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I did a little digging and it turns out Howard also deleted all of his high school and college picks. Additionally, the deletions happened 4 days ago (i.e., before he came to Halas Hall on Tuesday). Bottom line, this now feels a lot more like "nothing".

Their was the previous rumors about Landry for Howard. More recently I've seen a lot of fans (more fans) speculating Howard to Colts with our pick to move up for Barkley. In general, it seems like a lot of outsiders think Howard is on the move. I really am a Howard fan so I'd rather we maintain the strength at RB and use our pick to address another need (just my 2 cents). After the Landry reports were out there, I felt like the Chicago media made a strong push that management had zero desire to move Howard and those leaks were coming from the Dolphins (who very much wanted Howard). I think the rub is, people assume Howard isn't a good fit in Nagy's system given some of the limitations in his receiving. All that said, hard to ignore when someone removes all Bear images. Not a good feeling. Maybe its a pure matter of "not feeling the love".

In general, I really don't like idea of us moving up, unless we think Chubb is that guy. I do see the thought for Barkley though, given his pass catching ability, but I think everyone is sleeping on how freaking good Howard is. Howard is putting in work in the catching game and I think we'll see him make improvements there. I do recognize that we will be using the back as a receiver a lot in this system though, but I think our coaching staff is dynamic and creative enough to make it work. What I want more than anything is a monster pass rusher...Chubb could be that guy and if we think he fits the system and can be that guy, I support moving up. Otherwise, I still think we have a lot of needs and I'd accumulate more picks, especially since I tend to think Pace has been a quality picker.

I could very much see a scenario where Pace moves up to grab Chubb or Nelson. I don't think it would be for anyone else, however, I suppose their is always the Barkley wildcard. Pace has proven in the past he isn't afraid to go up and grab his guy.

Bears Sign Earl Watford Solid depth moves. Swing lineman who can play tackle, guard or center. Very nice.

I presume the Buffalo chart is a pretty high trade value that they are giving up vs. what we are giving back (based upon the old Jimmy Johnson draft pick value chart). For the AZ one, while I would do it, I would probably add a future pick on top of that. I'm historically a huge proponent of trading down.

I don't see any scenario that Buffalo gives us scenario 2, but if they would, I would be all over it.

If we get Lorenzo Carter, I will be absolutely stoked. That would be amazing!

He is also a quality special teams player.

Thisi s good. Not too much money and he really is a nice weapon on 3rd down. Really does a nice job on screen / draw plays. I only see us using more of those with Nagy.

Can you send me the clean image. I wasn't able to find it.

I’m confused. Why did the Raiders cut him? I’d be all over him. Like you I never understood the Gould move, but it seems like we finally have a good kicker again. O’Donnell is ok but I think he still has some upside.

Agreed. I like Fitzpatrick a lot because of his fit at safety. My preference is Nelson if he is there. Otherwise top pass rusher or DB. If Nelson isn’t there, I am ok moving down as many as five spots as well because I don’t think there is a major drop off in the linebackers. All of them expected to be there around the bears pick have various strengths and weaknesses. If we want a dB, I do see a distinct drop off after Fitzpatrick and Ward. Jackson from Iowa is good but Fitz and Ward are at another level (prospect wise). Ultimately I think we either move up for Chubb or move down and take another linebacker. This is because I expect Nelson to be gone.

I like this draft a lot. I think Lazard is one of those guys who might not have the speed, but the guy just produced. Knows how to get open and knows how to high point the ball. Ward has shot to be a real playmaker and while we spent money on our 2 primary DB's, its a passing league and injuries, etc. happen, and Ward can cover and looks like the type of guy who will force turnovers.

Alright, the site is officially back online. No more expected outages. Software is on the latest and greatest and I'll send a board note out. Will take a week or two until we can get the color scheme and stuff fixed (so it looks like a Bears site vs. a Raiders site haha).

You should see a button at the bottom, with an arrow that says "go to topic listing" and than another that says "Bearstalk" both of those should take you where you indicate. When we customize the look and feel, we'll see if we can make it bigger with an image.

Tomorrow is when I intend to do the last step of the upgrade. Will likely be down a good part of the day, but I'll have a link up to a temporary board for people to post. Once the new site is up, we'll get back to making this thing look pretty. I'm hoping to add some relevant twitter feeds when you first access the site (on the right hand side) so that there is a good news feed that people can pick up breaking news. If people have other things they'd like to see, let me know.

I'm really really excited. That said, I have to remind myself to taper my expectations. Trubisky is still young and very raw and we are installing a brand new offense, etc. I continue to feel very positive about where the organization is headed long-term and I hope they stick with the plan and make strides. Basically I want to remind myself that most teams/QB's don't experience what the Rams / Jared Goff experienced last year.

Great question. I presume it is still there, but maybe it was deleted. Either way, I'll get a new one set-up. Good to have as a spot in the event of a server outage, etc.

One other thing you all will probably notice is that the forums should work significantly better from mobile devices.

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Wanted everyone to know that with the newer forum software, there are some nuances and the "pretty" design is going to have to get built back. I still have one more step to do, which I plan on doing tomorrow night (one step at a time) and after that, I'll get our logo back up and than will have to rebuild our color scheme, etc (since it doesn't carry over to the new software...unfortunately). The nice thing is, embedding twitter posts, etc, is all feasible in this version (where previously a link would show up).

I really like the idea of Edmunds. I would very much like us moving down a few spots, but that would be dependent on a player another team really wants being there. I don't see Nelson there, so it comes down to a LB or a DB to me. I don't know if we are going to take a DB, but I'm still open to it cause Ward / Fitzpatrick are both excellent prospects and we are in a passing world. Pass rusher would be awesome and I'm totally good with some of the "project OLB"s. I figure if we move down a couple slots, we still likely get a Edmunds / Landry while adding some ammunition. If Nelson is there, I'm picking him...period. I see almost zero scenario where he is there.

Given who we have signed, I don't see Wright being back. I presume they wanted more youth and speed. Inman is still out there as well (I think). Basically we will have a brand new receiving corps for Trubisky...since Meredith and White didn't even play last year. Outside of Meredith (RFA), White, Robinson, and Gabriel...what other wideouts do we currently have on the roster? Anyone other than bellamy?

One quick reminder, we will have one more outage for the final part of our upgrade, I'm expecting it will be today and last up to a day or two. This time our server still be online, so you will see a message with a link that will take you to a temporary forum (while the final part of the upgrade is being made). Thanks again for everyone's patience and again, apologies for how long the site was down (with no comments) the 1st time (not having access to the server for a period of time because of an issue that happened during routine maintenance by our server host) was not fun. To answer a few questions, we do have email contact lists and backups, etc and once everything is fully done, I'll send out a note to our full userbase informing them the site is back-online. Oh how I've missed this place!!! Like others, I tried to read some other forums but man, the rest of them suck. They just aren't like the family we have here.