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Thru 13 picks, top 30 remaining: Kinlaw, DT Lamb, WR Jeudy, WR Jefferson, WR Queen, LB Swift, RB Murray, LB Blacklock, DT McKinney, S Love, QB Aiyuk, WR Chaisson, Edge Epenesa, Edge Higgins, WR Jackson, OT Johnson, CB Gross-Matos, Edge Terrell, CB Edwards-Helaire, RB Davidson, Edge Baun, LB Taylor, RB Shenault, WR Dobbins, RB Ruiz, C Jones, OT Delpit, S Kmet, TE Gladney, CB Fulton, CB

They got one from us and swapped a 1st for a 2nd, that's a huge difference. They swapped Mack for Ngakoue and moved from the 43 to 19 (405 pts = mid 2nd round pick value). So it's more like Mack for Ngakoue and a 2nd.

Just starting this to track discussions as the draft unfolds this evening.

Good point, both OT's should be on there, however, with the potentially impacted offseason, can a rookie OT come in and do as good (or bad) of a job as Leno or Massie with a new QB and definitely a new RG? We will see. It is definitely going to be an interesting Friday night.

and Burton signs with the Colts. Amazing how he magically got healed in a few days to pass a physical:

I just don't see TE that early. I think they go WR/OL with one big and grab a DB whether CB or SS with the other.

For the 2nd round picks, if you could upgrade two positions to improve the roster from the current player, where would that be? CB2 - Toliver SS - Bush RG - Ifedi TE - Graham WR3 - Wims I believe these are the consensus 5 positions that keep getting mentioned. I have seen Edge, but that doesn't make sense with Quinn on the roster. TE doesn't make sense with Graham and Ifedi has more starting experience then the rest of the other guys combined, so I think RG is out. So it comes down to BPA at CB, SS, and WR3. One wild card is OT. If you can get an upgrade over Leno or Massie, you do it.

Would NE be interested in Trubisky? They have 13 draft picks (and no 2nd rounders): 1st-23 3rd-87 3rd-98 3rd-100 4th-125 4th- (from Tampa) 5th-172 6th-195 6th-204 6th-212 6th-213 7th-230 or 241

From April 8th, right before the OJ Howard stuff started:

I hope so too, but they seem extra motivated to make a SB push like Denver did with Manning.

I agree, if I am Pace, I am already on the phone with TB. It seems that they wouldn't even want another pick this year (they already had two 4ths), how about a pick in 2021, which would be more useful to them.

Seems fishy to me, like it was preplanned for a long time. See my edits in the first post. I think it was their plan all along. TB has enough to absorb Gronk's 10M but NE didn't.

Madness, to me this was all setup. Gronk retires, Brady doesn't return to NE. He has the pick of the league, picks TB, then after NE signs enough players that prevents them from taking on Gronk's contract, he magically unretires which forces NE's hand to make a trade immediately (they cannot go over the cap). To me, this seems way too convenient. Also, TB magically had enough to take on his contract.

Yeah, that guide is impressive. He put a ton of time and effort into that thing. I am surprised he didn't sell it on Amazon as a real draft guide. With The Athletic being free right now, everyone can get that guide which I highly recommend. Also, the password is case sensitive, so it's actually: Bea$t20! I've attached the guide to this post, no need for password: 2020_NFL_DRAFT.pdf

That's exactly what I am saying. If you get a trade offer to move down at 43, you have to take it because it might not be there later.

Top 300 players, ranked by consensus: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vSTYaxInC66nU_dSdw8HEMMI-n4Mh4WcaZDxVkEHw_8Mv2326DRo68HcVYuZL3zS7fv2PtZtCKE_7Fd/pubhtml Pretty sweet and updated regularly. It will come in handy on draft day. Interesting guys at 43 and 50: Laviska Shenault and Lloyd Cushenberry.

Without knowing if you would even have a trade partner at 50, you almost have to take it to give you 4 picks in the top 100.

Without knowing what can play out at 50, if you get a trade back option that gives you a couple of picks in the top 150 at 43, you have to take it, because the trade option may not be there at 50.

Floyd, Prince, and Gabriel were all logical moves. Burton's was questionable based on the dead money, but it was clear the team felt it was better without him. Outside of the Burton move, not much else has happened that was unexpected. We will see what happens on draft day, that may be when they move a few other guys one way or another.

Drew Brees also had 3 full college seasons starting at QB. So technically he was 2 years ahead of Trubisky before entering the league. With that said, I saw something on Twitter awhile back that the probability of a QB turning things around after 3 full seasons in the league was something like 3% (with Brees being one of those QBs). One interesting twist was that almost all the QBs that did turn it around changed teams. So the likelihood of Trubisky improving on the Bears is probably around 1%.

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I think the team will be fine with a mix of Graham, Harris, Horsted, and Holtz. They all have their own strengths which Nagy can leverage in the game plan. So with the class being so weak, I think the team doesn't even sniff a TE unless someone drops. I don't see them using any picks in the first 5 rounds on one.

Spriggs has only started a couple of games as he was stuck behind Bulaga and Bakhtiari for his entire career in GB. I bet he competes with Leno and Massie for a starting gig. They were that bad.

There was no way to pay Amos and pay EJack, so I believe they chose one and not the other. Howard is now on his 3rd team in 3 years, so most of the time that is a telling situation for a RB. Overall though, I wanted Floyd, Burton, and Leno gone. 2 out of 3 ain't bad for an offseason. Quinn is a huge upgrade over Floyd, Graham is an upgrade over the entire TE group, so all we have left is Leno/Massie to deal with.

The Bears also re-signed Holtz and Coward, and signed a kicker.