One of these four men will enter into the College Football Hall of Fame’s Class of 2009. Hint: it’s the least craziest one.
This screen capture appears courtesy of “Inside The Draft Room,” a video from chicagobears.com that shows the zany antics of Jerry Angelo and staff last weekend while… inside the draft room. The entire thing is two minutes and four seconds of suspense-filled draft wizardry.
I’m told minutes after this gesture-to-show-approval occurred, Angelo found a very reserved Lovie Smith in the hallway and chest-bumped him, despite the coach’s request that he do otherwise.
19 Bears were assigned jersey numbers Wednesday, including wide receiver Earl Bennett, the only incumbent who’ll be sporting new digits in 2009. No word yet on how it’ll help him get his first NFL catch, but if a number change worked for Justin Gage… oh, wait.
Everybody’s favorite accident-prone Pro Bowler, Lance Briggs, is at it again. This time it’s a straight-edged razor, not a high-priced sports car, and a hand, not a pole on Eden’s Express Way.
Let me preface this by saying, our first ever LiveTwitter of rounds one and two went extraordinarily well. It is just too bad, as I so eloquently wrote on Twitter as the last pick neared, that I chose to cover a full day of the draft in which the Bears took no part in.
My thoughts, originally, were just of the cock tease that was day one. A) we didn’t draft a soul, and b) we failed to reel in Boldin. But thanks to what we did in rounds three through seven, I might just leave the forty-dollar tip on the nightstand after all.
The Oakland Raiders’ draft has easily been the most controversial and criticized through two rounds, topped by the second-round selection of a safety not expected to be drafted until late tomorrow. Sounds ridiculous, doesn’t it? Wait until you hear that the Bears were primed to take him two picks later.
By all appearances, it was an NFL Draft day that ended with a thud for the Chicago Bears. Their only pick, the 49th overall, was traded to Seattle for a third and fourth rounder tomorrow. But, an innocent-enough tweet sent over by Brad Biggs of the Chicago Sun-Times changed everything:
Angelo said the bears talked to cards about boldin but could not a deal done.
So you’re saying there’s a chance?
Once it became clear that their second-round pick would not entice the Cards to trade, the Bears tried to move up, motivated by their interest in Ohio State wide receiver Brian Robiskie, among others.
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Tired of foolishly taking fliers on prospects with injury histories only to see them materialize into NFL pros with injury histories, the Bears have committed to not doing that anymore.
The Bears are going to look closer at their medical evaluations of players when there’s a question mark. This decision comes in light of the firestorm created last summer when first-round pick Chris Williams went down with a herniated disc in his back on the second day of training camp — the same disc the Bears knew had a ”stabile herniation.”
Um… duh?
The last post of the week: something to ponder as you await the certain couch slouch and booze binge of this weekend.
BREAKING: The Lions have made good on their efforts to reach a deal with someone, anyone, before the draft. It’s Georgia quarterback Matthew Stafford for six years, $78 million. Ouch.
I assure you, the Lions will regret that.
The most captivating story tomorrow is Mark Sanchez. Which team makes the big trade up, if any, to nab the USC quarterback? I’m calling the Jets. For whatever reason, I see “Sanchez” emblazoned on the back of a Jets jersey. And still, I hear Jets fans booing.
Remember, the Bears pick 49th overall which shouldn’t be until late, late tomorrow night, but we’ll be LiveTwittering the whole shebang. That’s right. In case you forgot, we’re LIVE. TWITTERING.
If this ESPN report is true, Cardinals wide receiver Anquan Boldin can now be had, in one swift, seemingly implausible swoop, for just a second-round pick.
It started when Julia Allison tweeted of Jay Cutler’s partiality to her headband, and now, we get another scoop courtesy of the still far-too-underutilized, Twitter: Brian Urlacher likes his Chile Con Queso.
