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Yes, that would be nice, Nicks from Saints, Bowe from KC and we are looking sweet.

Yes, I would take Welker, Colston, Bowe, V. Jackson, and Wallace over him.

Never drafted another? Hester is a shoe-in HoF, and Briggs is well on his way. I think JA was middle of the pack in drafts, he actually did better in later rounds, but essentially flopped in the 1st round picks where we should've had impact starters almost every year. You also have to give him credit for bringing in Cutler and Peppers. Those were two nice acquisitions. In the same breath, you have to chastise him for Manu, Chester, and Roy Williams. I thought overall he did decent with the defense acquisitions, but failed on the offensive side of the ball. I would've given him an overall grade of C+, but for the Bears franchise, we cannot accept the middle of the road.

Thanks, I love http://www.pro-football-reference.com/

Made two small changes: Moved Floyd up to #3 and put DeCastro in there in place of Adams. Is Adams even projected for the first round?

Yeah I questioned those picks too, but he does have a better track record on the defensive side of the ball: Tillman (2), Briggs (3), Conte (3), A. Brown (4), Steltz (4), DJ Moore (4), M. Anderson (5), Z. Bowman (5), C. Harris (6).

That was from the article, I think JA did a great job on defensive talent.

So scouting and recommending Rex Grossman is seen as a good thing?

How many QB's did we start during his tenure? Just like in Tampa Bay, Angelo was always good at finding defensive talent, but was completely inept at finding offensive talent, especially at QB and WR. He was decent for the most part, but I believe he needed to be replaced a few years ago. About the Super Bowl appearance, 14 different teams have made a SB appearance since 2001 (almost half the league). 10 teams have had multiple Conference Championship visits during that timeframe, with 5 of those teams winning it all (6th will be this year). Only the Eagles (5), Bears (2), Jets (2), and Panthers (2) have multiple Conference Championship appearances without a SB victory. For a franchise ranking during Angelo's reign, it would go something like this (giving 5 pts for SB win, 3 for SB loss, 2 for Conf loss, 1 for winning season): 1. Patriots (3 SB wins, 1 SB loss, 1 Conf loss, 11 winning seasons) *Pending this year (31*) 2. Steelers (2 SB wins, 1 SB loss, 2 Conf Champ losses, 9 winning seasons) (26) 3. Colts (1 SB win, 1 SB loss, 1 Conf Champ loss, 9 winning seasons) (19) 4. Eagles (1 SB loss, 4 Conf Champ losses, 8 winning seasons) (19) 5. Packers (1 SB win, 1 Conf Champ loss, 8 winning seasons) (15) 6. Giants (1 SB win, 6 winning seasons)* Pending this year (11*) 7. Saints (1 SB win, 1 Conf Champ loss, 5 winning seasons) (12) 8. Ravens (2 Conf Champ losses, 8 winning seasons) (12) 9. Jets (2x Conf Champ losses, 7 winning seasons) (11) 10. Buccaneers (SB victory, 6 winning seasons) (11) 11. Bears (SB loss, Conf Champ loss, 5 winning seasons) (10) 12. Seahawks (1 SB loss, 6 winning seasons) (9) 13. Titans (1 SB loss, 5 winning seasons) (8) 14. Chargers (1 Conf Champ loss, 6 winning seasons) (8) 15. Falcons (1 Conf Champ loss, 6 winning seasons) (8)

I know some might be franchised and/or re-signed, but here are a few: Welker, Colston, Bowe, V. Jackson, Wallace, Wayne and then the next tier would be guys like: Lloyd, Simpson, D. Jackson, Meachem I would say Johnson is somewhere in between those two groups, and his antics are on par with Ocho and TO.

He is not even a top 5 FA WR option, I'll pass.

Licht would bring some fresh new perspectives into the organization, and he definitely knows what a perennial SB contender looks like. Like some others have mentioned, if Emery was that good, why has he not been offered a GM position before? According to this guy, Licht is in his top for 10 GM Candidates (#7): http://blog.therazzreport.com/?p=270

No one guy is going to make a huge impact, but I believe anyone will be better than JA at this point. Just by removing him and Martz, we gained 2 wins.

