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Supposedly Gould still isn't healthy enough to kick yet. Still recovering from the calf injury. Must have been something serious. Didn't expect to hear that news today.

Were you watching the Sports Talk Live show on CSN earlier? If that's what you were referring to, I happened to catch that part of it. Kaplan pretty much lead him into the question by asking him if he'd like to play for the Bears because of his connection with Trestman from his days as a 49'er. He said he'd like to, but also is open to anybody that would give him a job. I don't think you have anything to worry about though. The Bears aren't interested.

AJ Green scored a 10 on his wonderlic test. Bad pick by the Bengals.

So Tavon Austin is now Devin Hester because of a bad score on a meaningless test? Gotcha. Didn't really see him have much trouble lining up all over the field for West Virginia while he was there. Yeah I guess that means Frank Gore would have been a bad draft pick then. After all, he only scored a 6. How is he able to play in such a complex offense with the 49'ers after scoring so low on the Wonderlic?!! There has never been a study that shows how a Wonderlic score will translate to any sort of advantage on the football field or make any determinations about a player's success at the next level. There are a lot of people that think it's useless.

You'd be hard pressed to see a team offer a 7th round pick for Hester.

Lmao. We're scratching players off the list now because of Wonderlic scores? Good to know we're pretending to believe those things matter now,

Meh.. This isn't Mike Martz's 7 step drop offense anymore. I think Trestman knows the value in protecting the quarterback. West Coast offenses utilize more 3-5 step drops that are designed to get the ball out quicker, thus making it more difficult to reach the quarterback. I feel much more confident now than I've ever felt before, thanks to the addition of Aaron Kromer and an offensive minded HC. I remember when Trestman got hired they threw out a stat from his first season in the CFL and his team improved dramatically in pass protection from the year before, prior to his hiring.

I would be thrilled with Austin in the first, but It's hard for me to see him slipping all the way to 20, given he's the best WR in this class.

If they already like James Brown over Carimi now, and they draft another guard who takes over as a starter, Its very possible Carimi could be an odd man out. Depends what happens the rest of the off-season. Emery didn't mess around with Chris Williams for very long until they tossed him aside. I think he does end up staying though for depth purposes, but it wouldn't surprise me to see him gone.

Thought Carimi was more of a guard anyways. He'll probably be cut if they end up drafting or finding a starter they like over him.

Reading some of the tweets, it sounds like he's saying they could do pretty much anything in the draft. Trading up, trading down, staying at 20.. Didn't really get a feel for which way he was leaning, which is exactly the way I'm sure he wants it.

Any list that has Percy Harvin and Roddy White ahead of Brandon Marshall is a bad list. He was an All-Pro last year, and thus belongs in the top 2.

I would rather we not spend another pick on a TE with Rodriguez and Bennett already on the roster. I understand the logic behind wanting two big pass catching TE's, but I feel like Rodriguez should be just as capable of being a factor in the passing game.

I'm open to either guy, but I think Brown is going to end up being the better player in the long run. Slightly better athlete, has better instincts, can cover almost just as well, and is a tackling machine. Ogletree has the height advantage, which will make him a little more valuable in a cover 2 defensive scheme (which I'm still not convinced we will be sticking with), but outside of that, I don't really see a gigantic difference between he or Brown as a prospect.

I think he'll be gone by the end of the first. Too many teams need LB'ers at the back end, including Minnesota, Indianapolis, and Baltimore. He's, at worst, the second best LB'er in this draft and IMO the best overall. Hard to see him slip all the way to 50.

If we came away with those top 3 picks I will be the happiest man in the world.

I'm just happy that Trestman finally finished the playbook.

I'm not really into the whole jersey retiring thing anyways. Let players wear whatever number they want and let the history take care of itself. Singeltary's number isn't even retired. Shea McCellin is wearing Dan Hampton's old number. Did they put a call into him as well? Just seems odd.

Didn't the NFL tell the Bears year's ago to stop retiring jersey #'s because they already had retired so many?

Non-issue as far as I'm concerned. 50 isn't retired.

It would be so Phil to go with a player none of us are talking about. I don't know if I should be scared or intrigued. The McClellin pick certainly caught me off guard last year. the Brandon Hardin pick in the 3rd round was a bit of a head scratcher too. Let's hope at least one of the LB's are there for us when we pick (Ogletree or Brown, not Teo') or one of the guards (Warmack or Cooper) are still there at 20 if we keep the pick.

Yes, taking him would make me very angry. I don't think he's nearly as good as some people say he is. Too many flaws in his game that are not conducive to playing MLB in a 4-3 system, in a division where Aaron Rodgers and Matt Stafford throw the ball as much as they do. The Bears need athletic, agile LB's to keep those teams away from exploiting the middle of the field.

Sucks that the Bears have hardly any money left to spend. I think I saw a tweet somewhere that they've got roughly 3.4 million or so left to spend, but I assume that some of that would have to be reserved for signing draft picks.

Assuming we can't trade the pick, I'd probably take Joekel. I wouldn't have signed Bushrod if we had the #1 pick though. You can't go guard #1, so Warmack is out of the picture. There's no QB worthy of being a #1 pick either. I'd consider Milliner or Letoulele but Joekel would have made the most sense.