Chicago Bears Cap Space After Allen Trade

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I think the smart move is to try to trade Forte now even if for a 5th round draft pick. I would also heavily explore trading Jeffery in the offseason. Bears need lots of good, young players on rookie contracts if they want a quick turnaround. No reason to be paying top dollar to players on a bad team. Fill the gaps with veterans on 1 year deals for the time being or 2 year deals that are all front loaded with the guaranteed money so they can be cut if need be.

Only way this doesn't turn into a 5 plus year rebuild is for Pace to start accumulating multiple picks in rounds 1-3 over the next 2 to 3 seasons.

If you have a whole team of rookies and leftover veteran slop, you won't even be able to tell who is talented or how to develop it because the mess that will happen out on the field.
 
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Come on. You just can't assume finding replacements is so easy. Losing is a mentality. Forte deserves to be a Bear and we need him. I honestly don't get all this talk. I will pipe down and hope for the best because clearly I'm crazy.
There is nothing that says he wants to stay here when he can go to a team that can compete immediately.

Finding a rb by committee replacement would be much easier with a good line, which we may have to overpay in the short term to get here.

Ultimately if we can keep getting younger at all positions and have extra drafts picks that we use wisely our cap space can make up the difference and we can get this ***** on track in a hurry.

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After this season, free agents are not going to want to come to Chicago unless it's for an overpriced contract.

The fact that you actually believe players gave up more money to come here in the first place is really quite amusing. As if prior to the Emery debacle we were the Patriots...
 

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Man 60 million can get you a secondary and a right guard at least.
 

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the bears will have 60 mill in cap space this offseason assuming cutler, houston, bennett are still on the roster. To reach the nfl floor the bears only need to spend roughly 10 mill or so to meet the nfl salary floor requirements. It'll definitely be interesting to see if pace sticks to his rebuild via draft plan or does make some big FA signings which means they generally will not work out.
 

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We may have a ton of money but if we suck again this year who is gonna come here when there are much better options? We will end up only being in the market for bad players who want to be overpaid.
 

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Or a serviceable guard instead and keep the three young running backs

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If you get lucky and those three young running backs and "Serviceable" guard end up being good fits, then yes. 4 unknown players VS 1 known?
 

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If you get lucky and those three young running backs and "Serviceable" guard end up being good fits, then yes. 4 unknown players VS 1 known?


4 vs 1 for the same price. Especially if the RB isn't interested in playing here anymore and wants to go try to get a ring. Which I respect.
 

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Who wouldn't want to be on a team with forte,Kyle long and Jeffrey on offense and a defence coached by Fangio.
 

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We can use the franchise tag on Jeffery or Forte. I don't know why everyone is so quick to discard one of the best running backs in our long history. I would start contract extension talks since we're tanking this season anyway and see what type of deal he's look for (years wise).

In business, successful organizations do not pay for past performance, rather they invest in the future. I wouldn't resign Forte for anything, he is inevitably/100% guaranteed by physics to decline over the next year or two, and the Bears won't compete in that window. So, let the young'uns play, and ship Forte off to a contender because he deserves a chance at winning before he retires, which will be in 3 years at most.
 

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Who do you think that is Windy? Brooks or perhaps one of the two guys from Baltimore. I am sure Pace will prefer one of the younger ones. Who would you take?

Forget serviceable, for the 7-8 million he will want the Bears could sign the top OG in free agency. Iupati and Franklin went for that annually.
 

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