The Ben Johnson Effect

[ASHKUM BEAR]

1 hour ago, Mongo3451 said:

I get you.  There's always something you hope for, but sometimes have to get best available. Loveland was the guy.  He seems like he's going to be a difference maker.

After I seen Ben rubbing his hands together with an evil grin, I said he has something good brewing with Loveland

 

[Stinger226]

4 hours ago, ASHKUM BEAR said:

What if there isn't any D penetrators worth the value of the pick? That's all im saying. Like the LTs were gone, so TE it was.

We get sucked into our major needs, like LT last year, and take a #2 TE who most draft experts had behind Warren.  Among our board, TE wasn't mentioned much or at all. That is why I would not bet.

I have DT/DE as my target when doing mocks.  Read the profiles over and over. The algorithm always has the edges gone but boat loads of QBs.

There's always someone to draft. What the experts may rate as the best may not be. In a redraft, where are teams picking Monangai? Newman looks like he could have been a first year starting OG in the NFL but we picked up top flight players there. He was a 5 th round pick. They will find players. Booker, Turner will be better. 

[ASHKUM BEAR]

15 hours ago, Stinger226 said:

There's always someone to draft. What the experts may rate as the best may not be. In a redraft, where are teams picking Monangai? Newman looks like he could have been a first year starting OG in the NFL but we picked up top flight players there. He was a 5 th round pick. They will find players. Booker, Turner will be better. 

All I am saying is everyone that says it is a guarantee the Bears will draft a RD1  DL/DT should keep an open mind. Odds are good that happens but locking it in, never from me.

[BearFan PHX]

1 hour ago, ASHKUM BEAR said:

All I am saying is everyone that says it is a guarantee the Bears will draft a RD1  DL/DT should keep an open mind. Odds are good that happens but locking it in, never from me.

I take you to mean that you agree thats our biggest need, but if there is a run on D linemen, and the available players are very substandard for the pick, and some other amazing player is there, we might not pick the D lineman. It's a fair point, with TE instead of OT as one example last year, and Burden as another.

Another answer might be to trade down in that scenario.

Also, every year the team fills holes with free agents before the draft. Some are starter level some are semi starter level, but you never want to go into the draft with hard needs for the reason you just said.

And if that free agent is someone significant, it makes the need to get a starter ready player less, and you can find guys to develop.

But one way or another, we are not just gonna shift some bodies around on the D line and go with the same faces as some might say. I believe this is the thing standing between us and a Superbowl (unless we just do it this year anyway LOL) we NEED a pass rush, and you know Johnson knows it too.

Theyre gonna do something major, they kind of have to, and if that in turn may cause them to trade players Like Jaylon Johnson, Tremaine Edmunds and/or DJ Moore, that might have to happen. It's not that those players are terrible, not at all, its just we have to get some dollars and picks on that D line because they guys we have now are just not anywhere near good enough. not for where the rest of this team is headed.