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This sucks - Luis - wish you nothing but an awesome recovery. Need Vaughn and Abreu to really click and club clearly has a move to make in the next month (I don't think they need to panic out of the gate - but they need to find a bat). The good part is - there should be options as we get into June...probably a lot harder to solve in May.

Yeah - he was a good dude and a great value pick who quite honestly got as much as he could out of his god given ability (IMO).

Calhoun from Dbacks would seem to be a pretty decent option - if the Dbacks fall out of contention. Right now still 2 games over .500.

As long as it isn't career threatening - that is all I care about. IF he misses the season, so be it - that is the way the cookie crumbled and this team is still good enough to get into the playoffs - but maybe the upside for the season is limited. It happens. That said - maybe its a 2 month injury and that buys time that their July deadline includes adding a Robert/Jimenez type player in August with time for rust to come off. It sucks - and right now I am just going to hope for all the best. This will put a lot more pressure on the rotation and pen though. Lets not forget - entering yesterday Sox had 5th best winning percentage in all of baseball and 2nd best run differential. This is still a real good team - although I tend to think Robert was their best player - so losing your best player hurts. The club also has flexibility - so lets not pretend that come June they can't make another move (maybe sooner - although i tend to think its hard to do this early, in general).

I presume this is more - we are invested in Jenkins and at the same time done investing any more in Leno. I presume we see them bring in a bridge guy / depth free agent, but right now - in this case, I think Bears are saying - we want to give you every chance to show us you can be our LT. With Leno - best thing I could always say about him was - he was an excellent 7th round pick, he largely was on the field (pretty healthy in general) and he was okay. He wasn't great - nor was he ever going to be, but more often than not he was okay. That "okay" started to go on the downside 2 years ago and he's just too penalty prone with no upside left. Felt this was the Bears saying - I'm not investing in this now. Quite frankly - the person at biggest risk for this rush is Dalton, who will live with some of the first handful of week growing pains from Tevin. Lets hope Bears got it right with Tevin. I also suspect Bears plan to run the ball more - and Leno was usually pretty crappy at best as a run blocker.

He is raw. He is timid on the court - but when he flashes aggressiveness he shows you what could be a pretty good player down the road. He is by far their best upside guy. That doesn't mean he will be good though. But he has flashed the fact that he could have a pretty darn good all around game as he develops. Solid touch, good athlete, ability to defense, etc. Donovan never even called plays for him up until this past week - which is kind of crazy given that his timidness has been one of his HUGE weaknesses out there.

Is he designed June cut or did they just do it immediately? I guess at one of the press conferences over the weekend - Pace basically completely ignored a question on Leno...I guess we know why. This could also mean Bears are looking at adding a vet like Fisher or someone else too. I presume Nagy is pretty familiar with him.

I am starting to wonder - would it have been better to more slowly expand age groups (opposite of what I thought) - but does a perceived "scarcity" put more demand for people to jump at vaccine? Hopefully we can start moving the needle on those that are resistant. We still should be at a pretty damn good rate (relatively speaking) by the end of May. Cases continue to drop in my area and I believe largely across the country. In my area (150K city) - it has been 6, 4, 2 and 10 in last 4 days. The county I live in has been doing even better (vs. its old numbers). Will be interesting to see how the trend continues as more and more people get 2nd shots and others continue to get 1st shots. Can we start to take all the oxygen out of this fire. I sure hope.

Isn’t Engel back any day?

I was the first guy on this board in this camp. He sucked again yesterday but he had a few games where he wasn’t a dumpster fire which was big progress. I think I said most of the year - he was playing like one of the worst players in the nba. The interesting thing is Lauri has disappeared for long stretches offensively - but defensively he has elevated his game a lot. He will go somewhere and be better. Quite frankly - I thought Donovan was doing a decent job, but lately I have not been happy with Donovan. Will be interesting to see what the team does in the offseason. Hopefully everyone benefits from a normal, longer offseason, etc. summer leagues, more usual training camps, ability to practice with others etc.

At this point - I would sit Vuc and Lavine rest of the year and just hope the lottery balls go in there favor!

They have absolutely imploded post trade deadline. Any way you spin it - awful. Bright side is Coby White has played pretty decent with Lavine out. But man - not a great indictment on bears front office post trade deadline. Have there been any updates on Lavine?

Don’t the bears have that cfl db that got a big contract (by cfl) standards who got hurt last year in camp.

