Thursday Night Football Sucks Game Thread

To pick up the LT/WR, if we have a top 3 pick, do we trade down? I know how much you hate that in principal, but *someone* would want to pick up the 1/2 QB in this draft and trade up two firsts no?

You are right though, we stand pat and pick up something like an elite edge rusher. Because that is a very Bears thing to do.

 

Depends on how things break. If next spring is Stroud/Young at the top and the bears pick 3rd...they're SOL at king's ransom offers. The Panthers and Lions both need QBs and are both worse off record-wise than the bears presently (of course this is subject to change as the bears play the lions 2x), and Carolina just fired their HC and traded their #2 WR, so its safe to say their actions equate to wanting one of the QBs and are okay with tanking big time to get one to pair with a new HC. Goff's bad LA contract is up after this year, and Detroit (if they keep sucking) may shitcan their knee-biting clown at HC and start anew with fresh staff and a new QB.

Should that be the case (and even if it isn't) I already have my guy I'm dying on a hill for staying put in the top 3/5/wherever the bears pick--because I halfway expect them to pull 2 games out of their asses at the end of the season to fuck things up in traditional bears style--where everybody writes them off before the game and they use their special power to make the other team play stupid for 4 quarters and they're in the game long enough to get that lucky bounce.

I will hear no Peter Skoronski slander. It's too easy for the bears if they're in the spot, just draft him, and plug/play him at LT. No need to get cute and play him at G or C--even though he was all-Big10 as a freshman C before moving to LT as a sophmore where he was all conference/American. The dude is the best, most fundamentally sound LT in college and fans being idiot, impatient, and clueless to how football gets played don't want a guy who's flaw scouting-wise is this his/my college team Northwestern sucks. Oh, and he isn't quite at 34 inch arms. Instead of 'dominating a DE/DT he's beaten, he seals them off instead of going for the pancake'--which I don't understand how the fuck that's even a con, pro-football network. That didn't stop the guy he replaced and is playing better than (Rashawn Slater on the chargers) from being an all pro, but its fans/pundits finding meaningless reasons to not draft a guy who would be unsexy compared to Justin's old OSU WR/buddy Jaxon Smith-Njigba (who I'd rage at if they took because he's pre-injured and never on the field and if he was, I think Marvin Harrison's kid still would be getting more targets because he's generational/probably a top 2 pick the year after). He's better technically, fundamentally, pass-protecting, and footwork-wise than the statue OT Broderick Jones from Georgia and he has more bend/range/less prone to stupid penalties than the OT Paris Johnson from Ohio State.

It'd be the smartest thing they could do for Fields or whomever else. The next smartest thing, who I'd understand but disagree with is either the WR from LSU (Boutte) or the WR from USC (Addison). Do I want a WR? Not really. These two got speed/route running/'It' you want from a top 10 pick at WR. If they're top 3, and the QBs are gone, I unfortunately must accept they'd go for the DL from Georgia, because its the bears, and trying to form a competent offense just isn't for them.

 

Bears are gonna Bears, just accept this fact and move on with your life. This story has been written so many times, and if there was a thing as groundhog year that story is all Bears.
It doesn't matter who the ringmaster of this clown vortex is, it's always the same. Remember if and when they do trade down they'll find value in the selection that dropped, and when they do he'll be the guy with the one leg.
Go Bears

 

From what I can see, the only 2023 pick that the Bears are missing will be the sixth rounder. You traded that one to Miami for Jakeem Grant last October. Otherwise, you're all set.


The fun part of tracking it is that for a while Chicago also had an extra sixth rounder in the 2023 draft from the Khalil Mack trade. But the Bears traded that pick back to the Chargers in this year's draft for a pair of seventh round comp picks, using them to select Elijah Hicks and punter Trenton Gill.

With both of those players currently on your active roster, I'd say that was an effective trade.

 

I just googled and seems like Skoronski is the clear top OT, but pick range is as much as 13. I guess you're right, it will depend on if there are teams between them and a potential trade down spot that could take him. Too early to speculate, because the Bears could also go on a winning streak or something.

Not likely, but you never know. The Bears have been in every game except the Packers game, some lucky bounces and suddenly the Bears win a couple. The good news is, with the cupboard as empty as it is, I don't see Poles doing some blockbuster trade with multiple firsts, AGAIN, so we should actually have some 1st and 2nd rounders the next few years to contribute