adam

Great move, addressing a hole in the defense before FA even starts. Hopefully for a team friendly deal. Looks like Kwit played himself off the team. It will be interesting to see if the Bears end up getting a comp pick for him in a year.

I was a little off on the numbers from the initial report of comp picks. After researching a little more I am getting some conflicting information, some sites say we are getting a 7th from LV and others are saying we are getting a 5th. If it is a 5th, we look like this: 2nd 43 (LV) 50 4th 140 (Comp) 5th 159 (LV) >>>>OR>>>>226 163 6th 196 200 (PHI) 7th 226 (LV) >>>>OR>>>>159 233 The discrepancy is pretty big as #159 is a lot more valuable than pick# 226. There are no specific reports, just ones like this stating we will have 2x 7ths:

There are a few decent FA options with a lot more production than Floyd. Shaq Barrett (TB), Bud Dupree (PIT) and Markus Golden (NYG) are a few Edge Rushers making $4M per year now who are set to get raises, but blew away Floyd in terms of production. If you are going to give up $13M, are you going to give it to Floyd, or one of them? Barrett led the NFL with 19.5, Dupree had 11.5 (T-9) and Golden had 10 (T-15). All 3 would have led the Bears in sacks. Barrett had more sacks than Mack, Floyd, Lynch, and Irving combined. Dupree seems like he would be the best value, I would curious to see if he could be picked up for less than what Floyd would get.

2nd highest 4th round comp pick, not bad. Projections had us a few slots lower. So we have picks 43, 50, 140, 163, 196, 200, 226, and 233.

Looks like Floyd might be gone, it will be an interesting decision and will certainly impact other decisions:

Good catch, wrong link. Old list. Here is his 56-75. 56. Jalen Reagor, WR, TCU 57. Stanford Samuels III, CB, Florida State 58. Cameron Dantzler, CB, Mississippi State 59. Jordyn Brooks, LB, Texas Tech 60. Josh Uche, EDGE, Michigan 61. Raekwon Davis, IDL, Alabama 62. Jordan Elliott, IDL, Missouri 63. Neville Gallimore, IDL, Oklahoma 64. Justin Madubuike, IDL, Texas A&M 65. Julian Okwara, EDGE, Notre Dame 66. Malik Harrison, LB, Ohio State 67. Darrell Taylor, EDGE, Tennessee 68. Matt Hennessy, IOL, Temple 69. Denzel Mims, WR, Baylor 70. Damon Arnette, CB, Ohio State 71. Devin Duvernay, WR, Texas 72. Michael Pittman Jr., WR, USC 73. Brycen Hopkins, TE, Purdue 74. Ashtyn Davis, S, California 75. Trevon Hill, EDGE, Miami

I am sure it's his hands of stone. However, you would think with his top gear that they would do it from time to time just to keep the safeties honest.

Based on Miller's big board, I would be all for trading back into the mid-50's-60's and picking up some extra picks. Trade back from 43 to mid-50's, then select one of: KJ Hamler, WR, Penn State A.J. Terrell, CB, Clemson Hunter Bryant, TE, Washington Then trade back from 50 into mid-60's and select one of: Matt Hennessy, IOL, Temple Jabari Zuniga, EDGE, Florida Ben Bredeson, IOL, Michigan That could potentially give you two late 3rd Rounders between 90-100, where you could select two of the following: 87. Chase Claypool, WR, Notre Dame 88. Devin Duvernay, WR, Texas 89. Ke'Shawn Vaughn, RB, Vanderbilt 90. Brandon Jones, S, Texas 91. Troy Dye, LB, Oregon 92. Evan Weaver, LB, California 93. Darrell Taylor, EDGE, Tennessee 94. Markus Bailey, LB, Purdue 95. Prince Tega Wanogho, OT, Auburn 96. Juwan Johnson, WR, Oregon 97. Zack Moss, RB, Utah 98. Ross Blacklock, IDL, TCU 99. Mekhi Becton, OT, Louisville 100. Shane Lemieux, IOL, Oregon Which 4 would you pick? In this scenario, I might actually go Hamler, Hennessy, Claypool (for TE), and Jones. We address interior OL, speedy WR, TE, and Safety. The only thing not addressed would be Edge and CB.

I still think if we don't fix the O-Line, a speedy WR will never get a chance to be used properly. Technically, they could just throw Patterson out there wide and run either a fly or post route. If they do anything here, it will be a late round pick on a fast WR.