So fired up - Fields has so much upside. I heard a former gm on radio today - said he was being asked by so many why fields was falling on boards (media perception). Said he talked to scouts for multiple teams - who apparently said whose boards - cause he was the clear #2 qb on their boards and they weren’t moving any of the other guys with helium up. I think Fields at 11 could be the steal of the draft in a few years and if it isn’t - oh well. Go big or go home at qb. Let’s go!

I agree there have been misses and I gave long said Pace needs to be more balanced in when he goes up vs down. That said - he has drafted as good as anyone outside of the first round.

Another tackle. Bmags - this guy any good?

Couldn’t you say it is the opposite - they trust their scouting so much when they see a guy out there that they have good value on - they show their conviction and get him.

So a night later and I can’t tell if I had any symptoms at all. I felt a little achy late this afternoon but couldn’t tell if that was a mental thing or not. If anything - just a bit fatigued but nothing else. Drank a ton of fluids yesterday and today and was slammed at work - so maybe just helped to be mentally active and well hydrated.

Me too. Montgomery shined late last year too and obviously Mooney and Cohen should be a better fit now when he gets back cause the last time he played a full season bears had no te and no wideout but Robinson. I think the bears line and skill position players are actually underrated at this point. I think arrow largely pointing up - but I am a huge Mooney fan. I will note I would have loved one more wideout - but at this point - as much as I can’t stand Miller - if you can’t get a fourth for him just roll with him and see if it works better with Fields/Dalton.

Fine - They found Mustipher and Bars. I'm not saying Bars is great - but he's a solid depth guy and Mustipher looks solid. Both UDA. He's also found some good later round picks. They also resigned some vets to cheaper deals to fill roster space - so kind of bought time. I get it - cause I like picks - but investing a couple picks to get a really nice value tackle and obviously a QB who in years we might look back as the best pick in the draft - yeah I am good. There is zero physical limitation that could get in the way of Fields being legit - he may bust - but they got a guy with tons of upside and I also think that athleticism gives him a decent floor too.

Yeah - I'm not saying it will be much. I also assume his contract was harder - but I might be wrong. Either way - probably pretty unlikely, but your never know what happens in training camp somewhere. Feels like at this point - as long as both are good mentors and help Fields and provide the right context - it should be a great QB room.

Yeah - that foles move stunk than and it stinks now (I can say that cause I never liked it - and I think even Pace admitted pretty early on that he got stuck in a panic position and learned a lesson from it). Dalton I could care less on - no one knew whether you'd get a QB in the draft or not - so when you know FOLES isn't the starter - you have to do something else to dampen the blow. I do still think at some point you might be able to deal Foles or Dalton to another team, say they have a QB go down and need a better back-up, etc. Not for a lot - but I imagine it is possible. But the good part is - next year the Bears cap position is going to look SO much different. A QB on a rookie deal - no ties to any veteran QB (so you can keep Dalton or Foles as a back-up but at a lower cost - if they want or you pivot another way) - you can cut ties with Leno (if your OT picked pans out). You either franchise Robinson again or actually extend Robinson (my presumption is they either trade or extent him at some point over next year - if you extent - that is decent size cap savings). Graham's cost goes away. All those things are huge POSITIVES & than if the cap goes up too - WOW - gamechanger. Its why I'm not worried about lack of a FRP next year - cause you can live with it when you project to have that type of cap space (not ideal - but doable). And at that point - if offense trajectory is looking good - maybe Bears decide to aggressively look at retooling defense (Mack/Quan/etc - who knows).

I think as long as he trades up for premium positions - I am on board. In the case of a young olineman - I'd say moving up for a guy you like at tackle - makes sense (cause tackles are expensive, even RT's in this day an age). IF you traded up for an ILB - yeah - I'm not going to like it. Bottom line - I think Pace feels like you can get "just a guy" via free agency / vet type signings and with later rounds picks - so try to target more than a guy with your upper picks. I don't have an issue with this - I just wish he took a more balanced approach to restocking the cupboard from time to time - but drafting a QB high and getting a young tackle to go with some pretty young guards - could just be the move that gives Fields a really nice young foundational line - where they can all grow together.

Wow - I know they don't have a ton of picks - but I commend them for not ignoring the line and ensuring they are putting the right parts around the line to position the squad for success. Hopefully he pans out and turns into an above average tackle for a long time. This hit also helps because it is a position that tends to be more expensive (like QB - in the long run) - so its one of those spots where it is more tolerable to give up picks for cost controlled players as important positions.

I say that as I just turn on the draft and realize apparently they already traded up haha.