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I think Caleb and the offense are going to be all right. I dont know how many weeks that is going to take. It might be a bit though. I do worry about the LT and the Pass Rush a lot though. I hope they come through.

he was talking about McCarthy, Williams isnt making his first career start.

LOL I get it. Drives me nuts.

Without having looked at each play multiple times, just by eye on a single viewing, this is what i saw too. Totally agree. I am concerned about the pass rush. Without one, it's not easy to win games, especially against good QBs.

do you think Zah might go on the practice squad first? And after last night Walker has made a good case for himself for sure

Ugh. I know guys were out and we werent scheming, and maybe players didnt care enough about a game that doesnt matter, but our pass rush was atrocious. Braxton looked scary to me at times too. I'm glad Johnson left Caleb in until that last touchdown in the first half. Also great time management at the very end of the game. Johnson knows his situational football. First guy we've had that did in a long time. There is a lot to yell at the players about over the next couple weeks until Minnesota. That's when it matters, and everyone will be in and we will see for real. But man tonight was anything but crisp, and Im telling you, if thats our pass rush, we are screwed this year. Dayo looks like a nose tackle out there. He isnt gonna get pressure.

Ugh. In Phoenix AZ, the game is "blacked out in your area" on NFL Network, so i get to see a replay of it in 3 1/2 hours. I guess i wont read this site until ive seen it for spoilers. Look forward to talking about it with you all when Im caught up.

Very excited to see if the crispness continues.

so it'd be Hippolyte vs Sewell as a starter? Cool. I didnt assume anyone doesnt make the squad, just left the slots open for debate. I dunno if Hippolyte is quite ready for prime time, but he certainly has attributes and will stick around this team one way or another. I think LB is one of only two positions I had two slots open for (safety is the other), and i was just wondering whether Hippolyte would go to the practice squad if he isnt a starter to gain experience before we bring him up - its not a knock on him at all. Thats why I put him where he was.

I think Hyppolite is probably a practice squad guy at first. I agree on Amagadje. I do think that the bottom few spots might be filled by camp cuts from other teams Youre probably right about the 2nd string safeties too, but i kind of feel like there might be more shakeup there than we are expecting.

I agree, and they already picked up another back in Brittain, plus we will pick up some people that are cut by other teams after cut down day too, so the bottom few positions on the 53 are not set

Well if they offered him for free, and he was willing to play for the league minimum, I assume everyone would be 100% on board. So the issue isnt whether hes a good player (hes an incredible player) but what the price would be. So I dont understand everyone rejecting it out of hand - at some price it'd be good, and at another price it'd be fair, and at another price it would be too much. If we had to give a 2nd round pick and he was willing to play for $25M a year, we'd do it in a heartbeat. If they wanted Cole Kmet straight up for him, and he would cost the same as Kmet, then its a no brainer as well. So I think its a little lazy of everyone to just say "no" without wondering what the highest price would be that it would still be a good idea? I agree it probably wont happen so if no one wants to play the game, that's fine, but its a good question, not an easy one. And you can bet Ryan Poles is exploring it too and asking himself the same thing right now.

me too - I want you to see it so we can compare notes.

Ok, so here's my swing at a 53 man roster right now. The ??????? slots will be filled either by guys currently on the roster (in parenthesis) or by grabbing someone else's cast off. All this assuming no trades that take guys from our roster too. So lets talk - did I put anyone on that isnt gonna make the 53? Are any of the guys in parenthesis locks? Closest I see to that is Amagadje, but I left that one open in case anyone wants to promote someone else. 2025 Bears 53 Man Roster QB (2) Caleb WIlliams Tyson Bagent RB (4) D'Andre Swift Kyle Monongai Roschon Johnson ??????? (Brittain Brown, Royce Freeman, Travis Homer, Ian Wheeler) WR (6) Rome Odunze DJ Moore Olamide Zacchaeus Luther Burden Devin Duvernay ??????? (Maurice Alexander, JP Richardson, Samori Toure, Jahdae Walker) OL (10) Joe Thuney Drew Dalman Darnell Right Jonah Jackson Braxton Jones Theo Benedet Ozzy Trapilo Ryan Bates Luke Newman ??????? (Kiran Amagadje, Bill Murray, Jordan McFadden, Doug Kramer, Chris Glaser, Joshua Miles, Ricky Stromberg) TE (3) Colston Loveland Cole Kmet Durham Smythe DL (10) Montez Sweat Grady Jarrett Andrew Billings Dayo Odeyingbo Gervon Dexter Austin Booker Chris WIlliams Shemar Turner Dominique Robinson ??????? (Daniel Hardy, Zacch Pickens, Xavier Carlton, Jonathan Ford, Taroh Kpassagnon, Jamree Kromah) LB (5) Tremaine Edmunds TJ Edwards Noah Sewell ??????? ??????? (Ruben Hyppolite, Amen Ogbongbemiga, Swayze Bozeman, Power Echols, Carl Jones) S (4) Kevin Byard Jaquan Brisker ??????? ??????? (Elijah Hicks, Jonathan Owens, Alex Cook, Millard Bradford, Tysheem Johnson, Mark Perry, CB (6) Jaylon Johnson Kyler Gordon Tyrique Stevenson Nashon Wright Josh Blackwell ??????? (Tre Flowers, Zah Frazier, Mekhi Garner, Kaleb Hayes, Nick McCloud, Jeremiah Walker) ST (3) Cairo Santos Tory Taylor Scott Daly Some Practice Squad guesses, many of which could make the 53: Kiran Amagadje JP Richardson Jordan McFadden Ruben Hyppolite Zah Frasier Austin Reed

too bad, but i guess in-game is preferred for the last preseason game. At least we get to see it for ourselves against 1st stringers.

Micah Parsons scrubbed his social media of all mention of the Cowboys today. Having both available in this late market will drive the price of each down.

Did we have a scrimmage with the Chiefs yesterday? I havent seen anything about it so i assume we didnt but i wonder why.

he was always good. Im shocked he didnt get drafted. He has NCAA all time records that would stand at any level, but he played at a AA school or something like that.

I agree it probably wont happen.

It depends what you get back int he trade, not trying to get rid of him. But if you get enough, its always worth it.

I would trade Kmet straight up for Hendrickson - I assume anyone would. Doesnt mean Kmet is bad. But GMs do not get fired for signing guys who have 17 1/2 sacks each of the last two years. They get praise for that. And we can always find the cap room for a star like that - especially with the QB on a rookie deal. Remember the cap always goes up. The down side is that Hendrickson is 30. If he was 26, like Parsons, it'd be a no brainer.

Its just rumors. I was asking hypothetically, since the 1st is off the table. I thought it had been credibly reported, because I heard it from my Dad, but he says it wasnt a news report just something online. So a whole bunch of nothing here. If he was 26 itd be almost a no brainer. But as it is, i think that would be an even trade, so people could successfully argue either side of it. You can always make cap room for a superstar, and its not like trading Kmet away for nothing. A top of the league pass rusher with 17 sacks is worth more than Kmet, even as I agree that Kmet has value for us. But like I siad, either side makes sense, there is no dumb answer to this one.

So I guess the Bengals are asking a lower price now for Trey Hendrickson. Now they want Cole Kmet, a 2nd and a 4th. Hendrickson is a hell of a player, but he is 30, this isnt the same as Micah Parson. And the asking price is lower. I'm not sure what I'd do right now. It seems a pretty even trade, so it can be argued both ways I think.

me too Ive always thought he had starter potential in this league.

very good for us. on most teams when the QB goes down, even for a few weeks, the season is in jeopardy. Having a quality backup is a fantastic thing to have.