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I don't care how it happens. Move him inside and keep Long where he is, or flip-flop, but these two together would dominate. He is NASTY, and plays with a serious mean streak. Completely rag-dolls opponents.

trading on up

Wow. This guy is inside my head. http://sports.yahoo.com/news/nfl-draft-nee...iNVhg4AVTUnnIlQ I don't like it all, but I agree with the sentiments about which positions are needed.

Check out @bears_insider's Tweet: https://twitter.com/bears_insider/status/58...1816198145?s=01

How cool is that, the bad blue boys are gone--happy happy for Badgers.

I used 5 different Big Boards and ran the Fanspeak simulator 5 times to see how the different perspectives (big boards) would change the draft for us at 7. Using this method, 3 players were off the board at 7 every time (Winston, Mariota, Fowler). Williams, Beasley, Ray, Cooper, and La'el Collins were all selected multiple times before #7. So two of those five will be available at #7, and all of these should be available: White, Scherff, Shelton, Waynes, Parker, Dupree, Landon Collins. I am leaning towards believing the only players with #7 value are Beasley, Fowler, Williams, Cooper, and White. If we were going to select someone else, there will definitely b…

Evidence suggests we've improved all around at other positions of need. We could still use a safety but I'm not convinced one rated high enough will be there at #7. So I'm declaring for the WR position although I'm still open as to who that is. Further evidence is that one of our first moves was to cut Marshall loose. To me that suggests Pace has been planning this all along, playing chess knowing that the goal was WR at the end of the day. Then again, we did add a WR already but he's more a slot guy. So I'm sticking with it, it's going to be WR. Thoughts?

Our effective rookie salary pool is about 3.1M which means we are just under 8M in available cap space to use on FA (or resigning existing players). That is more money than I thought. I presume we will keep some in reserve for in-season need signings (as long as use some of the space on future extensions) but I also am guessing when vets get cut we will be in a pretty good position.

Noteworthy perhaps only because that leaves us with just three safeties on the roster with workouts coming up. Maybe we have our eye on a FA and this is a precursor to that move (Jeromy Miles would make some sense to me), or maybe it's just clearing guys out we don't see a future with. As it stands though I would expect a safety in the draft somewhere. I've been on record as not much of a fan of this safety class. Anyone have someone they really like? I'd personally prefer a good coverage guy over a big hitter, so I'm partial to a mid-round pick on a guy like Adrian Amos or Damarious Randall.

I couldn't believe he was with us that long. But he played 10 years with the Bears and averaged just over $1M per season with the Bears. Was a fantastic value player, missed a grand total of 6 games during that tenure and gave up an average of 3 sacks per year. He was getting older and wasn't the player he once was, but he did a good job in Chicago and wore the uniform with pride.

7 Kevin White WR 39 Jordon Phillips DT 71 Alex Carter CB 103 Garrett Grayson QB 134 Durrell Eskridge FS 167 Xavier Williams DT

mikecwright Michael C. Wright Confirming @BradBiggs report of the team's plan to release Roberto Garza. Bears just want to go a different direction. 9 minutes ago

Wit the name listed below as our own FA.....who do you think we need to re-sign. My choices are in Bold L. Briggs LB UFA E. Britton OT UFA J. Cain C UFA B. de la Puente C UFA J. Feely PK UFA D. McCray SS UFA S. McManis CB UFA J. Morgan WR UFA M. Owens RB UFA T. Scott DE UFA D. Sharpton LB UFA C. Tillman CB UFA D. Williams LB UFA

29 years old and has started in the past. Fits the Fangio CB type - 6'2".

Would any of these drafts be somewhat acceptable? ALL BAMA DRAFT 1 - Amari Cooper, WR 2 - Arie Kouandjio, OG - Backfills for Long's move to OT 3 - TJ Yeldon, RB 4 - Austin Shepard, OT 5 - Xzavier Dickson, OLB 6 - Trey DePriest, ILB ALL FSU DRAFT Trade down for an extra third and X 1 - Eddie Goldman, DT 2 - PJ Williams, CB 3 - Rashad Greene, WR 3 - Mario Edwards, DE 4 - Josue Matias, OG 5 - Nick O'Leary, TE 6 - Karlos Williams, RB ALL OREGON DRAFT Trade down for an extra second and X 1 - Arik Armstead, DT 2 - Jake Fisher, OT 2 - Hroniss Grasu, C 3 - Ifo Ekpre-Olomu, CB 4 - Erick Dargan, SS ALL AUBURN DRAFT Trade…

And on April 1, imagine that...

https://twitter.com/RapSheet Interesting move given Forte being in a contract year.

I would be thrilled if the Bears draft unfolded like this, how about you? http://fanspeak.com/ontheclock/premium/draft.php?d=nluivc 15 - R1P15 CB TRAE WAYNES MICHIGAN ST (day one starter opposite Fuller) http://www.nfl.com/draft/2015/profiles/tra...ynes?id=2552448 45 - R2P13 OT/G JAKE FISHER OREGON ( Will replace Mills and start at RT or allow Long to move to RT) http://www.nfl.com/draft/2015/profiles/jak...sher?id=2552360 46 - R2P14 DE DANIELLE HUNTER LSU (could be another fast rush OLB) http://www.nfl.com/draft/2015/profiles/dan...nter?id=2552603 75 - R3P11 RB JAY AJAYI BOISE ST (would compete a nice 3…

I am spending some of my weekend researching WR for the draft and I'm wondering why this guy isn't on our radar? 4.35 forty, 45" vertical and he's 6' 2". Clearly he's got the measureables to compete and he's got the one thing we need on offense and that is long speed. I watched some film of him and he looks like a good prospect. http://draftbreakdown.com/video/chris-conl...s-arkansas-2014 At Walter Football he's not even listed among the top 30 WRs. CBS Sports has him as #18 WRs and at DraftTek he's #22. I realize he's not one of the top WR but when we talk about mid to late round prospects I like what he can do better than anything I've seen out of Nelson…

Still waiting on McDonald's and Ball's contracts, but I am impressed that we got Foster on a league minimum deal. Ray McDonald's 1-year contract with #Bears included no guaranteed money. Base value is $1.05M. Another $450K available in incentives. Alan Ball 2015: $1 million signing bonus, $1.95 million base salary, $50,000 workout bonus Total: $3 million Cap figure: $3 million Mason Foster 2015: $80,000 signing bonus, $745,000 base salary Total: $825,000 Cap figure: $665,000 (minimum salary benefit) Ray McDonald 2015: $870,000 base salary, $50,000 roster bonus, $30,000 workout bonus, $100,000 in per-game roster bonuses, $450,000 in not …