Mighty Joe Young
Living in Troll's Heads Rent-Free for Decades
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Maybe its just me, but I don't trade Foles as a one-off. We're rebuilding, so what I would do if I were Poles is keep Foles until draft day, and see if I can package him with Quinn, and maybe (likely) a couple other players to see if I can trade into the first round.
If PFF is at ALL accurate and the Texans really need help everywhere, then that is who I am targeting with a package of at least 4-5 players of value. And if I think it could net us both the Texans' picks, this would be the rare case where I'd consider a Roquan Smith or a Jaylon Johnson etc to entice that. And if THAT is successful, I take that 3rd overall pick, and I trade back to whomever is willing to give up the most picks - maybe I target the Eagles since they have 2 first rounders, and because of the massive move up, squeeze them for all the picks I can get out of them including both 1st rounders.
Normally I wouldn't advocate trading established players of Smith or Johnson's quality and age for just picks, but this is literally the one scenario where I think that move is ok.
Now, do I think all that will happen? Hell no. But if I am Poles this year, for this draft? He's making it all about Fields, so I go all in on that, and stockpile picks to completely rebuild and retool the offensive side of the ball, even if it means we have to part with one or two really great players on defense to do it. Its the type of thing you can only do once anyway, and only in this situation the Bears find themselves in, and its not like the defense is going to be any good this year anyway - 2 of 11 players isn't going to make a significant impact.
I say roll the dice and do what you have to .
