Per Rich Eisen: “The Bears are long down the road to trading the first overall pick. The teams have been identified, compensation is being hammered out.”

[Shocker]

5 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

Everyone just assumes we would be drafting Stroud in this hypothetical trade up. I'm not at all certain that's true.

This scares me man…giving up 3 firsts or more to go up for someone that isn’t Young or CJ is terrifying.  lol

[mrcompletely11]

4 minutes ago, PantherKyle said:

Don’t think so at all. I’d say young is favorite 

the day a 5'10 190ish lb qb goes one I will eat my own poo

[frankw]

2 minutes ago, PantherKyle said:

Don’t think so at all. I’d say young is favorite 

Selecting him without giving up future picks is one thing. Trading up from nine to take a QB who is shorter and lighter than Matt Corral is a very risky move for a GM who needs a legit QB now.

[Shocker]

Just now, mrcompletely11 said:

the day a 5'10 190ish lb qb goes one I will eat my own poo

Gonna hold you to this dog

[RJK]

Just the bears driving up the price 

[SmokinwithWilly]

1 minute ago, mrcompletely11 said:

the day a 5'10 190ish lb qb goes one I will eat my own poo

You are very very brave. Or disturbed. Or both. 

[Eric4280]

5 minutes ago, tecc86 said:

 

Yeah I mean why would we want a career 67% passer, a little over 4k yards a season, 2.5:1 TD:Int ratio and almost 100 QB Rating

 

Is he Pat Mahomes? No, he's pretty fuging good though and the fact that you think ending up like Dak is a DOWNSIDE is hilarious.

Trading THREE FIRSTS FOR DAK is hilarious. He played in the big10 with constant WR1s. Why do we ignore this? Did Bryce play with Garrett Wilson, Chris Olave, Jaxson Smith Njigba, Marvin Harrison Jr, Emeka Egbuka… who are all first round WR! Does levis? Does ar? We are not surrounding Stroud with this talent gap and how do we know Stroud makes something out of nothing? Yeah, fine, cherry pick numbers but ignore all other circumstances. 
 

Fields had a 68.5 rating, paced for 3600 passing yards, had a 67-9 td/int ratio in college and yet we passed on that for a CB! (Which I’m happy we did because horn is a dogs dog). Yet Fields gets into the nfl and there is no improvement and the team is picking first , two years later. Why? Because the cast you put around these qb matter! Unfortunately this team doesn’t have the talent around him to emulate what happened at OSU. We don’t have Garrett Wilson, Olave, MHJR, JSN, or anything of that nature. We have solid and sturdy Dj Moore and trending to bust TMJR ( who I feel can turn it around). 
 

By not having these firsts, how are we helping out Stroud? “2024 cap space” which is FOURTEENTH best in the NFL? Where is our Chase? Where is our Hill and Kelce? Where is our Stefon Diggs? I do not doubt that Stroud will be a SOLID NFL QB. But I sincerely do not see franchise potential and we will not be able to surround him with premier talent. 

[Day1PanthersFan]

Plot twist 

We move up to 3rd and draft a CB 

[WUnderhill]

1 hour ago, Sean Payton's Vicodin said:

Either way I'm hoping it gets done soon no matter who it is so we can put this saga behind us

If it’s not us it will just start the trading for pick 3 saga.

[OldhamA]

31 minutes ago, tecc86 said:

a 27 year old Dak after his leg was ripped off his body? No

A 22 year old Dak coming into the league with no injury history? Abso-fuging-lutely

Yikes.

[OldhamA]

30 minutes ago, Jon Snow said:

Not if Lamars mom can convince Isray to cough up 2 1st round picks and pay her son 250 mil guaranteed.  It could happen right?

I bet he turns up in Atlanta.

[Luciu5]

11 minutes ago, WUnderhill said:

If it’s not us it will just start the trading for pick 3 saga.

That's already started. Pretty sure there is a thread on here about moving to 3.

With Carr gone, I'm 100% sure we're moving up. Idk if it will be 1 or 3. If we can't secure one of those, might as well stay put, or make a move on draft day based on how the board falls.

[WhoKnows]

1 hour ago, PantherKyle said:

To keep our '24 and '25 firsts? To draft a player like.....Burns? 

Shoot higher. Rams are looking to trade some solid players, so I’d keep their picks and trade ours.

Also, here’s the haul:

Rams 2023 2nd (pick 36)

Rams 2024 1st

Rams 2025 1st

Multiple FAs using Burns’ cap space $25-30M a year.

Don’t care about replacing Burns, there are guys like Ngakoue, Reddick, Judon and this is the deepest edge rusher class in years. I only would have cared about the overall value we could have gotten like getting our franchise QB and still have multiple 2nds and 2024/2025 1sts to put weapons around the rookie QB say like a top TE in a deep class this year and maybe a guy like Marvin Harrison Jr next year.

Now we’ll have Burns, a rookie QB and the same weapons we have now.

[Jon Snow]

8 minutes ago, OldhamA said:

I bet he turns up in Atlanta.

That would be a safe bet.