Check at the line of scrimmage? No-huddle? OMG, that alone is going to be an upgrade for this offense.

lol, I know. I was just being sarcastic. He is just giving his clear biased opinion. Briggs and Suh should've been on there for sure.

Looking at mock drafts, and at other teams' needs and such, I would say that it is a very unlikely scenario. Kuechly, Hightower, and Richardson will all be gone before Jeffery. Also, don't forget about Kendall Wright and David DeCastro. I would take one of them at 19 if the scenario you presented actually occurred. The other option would be to trade down to the mid-20's, and pick up another 3rd rounder. You could then take 2 of our 3 3rd rounders and move back into the 2nd. Giving us a 1st, 2x 2nds, and a 3rd, or we keep the 3rd, and go with 1 1st, 1 2nd, and 3 3rds. IMO, I think we stay at 19 and pick up the BPA as long as it is WR, OL, and possibly CB depending on someone dropping.

It is because he is doing a 3-4 man, lol.

I would take Forte over Peterson for the ability to catch out of the backfield. For all the praise AP gets for his running and explosiveness, he had less yards per carry and per game than Forte. Also, with his torn ACL and MCL, I doubt he will ever be the same.

It is funny that guys like that have a job in the sports business. Just because they are controversial? They rarely bring up valid points and most of the time just talk out of their 4th point of contact.

I just didn't realize we were that bad (24th), but when I look back, we rarely had good starting position after a kickoff.

For some reason this popped into my brain today and I was surprised there wasn't more mentioned about this during the playoffs. Special teams only seemed to play negative roles in games (SF and BAL) compared to highlights of epic runbacks. For the season, just from watching the games, you knew there would be an impact to most teams with good return games. Almost every other kickoff ended up as a touchback and the Bears would start around the 20 compared to the 30 or 35. So I was curious and looked at some various numbers. None of these are completely conclusive or tied directly to the new rule, but taken into context you can see that the new rule did indeed affect the Bears. The Bears had the best Starting LoS in 2010 and dropped to 24th in 2011. They lost an average of 6.5 yards a drive, the biggest drop of any team. The next closest was KC at 6.19 yards and Pittsburgh, Arizona, and St. Louis all lost over 4 yards a drive as well. Only 7 teams had a better starting LoS than last year, and the teams that benefited the most were Houston, gaining 4.79 yards a drive, and SF gaining 4.71. The other 5 teams all gained less than a yard per drive. The Bears had a starting LoS of 33.37 in 2010 and that dropped to 26.87 in 2011. Just to be sure that this wasn't a one year anomaly, I looked back at the past three years for the Bears, and they were first every year (32.31 in 2009, 33.48 in 2008, 34.43 in 2007). For the entire league, kickoff returns dropped from 2033 in 2010 to 1375 in 2011. A total of 658 less kickoff returns, about 20 per team. The lowest return total was 46 (ATL) in 2010, and only 9 teams had more than that number this year. Atlanta only returned 24 kickoffs this year as a team and 21 players had more than their entire team. So now I looked at the Bears; we only had two less returns than 2010 but averaged 4 less yards per return. Was it the loss of Danieal Manning or was it the rule? Manning only returned 13 for Houston and Houston as a team only returned 29 kickoffs, so the impact was not that big. With us only having two less returns, it seems like we ran some out of the end zone when it would've been better to take a knee. Again, all of this could be circumstantial, but either the rule did impact the team or we really miss Manning on kickoffs. Either way going from 1st to 24th in starting LoS didn't help the team much this year. LoS stats from: http://footballoutsiders.com/stats/drivestats

A decent article about Licht: http://bostonherald.com/sports/football/pa...ars_gm_position My only concern about NE exec's is that Bill has so much influence on decisions, you don't know how much his disciples actually did in their positions.

Per Jensen:

I am not saying it is not possible, but there are a lot of higher rated players before Floyd.

You really thing 2x WR's will go in the top 10? I highly doubt that.