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I am so out of it on college players this year, can you make a "optimal" pick in comparison to these drafts based on players they had on the board after the Bears pick? If not Trubinsky or Tabor, then who? I don't understand why would look at ILB at all this draft.

I would love to see GB end up with 9 or 10 wins and miss the playoffs. That would be worth part of my misery for this season. Looking at the Division and Wild Card, Detroit has the toughest remaining schedule, but gets GB at home in Week 17 to more than likely decide the Division. For the Wild Card, the Giants are pretty locked in at WC1 and it looks like WC2 will come down to WAS, TB, and the 2nd best team in the North (probably the loser of Week 17 GB/DET). We still have a hand in impacting the playoffs as we play WAS and MIN to end the season. I would still gladly take 2 losses and hope JAX decides to win 1 for their new coach who play TEN and IND to close out their season. Division DET 9-5, at DAL, GB GB 8-6, MIN, at DET MIN 7-7, at GB, CHI Wild Card NYG 10-4, at PHI, at WAS WAS 7-5-1, vs CAR, at CHI, NYG TB 8-6, @NO, CAR

I would assume based on age and length of contract. Freeman only has a 3 year deal. Either way, I think all 3 stay.

With Barkley's 4th start and 5th game played, all 3 QB's for the Bears this year had a large enough sample size to give a good comparison between the group. Out of all the stats, the biggest things that jumped out to me were the sacks and INTs. Hoyer had 200 attempts without a INT and was only sacked 4 times while maintaining the highest Comp% of the group at 67%. Comparatively, Cutler was sacked 17 times and had 5 INTs in only 137 attempts. Barkley has been sacked 4 times and has thrown 7 INTs in 162 attempts. Cutler was sacked every 8 passing attempts. When looking at 3rd Downs, Hoyer was again the clear leader with a 89.9 QB Rating on 3rd Downs, Cutler has a 60.7 and Barkley has a 67.0 QB Rating on 3rd Downs. Barkley's problem is with throws over the middle; he has thrown 5 of his 7 INTs, and has a 33.6 QB Rating on throws over the middle. This seems like it could be something that is improved on with more playing time. For individual performances, Hoyer had 4x 300 yard games, Barkley has 2, and Cutler had zero. When I looked at overall offensive production, the team averaged the most pts with Barkley under center with 22.8 Pts per Game, then Hoyer at 16.6 Pts per Game, and finally Cutler at 14.8 Pts per Game. This could be due to opponents but you also have to consider things like the O-Line and offensive skill position players. Lastly, if you look at the situations, Cutler had he easiest path to success, #1 QB with his QB Coach as the OC coming into the season. He should clearly be the best QB of the bunch, and that is just not the case. Hoyer was the next coming in as the backup and based on his individual numbers, he did exactly what was asked of him. Barkley was first signed to the PS, and has had the least amount of starters to play with during his starts. So I could see his numbers trending upwards. It is obvious to see why Cutler is gone; he is the least productive QB and is not worth the cap hit he carries. Hoyer is an anomaly, he puts up great numbers, yet the team and offense struggled. Barkley has played decent under some tough conditions, but for me, it is hard to get a true evaluation of him given the state of the team. However, I actually feel pretty confident that out of Hoyer/Barkley/Shaw that we can have at least 2x competent QBs going into next season. I still believe you have to draft a QB early, but I am starting to think that we don't necessarily have to do that with our first pick. What do you think? Any surprising numbers for you?

As much as I hate the Packers, I do not want a win. Play tough and play to the end, but lose.

This game is crazy, we had a 10-7 lead, GB scores 20 straight and we go down 27-10, and now we score 14 straight to cut the lead to 27-24. If not for 2 long runs by GB, we easily have the lead.

Prescott has a shot too, it will be him or Elliott for sure, and if Howard started the full season, it would be a much closer race. For defense, Floyd needs a strong finish, but he is surely in the discussion. I would say Deion Jones from ATL, Eli Apple from NYG along with Bosa will be in the race with Floyd. Floyd does lead all rookies in sacks and safeties.

