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Mike Mayock is raving about him. Said he was shooting up the draft boards and they talk about how he is just a big tackler and gets in the middle of everything. Was an OLB up until this past season. 1st team All American in the Pac 10 last year. And since I like Mayock, I'll support the player, not the need. Of course, we've needed safeties forever so its nice that we are finally addressing the position the past 2 drafts.

Bears draft a safety from Cal. Personally, I'm puzzled but my guess is we don't think Manning is coming back. I haven't heard any commentary yet on our pick. Still, I had other needs on our list that I would have opted for before taking this guy.

Your speil is getting old.

You know what, I"d be quite fine with Ballard. I know he had that drug test show up, but as a Hawkeye fan I have always thought Ballard was pretty underrated and that he'll be a solid starting DT.

Outside of the first two WR's, most of the WR's in this draft were extremely flawed. And DT and OT were far more pressing needs. I'm exstatic at what we did so far.

Hankerson is off the boards. Now I'm pretty convinced we go guard, DE or CB. And I'd be fine with any of those. Also, could opt to trade down to get that 4th back.

IF we got Hankerson on top of all this, wow, I'd be exstatic.

He wasn't just a beast in the weight room. He was the defensive player of the year in the pac 10 and forced 8 fumbles in the last 2 years for a mediocre OSU team.

The 4th rounder we were supposed to trade to Baltimore.

I like it.

Dang. I'm guessing when Austin went off the board, the Bears decided they had to get there DT and move up. Great move, this makes sense.

Here comes Paea or Hankerson, imo.

The thing is, the teams that are passing on him, are passing on him for the same reason so if they don't think he can play, they wouldn't take him at 10 or 40. Eventually some team isn't going to be as concerned and say, screw it, but its just hard to potentially throw away a draft pick, when your medical people are telling you there is a better than not chance that medical problems prevent him from ever being the same player. And it isn't like is upside is a 15 sack end. He's probably a 7 to 9 sack good all around end. Which is fantastic and next to Peppers would be phenomenal but I think of him as a little better version of Alex Brown. Great to have, yes, but if Austin is on the board who is a first round talent and healthy, I'm going with Austin. However, I won't gripe if we get Bowers in rnd 2. But if he ends up never being able to play, I guarantee a ton of Bears fans will say, what was Angelo doing, he should have known.

The Lions are heading in the right direction now that Millen is gone. They are doing some good things, imo. Although I am not in love with that wideout pick they just made.

They do have a ton of weapons for whomever the QB is. But it didn't seem like a position of need at all. I guess though with garbage at wideout they figured they'd add a 2nd TE, which might not be bad, cause both are decent enough blockers and they'll probably run the ball a ton with Apete and than use a lot of play action to those blocking TE's, both of which are legit pass threats.

Lions could take a chance at putting together a hell of a line if everything panned out.

Little probably goes before the Bears pick. However, I'd be able to get behind Bowers at 62. The thing is, doctors have said there is a good shot he doesn't do anything in the NFL due to injury concerns and that is a pretty serious medical red flag. I also wouldn't be shocked if Bowers is there. Austin and some of the other guys we've thrown out, highly unlikely. But I'd rather take a character red flag on our dline than a medical red flag so if both Austin and Bowers are there, I'm taking Austin. I say that because there isn't a dline coach I'd rather work with a character red flag than Mr. Marinelli.

Ok, I like it even more. IF he's a natural LT that would be phenomenal.

If Cutler really said that, hillarious, haha.

Austin is not going to fall all the way to our 3rd round pick. No way, no how.

Sure, he had an off the field incident, but the guy can produce and is probably a much better fit in Martz offense than Rice. I'm calling it now, Bears will sign Santonio Holmes!

I'll at least give JA credit for handling it classy, but man, those two guys that didn't make that phone call are idiots. And quite frankly, it just seems like a horribly unlucky sequence of events, but who knows. For now, I'll ignore it, but it could have been a complete and utter disaster where we ended up not getting our guy. Chiefs grab him and we are shit out of luck. It does say something to me that we liked him that much that we would move up though.

Wow, after seeing this stuff this morning, sounds like it was a pretty bad goof by the Bears. I'd be ok if they decided to move there 4th rounder to move up in the 2nd round as a way to save "face". I'm happy either way. We got our guy Carimi.

A couple years back the Ravens did the same thing to the Vikings and here is the quote from the Ravens GM: "The deal was not consummated," general manager Ozzie Newsome said at Baltimore's headquarters. "A deal is not a deal until I talk to Joel Bussert, and I never talked to Joel Bussert."

Pea or Austin (I really want Austin cause I buy into Marinelli working with him) would look awful nice. And I wouldn't be completely stunned if Bowers was still around when we pick. His injury sounds really bad.