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1. That would be awesome, VJack would immediately become one of the best WR's in franchise history 2. That would be awesome, I like Wimbley and he would be a great compliment to Peppers 3. I would like BPA at 19, OL, WR, CB, or DT 4. Redskins seem like an odd destination for Manning. In the NFC, team is not that good, and he would play Eli twice a year.

Ok, his base salary was $10.75 for this year, that entire amount would have been a cap hit. They reduce it to $1.75 million with $9 million as a bonus, still totalling the same amount paid to him. So $1.75 + $9 = $10.75, the same amount. However, they can now apply the $9 million bonus over the remaining 4 years of the contract ($2.25million per year) So this year's cap hit will be: $1.75 Base Salary (new amount) $2.25 Pro-rated Bonus ($9 million spread over 4 years) ------- $4.00 Million Cap hit So they started with a $10.75 million cap hit and reduced it to $4 million, saving $6.75 million in cap space for this year.

I thought this would be interesting to see where people think he is going based on the different situations. Do you think he should do a for-tv special like Lebron an donate proceeds?

I wouldn't say it is significant, normally a couple of million depending on how creative they are on the salaries. If the base for this year is only $1 mill, then the cap hit could be down to $5 with the $4 million applied annually.

Man, I read my post again and I swear I said the same thing, just not in a tabular format, but its cool, at least we are on the same sheet of music.

For Vincent Jackson, he has a few killer stats: 83% of his catches go for a 1st Down, and he only has one fumble in his entire career. Besides the 3 out last 4 years with a 1,000 yards and averaging 18 a catch and 8 TDs.

So you can easily name 9-19 better WR's than Jackson? He may not be in the top 5, but he is definitely in that next group of WR's and I would definitely consider him a top 10 talent at that position.

The $20 million is the signing bonus or "guaranteed money" pro-rated over the life of the contract, thus 20 / 5 = 4.

It depends on what the salary is each year. So they may sign him to a 5/40 with a 20 mil signing bonus. If his salaries were 2, 2, 4, 4, and 8 mil; then the cap hits would be: 6, 6, 8, 8, 12 mil with the bonus or guaranteed money ($4 mil per year) pro-rated over the life of the deal. In reality they are paying him $22 mil this year, but only $6 mil counts against the cap. After that point, they can release him at anytime, but would take a cap hit immediately for the remainder of the bonus that was not yet applied to the cap. So if Forte was released after year 3, they Bears would have a cap hit of $8 mil in year 4 without Forte, but would not incur anything in year 5. So to Forte, he could essentially double or triple his guaranteed money with a new deal compared to the $7.7 he is getting now. A new deal, with creative salaries also could reduce the cap hit for the first few years compared to the franchise value at RB.

I would think we are the most attractive location out of those three for a WR looking to play on a championship caliber team and with a franchise QB. Minnesota and Jacksonville both have question marks at QB and their teams are not really contenders.

Interesting to note that neither Jackson nor Bowe have been hit with the franchise tag yet.

Yes, Colston over Nicks.

I was just thinking of one of the two would be great. Then add someone like Carlson as TE and get a mid-tier FA for the other area of need (OL or WR) that you didn't fill and we would be set for the draft.

https://twitter.com/#/JayGlazer/status/176043156381515776 Wow, what an epic upgrade either of those guys would be.

How much of $7.7 is guaranteed? I am assuming it all is and that would be a 7.7 cap hit this year if they can't work out a long term deal.

They should have to play with 10 players on defense all year.

After the first round, it is a crapshoot to predict the draft. I doubt any of those picks will be correct. It is fun to look at the mocks, but looking back at past mocks, very few got many players right, especially after the first round - and before free agency. At this point, I am just hoping for BPA from a need area for all of our picks and with no injury risk or history (and no reaches or projects).

That would be a great acquisition.

Awesome news and more cap space! Yay! Everyone expects the Bears to be aggressive in Free Agency. Can't wait to see what happens this offseason.

Hopefully higher ticket prices means more spending on Free Agents.

