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I vote for the Beliceck philosophy. Trade down, trade down, trade down. Accumulate picks and talent and value the mid-round picks. Don't be a fool and get caught on the sexy top end talents, accumulate picks and you'll be able to maneuver all around the draft.

On a sidenote, as I mentioned, be leary of media reports. Well PFT is reporting that 10 of the 12 footballs were under-inflated by 1 PSI (not 2). http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2015/...or-deflategate/

Haha, seems like Brady should have hired my buddy who could have done it within the "rules" and gotten the same results, haha.

I have no way to say that Bostic is solid. He's been better than most of our crap but that is still comparing him to crap. He's been a disappointment and I have been very consistent in that regards. Our entire LB corps has been a disappointment. Undrafted rookie linebacker Christian Jones became our best linebacker by season's end for pete sake. As slow as Briggs looked, prior to going down, there wasn't another player in the LB Corp who was even close to him. Both of those things should tell you all everything you need to know. For whatever reason, this board is too easy on some of our turd players and always so quick to blame coaching, etc. Coaching stunk but I'll call a spade a spade and our LB's were worthless.

Dang, I'd have made that bet when it was -160, haha.

So Alaskan, my buddy actually has a response to your question on the Colts balls and why they didn't deflate. My buddy said you could engineer the balls to have more deflation by inflating them with hot air and ultimately you could set the temperatures of the air and essentially pass your "smog" check if you may and than as a result of using hotter than typical air, see the ball deflate more significantly due to the elements / temperatures (because the balls started with a much higher internal temperature). So in theory, the Pats and Colts could have inflated the balls with air that were different temperatures. Pats could have used air in excess of 100 degrees while Colts used a standard contraption with a standard scenario.

Results stunk and he was in over his head, but he was probably one of the classier guys on the coaching staff and one of the few of the primary coaches whom the players really stood up for and seemingly played hard for. Wish him the best at Bama and hope he can learn from the disaster that happened in Chicago.

It is absurd the NFL didn't figure this out sooner (if it really is a big deal). They should control the footballs, just like the NBA / MLB do too.

And I further note, if it turns out that a Pats employee doctored the balls, than as far as I'm concerned at a minimum, Brady knew about it and orchestrated it. Don't know if Beli did / didn't but at a minimum Brady would have known. No one is messing with the Pats footballs without Brady's blessing.

Welp, looks like I am wrong. http://espn.go.com/boston/nfl/story/_/id/1...e-investigation

We know absolutely nothing of the Colts footballs. Nothing has been reported about them. The Colts footballs were not in question. The Colts football also did not have to be at the same PSI level as the Pats footballs. I don't know those facts nor does anyone else so speculating on them isn't the answer. Here is another article from a reporter from the sun sentinel who did his own, albeit not overly scientific test, which resulted in the football losing 1.95 lb's of pressure. Hell, maybe the Colts footballs were stored somewhere, none of us know as nothing has been reported. Do we know if the league even checked the Colts footballs at half time? http://www.sun-sentinel.com/sports/miami-d...125-column.html

I don't really think so. No focus has been made on the other footballs at all. Part of that is because the NFL has a range of acceptable footballs and no one complained about the other. I think it is highly probably that the footballs lost at least 1 PSI due to the elements (if not more). I have two friends that are physicist who have been blabbing about this for a while that this whole story is a joke. To them it is simple math. I presume some of this will come out when the NFL releases the rest of the evidence. But of course, everyone will have already tarnished the Pats in the court of public opinion because of certain things that leaked out in the investigation (vs. all of the facts).

Science may have a thing or two to say about this. http://dailycaller.com/2015/01/23/physics-...-science-video/

Ernie was an incredible ball player and a great guy. RIP.

Seems like he was once a very bright and up and coming mind. He obviously didn't get the most out of Jake Locker (although I don't know that anyone would have) and he is pretty experienced for a QB coach. Like the hire and I don't see the hiring of the QB coach as pandering to Jay. Jay hasn't been involved in this process at all and I still think that if I'm Fox and Gase, the first thing I do is try and contend with Jay while finding a young QB who you think you can groom. You don't just want to give up your QB and be stuck with pure crap. Very hard to win with pure crap at QB in this league. You can win with Jay. Heck, I was watching the pro bowl highlights and saw Dalton and Stafford playing. In no way are they better than Jay. They are at the very least, equivalents. I know Stafford has put up some big stats in the past but I don't think very highly of him at all.

Big stink about nothing in my eyes.

I got excited when I heard TE coach came from New Orleans. Turned out he was an oline coach their but wonder if he did actually work with the Saints TE's (given the success of Jimmy Graham).

I didn't think Fales really dropped? Wilson doesn't have near the "tools" that Hundley has (not saying Hundley will be a better QB). Hundely was considered a top 10 pick entering the season. He didn't take the steps you'd expect but his tools are very very strong. Hard to compare him and Fales since Fales has hardly any of the major tools you look for in a QB. That isn't to say he won't work out, because the most critical tool is your ability to read defenses, anticipate and make the right throws, but he has a pretty limited overall skill-set in terms of arm strength, etc.

Fairly certain Hundley is going to be a 2nd round QB (possibly as early as late 1st round). Don't think its very realistic that he's going in the 5th. Isn't Crowder also higher rated than a 4th rounder?

Well, Emery would have went the other direction. He'd have looked the other way when the best candidate was staring him in the face (Arians).

http://walterfootball.com/seniorbowl2015rumors3.php

Patrick Willis isn't on that list but with Borland developing and Willis missing most of last season, some reports that the niners are looking to trade Willis. My presumption is it will either be a late round pick for Willis or they'll just outright cut him. If they cut him, given all of our needs, I'd think we'd look at Patrick Willis to help give us a leader as we transition to the 3-4. If we are going to get good fast, we will have to hit on draft picks, but we'll also need to be very good and creative in free agency.

Bernstein is now contradicting his earlier reports and saying that Pace he has heard that Pace has insisted to ownership that Brandon be kept this upcoming season (and be evaluated by the new coaching staff) and that ownership has apparently accepted this decision. While we have had posters on both sides of the fence on Marshall, I think we all have been in 100% agreement that any decision should be made by the Bears new front office and coaching staff and that appears to be the case. W/Gase having the background and fact that decisions have to be made by very beginning of March, we'll know quick, but sounds like B will be around and I presume Jay will be too, which is perfectly fine with me (I trust the new staff to make sure this works better than it did with the past regime(s)).

I completely agree with you. The last thing we should be looking at spending much money on is a RB. We have Forte for at least this year and Carey showed some flashes. Not sure what he is and I'll leave that up to the current regime, but if we do want a RB, we should be using a mid round draft pick on one. This is an extremely deep year in the draft and if we see a talent their that we really like, I have no problem going with that player and giving us a lot more depth. We can't just ignore offense, although we clearly have to be focused on defense and the oline.

Yeah, Marshall has been pretty active lately. Kind of fired up about him. As much as I think he might be chemistry issue I hope he isn't. On the field I love what he does and I also love his freakin work ethic. Its insane. I look forward to starting to hear about Bears offensive players working out on their own, etc, and making us all forget about last year. This is a what have you done for me lately league and this unit has every chance to make us all forget about last year!!!