Dan Wiederer

And that's why I've said for a while now that, that the menu of options available to the bears is intriguing because it allows you to be flexible in case the board breaks in a way that you would rather it not.

Right.

That happens a lot where you're like, Oh man, we expected this guy to be here for us.

He wasn't, but he,

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This column stacks up really nicely for us with this position group and the player that we really like at the top of it.

And so I would think that Thursday night gives them a real opportunity to find a guy that they believe in, right, and can move forward.

Now, the offensive tackle position to me, guys, is the most interesting because

You talk to people around the league and it's like, if you don't get one on night one, you're not getting one.

And so I feel like that's kind of the cutoff of where you're going to have to decide, do we really want to force that issue or are we okay with this Braxton Jones, Theo Bennett, Jed Wills competition?

And so, you know, that's part of the calculus.

And they've done these preparations, they've done these simulations, and they'll go into Thursday night prepared for whatever the board brings them.

420, baby!

I'll tell you this, though.

There's two reasons it's the holiday.

Number one, it's 420, but also it's the first day of youth baseball game tonight, 745.

Oh!

But here's another little nugget here.

As a veteran, I knew to pack my lunch today.

There's about four or five writers that sit in cubicles around me that didn't bring a lunch today because they figured, okay, we're going to be in and out.