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The salary is surprising as it is less than he took with us last year.

Stinger, I look at it this way, we have added Quinn for Floyd, but still need CB and SS. On offense, we have no RG, and we went from either Burton or Shaheen to Graham. Burton is the 6th highest paid TE in the league (AV) and Graham will come in around 12-15th. So we are paying two TEs starter level money and neither are worth it. So the only logical move is to cut/trade Burton/Shaheen/Braunecker. If you designated all of them as post-June 1 cuts, you could save $5.5M on the cap with $6.5M in dead cap. To me that's worth it. Then it makes sense to have Graham, Holtz, and Horsted as the 3x TEs. I would add Anthony Sherman as a FB to that mix. If you extend ARob, you can save about $5M on the cap to bring in a SS (Karl Joseph or Vonn Bell) With the remaining cap you have to look at bring in a vet RG and a CB. It can be done. I would say in all of this, the biggest factor for the Bears is how the other teams in the Division are doing. The Vikings traded Diggs, so there is no way that's not a downgrade and the Lions are in full rebuild mode trading everyone. So that leaves the Packers who are relatively the same team from last year. So we have a chance to pick up a game or two just by how the rest of the division is shaking out.

Foles career is so weird. The dude has played 58 games and has 10x 300-yard games, yet 4 of them were 400-yard games. In his 400 yard games, he has 16 TDs and 4 INTs. So this guys stats are really skewed by a few insane games. Same for the playoffs, he had two good games in the playoffs that ultimately led to a SB win. He was replaced in Philly by Sam Bradford, then replaced in STL by Jared Goff, sat behind Alex Smith in KC, then behind Wentz in Philly, then got replaced by Minshew in JAX. So this is the guy that is going to be magically better than all the guys he couldn't beat out for a job? I am still not seeing how he is a Nagy QB either, he doesn't run RPOs. He has 129 carries in his lifetime for 390 yards (almost all scrambles). So maybe the RPOs were for Mitch and Nagy wanted to do something else. We will see this year.

My only hope is that whoever wins out is better than Trubisky was in 2019. That's all I ask. Someone that can score more than 17 points a game. Hopefully Foles is the answer and he kills it. I am hopeful for him but just not optimistic based on his history. If he was that good we wouldn't have him right now.

Even after some contract mods, there is very little left to bring in anyone else. Quinn was it. The remainder of the guys will be depth. I believe Pace thinks TE and QB are fixed. So he will address OG, CB, and S with the 2nd round picks and hopefully address at least one of the positions with a one-year flyer free agent. Maybe he can get Vonn Bell or Tavon Wilson to play SS, Jimmy Smith for CB, Stefen Wisniewski, OG or maybe someone like Anthony Sherman, FB.

What is this though? Is he the starter? Is he here to help Trubisky learn to read defenses as a high school level? Like what's the plan here? Same for TE. It's a rotation of overpaid, crappy players. Do you want Burton in there with a phantom injury? Graham who can't block or run anymore? How about Shaheen who is so unathletic he gets hurt stretching? This is the 2020 plan? Foles and Trubisky battling it out at QB, Graham and Burton at TE? Of all the outcomes, this is probably the worst. I would've rather done nothing, kept the 4th rounder and the cap space instead of bringing on this dead weight. My prediction right now is 5-11. The biggest problems on the team have not been addressed and we are out of cap space. We still need a TE, a QB, a WR3, a CB, a SS, and depth at ILB and DL. We could also use upgrades at OT. Quinn, Graham, and Foles have consumed the remaining cap. Outside of a few C-list FA's on $1M one-year deals, that's all we have left, and now only 2x 2nd rounders to fill 5-6 holes. This is unbelievable. Honestly, how much better is Foles and Graham than Glennon and Sims.

This is it. Foles and Graham? That's the answer. We get an upgrade with Quinn over Floyd, a slight downgrade at rotational ILB, and probably CB and S. Our TE room is still weak and we have no RG and our OT's suck. Adding Foles did nothing to improve QB unless you consider him an upgrade over Daniel. I feel like this is it for Pace. He failed on every first-round pick outside of Smith and the jury is still out on him after that weird situation last year. I can see Smith being one of those players that retires young. White, Floyd, Trubisky, and Shaheen. Epic early draft failures. Then he gives up the remaining capital for Mack, which didn't win us anything. Now we are going to be stuck with an aging core with huge cap hits during a rebuild. If these were all-in moves, Pace is playing checkers while the rest of the NFL was playing chess.

