Brett Kollmann thinks Bears will go 'all in' to address pass rush need
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What are the Bears' current needs in the NFL Draft?
I think I've mentioned this over the years, constantly just looking at short-term, long-term, what's going to help this football team now, but also being conscious of what's going to happen down the road. We want to sustain success. We've talked about that a lot. In order to do that, we have to be very calculated with the moves that we make. So when we were looking through different situations, we took that into account and we felt like sticking with our plan and going into free agency That was the best thing for us to do. This is Rahimi Harrison-Grody on 104.3 The Score. And that is Ryan Poles talking about spending more on Edgerusher. Gee, wonder why that would pop up. You know, maybe more on the draft capital.
Gee, wonder why that would pop up. Oh, we know why. So to talk about that, we've brought in one of the experts of the game talking football, Brett Coleman. He is at Brett Coleman on X. He is also the creator of All 32. He has an outstanding YouTube channel, and he is the co-host of the Bootleg Football Podcast. Brett, how are you? Thanks for coming on. I'm doing wonderful. Thank you for having me. Brett also joins us on Twitch. You can find him there at twitch.tv slash thescorechicago. That has been the biggest discussion here, Brett, is the desire for more pass rush out of the Bears, knowing how much capital they spent in free agency on it the previous year and two years, really. What is your impression of just the Bears' lack of pass rush or maybe what the lack of it is for what they spent?
How do you assess it when you look back at the season? I mean, the Dio acquisition hasn't worked out how they hoped. The Grady Jarrett acquisition hasn't worked out quite like they hoped. You know, Dexter had a strong start to his career, hasn't quite developed the way that they hoped, let alone the other DTs they brought in. Like Montez... Montez, I guess, worked as an acquisition and a payment if you're looking at where the edge market is now. But when they first paid him, he was what, like the sixth highest paid edge when that contract first happened? And I don't think he's ever really approached being any of the top 10 edges in the league since he got that deal. So it's just kind of one move after another that like at the time you understand it, but none of them have really...
hit and given them like an anchor edge rusher or even just pass rusher whether it's interior or edge to build around and so now I look at the draft where okay they they made a move to shore up linebacker bringing in Devin Bush you know they shored up safety corner we still have some questions about what Tyreek is going to be long term but like you can get by with the corners they have They just need to go all in again on defensive line and just keep taking swings until somebody hits. Luckily for them, this is a good edge rusher class to do it in. I would probably take two of them with their first three picks. Wow. So two of three there. We're trying to figure out. If they're going to use those picks, the first rounder and the two second rounders to do that and or fix, I don't know, offensive line.
There's just so many different directions they go. Let me ask you this. As we get into the second wave of free agency, is there an area where you feel like the Bears can improve through that avenue before we get to the draft? There's not really a whole lot else out there at the moment. This was a very thin free agent class. General managers have gotten wise over the last four to five years that if you sign guys early, you get a discount because the cap is jumping 8% to 9% per year, which is translating to a $20 million to $25 million jump in the cap every single year at this point. So if you get guys done early, you know, it... It'll kind of the off ramp, I guess I would say, is smoother. Right. Especially when you're throwing in void years and everything like that.
So you see teams like Buffalo paying guys a slew of guys after their third year. You know, the Eagles are just throwing like four void years under their contracts to fit everybody in.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What are the Bears' current needs in the NFL Draft?
0:00–5:39
2
How has the Bears' pass rush performance been assessed?
5:39–12:36
3
What strategies should the Bears consider for the upcoming draft?
12:36–14:54
4
How can the Bears improve through second wave free agency?
14:54–15:39
5
What insights were shared about the future of the Bears' defensive line?
15:39–16:23
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