Well if he came in when Cutler got hurt and played instead of Hoyer and Barkley, I think they would be saying the same thing about him and I would think the offense would be better overall. It might not translate to wins, but based on his stats and performance, it would hard to not see us winning a few more with him under center. Now obviously, we are not the Cowboys, so there is a little extra hype there.

Hell, bring him in for the last few games for us, our guys haven't been doing much back there anyway.

I like yours better, we need a Jason Football site.

If we got #9 and #33 while still having something around #37, you take it. With pick #33, you could always use a later pick to slide into the back end of the first to gain that extra year on the contract. Also, there are a bunch of deals going on with those early 2nd round picks after Day 1 ends. So I could even see us moving off #33 (since we have #37) and pick up some extra picks that way.

Massie has over a $6mil cap hit with bonus. He has the 7th highest cap hit on the team next year, and I don't know if we are really getting our ROI with him at that price.

4. Chicago Bears: DeShone Kizer, QB, Notre Dame 37. Chicago Bears: Ryan Ramczyk, OT, Wisconsin 68. Chicago Bears: Courtland Sutton, WR, SMU What do you think? I don't know about a WR that high with the needs in the secondary.

Besides Cutler, how many of those guys were actually starters? Those are all fringe guys and will all probably be gone next year anyway. Wilson, Thompson, Bellamy, Paulsen, Larsen, and Hoyer are all FA's. The bigger questions are Alshon, Miller, Leno, Royal, Porter, Houston, Massie, with the last 2 making over $6mil each.

Jets beat SF, so it is still CLE, SF, JAX, and us 4th with no other team with 3 wins. Jets and Rams have 4 wins so it looks like we can do no worse than 6th at this point and probably no better than 3rd.

Play good enough to win but refs do everything in their power to help us with higher draft pick. Last drive was crazy, multiple ticky tack hiding calls, then a no-call against DET for DPI and we lose by 3.

Our luck we run the table and get a crappy pick and finish 7-9. I think we split and finish at 5-11. I think we beat Detroit because Stafford is due a bad game and Floyd on turf should be fun. Then I think we win one of our last 3 but play all fairly close due to weather vs GB and WAS.

White has missed 28 games in 2 seasons. If there is a similar case where a player comes back in his 3rd season and becomes a stud for 10 years, please let me know. Based on others, someone injured that much is basically done.

I know they talked about him coming back but I just can't see it. I think that was just positioning to some how show he still has some value.

I am just taking a wait and see mode with the QB situation, but at least we have options: Hoyer, Shaw, Barkley, a rookie, and God-forbid Cutler again, but at least we will be going in with options. I wasn't trying to rip Barkley, he was throwing to a pretty weak receiving corps without a bunch of starting O-Linemen. If not for a few drops we win. He is definitely worth a look, and I hope he gets an extended look for the remainder of the year.

1st and goal at the 7, down by 6 with 47 seconds left and we don't gain a single yard. That was either awful or intentional. I don't know if we can use one game to evaluate Barkley, we were down 27-7 with 9 minutes remaining before Tennessee went into prevent. Before that Barkley didn't do much. At this point, I will take the loss but no one is doing us any favors, CLE, SF, JAX, and CIN all lost and the Jets are now losing to NE. So the bottom 5 all lost.

Reports are coming out that he is day to day and may only miss a game or two. Soreness.....

With Fitzgerald's and Palmer's age, Cutler/Alshon would be a great combo for the Cards too, especially with that defense, Johnson, and Floyd/Brown.

We are pretty much a lock for the top 5. I think you go QB if the one you want is there (and you know won't be there in the 30's). If they are gone, then you either go BPA or try to move down into the middle of the 1st and get some extra picks.

Garoppolo has never thrown an INT though.....kidding. I wouldn't mind trading for him, but not for a first if we are drafting in the top 5. I might consider swapping 2nd's or giving up a 3rd outright, but I can't see us moving out of the top 5 for a former 2nd round pick. He is only signed thru 2017, so we would not really be able to take advantage of a lower QB salary in the first 3-4 years.