What Allen's Signing Means For the Draft

FatBabiesHaveNoPride · Mar 26, 2014

The signing of Allen (along with Houston and Young and to a certain extent Mundy) not only fills a significant need(s), but also does WONDERFUL things for the draft.

This allows the Bears to have flexibility in the draft - they can either go safety/DB (HaHa), LB or D Line.

Just like the signing of Martellus and Bushrod last off season, the free agency moves set up MUCH more flexibility for what can be done via the draft.

Me likey Emery's strategy. Now he just needs to not eff up the pick.

Discuss. And by discuss, I mean discuss in a manner fit for this forum - talk about the topic for one post and then 20 others posts about dicks, cunting and calling each other dumbfucks.

Discuss....

playthrough2001 · Mar 26, 2014

Thanks for starting the thread dumbfuck. Just kidding...

No question it opens up the draft. I think Emery is now targeting Mosely, Gilbert or Dix.

Raskolnikov · Mar 26, 2014

SAFETY or MLB or Corner or omg......offense?

DJMoore_is_fat · Mar 26, 2014

Yep Emery has been nothing short of brilliant. Had a rough first draft with Shea, Hardin, and the short fat drug addict TE - but he's made some big time moves (Kyle Long, Bushrod, Jeffrey, Mills, Bennett, etc).

As they said on 670AM this morning - our chips are all in. We're going for the Super Bowl this year. If we add HaHa Clinton-Dix and our guys stay relatively healthy (DJ Williams, Tillman, Briggs, Cutler, Ratliff, etc) -- we're making a deep, deep run.

cobbland · Mar 26, 2014

DT or a player on offense.

playthrough2001 · Mar 26, 2014

Raskolnikov said:
SAFETY or MLB or Corner or omg......offense?

I would have no problem with Matthews, Robinson or Lewan.

Monsieur Tirets · Mar 26, 2014

That we should still draft Donald.

RiDLer80 · Mar 26, 2014

I think we'll go the highest on our board of a CB (Gilbert), Safety (Ha Ha or Pryor) or DT (Donald). I still think DT is the most pressing need, but it's also one of the deeper positions in the draft. We can get a couple in rounds 2-4 and still end up with quality players.

JaySix · Mar 26, 2014

while the signings in FA do give the Bears more flexibility in the draft to go BPA, safety, DT, CB and ILB all still make a lot of sense.

now I don't pretend to understand what type of player Emery wants at each position, but Donald/Ha Ha/ Gilbert/Mosley all still seem to make sense for us in round 1.

personally I really don't want Pryor but would be happy to be wrong about him if he indeed was the pick, think he will suck though...

geneatals · Mar 26, 2014

safety or trading back for more picks...thats my guess....

FatBabiesHaveNoPride · Mar 26, 2014

geneatals said:
safety or trading back for more picks...thats my guess....

Yep.

That being said, we must give credit where credit is due. I know everyone likes the big splash signings like Denver did (giving guys WAY too much money), but this is great modern day NFL strategy. Build a team up with a number of very good pieces which gives you draft flexibility.

Emery has proven to me (along with Cliff Stein) that he's a wizard when it comes to free agency chess piece moving.

He now needs to kick ass on his picks. No GM gets it right all the time, but his picks have been an up and down thing.

rawdawg · Mar 26, 2014

DT was the biggest need before. Allen doesn't play DT. DT is still the biggest need. I think this might drop Donald down a notch though. If we are operating under the assumption that Houston moves inside in the nickel (with Allen, Young and/or McClellin on the edge).....then I think the Bears can get enough pass rush from the other DT if it's Ratliff, Paea, Idonije, or Collins. But you still are weak on the interior on run downs. I think this pushes the DT pick toward a guy like Hageman, Nix or Jernigan.

If I had to put money on it, I'd say the first round pick is going to come down to Hageman, Clinton-Dix or Pryor......which means Emery will draft somebody completely different.

modo · Mar 26, 2014

It is hard to find fault with what Emery has done. The only thing I could have wished for is a better safety. however if it precluded any D line signing then I understand.....

Run the ball · Mar 26, 2014

Pass rush makes everyone else better, so Donald should still be on top of the list, IMO.

JP Hochbaum · Mar 26, 2014

Just did a quick mock draft just going by positions we need to fill and without reaching to get a player of need:

"14
CB JUSTIN GILBERT
OKLAHOMA STATE
51
C MARCUS MARTIN
USC
82
RB BISHOP SANKEY
WASHINGTON
117
DT WILL SUTTON
ARIZONA STATE
156
CB ROSS COCKRELL
DUKE
183
TE JACOB PEDERSEN
WISCONSIN
191
WR JALEN SAUNDERS
OKLAHOMA"

Yeah I didn't get a safety, but I would have had to reach by about 20 picks to get one. Trust me I want one, but without reaching this is what came up.

Rawky · Mar 26, 2014

I think they're going on the assumption that Collins will come back from his acl injury strong. Right now td is pretty much paea, Collins, Ratliff and Houston/izzy for passing downs. Collins and rattlif can both play nose or 3-tech pretty well. Both are better run defenders than pass rushers and both will make our D better than it was last year. So the draft strategy today can be "let's take the best guy on our board first and stick with out strategy for the rest of the rounds, get a FS,DT,CB,QB,LB (no particular order).

Basically I think it gives us the ability to take the best player available or trade down and still feel comfortable with our team overall. We have needs, but no enormous holes right now.

1COBearsfan · Mar 26, 2014

Run the ball said:
Pass rush makes everyone else better, so Donald should still be on top of the list, IMO.

This. We have our passing down DT in Houston but we need a replacement for Melton. Hopefully that's Donald and then we go DB in the second

BearsFan51 · Mar 26, 2014

A cornerback seems most,obvious and there is no less than 8 out of 16 that are 6-0 or above.

CAP BOSO · Mar 26, 2014

DJMoore_is_fat said:
Yep Emery has been nothing short of brilliant. Had a rough first draft with Shea, Hardin, and the short fat drug addict TE - but he's made some big time moves (Kyle Long, Bushrod, Jeffrey, Mills, Bennett, etc).

As they said on 670AM this morning - our chips are all in. We're going for the Super Bowl this year. If we add HaHa Clinton-Dix and our guys stay relatively healthy (DJ Williams, Tillman, Briggs, Cutler, Ratliff, etc) -- we're making a deep, deep run.

As much as I hate to say it...Seattle and San Fran still shit all over us.

Monsieur Tirets · Mar 26, 2014

1COBearsfan said:
This. We have our passing down DT in Houston but we need a replacement for Melton. Hopefully that's Donald and then we go DB in the second

:shrug:

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