Totally agree with you 4A and we don’t agree often. OL is a must and every other need is secondary. Bears need to stay focused and after they fill the primary need then see how to fill other needs.
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I assume they would prefer to add two starting IOL via FA as to not have two rookies start on IOL. If they did the former it really opens up the draft for them.
On the Garret front. Trading for him impacts both your draft assets and your financial assets (though you can massage that in NFL). It certainly does help solve an issue that is top 3 on team but it is going to impact the ability to solve the OL immensely, IMO. Right guy, wrong time.
On the Garret front. Trading for him impacts both your draft assets and your financial assets (though you can massage that in NFL). It certainly does help solve an issue that is top 3 on team but it is going to impact the ability to solve the OL immensely, IMO. Right guy, wrong time.
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RIP Virginia…
As far as Bezos, he won’t have a chance as current minority Pat Ryan would almost assuredly buy the team due to existing ownership contract where he has first dibs.
The timing does align perfectly for McCaskeys to sell at least a portion of the team for the needed cash infusion for AH.
I'm certain Ryan has right of first refusal on any sale, but if someone like Bezos were to come along I have a hard time believing a smart business man like Pat Ryan would be able to pass on that opportunity.
Fun to talk about, but there's so many moving pieces involved it will take years to figure out. Virginia was the figure head, but she represented 13 family members that owned 80% of the Bears and getting 13 family members to agree on anything let alone selling an NFL team is no small feat. That being said if push came to shove and all of the Halas/McCaskey members wanted to sell I'm not sure Pat Ryan and his 17% would be able to do that much about it.
