CrackerDog

No surprise there. I'll be flipping back and forth between NFL Network, ESPN and the Blackhawks game. Going to be a fun night! EDIT: My bad, Hawks play tomorrow. That'll make it easier on me!

I'm never real comfortable with when the "experts" say this is a deep draft, shallow draft, etc. Hell man, nobody knows! You could turn out to be totally right. Hopefully a "sure thing" slips to 14 and makes it easy on Emery.

Me neither but this is precisely the scenario I was trying to use as an example yesterday. If all three are still there and we can get something significant and still get one of them (assuming Emery rates them like we do which was your point) then we should move down.

There's no doubt this would be awesome but it'll never happen. It could embarrass GM's and coaches and also give away too much as to how decisions are made. I'd buy the Bears DVD for this every year but then again, so would the Packers!

Agree.

#3 above was your best line, ever, until #4. Couldn't agree more with you on that. Seems like every year they'd take some 5-7 douchebag from MIT or some shit.

I guess I mean conventional wisdom to use your term. If we pick a player at a position and it feels like it's a big reach (player would've been available later) or if there are several guys at the same position who are equal value to a number of others, I always feel like we should get something if we can. There was some talk about this on Long and Shea was clearly a reach. Long likely would've been gone but who knows? In any case, just because the Bears don't agree with my assessment of the situation doesn't mean I won't initially be "mad" about my perception that they didn't maximize their draft slot.

You put Matthews on this line Jay has 5 seconds to survey the field and Forte runs and catches for 3,000 yards. Who needs a defense! I think we go safety in the first but who the hell knows.

Dude, you're killing me. I let it go before but in this post alone you used the word "valve" three times when you meant value. Please stop doing that.

I'll be mad if there's 4 or 5 guys we like fairly evenly when our pick comes up and we don't drop back 3 or 4 picks and pick up a 4th or 5th rounder for doing so.

Hub's a ferkin' moron but I can almost see this being the Emery WTF moment of this year... Going offense in the first round. It will certainly get a reaction on this board!

I think if we could predict the WTF moment it wouldn't be much of a WTF moment. But I can almost guarantee you it's going to happen. Emery follows his own rules and doesn't seem to take any of the national media rankings into account. So far that's produced both good and bad results although Shea is still an "incomplete" in the grade book, at least as far as the team is concerned. I'm hopeful he's solid at LB but I'm not holding my breath. Anyway, his WTF moment will come in the seconnd round this year, not the first. That's all I'm willing to commit to.

Interesting. I still doubt what you say is true but it sure does tell us something when we're dead last. I'm sure the transition of GM's has a bit to do with it though as the new guy feels no loyalty to the old guy's picks, so he's able to "move on" a little easier. But with that said, we can all agree Angelo left this team in sorry shape, particularly in the OL. His first round picks were gawd damn brutal overall which is when you ought to hit at a much higher level. Of course Emery is only one out of two so far in the first round and many here whined about Long when he was taken.

Amen brother.

Could also be our DC sucks and Lovie was able to hold things together while he wasn't. Although the significant injuries certainly didn't help.

What a dick

Yes. Dude could be a stud.

I had to break my own rule and look it up because I thought it was double digits too. He was drafted in the 8th round which obviously doesn't currently exist. It just goes to show you how important those UDFA pickups could potentially be. Although I think scouting is so much more advanced now that the best 100 players are probably gone in the first 150 picks. Obviously Tom Brady and dozens of other examples show that not to be 100% true but I think teams are better prepared, in general, to get to the best talent quickly.

Couldn't agree more.

Ha! Old school? Didn't they used to go like 30 rounds? Trivia Question: What round was Richard Dent drafted in? Don't look it up!

No surprise there. I liked it better as an "event" because one of our group was a Vikings fan and there were 2 years in a row when they busted on getting their first pick up to the podium in time. You just can't buy that kind of entertainment! I miss Tice...

I think I've mentioned this in the past too. The NFL has really screwed up. Making this a prime time event may draw them extra cash but I seriously doubt it's made their fans happier. What do you guys think? I used to have a Saturday party with multiple buddies coming over, shrimp on the BBQ, ribs, beer... It was an all day affair! A real tradition to kick off the start of spring. Now the first round is being held on the ferkin' Thursday night! Idiots. Some things are best left alone.

You're forgetting Alex Brown. He's definitely a recent "success story" from Florida.

LOL! Do you pretend to be the Bears GM in the dark corners of your lonely apartment? Dude, I'm just giving you shit. I certainly don't hate you. You're just a football geek with a huge ego. No biggie. As to JA and others, I'll just point to results. His efforts put a team in the Superbowl reasonably quickly. You can point to failures and say he built on what was already there but so did the fatman running the Bulls. You have to take the good with the bad with any of these guys and I'm just more willing to give them the benefit of the doubt than you are. I'm not as cock-sure of myself like you are when it comes to football. I'm sure that dark corner of your apartment is your favorite place. Peace dude.

That is odd. And it's their expert's rankings per the little ? at the top of the column.