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What did the cards get? Didn't they trade Johnson?

Yeah - The part I don't like is how much money he is going to get. I just don't think Teddy is that good. He's solid, don't get me wrong, but I don't think you pay 30+M for solid (similar to what Tennessee did). I think if I were a team I'd make sure i had a good system and OC and I'd try running through young QB's on a regular basis and regularly go with younger QB's (trade guys to other franchises to keep accumulating enough draft capital).

The new CBA might force the Bears hand on Mitch. This is now the off-season where they need to really decide on Mitch's 5th year option, which might pressure them to make a move on QB faster.

I Don't think paying Teddy a bunch of money really solves the problem. In fact, I think Mitch can be Teddy, although I might be wrong. I think the Bears need to put their money around building all the right parts around the QB...and find a back-up who could pull a Tannehill while giving Mitch T his shot. If things don't work, than a year from now team has a good roster and is either hoping to find a veteran QB who can win with great parts around them or you are leveraging draft capital for a young QB. One guy I would keep an eye on if I were the Bears is RG III. Could he be a bounce back candidate in this type of system? I don't think he'd cost a ton of money either.

I am now convinced a lot of adults and children under 40 have the virus already and in more cases than we think never even knew it because it is so mild. Problem is the fact that is more mild than we think in many makes it more dangerous because how aggressive it can be on select individuals. I have no fact behind this but I am starting to buy more into the Uk approach and ultimately the best approach might be aggressively driving heard immunity while protecting / Isolating those with pre existing conditions. Use the heard immunity in the long run to wipe this thing out. No matter what I think that is the path this ultimately goes. It would have just been better if this happened after flu season because hospitals would naturally have improved capacity to handle this.

Ok- This is the first potential theory I could see for keeping tests low (basically to keep millions of people from running to get tested every time they have a cold). This maybe forces people to be careful and only go in when symptoms are serious (vs. many who would panic and run in for a test).

If that was the case and we just knew that arleady...why would we have shut down everything? I don’t see any rationale for that approach. In general I do agree the current rates are higher than actual but I’d argue the flu probably has some of those same challenges too.

I thought Wuhan had removed its restrictions? Are these your own self imposed restrictions at this point?

Likewise. Hope it is a non-event for you.

This team is much better (when healthy) and with a real coach. Period. This whole season was a train wreck. Been fun seeing Otto Porter, Lauri, and Wendell back. The system they are running still stinks and I don't know how Valentine stayed on the bench as long as he did (again...Boylen...shakes head). Cleveland sucks and it would have been a good tank loss, but nice to see White in the lineup and a bunch of his turnovers were due to Carter having fumblitis. Ball movement was actually pretty decent. This team had to play a ton of stiffs given the massive injuries to key starters. Atkinson seems like a guy the Bulls would look at.

Yes please!!!

Fantastic - Noah back in league with Clippers. I love me some Joakim!

Kaplan...who has consistently been the first to report most of the Bulls reworking of the front office, is reporting that Presti is at the top of Bulls list and that money will not be an object (prepared to pay what it takes). I am not going to lie...get players healthy...land someone like Presti...hire new coach....figure out how Presti churns roster and makes move. It isn't like we have albatross contracts (outside of Porter Jr., who is a good player, with health issues). Lavine's contract is a bargain and while Carter Jr, White, and Lauri have there challenges, they also have upside and certainly can be packaged for others. While the assets Bulls have don't quickly position them to be a really strong team, at the same time, a creative GM still has stuff to work with where things could reshuffle faster than we might think.

Above average with the bat and you are talking about one of the top 3 CF'ers in the game and a 5 WAR type of player.

I will caveat, if I was Brady, I would be all over the Bears pitch.

I'm not annoyed. Brady just doesn't have a lot of time left (and I'm like Brady's #1 fan) and while there was a lot to blame for the Patriots offense struggling, I do think Brady was part of that issue (meaning, he is no longer a top 3 QB). The only guy I think it is annoying we aren't evaluating is Cam. I say that because if he's healthy he still has a number of years of upside in his game. That said, he probably isn't the best fit for Nagy's system/scheme. Ultimately I think the best strategy is see if Mitch is the guy and have a solid back-up in place who can be used to evaluate other things. If Mitch isn't the guy, than you need to swing big again in the draft or stick with a solid veteran (manageable QB) and focus on having a stellar defense and good pieces surrounding the offense (good ground game, etc).

Mokoka was freaking stellar on Luca. Looked like rookie / 2nd year Jimmy Buckets on D. Bulls finally beat a good team. OPJ had a really nice game back. Boylen has proven to be a clown but man, I still think this team would have been substantially better if it had all of its pieces. Bad idea though since it is the Bulls and their training staff.

Like I said...they are never going to all play together.

HE is probably a more realistic version of who the Bears go for. He'd sign as a backup but is someone the Bears could turn to in the short-term if Mitch is real bad. I don't think they are going to target a true starter this year? The odd part is, this would be the year to do it with some of the guys possibly out there (Cam / Winston / Carr, etc). I presume a Foles / Mariotta is who they get. Dalton, if he is okay not being handed a starting job (which I can't imagine will be the case).

What are the odds that Carter Jr, Porter Jr, Lavine, White, and Lauri can all finish out the rest of the season? Carter Jr. had his first game back over the weekend, Porter Jr. is back this week, and Lauri is probably back on Wednesday. I know it will take them a handful of games to even get their injury rust off, but how quickly will they all go back down?

This is probably the most unlikely Bulls teams in franchise history. Awful.

They should start White with Lavine and Sharp. Might as well give him more minutes.

Boylen had a run in with Lavine. I wonder if Jim makes it another few games. Seven guys out, Boylen a disaster. Only bright side is some front office change, a new head coach, and maybe the Bulls get healthy and show they aren’t as bad as their record indicates so they can find there way to post season next year. I will still say they are a near .500 team with all their chips but when everyone is injury prone it doesn’t matter.

Wow - I heard someone hint that the Bears could already be getting Carr. Apparently there is a lot of pent up moves while the league waits for the potential finalization of the CBA (I hope they reach an agreement this early...would be great to know there won't be any near term stoppages).

IF the Bears get a new QB this year, my gut would be on Carr/Stafford. The nice thing with Carr is, his contract is like $19M/yr which is actually pretty reasonable, albeit, I think he has a big cap hit this year.