As you have seen from a lot of these deals, you can get work that $25M into 1-2 top end guys and 3-4 mid tier guys.

Woods tore his ACL in November and turns 30 in a few weeks. There Bears are probably not going to sign any player older than 30 unless it is an OLineman.

Starterwise, we still need a WR1 (for loafing ARob), RG1 (Patrick at C), S2 (for Gipson), CB2 (for Vildor plz), LB3 (Sam or Will) for true starters. O: Fields, Monty, Kmet, WR1, Mooney, Pringle, Jenkins, Whitehair, Patrick, RG1, Borom D: Quinn, Jones, Tonga, Gipson, Smith, Morrow, LB3, Johnson, CB2, Graham, Jackson, S2 For upgrades, we don't look too bad, just need to look at RT1 (if they don't trust Borom) and NT (Tonga). Maybe LB2 if Morrow is more of a rotational guy. So starter holes: WR1, RG1, S2, CB2, LB3 starter upgrades: RT1 and NT That is not that bad. I think they can go cheaper vet at S2 like they have, same for LB3. That would leave WR1, RG1, and CB2 left for holes. I know this team feels worse than last year because we lost Daniels, Nichols, Mack, ARob, Hicks, and Goldman. However, really only Daniels and Nichols were being replaced based on snap count. Patrick is a huge upgrade over Mustipher. Jones is at least as good as Nichols, if not better. So if we can fill the other holes without downgrades, and Fields takes a leap in a real offense and an improved O-Line, I think the Bears will be between 8-9 and 9-8. If the defense improves under Flus/Williams, especially in takeaways, there is a real chance to see more improvement. Also, in the division, GB got worse. They basically have to plug all their holes with draft picks and lost arguably the best WR in the league. Minnesota is basically the same team and Detroit looks to be slightly improved but still has Goff as QB.

It looks like it comes down to NO, MIA, and CHI.

DHC back in the fold. I expect a few more players from last year to come back on some smaller deals. 1 year for $1.77M is near league min.

That is why they do the physical. Unless they do physicals before they offer a contract, there is no way around this. Who specifically did Poles miss out on in that the window that Ogunjobi was offered a contract and the time of the physical?

I don't think we are signing Armstead, but guys like Turner, Collins, Flowers, or Price are probably more likely.

This makes it easier to cut Attaochu if they can't trade Quinn.

Looks like they signed Justin Jones, DT from LAC. Interesting that we got Evans and Blasingame from the same backfield.

Knee, and he will miss half the season at best.

I see these guys as Byrd and Goodwin with more upside. Neither were getting a lot of reps on those depth charts, and both come from orgs we are familiar with (Poles and Getsy). I wouldn't be surprised if we finished the trifecta and signed Pascal from Indy (Flus), but would not mind someone like JuJu.

I assume St. Brown and Pringle replace Byrd and Goodwin, and I am good with that.

Packers Twitter is in ruins, I love it. AND just as some of us expected:

Yeah, I can't imagine it is over the vet minimum as he only was on a one year $850K deal with the Packers and had 9 receptions last year. We will see if Getsy can get something out of him. He could help the WR room with the new scheme though.

Makes trading either of them a little bit easier if you wanted to going forward.

That was the last big contract he will see. 28 is the prime time for a big deal. So if he is just ring chasing, cool beans. Otherwise, he took several mil less per year and could even be a cap casualty as early as next year.

Maybe big Nickel? Yeah, I am still not worried, there are still a lot of guys left in FA and still more to be cut.