Best of the Bears: Who will get traded this offseason?
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What challenges does Ryan Poles face with the Bears' roster?
It's really difficult. I talked about this earlier, but especially when you win games, you create this really deep relationships and you see guys help you get to the next level. So when you have to pick and choose and really try to live in different spaces cap wise, it can be really difficult and it's hard to turn the emotional side off of it. But at the end of the day, we got to do what's best for our organization.
Ryan Poles has got to play a little bit of Tetris with the Bears roster and the Bears salary cap. And so there's some things that need to be changed. Ben Johnson talked about it at the end of the year. He's like, look, this is not going to be the same team because that's what happens every year.
Thanks. Now I have the Tetris theme song in my head, by the way. Doom, doom, doom, doom, doom. Club remix.
But, yeah, he's got to do that. Like, for example, you bring in Nashawn Wright, and Nashawn Wright is probably going to get himself a nice deal. Yeah, as he should. Three-year deal or something like that, probably somewhere around $40 million or maybe more than that for Nashawn Wright. You have to make decisions on your safeties. You have to maybe redo your linebacker room because TJ Edwards is hurt and he's got a lot of miles on him. And Tremaine Edmonds costs too much money versus your salary cap. So you have now told his agent, if you can find a trade partner, we would be interested in talking to him. But more than likely, he's going to be cut. Let's start with Edmonds. How do you think he played last year, and does it make sense for the Bears to go, go find a deal, Jermaine, because I don't know if we can bring you back.
I think it only makes sense because he's costly. Because at 27 years old, coming off a stretch of the season where I believe he was playing the best football of his career. I agree with you. Before he left the lineup again with an injury. But in the chunk of the year where they moved him to Will and he was healthy, man, was he playing well. And that was both with T.J. Edwards in the lineup and at times without him in the lineup. And that's where, at times, Noah Sewell had to step in and play some decent football. And, you know, you had DeMarco Jackson step in and play well, too. But Tremaine Edmonds, when healthy, that length, that athleticism, and the move to will, we saw the best version of him. We saw the version of Tremaine Edmonds that the NFL had kind of been waiting.
waiting for for a lot of his career because he's always been that guy. And you and I talked about it. As soon as they made the move and Roquan was gone and then you bring Edmonds and Edwards in, and Edmonds was the darling of that follow-up acquisition. Yep. But a lot of it was traits. And, you know, we're in the midst of the pre-draft process right now. He's always been a really traits-y guy and a guy who's been – who's had good production, but not the elite-level production that his skill set would indicate he should be having. We saw stretches of that this year, and he is only 27 years old. So old 27, though. He's got a lot of miles on him. But that being said, he hasn't had, to my knowledge, I don't think he's had some injury-ravaged career either.
And he's not a guy who's consistently been a part of the blitz package in his career. You've got to tussle with offensive linemen when you're an off-ball linebacker. There's no doubt about that. But his style of play is not such where it looks like his shoulders are ready to fall off and his knees are all strapped up or anything like that. So I agree it's an 0-27 because of how long he's been in the league. but I still see him being a guy who's going to play beyond the age of 30 and still, unless things really take a drastic turn, he doesn't look like someone who's lost a step at all yet. But yeah, he's not going to be a Bear anymore because he's really expensive and they're up against the cap.
With TJ Edwards, you have an injury that is probably going to make him being available early on problematic or maybe not even the best version of himself when he does get back for the Bears.
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