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Crosby has 10 sacks this year. Sweat has 9.5. Crosby only had 7.5 sacks last year. He's a damn good player, but he seems to get injured a lot. I don't think I would feel as good about investing in him as you guys do. If I'm going to trade players to open cap space and give up draft picks, it would be for Hendrikson or Garret, not Crosby.

I don't disagree with anything you said but I don't think the bears will do that. DJ will have a 12 million Dead Cap hit next year and 8 mil in 27 if traded. So the Cap relief isn't as great as it looks on paper. I would love to get one of those guys but the cost will be to great. Poles will figure something out but doubt if it's Crosby or Garrett.

If Las Vegas wants to clear their future cap, they might want to move Crosby. They pay a price but not that much, a lot of his cap is salary, and would come to us and off their books. He would cost us about $30.8M, $29.8M, $27.3M and $28.2M over the next four years. If we traded Jaylon Johnson after June 1st, we would open up $16M If we traded or cut Tremaine Edmunds, that would open up $15M If we trade DJ Moore before June 1st, it opens up $16.5M, after June 1st it opens $24.5M If we trade Cole Kmet before June 1st, it opens up $8.4M, after June 1st it opens $10M The Raiders might trade for a player or players and at least a first round pick, or they might want picks only. The players above dont need to be traded to the Raiders, we could trade them to someone else for picks, and then use some of those picks or our own to make the deal too. This is a good year to wheel and deal. If the Raiders took out first round pick this year, and some combination of players above (or draft picks we traded them to someone else for) for Crosby, that would really make us a scary team for the next 3 or 4 years.

Willis is one hit away from being out of the game. He has limited practices all week. It could get ugly fast. Plus Wilson is the only healthy RB.

All fans are like that. I realize the Packers are a good team but badmouth them every chance I get. I've been watching a lot of NFC North podcasts and they all say how lucky we are to win 6 last minute games but it no longer becomes luck when you do it that much. Good teams find ways to win.

Crosby has a very tradeable contract, however, I don't see a way the Bears could free enough space to bring someone like him on, especially with the Dayo boat anchor contract.

yes, out here in the real world. thats exactly whats happening.

Crosby not happy in Vegas, team sucks, organization sucks, now they are trying to mess with his playing time:

What is funny is, can't a team just be good? Can't highly drafted players perform how they were projected, because in a lot of ways, that is all that is happening. The Bears have 19 players that were drafted in the 1st or 2nd rounds on the 53-man, and of the 22 off/def starters, the only ones not drafted in the top 100 are Edwards (UDFA), Dalman and Jarrett.

Love out against BAL, Willis in. Willis vs Huntley. A GB loss guarantees the Division for the Bears. It would be all seeding for the final two weeks.

And soon they will be saying we are AMAZING and Caleb is GENERATIONAL and all that crap. They just need to sell papers, get eyeballs and clicks. They really dont know anything, and they dont do any actual predicting. All they can tell you is whether your team is winning right now. That's not analysis. That's why all the narrative pieces are worthless. They just tell you what's happening at the current moment, and make it SOUND like a universal truth. But they never see change coming. They dont predict development. Remember when Jaden Daniels was on his way to the Hall of Fame? Remember when Darnell Wright was a bust? Remember when Justin Fields just needed a little more help? It's all trash. And I'm just saying this because it's about to be all over the top good trash for our Bears, and it won't be true either. I mean, yeah if Caleb keeps going and ends up elite, the stories will still be all or nothing because thats what the media does, not because we deserve it. Even if we do.

I think the evolution of it was the most entertaining. First it was you suck, then it was you got lucky, then who have you beat. Yet here we are with a 1.5 Game lead in the division, and currently the only team with double-digit wins when the Bears were the only team who had fewer than 11 wins last year.

SEA plays in CAR this week, then in SF next week. Two tough games with coast-to-coast travel. SEA is favored by 7 over CAR, but are currently 4.5 underdogs against SF in Week 18. The Bears are only 3 pt underdogs.

Right. Some ask why we would ever trade away good players, and of course the reason is to get other good players at positions of need.

Thank you Adam

Thanks. So we will need opponents of SEA this week or next to give us a little help. Odds are not great for the Bears to get the #1 seed, but then again, the odds before the season began for the Bears to have achieved what we have so far were probably far greater.

they are just used to us being terrible doormats. And who could blame them? Kinda how we think about the Browns. Winning changes everything.

Bears win last 2, SEA loses 1 of 2, that's it.

I know it's been said before, but help me out so I don't have to sort through all the posts to find it. What has to happen for the Bears to take the #1 seed? If we go 13-4, do we clinch it, or would we still need help? For the Bears to have a 1st round bye week to heal and prepare would be awesome.

The one flaw to QBR is that it takes Comp% into account too much. Nix had 182 yards passing, 1 TD, 1 INT, with a 4.8 Y/A, basically a bad game, and he had one of his highest QBR Ratings of the season with a 77.3. Week 17 1. Nix - 77.3 QBR - 182 yds, 1 TD, 1 INT, 1 Sack, 42 Rush Yds, Rush TD. 224 Total Yards. Won. Season QBR: 58.5, 3,790 yards, 25-11 TD-INT, 18 Sacks, 5 Rush TD. (16g) 2. Maye - XXX QBR - XXX. Season QBR: 73.4, 3,947 yards, 25-8 TD-INT, 46 Sacks, 4 Rush TD. (14g) 3. Williams - XXX QBR - XXX Season QBR: 57.0, 3,400 yards, 23-6 TD-INT, 23 Sacks, 3 Rush TD, 1 Rec TD. (15g)

SEA has to lose to CAR and SF has to win their last two for the #1 seed.

and the amount of shit talking from DET, GB, and MIN fans has been over the top this year, and all of them are eating crow.

and for trades, you can't do a post-June 1st trade BEFORE June 1st, that designation only applies to cuts (each team gets 2).

You can release two players prior to June 1st, but the cap relief does not take effect until June 1st. This seems to be more for the player than the team. Essentially, you are releasing a player so they can sign before the draft, and it might have been something added to the CBA, because before this teams had to hold onto players until June 1st knowing they would be releasing them anyway. Then there was very little cap space left for these players and they had to take league min deals is my assumption. Link here for the full info: https://operations.nfl.com/inside-football-ops/nfl-operations/2025-nfl-free-agency/contract-language/

The difference between the 3rd and 4th place schedule is pretty big; currently it is playing LAR/SF, WAS, and ATL or ARZ, NYG, and NO. I know it changes from year to year, but in the NFC West, playing ARZ over LAR/SF is a pretty big difference.