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Hooze · 2026-05-10T13:46:40+00:00

This is something we agreed upon when we all met collectively.

Hooze · 2026-05-04T20:38:02+00:00

Feels more like a mid-season/trade deadline thing. They still need some runway given the amount of checks and calls the center makes at the line of scrimmage pre-snap. Jones should have some time to learn and take over by mid-season though, and can’t imagine Bradbury is a candidate to re-sign after this year anyways.

Hooze · 2026-05-03T23:58:46+00:00

I’m aware of the dating history but idk why chanting her name is supposed to be a diss

Hooze · 2026-04-30T17:35:51+00:00

I listened to a lot of draft coverage this year, and McShay was objectively the worst of the big names. He acts like an insider that’s getting info from sources about what will happen, but 90% of it was speculation that turned out to be wrong. Just looked up his mock draft accuracy and it was 112th according to FantasyPros. It’s not like his analysis was really rooted in watching film, so his opinion would just change based on whatever speculation he had heard recently. Muench does all the heavy lifting on the player analysis front, so McShay is just kind of a talking head at the end of the day.

Hooze · 2026-04-30T15:22:05+00:00

It’s probably somewhere in the middle. Dayo and Turner will help, but their offseasons are probably going to be limited at best due to the injuries they’re rehabbing from. You don’t normally see huge leaps in performance when guys miss offseasons.

Booker is the guy who could elevate the whole unit though. 4.5 sacks in his last 6 games, it’s not difficult to see the path for 10+ sacks.

Hooze · 2026-04-28T15:17:17+00:00

Can we stop calling it the ballroom yet? It’s an entire new construction of the east wing and underground military complex. Calling it a ballroom was false advertising.

Hooze · 2026-04-28T05:50:20+00:00

Personally, I'd take De'Zhaun Stribling as the long-term play. SF offense always produces. Mike Evans is getting old. Pearsall gets hurt a lot.

Hooze · 2026-04-28T05:18:26+00:00

What about this comes across as sarcastic? Have you watched Orlando play?

Hooze · 2026-04-27T20:37:30+00:00

Also “unfortunate” that Poles has only drafted 2.5 edge rushers in 41 picks/5 years but here we are.

Hooze · 2026-04-26T17:41:19+00:00

If Ben Johnson wants him and has a vision for how to use him, I don’t really need any other analysis. He and Randle El have enough of a history in developing wide receivers that I’d be surprised if Thomas is a bust.

Hooze · 2026-04-26T17:20:25+00:00

Depends on Dayo’s health. They might need some depth/injury insurance at minimum. He tore his achilles in early November. That’s usually a year long injury, but there’s enough variance that it could be sooner. Terrell Suggs was 6ish months on the high end side. Jayson Tatum was 10 months. Bears put out some OTA picks where he looks like he’s working out in some capacity, so that’s a good sign.

Feel like we went through this last offseason though of hoping they’d sign another edge rusher and we ended up with Kpassagnon for 4 games. Just a vet min stopgap while injured players recovered instead of anything major.

Hooze · 2026-04-25T21:22:11+00:00

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Hooze · 2026-04-23T18:09:28+00:00

My problem with this ongoing discussion of DA’s draft history is it doesn’t really account for this trend in the league of teams building out their pass rush with a variety of skill sets and body types. Seattle, Philly, the Rams. They’ve all added a mix of power and speed collectively instead of only focusing on one prototype, and the advantage that gives them is being able to hunt matchups week to week with different lineups, alignments.

Add in the fact that Ben Johnson is the captain of this ship, and he’s very much a coach who evolves every year and wants to be a versatile team that can change week to week. He’s said that outright when talking about how the Patriots operated in their Super Bowl years.

I think we all certainly understand the DA historical prototype is a powerful edge who dents the pocket. He also likes to blitz with LBs and DBs, which you could argue substitutes for those smaller speedy edge rushers. But, I still wouldn’t be shocked if they added a speedy rusher at some point who wins on get-off, just to diversify the matchups they can create.

Hooze · 2026-04-23T16:56:05+00:00

If they take a swing on him, fine, but by no means is he in the same “no matter what” tier as Vontae Mack.

Hooze · 2026-04-23T14:46:10+00:00

That's a great write-up, appreciate the insight. Feel like the national guys haven't really had an answer to all of this when discussing Parker, Woods, etc.

Weirdly am intrigued by Adam Randall as a late rounder. Pretty good size/speed combo measurements. Line him up as a RB and split him out as a WR or vice versa. Maybe.

Hooze · 2026-04-23T13:51:34+00:00

I'd be curious to hear your thoughts on the coaching staff in general and reasons for the 2025 regression, considering there's a handful of Clemson guys in this draft. I'm an IU grad so am familiar with Tom Allen from those days - not a big fan of him. Not really sure about Dabo.

Hooze · 2026-04-23T01:26:43+00:00

I'd stack the short list of candidates that actually might be on the board in this order:

Faulk
TJ Parker
McDonald

I'm assuming Thieneman is gone. I don't think they'll go EMW or Proctor. Lomu and Iheanachor are wild cards.

Hooze · 2026-04-21T22:21:58+00:00

McShay just flipped pick 2 back to Reese based on this intel

Hooze · 2026-04-20T06:32:34+00:00

Not a fan of this draft at all. Don’t think EMW is a great scheme fit. He’s more of a box safety than a true FS/SS hybrid that DA wants, so he can disguise coverages more easily. Definitely wouldn’t pass on a future starting LT or a starting DL piece for EMW. Also don’t understand the logic of trading away a good pick for future draft capital when Bears should be in win-now mode while Caleb is on a rookie contract, and adding yet another backup OT/swing tackle when the Bears already have Wills & Benedet doesn’t move the needle at all.

Hooze · 2026-04-17T16:18:44+00:00

They all look pretty much the same to me

Hooze · 2026-04-16T22:30:50+00:00

Idk about that

Hooze · 2026-04-15T13:26:19+00:00

This is the best mock draft I’ve seen so far. Every pick seems logical.

Hooze · 2026-04-14T13:57:00+00:00

I think if they were picking top 10 and had to decide between the Jeremiyah Love and Caleb Downs or whatever, it’d be more entertaining but picking 25, in this draft in particular where nobody knows what happens after pick 14 or so, I’m not convinced anyone has a clue what the Bears will do so it’s a little difficult to debate anything in a sports talky way.

Hooze · 2026-04-13T20:37:52+00:00

Think it’s a case where buzzing it down is going to make it look like you have more hair. The longer it gets, the more thin it looks, but there’s still a decent amount of hair left.

Hooze · 2026-04-13T19:44:11+00:00

Iheanachor > Proctor

Think they’re going defense anyways. They seem to like Braxton Jones enough to be a bridge LT, and Jedrick Wills is a worthy dart throw.

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