The Raiders = Bengals West

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(09-03-2018, 07:07 PM)Shake n Blake Wrote: In all, the Bears gave a pair of 1st rounders, a 3rd rounder and $141 million over 6 years.

It was a move to generate (casual) fan excitement, but it wasn't a smart move from a team standpoint, IMO.

Ehh, the Bears may as well make a big move while their QB is on the cheap.  Plus, this sort of reminds me (the Bears are my NFC team) when I preached the Bears should trade up to get Carson Palmer in the 2003 draft to go all-in while their defense was elite.  I was told they could hang on to those picks and get by with Rex Grossman or Kyler Boller.

Sometimes you just have to make a big move.  Plus, the Packers were players in the get Mack sweepstakes, so the prospect of the Bears starting the season in Green Bay and seeing Rodgers and Jimmy Graham on the field and then watching Khalil Mack line up to drive Trubisky into the turf would have been too much to stomach.

I'm not assuming the Bears will win anything of note any time soon because of this trade, but there are a lot of NFL fans that like the idea of having a roster with the potential to win it all within the next 3-5 years and letting that hope carry on for 20-30 years or so.  Decades of keeping that window open forever and ever.  Don't trade up for a QB, don't sign any big free agents and so on.