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Forte looks real good. The only legitimate knock you could say is that he tends to run a little more upright than you would like, but he did a lot of his running in between the tackles and that is a big plus (because that happens more in the NFL). He also looked to have good speed and vision (he really found the cut back lines a lot). I like the pick, I like it a lot. I could have went with Mendy, but let me ask people this. Would you rather have Mendy and the best tackle available with the 2nd round pick (and remember, the run of tackles pretty much had all the top tier of tackles gone when pick #44 came around) or Chris Williams & Forte.

Hill is a good fit. He will come in with little pressure and compete and be given ample time to sit on the bench. He isn't as experienced as some or as polished as some but he has all the physical tools necessary to be a successful NFL QB. Given a lot of the guys out there, I like Hill more than a decent chunk of QB's who got drafted. That said there is no guarantee Hill makes the roster, but I believe they will keep him.

I wish I was in the chatroom more for the 2nd day (too busy being royally hungover) but it was a lot of fun being in there when I was discussing Bears football with everyone. Better yet the Bears look to have done a real nice job bringing in some good football players that can stablize the franchise and turn last year into a minor bump in the road to numerous superbowl championships during the Lovie/JA era.

Personally speaking I'll take the wins at the end of the season. While I know those wins don't get a team to the playoffs, it was a strong way to finish the season. Orton looked like a guy who may have a future and the defense appeared to awaken from hibernation. I think that sort of performance was exactly what the Bears needed to get some of the bad tastes in there mouths from what was one of the most dissapointing seasons in franchise history (given the high expectations). Angelo has done a tremendous job this season, he's been smart with the cap and while the only move I'd possibly criticize was his lack of using the franchise tag on Bernard Berrian (as I think it would have been nice to keep him here one more season as I want the Bears to surround there QB's with as much talent as possible). Angelo also had what I deemed to be a tremendous draft. Of course that is my initial grade and the reality is whether he got an F now or an A now from the experts the real grades come over the course of the next few seasons (you know, when the players actually take the field and PLAY).

Good stuff, lith. I'll have that up later today.

Hey Madlith...I would have responded to your PM but for whatever reason my internet isn't letting me type anything into the compose box, but I wanted to say I got your piece this morning and really enjoyed it. Will get it up on the front page by the afternoon.

I'll try to write Cubs stories until we can find a few people interested in writing on the Cubs (I also got to do what I can to get that forum more active).

I won't be done with it for a couple days (been busy working on some stuff for work as well as writing for the blog).

http://www.talkchicagosports.com/blog/?p=22 There is my analyst on the selection (including the rammifications of such pick). Forte is big, strong and fast. I love this pick.

I LOVE THIS PICK.

I'm guessing Henne.

Wow...Chris Johnson...didn't see that one coming.

Mendy to Pitt. That or someone traded with Pitt. Either way Mendy is going right here.

Lions took a RT. I think he'll be solid, but I was shocked they passed on Mendy. I'm really thrilled with this pick by the Bears. Williams will be either a rock solid LT or a stud RT, imo. He's a strong technical blocker and I hope the Bears will get him on a good strength program (if you can add a bit of muscle the right way to him, you are talking about a guy that could be a probowl LT as well).

With Mendy falling, does Dallas take him instead of Jones (meaning Jones could slide into the 2nd and if he slides into there, I swear the Bears should move up).

Man, I absolutely love this pick. I really really like it. Chris Williams....Welcome to Chicago!!!

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I love the draft. This new time format (10 minutes) is so much better....so much better. Makes everything happen quicker. I do wish they stuck to doing it a little early on Saturday and going with 3 rounds today and 4 tomorrow.

I haven't created one. I got some stuff to do for work but I'll try to get something done shortly (it won't be fancy but I'll just paste everything into excel or something.

Oh no worries. I'm happy to take any pick sheets up until draft time (which obviously is past). I'll use the new one for you BearSox.

Time to play some basketball so I can get my exercise in for the day. See ya guys around draft time...god I hope we rebuild that oline, find a RB, and find a WR. Man would that be sweet.

I'd say right now we are at 10, although I got two more this morning so that could push us to twelve. I wish I posted this sooner.

Also, to make things fair since I'm technically submitting picks for this contest, I figure I should post mine for ethic purposes (don't recommend anyone referencing it because as on top of this draft as I thought I was, I really started struggling the further down I got...mock drafts are hard). 1 Jake Long 2 Chris Long 3 Glenn Dorsey 4 Darren McFadden 5 Vernon Gholston 6 Matt Ryan 7 Keith Rivers 8 Leodis McCelvin 9 Sedrick Ellis 10 Dominuqe Rodgers-Cromartie 11 Devin Thomas 12 Ryan Clady 13 Derrick Harvey 14 Brandon Albert 15 Mike Jenkins 16 Rashard Mendenhall 17 Jeff Otah 18 Aquib Kalib 19 Chris Williams 20 Kenny Phillips 21 Phillip Merley 22 Felix Jones 23 Jerad Mayo 24 Jonathan Stewart 25 Desean Jackson 26 Kentwan Balder 27 Gosder Cheridilus 28 Brandon Flowers 29 Malcom Kelly 30 Antwoine Cason 31 Sam Baker

If any of us get more than 10 picks accurate in the first round...I will send there resume's to ESPN so we can get an analyst on the site who not only knows the draft but can always give us good analysis of the Bears For some reason I see someone having just an amazing pick sheet this draft (like some ridiculous number like 14 or 15 right).

Crap, I did mine and Albert/Mendenhall/Williams were all still on the board at my pick (It ended up having things work out real nice for the Chiefs who landed a stud DE and a stud tackle in my book). I ended up going with the guy I like the most of them and that is Albert (because I feel at best he turns into a damn good tackle, but if that doesn't work out, you are talking about a game changing just stud at the guard position (in fact I'd have no problem going Albert and than Baker....although I have Baker going off the board to the Giants).