By virtue of a coin flip, the Bears lost out on the number 10 overall pick in the NFL Draft this morning, conceding it to the Jacksonville Jaguars. Understandably upset, the Bears will now have to wait until the 11th overall selection before watching Denver go on the clock.
….or they should. Call me crazy but as recently as a few years back it seemed like every fourth player on the Bears roster was from Oklahoma (Tommie Harris, Marc Bradley, Dusty Dvoracek, J.D. Runnels and now Juaquin Iglesias). Along with those Sooners, the Bears have tapped into perennial SEC doormat Vanderbilt in the past two drafts (Earl Bennett, Chris Williams, D.J. Moore). We’re not including Cutler here because Denver had the privilege of drafting him.
Looking at what the Bears needs will be starting this year, and looking into the very near future, starting a draft pipeline via Texas makes the most sense to me. (more…)
The last post of the week: something to ponder as you await the certain couch slouch and booze binge of this weekend.
The time period from May to July is what we, in the biz, like to call statistical murder. As in nobody is searching for information on Juaquin Iglesias post-draft, especially during Blackhawk playoffs, the start of the Cubs season and quite possibly, the best first-round NBA playoff series ever in Bulls-Celtics. Thus, nobody is visiting our Bears-specific shitstorm of a Web presence.
Now that the draft is almost a week in conclusion, here is our retrospective take on the Bears nine picks: we don’t have one, check back in three to four years. Although we will say that the whole Jarron Gilbert jumping-out-of-a-pool video is mightily impressive. If it weren’t fake? Discuss.
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.
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.
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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?
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.
