Nichols signs for $5.5 AAV. Terrible deal for him, great for the Raiders. This basically ends up as a one year deal worth $9M.

Lucas Patrick had more snaps than Glowinski and Karras at cost half the price of Daniels. He played with Getsy, so he can immediately come in and assist the rest of the line on the protections and calls. 

Another name to watch is Billy Turner, who was cut by the Packers and wouldn't count against comp pick formula.

Teams have now signed Daniels, Nichols, and Grant, but Ogunjobi negates the Daniels one. Still have ARob, Hicks, Goldman, Dalton to sign elsewhere.

7 hours ago, BearFan PHX said:

I think, since they are going back to a Tampa 2, that one of these two speedsters will play the Urlacher rangy middle linebacker. And together they will be great in nickel.

I read somewhere that Morrow started out as a safety for the Raiders.  Sounds a lot like Urlacher in that regard. Watching film on him shows he’s a pretty rangy player who doesn’t mind contact.  Roquan is an excellent lateral player (x axis) and Morrow seems to do better on the ‘y axis’.  Will be fun to see them playing together. 

Already posted elsewhere.

LS Patrick Scales resigned and this from Brad Biggs…

 

A ton of cuts coming in. Those guys would not count against the comp pick formula. 

I can see Poles targeting those guys. Some big names.

Is Poles taking a nap while everyone else is getting snatched up in UFA? 

5 minutes ago, McGowan said:

Is Poles taking a nap while everyone else is getting snatched up in UFA? 

Nah, letting the market cool off. There are still a lot of players left. Poles said he was going after Wave 2 and 3.  Teams are releasing a lot of players as well. 

Any interest here?  On a ‘team friendly’ deal if it can be done? Some say he’s got nothing left.  I suppose it would be “six one, half dozen the other” between he or ARob.  
 

 

Yea I'd rather Julio than most of our options besides the draft 

12 minutes ago, Alaskan Grizzly said:

Any interest here?  On a ‘team friendly’ deal if it can be done? Some say he’s got nothing left.  I suppose it would be “six one, half dozen the other” between he or ARob.  
 

 

Julio used to be a monster.  Can he stay healthy though?  If he can, it might be worth a shot.  My guess is that he wants to go somewhere he can win for less money...

I don't imagine him wanting to come here though. We have nothing to offer him but money. 

In other not so shocking news.  For what it’s worth, I appreciated the time he was here.  Great teammate, great leader, Great Bear:  

 

Burns joining Coach Desai in Seattle. 

 

1 hour ago, Mongo3451 said:

Julio used to be a monster.  Can he stay healthy though?  If he can, it might be worth a shot.  My guess is that he wants to go somewhere he can win for less money...

If he takes a 1 year 6 mil  contract, absolutely. I think A J Green would be more productive.

The only way we'd get him would be to overpay for him. 

No free agent is going to be like yea, let me go freeze my ass off in Chicago to lose.

I believe that, we as bear fans, need to remove the thought process of thinking that any free agent will accept a prove it deal from us when were unable to prove anything as an organization.

We either pay to play or draft. Nobody is coming here for the hell of it.

Its always about the money, unless it's like Akin Hicks came back because he wanted to finish his career here. Wouldn't happen, bad example.

6 minutes ago, killakrzydav said:

We either pay to play or draft. Nobody is coming here for the hell of it.

I suppose it all depends on the market and whether they think Chicago is a contender. Don’t know anyone who picked the Bengals to be in the Super Bowl this last year.  It also might come down to how invested the team might be in actually getting him (although at this point common logic suggests Jones probably wouldn’t reciprocate).  Right now TB is probably in the drivers seat (with the return of Brady) or even GB if they can’t make Adams happy.  For what it’s worth our recently acquired RB from Tennessee has weighed in:  

 

I think they're trying to get JuJu and MVS. 

Who's mvs?

21 minutes ago, killakrzydav said:

Who's mvs?

Marquez Valdes-Scantling GB WR

If he is a cheap 4th, why not.  He never was much in GB despite the speed.  I would rather have Lazzard to be honest.

Oh he's crap in my opinion. If Aaron can't make him something, I'm not betting he'll ever be much.