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well Id just called him out too LOL so both of us were wrong LOL

Bagent seems to be heating up now. Looking much better!

Agree about Bush. Gallimore and Van Der Berg looking pretty good. Muhammad not looking lost out there, and Thienemen showing speed and around the ball. WIlls with a bad pressure, and Bagent not looking like someone would trade for him. Its early.

I should amend, and acknowledge the all rookie team Mongo mentioned. He was and is a very good run blocker. The tape I saw was of his pass protection issues, and it was really really bad. That doesnt mean he's still bad. He was great in college, and now he has Roushar and not the Browns. But i want to see it on the field before i can "believe" it - doesnt mean I know he will be bad, just that I dont want to crown him when the last snaps I saw from him were so bad? I want to see him be great on tape, and then ill happily jump on the bandwagon!

We still have some roster holes, but we also have a lot of places where we have great depth too. I cant wait to see it on the field. Lets GO.

Wills has a prototypical body and great college tape. The only thing is, he didnt just get injured, he was putting up AWFUL tape in Cleveland before he got injured. But hes young, and he has an excellent coaching staff around him. Could he become great? Sure of course. But i want to see it with my own eyes first, because his previous NFL snaps were atrocious. I could imagine any outcome for him now; greatness, inconsistent or terrible. Cant wait to see him in action.

Bagent is a good QB. He will get a chance to start somewhere, and before that he will be an excellent backup if we have need of him (hopefully not!) I just hope we get some high draft value for him when we do trade him?

Between Webb, Charles Leno, and Braxton Jones, we sure have had some cringe moments from the LT position!

right - hes clearly got the body, his college film is great. But the narrative is that he got injured, but the truth is that he was flaming out before that. I saw some REALLY ugly Cleveland game tape on him. But hes young, and has the tools. It's not impossible for Roushar to find the dog in him again. But we are hearing he is inconsistent in camp too. Hes young, hes learning, but do we trust Caleb's blindside to him? Hard to say. Im rooting for him, but most reclamation LT projects dont work out. Then again, hes got the best possible coaching. Here's hoping...

for sure. It feels like we are going to be dangerous this year, but more of a complete roster next year. I really wish we'd done more at DE. Yeah, maybe we will get him back in time for the playoffs?

Injuries are part of it. It sucks because we've never seen Bryant as a Bear, but it has to be next man up. Let's hope Xavier Woods has the goods.

i guess Thayer said today that he likes Wills out of the current crop of LTs. If he's better than Benedet, it's fine with me. As long as it isnt Braxton Jones.

OK so here's some actual positive news about Trapilo. Poles saying a training camp return is possible definitely puts his timeline ahead of expectations. Even if he isnt back for camp, the fact that that's a possibility says a lot. https://x.com/HogeAndJahns/status/2087223937868423616

For sure, I think there IS something amazing going on, and i think it starts with Ben Johnson. He's been drafting differently than a lot of us (myself included) have been able to predict, but he's added true talent to the team in early and late rounds both. The future sure looks bright.

this is it. and I even get it. how can someone truly keep their finger on the pulse of like 80 teams in pro sports? narratives and shortcuts stand in for insight. But if you watch a team closely, and especially if you watch tape of the game after the game is over from the end zone angle, when you can rewind and watch again on certain plays, then you can start to say you know a team. If all i do is watch the game, Im watching the ball, the score etc, it's hard to focus on on what just a WR who didnt get the ball is doing, or what pulled a safety away from a spot etc. So i understand why the media machine is the way it is, but I dont understand believing it. So many of the Chicago blogsters and sportswriters are narrative guys. I truly wonder if they even watch the Bears game more than just the once while it was live?

I think that was what we were thinking a month ago as you said, so not earlier than expected. I hate stuff like that, especially when I am so thirsty about the LT anyway. I'd LOVE to hear something about Trapilo! Wannstedt had good things to say about Wills today, and he WAS a top ten first round pick with great college tape, but he flamed out in Cleveland before he even got injured. Hes interesting for sure, because hes raw, hungry, talented, and Roushar (and Armstead) are working with him. So cool. But I'll believe it when I see it because his last few weeks of NFL snaps in Cleveland 2 years ago were very ugly. I still think one way or another it's not gonna be Braxton, because I know who that guy is. And it's just not good enough.

right. hell I'd even take it more seriously if he added a line about WHY he thinks that! Like a "sources say" I mean that could still be a lie, but without even that the other media people echoing it "Breer reported that" it's just nonsense.

This is a perfect example of media narratives. And dont get me wrong, if you read my comments about the LT situation, more than anyone here, I want Trapillo back! But one guy (Breer) says one line buried in an article about something else, and everyone goes nuts. If he had any new info, that would have been included because it would bring clicks and eyeballs. Instead, my GUESS is that he was commenting on the picture from last month of his working out without a knee brace on. And he was working on upper body in the picture. So now this one comment blows up into a narrative, repeated by other writers, and then by people on this board. And there is literally NO new information. This is why repeating media narratives is so dumb. There's nothing there. Nothing happened. The subject is one we are all dying for information about, so any comment becomes something to talk about, when there is literally nothing there.

I dont mean arguing like fighting, I mean youre making a case. a logical argument.

I know he isnt but based on last years performance I still think he is the floor. I agree that isnt the common wisdom right now, just my opinion. Its possible that we would have to move Thuney to LT. We do have options are OG. Again, not predicting it, but i know its one of the doomsday scenarios?

I hope so. I tend to think Benedet is the floor. I dont trust Braxton or Wills until I see it with my own eyes. I can understand the logic that we will get the best out of guys because of Roushar and the coaching, but i dont really know what the best of Braxton or Wills is? Or Amagadje? Obviously I havent had private views of these guys during the offseason, so our staff knows more than we do, but I still think we have a hole at OT, and that Benedet is the floor. Maybe Wills will revitalize and shock me - it's possible - but i have no real reason to bet on that? So I think it's Benedet or even Decker. Id love to be wrong about this.

but youre assuming one of them will be better than average? I could take 5o people with crutches, race them, and the fastest one still isnt going to win any track and field events? Youre kinda arguing that if you have more guys, and a good eye that creates a good player, and Im just saying that doesnt make any sense to me.

I dont understand this logic at all. You can only play one of them at a time, they dont add together into one super player.

yep

I dunno if having a lot of options at LT is necessarily a good thing? I mean it's better than having no options of course, but dont you want one player to just take the job by outplaying everyone else? If you have 3 similar LTs, it probably means you have no LT? Looking forward to seeing them with pads on hitting people!