adam

https://m.imgur.com/gallery/ivp1i I don't know how long this will stay up but it is a pretty cool look at how teams rank players. They nailed a bunch of evals but also whiffed big on a few, ie Antonio Brown and Chancellor. Not Bears related but I thought it was cool nonetheless. Bears tie in, check out eval on Claussen.

I am pretty critical of their grading metrics, but their narrative is normally a little more accurate. I don't know if the defense is "playoff caliber" but I can definitely see a top 15 D this year. https://www.profootballfocus.com/blog/2016/...efense-in-2016/

Monroe is a possibility, but I don't see TB cutting any DB's, you need 3 starters nowadays.

I assume you mean this article: http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/feature/25577...he-line-of-fire Having some continuity on the line makes everyone better, so even getting a full season out of the same starting 5 would be huge.

Man are we going to take the field with 6 LBs?

Heard an interview with him on Sirius, and came away highly impressed with his knowledge of the game.

Maybe a duo of Amos and Bush can become Ambush?

Very solid game play LOT vs #6 Baylor:

A great video of the Michigan game that Howard almost singlehandedly won for Indiana, very impressive:

QB – Cutler, Hoyer RB – Langford, Howard, Carey, Rodgers TE – Miller, Housler, Lee, Braunecker WR – Jeffery, White, Royal, Braverman, (1 out of Thompson, Mariani), (1 of out of Wilson/Bellamy/Meredith) OL – Long, Massie, Leno, Whitehair, Grasu, Ramirez, Larsen, (2 of out of Fabuluje/Becton/Weaver/Wallace) DL – Goldman, Unrein, Hicks, Bullard, (2 out of Ferguson, Sutton, Robertson-Harris, Washington) LB – Floyd, Trevathan, McPhee, Freeman, Kwiatkoski, (2 out of Jones/Anderson/Timu), (2 out of Acho/Houston/Young) CB – Fuller, Porter, Callahan, Hall, McManis S – Amos, Bush, Houston-Carson, Bolden, Prosinski

That along with health concerns were part of the reason (as least what is flying across Twitter).

To me, when they are releasing guys like Slauson (w/ some dead money), it is only part of the move, otherwise there would be no reason to do it now.

Per Leming, it was mainly his health:

I think they are doing that out of respect for the vets, giving them a chance to find new teams.

No way we were keeping that many interior linemen.

Slauson released per Instagram per Leming. https://twitter.com/AaronLemingNFL/status/726902690928840704 $2,570,000 saved, cap space now over $27mil.

Possibly because he didn't know Fangio's scheme well enough to mentor the younger guys. I could see a one-year deal for Whitner to do just that. Also, Whitner is 2.5 years younger, and has had much more recent success than Rolle. Not that it will happen, and I am leaning towards letting the young guys play and get playing time instead of a vet who is not in long term plans taking away reps.

This would make a lot of sense:

In my projection, I had him gone. I think they wanted to give him maximum time to find a new team vs sucking the life out of him and making him a late offseason cut. I also expect a few others to go soon. Assuming cuts, Houston would save $4,020,000, Slauson $2,570,000, Young $2,500,000, and Wilson $1,671,000 are the biggest savings but Houston has the biggest dead money hit at $2,970,000, so I think he stays unless we find a trade partner.

https://twitter.com/AdamSchefter/status/726873638826217472 Saves $2,718,750 against the cap bringing us up to almost $25 million in cap space.

I believe the .33 is part QB, part O-Line part RB or TE.

Wow, I forgot how many there were, but looking back at some of those, a good bunch were not on Cutler. Sure there were the overthrows or the one he seemed to throw right at Hayward, but there were several receivers running a different way, giving up on play (Hester), and a bunch were the defender jumping in front of the stationary receiver for the pick.

I agree that the Lions had the best draft out of the other NFCN teams, but no WR? Arguably one of the biggest needs and they don't draft a single one. For the Vikes, I liked Treadwell and Alexander, but on Boehringer, the odds are against him succeeding, at least any time soon.