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This rumor was true as announced one day before. People were saying we tried to trade up with NE to get Henderson. A video of the NE war room verifies we tried to do that but only offered a 7th for cost. Not a serious attempt.

All the pieces are now in place here thru 2027. That is how you fix the OL.

LT will be Trapilo or Amagadje. We have two that will compete and it will make them both better. My way to early mock had the same positions. RB taken in the 1st after how they coveted Jeanty and Hendnerson. 1-24 Jeremiah Love RB ND 6-0 205 2-48 Braylon Shelby DE S Car 6-5 265 3-86 Dillon Thieneman S Pur 6-0 207 4-118 Demonte Capehart DT Clem 6-5 315

If you consider Trapilo as the eventual starter at LT, the entire starting OLine is on contract or cost-controlled (5th year option for Wright) thru 2027, which is Year 4 of Caleb's rookie deal. If you extend that to the rest of the offense, you can include Williams, Moore, Odunze, Burden, Kmet, and Loveland. That is insane. RB is the position not signed thru 2027 (Swift and Roschon signed thru 2026). Outside of RB, the 2026 draft will be defensive heavy (Edge, Safety, DT, LB).

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He will get a $1.5M raise annually from his current AAV of $16M, which only bumps him up one spot from 5th highest paid LG to the 4th highest. By this time next year, when the actual extension kicks in, he will probably be out of the top 5.

This O-Line is now locked in for a few years. As long as they figure out who starts at LT (Jones/Trapilo), I like having this type of continuity.

Here are the QB matchups with what we know today. Depending on how you view Caleb, there will only be a handful of games where the other team has the better QB. Right now BAL and CIN? I don't think Goff w/o Johnson is better than Caleb w/ Johnson. I think Caleb is at least comparable to Hurts, Daniels, Purdy, and Love. Week 1 - McCarthy (first pro start) Week 2 - Goff - 6th QBR Week 3 - Prescott (3rd game back since injury + new HC) Week 4 - Geno Smith (new team) Week 5 - BYE WEEK Week 6 - Daniels - 4th QBR Week 7 - Rattler/Shough Week 8 - Jackson - 1st QBR Week 9 - Burrow - 3rd QBR Week 10 - Wilson/Dart Week 11 - McCarthy Week 12 - Rudolph/(Rodgers)? Week 13 - Hurts - 10th QBR Week 14 - Love - 5th QBR Week 15 - Pickett/Flacco/Gabriel/Sanders Week 16 - Love - 5th QBR, Love vs CHI in 2024 (1 TD, 1 INT) Week 17 - Purdy - 7th QBR Week 18 - Goff - 6th QBR (Goff outdoors in January) 9 games against top 10 QBR QBs, 8 games against non-top 10 QBR QBs. I expect Caleb to be a top-12 QB this year for QBR.

No thats fair, by stud, I should have said plus starter. We are in agreement i think.

I don’t think either need to be true studs. Trapillo has to be good enough to replace Jones and keep LT cap hit low for another few years. Anything more than that is upside. From initial reports he moved very well for being so tall. Jones strength is in the running game especially when on the move and Trapilo might be able to match that. if Monangai can replace Roquan and be an effective compliment to Swift that’s a win. If he can add in some pass catching he may challenge Swift for snaps. If we do end up with a good LT1 and decent RB1 we’ll be remembering this draft for a long time.

it is always possible to open up cap room with extensions and strategic cuts. If they think Hendrickson is the answer, they will find a way to fit him under. But they have to truly believe in him, not just this year, but probably for a 4 year deal, and he is getting older.

I don’t think the chatter about Hendrickson is anything more than what if speculation. I agree we can’t afford the $40m cap hit as it wrecks the future plan quite a bit. Not that we couldn’t make it work if we really wanted to. Between the draft pick and cap hit this makes no sense to me. Now if I could get them to take Edmund’s off our hands in the deal… The Thuney deal is just a matter of time.

I try not to mention rumors but I think 99% of them are BS but here a few I am trying to verify. I have seen several posts on social media that we are talking about TRADING FOR TROY HENDRICKSON. I think it is BS, Cincy is not close to signing him so it is possible and the longer they go without a contract says the price is coming down. Now a 2 but may drop to a 3. This price would be doable but my big concern is THEY are not going to fit the 40 mil contract into our Cap situation. (we are surgically) building the roster. We paid Sweat and game Odeyingbo a 48 mil contract. We have some prospects behind them (Austin Booker, Daniel Hardy) . We have some DL flexable to possibliy use Shemar Turner or Dexter out their in roles. This is still short on talent but when training camp start there will some vets cut that we could add to the roster. Also DaZarius Smith and Matt Judon are still available. One rumor I seen today was the Bears and Thuney are CLOSE TO SIGNING AN EXTENTION , I could easily predict that as we get closer to OTAs because Poles said they were working on it.

Firing coaches mid season and paying big bucks for the top coach available clearly show moving on from the McCaskey curse.

