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The starting DL right now is

Ferguson
Goldman
Unrien

Hicks is not a star, but read that and tell me he is not a key signing.

Willie Young, Houston, McPhee, Washington, Sutton can all give you some DE snaps
 

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I fully expect the Bears to be double dipping in this draft and getting two d lineman.

Perfect draft strategy with this deep class. Could see 2 DL in the first 3 picks I think.

And then cross your fingers and hope the can start early in the season.

Goldman was an awesome pick and did not even start at the beginning of the year.
 
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I fully expect the Bears to be double dipping in this draft and getting two d lineman.

Perfect draft strategy with this deep class. Could see 2 DL in the first 3 picks I think.

Rankins in the first. Dean Lowry in the 4th. Sign me up.
 

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isn't junior galette a 3-4 OLB?

I was thinking the same thing and he's also been in some off the field problems like that fight he got into on a beach and was hitting people with his belt and i think a girl got hit but i'm pretty sure he's a LBer.
 

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And then cross your fingers and hope the can start early in the season.

Goldman was an awesome pick and did not even start at the beginning of the year.

Even if we don't sign Hicks we will sign another DLinman and will also draft one so while i would like it to be Hicks that we sign i'm not too worried about us not signing someone else if it's not Hicks.
 

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man at this point I don't even care anymore, just sign with someone!
 

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Has this guy met with the Bears yet or what? Seems like a lot of hush, hush, going on here with this player. Adding Hicks would be huge after shoring up the ILB spots.
 

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Has this guy met with the Bears yet or what? Seems like a lot of hush, hush, going on here with this player. Adding Hicks would be huge after shoring up the ILB spots.

He met with us and apparently spent the night for two days here
 

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primarily, but he has lined up at DE in the 3-4 part time.

I suppose if you ended up signing him you could have both he and Houston rotating between DE and OLB as they are both big enough to play DE in a 3-4 but you probably wouldn't want them spending all of their time there.
 

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He met with us and apparently spent the night for two days here

I never saw an official meeting, just that they were going to meet Friday, and then Sat. Never heard that they actually had the meeting, however. It still seems a little hush, hush to me. I'm not sure if that could be a good sign.
 

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Even if we don't sign Hicks we will sign another DLinman and will also draft one so while i would like it to be Hicks that we sign i'm not too worried about us not signing someone else if it's not Hicks.

What I am saying is that the free agent pool is pretty thin at this point. If you miss on Hicks, you are going to struggle to find another starting calibre player that is not in his mid 30s.

-Jared Crick
-Terrence Knighton, but he is always out of shape and Fox passed once.

Maybe

-Bj Raji
-Sealver Silga
 

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I never saw an official meeting, just that they were going to meet Friday, and then Sat. Never heard that they actually had the meeting, however. It still seems a little hush, hush to me. I'm not sure if that could be a good sign.

Someone on twitter was speculating that he is still going to go to Detroit.
 

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Someone on twitter was speculating that he is still going to go to Detroit.

Yeah, I saw that too. I saw a lot of "will meet with" articles, but as I said, nothing concrete that he actually had the meeting. Hopefully, the Bears made him a good offer and then after he goes to Detroit, he chooses the Bears. A young, veteran 5 tech would be a great addition for Vic's defense going into the draft.
 

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Take it with a grain of salt but Kyle long had a Twitter conversation with him he might just be our gm Kyle is putting in work
 

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If he did in fact visit the Bears, how did we let him leave without a deal?
 

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