I don't know how feasible that would be. Even if we miss on one of the Tier 1 Free Agents for a #1 WR, I still think we will pick up a WR via FA, but it might only be a #2. Then we draft a WR at #19 as our #1. Drafting two doesn't seem realistic with the other areas we need to address, especially with youth.

There are a bunch of workout warriors that blow up the combine and flop in the NFL. It shows more that he is lazy than anything.

Defensive Linemen Top 10 40-yard Dash Bruce Irvin, West Virginia, 4.50 seconds Shea McClellin, Boise State, 4.63 Nick Perry, USC, 4.64 Ronnell Lewis, Oklahoma, 4.68 Whitney Mercilus, Illinois, 4.68 Andrew Branch, Clemson, 4.70 Quinton Coples, North Carolina, 4.78 Fletcher Cox, Mississippi State, 4.79 Melvin Ingram, South Carolina, 4.79 Oliver Vernon, Miami, 4.80 Top five in three-cone drill Bruce Irvin, West Virginia, 6.70 seconds Melvin Ingram, South Carolina, 6.83 George Bequette, Arkansas, 6.90 Vincent Curry, Marshall, 6.90 Justin Francis, Rutgers, 7.05 Top five in short shuttle Irvin, 4.03 seconds Bequette, 4.07 Ingram, 4.18 Anton Blatnick, Oklahoma State, 4.20 Vaughn Meatoga, Hawaii, 4.21 Top 10 in vertical jump Nick Perry, USC, 38.5 inches Justin Sweezy, North Carolina, 36 Derrick Shelby, Utah, 35.5 Cameron Johnson, Virgina, 35 Chandler Jones, Syracuse, 35 Scott Solomon, Rice, 35 Melvin Ingram, South Carolina, 34.5 Markus Kuhn, North Carolina, 34.5 Kendall Reyes, Connecticut, 34.5 Olivier Vernon, Miami, 34.5 Top 10 in broad jump Perry, 10 feet, 4 inches Solomon, 10-4 Bruce Irvin, West Virginia, 10-3 Vernon, 10-2 Andre Branch, Clemson, 10-0 Jones, 10-0 Jonathan Massaquoi, Troy, 10-0 Shea McClellin, Boise State, 9-10 Whitney Mercilus, Illinois, 9-10 Brandon Lindsey, Pittsburgh, 9-9

40-yard Dash (LBs) Top 10 Marvin Kendricks, California, 4.47 seconds Zach Brown, North Carolina, 4.50 Luke Kuechly, Boston College, 4.58 Demario Davis, Arkansas State, 4.61 Nigel Bradham, Florida State, 4.64 Najee Goode, West Virginia, 4.64 Lavonte David, Nebraska, 4.65 Dont’a Hightower, Alabama, 4.68 James-Michael Johnson, Nevada, 4.68 Ricky Carder, TCU, 4.69 Top five in three-cone drill Nathan Stupar, Penn State, 6.84 seconds Tank Carder, TCU, 6.89 Chris Galippo, USC, 6.90 Luck Kuechly, Boston College, 6.92 Audie Cole, N.C. State, 6.96 Top five in short shuttle Brandon Marshall, Nevada, 4.09 seconds Galippo, 4.10 Kuechly, 4.12 Carder, 4.18 Mychal Kendricks, California, 4.19 Top 10 in vertical jump Marvin Kendricks, California 39.5 inches DeMario Davis, Arkansas State, 38.5 Luke Kuechly, Boston College, 38 Miles Burris, San Diego State, 37.5 Nigel Bradham, Florida State, 37 James-Michael Johnson, Nevada, 37 Tahir Whitehead, Temple, 37 Lavonte David, Nebraska, 36.5 Steven Johnson, Kansas, 36 Travis Lewis, Oklahoma, 36 Top 10 in broad jump Kendricks, 10 feet, 7 inches Davis, 10-4 Johnson, 10-4 Whitehead, 10-4 Kuechly, 10-3 Lewis, 10-2 Bradham, 10-1 Burris, 10-1 Ricky Carder, TCU, 10-1 Keenan Robinson, Texas, 10-0 Kuechly Top 5 in all 5 events.