And it could be - last year - many thought Flus wasn't right but McCaskey wasn't there yet to fully change his ways. Clearly when they moved quickly after the Thanksgiving debacle you could see more of that change. I think same with how they handled the hiring process with Ben Johnson and I think we even saw that with how they handled some of the assistants too - paying for a Dennis Allen as well as an EB at RB coach (who has some alpha in him). And if Warren and Poles were actually suggesting the change last off-season and McCaskey wasn't ready - he than saw that they were right - it may also just continue to support and help him learn a bit more as well as an owner so that maybe in time he learns how to get this right (and hopefully someone else in that family is also observing and getting schooled).

My two favorite current Bears personalities are Wanny and Olin. The Bear brass has always been the hidden vilian in my Bears watching history but that has changed now. It startered with Poles coming in and appears to had some restrictions but when they hired Warren, like AZ said, he is now the buffer to block George and the family. We have seen things slowly sort out. Poles has some blame in the build but is now past that with hiring BJ and drafting Caleb. I think he was influenced into hiring Flus and to work it out with Fields that just wasnt working. In all of this, he has managed the cap and did a good job of roster building. Mistakes along the way but show me a perfect GM? We are at a place we should have been last year but now it doesnt matter. The ducks are aligning to not just have a winning season but something a little more. We are gun shy because of the history of the Bears but its time to let that go. We have our franchise QB (IMO) the creative offensive guru and leader. I think the other coaches hired with him are a windfall. Many HCs in the future. We nitpick on a few positions when the overall talent lever is very good. LT-RB-EDGE but we are not void of talent there just not obvious at this point. I think we are ready to take off w/o the normal chatter of we have to grow together. We have BJ and Caleb, Houston did it with a lesser talented coach in 2023 and Washington did it with a lesser roster last year. WHY NOT US?

cheapness and also the mckaskey family are born idiots. every one of them. how can you be around a sport/business your ENTIRE life and know absolutely nothing about the sport or how to run a franchise. you had people thinking they were smarter than anyone else, mikey especially. even george halas was a terrible owner. the same applies to him. CHEAPNESS and stupidity kept this franchise in the dumpster since the 60's and maybe before that too. this franchise was a cash cow first and a sports franchise second. exception: the hiring of wanny was a good move at the time as he was one of the best candidates out there. i think they paid out decent money also but, whew, what a freaking failure. he certainly didn't get any help from out idiot GM mikey but still. this formula it seems is the role model for all chicago sports. you had in baseball: wriggley who was maybe the worst, commisky, veck, and reinsdork who ranks up there with wriggley. new cubs guy? don't follow baseball anymore. football: halas/mccaskey and bidwell basketball: don't follow this sport but i have to put reinsdork right up there. as far as sports franchises go, chicago is the city of big shoulders, big pockets and small brains. EDIT: mugs halas seemed to be the future of the bears franchise and wasn't given enough time as the president to turn it around before he died.

wanny was a terrible HC. remember the spying on players in the locker room rumor? as a HC he too was leagues under the sea. a good DC and I like him at his current status as a commentator and evaluator but as HC atrocious. add to your horrible failures as HC ditka and those before him with the exception of the one who left in the late 70's. can't think of his name, was HC of the oilers for a while. not the best but at least an average HC. add armstrong to abe gibron and even before. a total shite show throughout the decades.

yes. Hiring Warren seems to be the answer to McCaskey meddling. Would he have the juice now to decide something like firing Eberflus before last year? One hopes so, but these McCaskeys are a curse.

Who knows what they were constrained with. Cheapness is a curse with this franchise. This is the first year I've felt they are willing to pay for something lasting...

Fox was a real coach at least. In the end, he wasnt capable of putting together a modern offense, or apparently attracting a good OC, but these two were certainly better than the others.

I like Wanny too. He was just so hamstrung by Mikey. I also liked Fox. Fox is the only experienced head coach they ever hired and he was at the end.

I think the McCaskeys liked to hire people they felt they could control. People who showed deference. People who werent too confident or alpha. For a FOOTBALL team. Getting cold feet on people like McGinnis and Arians. It's pathetic. I think the hiring of Warren is supposed to be the end of their BS. We will see because Poles still couldnt fire Eberflus last year, and it is unproven whether Warren makes good decisions. Getting Ben Johnson was a really good move. Hopefully Johnson takes over the leadership role, and we dont need Poles for that anymore. Whether we got lucky, or what, we now have a real Qb and a real HC/OC, and for that matter a real staff and a pretty decent roster. We still need a few pieces, but if we dont sniff the playoffs this year, something is wrong.

It's exhausting to be honest. There are so many other little things like hiring Jauron after announcing Dave McGinnis. Not that hiring McGinnis was the answer, he was terrible too. It was the entire process that led to the team announcing it before it was a done deal. EmBearassing. How about going with Trestman over Arians? That was fun too. Arians was the easy slam dunk and would've been crazy fun with Cutler at QB. Then with Eberflus, Dan Quinn was a final candidate. The only saving grace is the Bears would not have landed Johnson because Quinn would probably still be the HC right now.