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That last “bad QB draft” where teams talked themselves into there being starters was 2022 and let’s see how that worked out: 1 (20) Kenny Pickett - Traded 3 (74) Desmond Ridder - Traded 3 (86) Malik Willis - Titans QB3 3 (94) Matt Corral - Birmingham Stallions (UFL) 4 (137) Bailey Zappe - Patriots QB2 5 (144) Sam Howell - Traded

The only thing that doesn't fit is that it's looking like a bad year for QBs in the draft next year. Unless you think Dak or Trevor Lawrence are going to be free agents, or someone unexpected balls out in college, what is the solution at QB if Fields isn't it? Draft picks are great, but if no one will trade you a franchise QB, and the draft isn't great at QB, what do you do?

If there’s one thing this offseason proved once and for all, it’s that there is no such thing as a “Bears insider”. With the exception of the Jaylon extension which Poles straight up said he was working on, not a single one of the Bears moves have leaked before it happened. We should all keep that in mind going forward.

I assume the current plan is to trade down from 9 and take whoever’s left of Turner, Verse, Robinson, or Latu.

I wish Poles would stop going the cheap/wait and see route for DE, since it has not really worked yet (Muhammad, Walker, Ngakoue).

Chase Claypool, Ryan Bates, N’Keal Harry.

Poles building through the draft (picks he trades away for veterans). Don’t get me wrong, I like the move, it’s just funny how he preaches building through the draft and yet so many of his moves involve trading draft picks for veterans.

I think I saw Wonnum signed with the Panthers.

Biggs saying Bears signing Coleman Shelton, so that’s one down . . .

At this point, give me Josh Reynolds at WR, DJ Wonnum at DE, and Coleman Shelton at C. Maybe a body at DT.

Calvin Ridley to the Titans 4/$92m. No way we were coming anywhere close to that. Hopefully the adds by the Falcons and Titans at WR push Nabors/Rome down to the Bears.

https://www.audacy.com/670thescore/sports/chicago-bears/emma-purpose-behind-bears-cautious-plan-in-free-agency Sounds like the Bears were in on Gabe Davis but backed off the price.

At this point, that might be the only logical explanation for the Bears’ decision making . . .

Those two and Nabors could be gone by #9. Plus you can’t count on a rookie to be your #2 WR. If they are, great, but you sure can’t count on it. And your current #2 is Equanimous St. Brown or Tyler Scott.

Barring a Danielle Hunter signing or something, it’s shaping up to be a pretty underwhelming FA haul for the Bears, IMO. Sounds like it’s the Jags or Pats for Ridley. Really needed a potential #2 WR and upgrade at DE, plus maybe someone to compete at C and maybe we get one of those? Maybe? Things can change, but I’m not thrilled.

It’s early, but I’m not thrilled that the Packers and Vikings are both making bigger upgrades than the Bears so far: Vikings - Greenard, Van Ginkel Packers - Jacobs, McKinney Really need to close the deal with Danielle Hunter, IMO.

Yep, I get it. Just worried that this is Miles Sanders 2.0 (Eagles RB looks great behind their O-line, then signs elsewhere for big $ and does nothing).

Signed at 3/$24m. Not sure why is your priority with Herbert and Johnson, but fine.

Feels like we’re going to look back at a saturated safety market and someone is going to sign at a discount rate later in FA we might wish we’d signed over Byard, but if they liked the guy and the fit, then I can’t fault the move (and maybe you can still sign that guy later too?).

Maybe, but on the flip side maybe Bates would have just been released as well.

Seems like not a great look for Poles that the Bills got a 5th round pick from the Bears for their back-up C and then straight up released their starting C . .

Williams' play style looks a lot more like prime Russell Wilson to me than Patrick Mahomes.

Daniels looks just like Fields to me - not sure if would make much sense for the Bears dump Fields for Daniels unless you were convinced his process was either better than Fields coming out or likely to be better than him in the near future.

Here's my Bears QB brain dump: Long story short, I do not envy the decision Ryan Poles has to make. I like Fields the person and like a lot of the things he does on the field, but I can't shake the fact that through pretty much the first half of each of the last two seasons, I thought he was awful. He does appear to be improving, but he's still not making easy decisions and throws that I need to see to make me think he's THE GUY. I definitely see the value in potentially trading the #1 pick and the haul you could get, but the big problem there is the QB class seem VERY shaky next year. So if Fields doesn't make major improvement next year, all that draft capital won't matter because there will be no one worth trading up for. No one's trading a franchise QB no matter how many draft picks you have and you can't just sign one. Sure, someone could break out next year in college football, but it's hard to envision, even with a break out season, that guy being seen as on the Caleb/Drake level. Which is all the more complicated for me because . . . I'm not sure I love the QBs in this draft either. I love the flashes from Caleb and his arm talent is unreal, but, as someone who can admit I wanted no part of Patrick Mahomes when he was coming out, I see the same concerns I had with Mahomes as far as mechanics, holding the ball too long, trying to do too much, etc. Just because Mahomes worked out, doesn't mean that every talented QB with those same concerns is going to be Mahomes. And for Maye I like him OK, and I want to like him more, I just don't feel like I see him drive the ball the way I see, say, Justin Herbert do (since they are often compared). I guess where I end up landing as far as what I THINK I would do is this: (1) Move on from Fields, (2) if you have one QB clearly over another between Williams and Maye, draft that guy, (3) if you think they will both be great NFL QBs, and your grades are very close between the two, and if Washington will really give you (as has been speculated) #2, their second round pick this year, and their first next year for #1, you trade down a spot and take Maye.

The sense I get is that Evan Brown was not very good for the Seahawks last year. Four Seattle Seahawks who should not return in 2024 (12thmanrising.com) We don't need another Lucas Patrick 2.0. In what's a unusually good C FA crop, I'm hoping there are better options. My FA wish list would be something like: -Lloyd Cushenberry, C -Curtis Samuel, WR -One of the young safeties (Kamren Curl, Xavier McKinney) -Za'Darius Smith, DE