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Spotrac has the draft picks taking up about $14 million. I think they are around $30 million depending on how they structured the cap hits on their signings since. They had close to $50 million after the Johnson extension. Byard is around $7 million, Swift is $6 million this year, Everett is $6 million, Owens is $2 million.

I actually like the idea of Mack on a short-term deal. The Bears need pass rush help badly. Everything I've read in the past day coping with Poles not spending big is that he doesn't want to do that until they know what they have at QB in Caleb. Well, a one year commitment to a guy who had 18 sacks last year is not exactly going to screw with your future finances.

I think the team signing Mack would be on the hook for $23 million if they trade for him. My bet is that he straight up gets cut. Bosa might not get cut till June 1 since his cap savings go up $8 million if they do that. I agree Allen will most likely be kept and they probably cut or trade Williams since his cap hit is pretty manageable for the team that trades for him.

That would the the dumbest thing to do in a league with a hard cap and a spending floor.

They made Johnson's cap hit only $13 million this year. If they weren't going to use all of their cap space what was the point of that? It seems like to me that they did have aspirations to sign guys and simply said "welp too bad" when they got outbid. I still go back to the Edmunds signing last year as an example that the Bears will overpay. It just irks me that they overpaid a middle linebacker when they had so many other more important holes to fill. It's like Rick Hahn spending big money on the bullpen. What made that signing worse was that Edmunds wasn't even that good.

Hunter apparently gave Houston a discount. But money always talks. Poles could have guaranteed more money. I guess he's saving it for Armstead or Mack when he eventually gets cut? Being frugal doesn't make a ton of sense honestly. They spent almost $20 million a year on Edmunds last year, an off-ball linebacker, while not addressing center or the pass rush. Poles might be saying one thing but his actions really haven't shown that he's adamant about building the team in the trenches.

Fields isn't even guaranteed a starting role next year. The fact that teams are signing backups before he's traded should tell you all you need to know.

They need to hit a HR on at least one signing. They're sitting on a ton of cap space. I know you don't want to ruin your future cap by giving someone too much money, but you can easily structure the cap hits to be larger this year to help alleviate that.

The Bears have definitely been shopping him. There's no way they haven't made up their mind yet.

Alright, who gets traded first? Cease or Fields?

Mooney got open, but he also dropped a lot of catchable balls. Some of those are on Justin, but some were on Mooney as well. It just seemed like they had no chemistry.

Yeah I don't think the pick is THAT important. They have #1 and #9 and $50 million in cap space. if you can't plan your offseason around that alone, you shouldn't be an NFL GM.

EDGE options getting thinner. Epenesa and Smith just re-signed with their teams. Top options now are Hunter, Chase Young, and Clowney.

This feels like pure cope from the FO after the lack of trade interest.

Giants or Patriots. I don't think the Vikings or Broncos are realistic for him. You'd also have to start looking at teams where he can sit behind someone that's older, like the Rams with Stafford.

It's because Minshew doesn't cost draft capital.

Not gonna happen, they signed Minshew. I've never seen a rumor from someone legit get killed so fast. it was literally a couple minutes within each other.

Packers' deal with Jacobs is essentially 1 year for $12.5 million.

Fields about to be re-united with Getsy. Russini just tweeted it out. Edit: nevermind, Raiders just signed Minshew lmao

You're right and that's why the Bears will be moving on. But let's not act like Fields' 10-28 record is entirely on him. The Bears were basically losing on purpose in his first full year.

Blaming Fields for 2022 losses is kind of insane when the defense gave up 27 points a game.

Bagent almost threw more picks in 3.5 games than Fields threw in 13. Bagent might process faster, but that doesn't mean he makes better decisions or throws better passes.

People seem to be forgetting that Cousins sucks during prime time and big games in general.

Greenard gets 4 and $76 mil, $42 guaranteed. Hunter is gonna get $100 mil, easy.

I don't think having low mileage due to being injury-prone is necessarily a good thing.