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Going into the offseason I thought Fuller certainly had a target on his back though I thought they'd be able to trade him to a team with cap space since they'd only take on 13 (11?) million. But making those cuts I thought bears would get a true upgrade out of a position,a nd it's just been turtles all the way down.

Mills is the only later round QB I find interesting. I doubt he’ll be good but he has crazy tools. I think every QB6 and later is suddenly referred to as a 2/3 rounder. I’d be surprised, I think Trask will find a taker but Mond on I would expect 4th round and later. You are either a potential starter on your first contract or 4th rounder or later

What the hell are we doing here

And mariota could enter a free agency where most of the cap is swallowed up vs. bears going after dalton at height of competitive bidding.

Hell yeah though today's numbers were terrible for positives.

Of course

didn't TA play during his extension stuff and strike out like 20 times in only 8 PAs some how

I think it's ok for people that just suffered through a pandemic to be happy that the pandemic looks like it will end even before it ends just like it was ok for people to worry about how much death might come from a terrible pandemic early last march before it had really killed anyone. Like knowing my kids can go to school and see their grandparents without killing them makes me feel happy even though there are people in the hospital suffering.

OTOH a lot of cap would open up starting the next year.

Yeah unfortunately Lonzo/Zion pick and roll success makes it pretty unlikely to me. I think they keep ball, maybe bulls can sign a poison contract but that's a big risk on bulls side.

mainly sounds like they've just not officially made signings official while they work through it.

I like them moving up the timeline both for acknowledging the supply capacity then but also that it is basically a free for all anyway now.

And looks like the tax deadline was pushed into May today (May 17 I think)

Interesting, Illinois is now providing a weekly breakdown of their federal allocation. And this does not include " The City of Chicago receives its own allocation of vaccine and therefore is not included on the IDPH website. These data include vaccine allocated to the state and do not include vaccine that is part of the federal supply, which is directly distributed by the federal government. " http://dph.illinois.gov/covid19/vaccineallocations

I honestly think Bears should just be in a holding pattern and still just keep eyes on one of these two franchise QBs being available. As we can see, there is no real moving the needle much this year with the salary cap the way it is. Maybe a surprise tackle becomes available and you give it a shot. Otherwise it's guys left on the merry-go-round and biding time and hoping that the QBs make it so painful their teams acquisce and the bears still can make it happen. That's the only franchise altering move out there. Maybe trading A-rob for a 1st/high second in hopes of packaging for a QB or just having an extra pick.

Williams was more aggressive last night but really struggled finishing. I both hope it doesn't discourage him while also hoping it doesn't mean he will never be able to get to rim and get FTs.

Imagine had the bulls pulled off that rumored deal that never sounded like it was real: Trade WCJ+4 for the 2nd pick (which was rumored wiseman) but if the bulls got Lamelo. Team outlook would be so different. Regardless of them not taking full advantage of what they could have gotten, still so annoying how terrible their luck was in draft position when they are tanking. If Bulls were as lucky as grizz and got JJJ and Ja instead of WCJ and Coby it's just a different franchise.

George: "So what is the plan then, why should I keep you?" Pace/Nagy speaking at same time: "We are going to guarantee the salaries of our most expensive players and release our top cornerback so that we can sign ... Pro Bowler Andy Dalton!" George: "PACE YOU'VE DONE IT AGAIN!"

That's what I'm interested in. So he is pushing for a trade, the team seems like the price is relatively set, but Seattle says no, and then Russ is like "okay glad I tried "? Still an opportunity for the players to cause the rift here, but I still wouldn't have prioritized getting Dalton over just spreading out some LB/WR depth.

Of course there is, I'm just skeptical of the polls and handwringing at this point. There is still a hell of a lot of people that want it and can't yet get it. When we are at the point where it is easy to get, then tell me 30% still don't want it. But again, I think some of it may just be the typical polling answers we get that are more of a "screw you"

AJ Green isn't much better than any mid-level vet receiver you could name, unfortunately. A shell of himself.

Also Dalton had fantastic offensive personnel for most of his career and he had one (1) 30+ TD season. And he's been much worse as the personnel declined. I believed the whole "the offense can't run with Mitch" more before we saw Nick Foles come in and run a worse offense than Mitch.

Not really concerned about the polling. I'd bet there will be a divergence between what they say and what they do. And there is also just a supply issue still. Show me in July when you can walk into any walgreens or CVS and get one on demand the people that still haven't gotten it, until then it's just projection.

The amazing thing to me is just the Wilson thing started what, 2 weeks ago? So they had that day-long heart to heart where Ryan and Matt sold their plan to George, and apparently that plan was Andy Dalton.

The cowboys were in the NFC east.