He also said this: If you actually watch the video, he talks about this year and last year. To me it's clear that he is referring to 2018 when he is talking about last year. Now that still gives Trubisky some time if you consider him behind Mahomes from the start. However, how long does that take? Mahomes also said he only started playing QB in Junior year of H.S., so technically Trubisky has been playing the position longer. I hope he figures it out, but rarely has a highly touted rookie figure it out so late in his career.

Halfway thru "last" season means 2018, not 2019. So 8 games into his first full season at QB. Trubisky has 41 games and can't read defenses. Even if you take into account college starts, Trubisky is already past that point.

It's definitely possible that they met with him, but with like Ashkum said, he is under contract with the Giants, so they can't let that type of news out. It happens all the time, and sometimes it actually gets reported.

26 picks changed hands between Pick 17 and Pick 56 last year. So only 13 stayed with their original teams (1/3). So odds are we will be able to trade down with at least one of our picks, which is exciting.

From the wiki page of the 2019 draft, there were 12 picks in the 1st round that changed hands, 19 in the 2nd, 19 in the 3rd, and 23 in the 4th. So of the first 138 picks, 73 changed (more than half) from their original team. So teams are definitely looking to both move up and down the draft board. I don't think that will be a problem. My belief is some of the compensation may come in a later draft. Like a team giving up it's current 2nd and a future 3rd and a current 4th for one of our 2nd's. That way that team isn't giving up all it's draft capital this year for one player.

Even with Trubisky playing at his current level, this is no worse than an 8-8 team. We will now have the 3rd place schedule (compared to 1st place schedule last year), and it's hard to see all the players that regressed last year actually playing worse. So I don't see us ever getting to the point where we can get a top 10 pick and a blue-chip QB in the foreseeable future. I am all for bringing someone like Keenum in, who would be light years ahead of Daniel if Trubisky falters, but shouldn't cost a ton and we won't have to give up draft capital. Mariota is not gonna happen as he and Trubisky have the same agent.

You can pretty much get the same value at 25 as you can at 50. The Bears swapped 19 with 43. The value is much closer than the draft trade value chart. I am all for trading back on both picks as long as you can get some good value and you have multiple guys still on your big board valued at the later pick.

I was messing with you, I just edited the quote in my reply like this ^

I would not trade Eddie Jackson for Andy Dalton.

Here are some more recent 2nd Round Mocks, I found it interesting that out of the few I looked at, there was not a single player picked in more than one mock (at either pick). So here are 10 players that might land on the team. The only pick I didn't like was Swift in the 2nd. We can't pick for luxury here. If there is not someone of value, you have to look to trade down. 43 - Solomon Kindley, OG, Georgia 50 - Bryce Hall, CB, Virginia 43 - Antoine Windfield Jr, S, Minnesota 50 - D'Andre Swift, RB, Georgia 43 - Jon Greenard, DE, Florida 50 - Albert Okwuegbunam, TE, Missouri 43. Brycen Hopkins, TE, Purdue 50. Isaiah Wilson, OT, Georgia 43. Lloyd Cushenberry III, OG/C, LSU 50. Cole Kmet, TE, Notre Dame For position groups, which is somewhat of a more accurate science, the mocks picked: OL - 3 TE - 3 ---------- CB - 1 Edge - 1 S - 1 RB - 1

After the combine performance, someone is going to pick him up in the 1st round. No way he makes it to 43.

Things are heating up for sure. The good news is Pace is actively working things and based on the reports, they are going to bring someone in to improve the team at QB. Training Camp should be a lot of fun this year.

Here are the snap counts and sacks: Floyd - 916 snaps - 3 sacks RRH - 552 snaps - 2.5 sacks Williams - 540 snaps - 6 snaps Kwit - 518 snaps - 3 sacks Lynch - 249 snaps - 2 sacks Lynch technically is a better pass rusher than Floyd. Even if Floyd dropped into coverage some, he only had one more sack in over 650 snaps than Lynch, that's insane.

What I found interesting was that GB is also in the market for Hooper. So this seems more like a posturing tactic than anything else. I doubt we pick up Hooper after what happened with Burton.

That top 5 defense seemed to revolve around Hicks than anyone else. When he went down, we saw the biggest dip. I don't think you would even know when Floyd was not in there. I am not opposed to bringing him back, but it has to be at a price point that allows the team to have flexibility. At $13M the team doesn't have that.

Looks good to me, now we just need a QB that can hit him in stride.