To start? Is he the backup? Even with that extra knowledge, what is Foles' ceiling? 2013 was a crazy anomaly in his career. Outside of that season and those numbers he has been inferior to Trubisky in everything but TDs. His career-high in yards is 2891. What a joke. Mike Glennon's career-high 2608.

Oh crap, outside of Foles' ridiculous 2013 season where he threw 27 TDs and 2 INTs, he has 44 TDs to 33 INTs. Trubisky has 48-29. This is a joke right. This guy is going to do nothing for us.

I am in the middle on this one. Here are our 2x QB's career stats: QB A - 48 starts, 26-22 Record, 1051-1698, 61.9%, 11901 yds, 71 TD, 35 INT, 7.0 Y/A QB B - 41 starts, 23-18 Record, 811-1280, 63.4%, 8554 yds, 48 TD, 29 INT, 6.7 Y/A Foles has never started more than 11 games in his career in a single season, and has only started 10 or more twice. This is his 6th different team in 7 years. He reminds me of Parkey as a QB. I would've preferred Dalton, but I guess they were looking for someone with more experience with Nagy's system. It will be interesting to see how this plays out, open competition, or an anointed starter.

Lasted only one year in Philadelphia. I think he will see more carries in Miami.

That is a concern, but injuries are very hard to plan for. Each slot has a value, and even though Kwit and KPL did really good when they played, you can't keep everyone. Clearly the team felt that Trevathan was the one guy they had to retain. Right now the Bears are in line for 3x 6th Round comp picks (Kwit and Quinn cancel out), then Daniel, KPL, and Williams all qualify as 6th Round comps for 2021. That is decent considering that is all the Bears got for Howard.

Good luck NFL QBs. Khalil Mack, Robert Quinn, Eddie Goldman, Akiem Hicks, Roquan Smith, Danny Trevathan, RRH all coming at you every down.

I hope not, we have a bunch of 2nd and 3rd tier TEs and have $15M committed to them.

This is literally a Dion Sims move. I don't care about the good moves Pace makes, he continually does these head scratchers and I feel like we will never get back to the top with him at the helm. His reluctance to move away from mistakes and his penchant for overpaying guys like this really hurts the team. There are problem 1,000 players I would rather have for that money than Jimmy Graham, maybe more. Terrible terrible move.

I would be ok with 4-5M, but $8M is crazy money for a bad TE on the decline. I would rather have Delanie Walker for that price.

Watson has thrown half of his completions to Hopkins. His production is going to take a huge hit. I can see more INTs and less yards/TDs. I am still shocked that the Texans did that. ARZ is going to have a crazy passing attack.

The only thing that saves us is this does not count against comp picks since he was cut. So we would still get comp for Kwit, maybe Prince and Gabriel.

Right now it is a 5th rounder.

The more I think about this, the worse it gets. What a terrible move by Pace. This is a desperation move IMO. $8M for a middle of the road TE on the backend of his career. What a head scratcher. I would've said this for $5M. $8M is a crazy over pay for this production. Ebron won't even get that much. Terrible move.

Wow, shocked at this one. I didn't think he fit the mold they were looking for. A good pass catcher, but so-so blocker. Seems like an overpay after what Burton makes. $8M AAV for a soon to be 34 yr old TE? Hooper got $11M a year for 4 years. We save 3M but get a much older TE. Odd move for me.

It looks like Trevathan's cap hit for 2020 will only be $4,893,750 as they used 3 phantom years at the end of the contract (actually a 6-year deal) to spread the signing bonus out over 6 years vs 3. So they added some dead money to the cap in 2023, 2024, and 2025, but it makes his contract very reasonable for 2020-2022. So if HHCD does sign for around $5M, then the Bears could have about 20M for free agency.

Absolutely, but it may not happen until the draft. Either way, exciting news nonetheless.

Man, if they sign Bridgewater and he has a cap hit of $10M this year (5M base, 5M signing bonus), then 25/25 the next 2 years, it could work.

They traded Hopkins for David Johnson, OMG. Seriously are they nuts or what?