It’s Friday! Getting mocked da fuq out. Don’t want to get burned out on the draft before it even takes place.
So, here’s Butch’s recent good film recs.
“Weapons” It’s EXTREMELY difficult to find good NEW horror/suspense flicks. I don’t know how many times I’ve rewatched “Exorcist III” or “Silence of the Lambs” because I just didn’t feel like watching another new dud.
So, I was pleasantly surprised to find a pretty good in “Weapons.” I’m not going to write essays on these films, just watch the trailer, but it’s good.
If you’re simply in a Butch “Roadhouse” type of mood – “Man of Tai Chi” is for you. Starring Keenu Reeves – it’s not exactly The Matrix. Honestly, I’ve found some video games with better plots, but it’s fun! What I like most is they actually show the different styles which mixed-martial arts will make extinct inside 50 years.
Emmanuel McNeil-Warren is gaining a lot of buzz. Some even grade him ahead of Oregon Duck [S] Dillon Thieneman.
“EMW” is yuge. Nearly 6’4. 200+ Forced 9 fumbles [Peanut Punch!]. Plays deep. In the box. Ran a 4.52. Rangy. Can cover TEs. The obvious comp is Kam Chancellor.
Naturally, I’d prefer Dline.
This class is deep at Corner and Edge, but a Cover Corner only eliminates ONE WR; a pass rush eliminates ALL of them – Trey Wingo
Once more this comes down to the forever debate of need-v-BPA.
Who improves the Bears more? an Alex Brown DE or a Kam at S?
Some talk about the Bears trading back esp if a prospect like DE Zion Young falls. Young is graded by many in the the 40s, so drafting him at #25 may not be maximizing value. As such, a trade down could be viable.
In the ’25 draft, The Texans traded back, and this is what it looked like:
In exchange for No. 25 overall, Houston will receive No. 34 in the second round, No. 99 in the third round, and a 2026 third-round pick.
I don’t know if QB Ty Simpson will tempt a team to move up, but needless to say, I’d be for it. If picks 25-45 are roughly equal, may as well get more picks.
Well, it was around this time last year that Jeff turned off the lights at DBB, and we had to scramble to salvage the peanut gallery.
Special shout out to GP who pointed me the right way to set it up, and fast, while that lurker, forgot his handle, who actually created a ready-made blog as an emergency backup.
I’m definitely going to be posting more draft stuff. I think the biggest hits were on Draft Day and GB Wild Card Game.
So on that note…
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I’ll try to relay the prospects most mocked to the Bears. Zion Young is definitely #1. Makes sense. Bears need Dline, specifically Edge ’cause Motivated or not, Dayo ain’t it while Austin frequently gets washed out on run plays [the 9ers abused him].
Enter a 6’6 262 Edge Setter in Young.
Gotta be honest – his tape didn’t wow me. He looks like a less explosive Leonard Floyd. Appears a lil light in the pants. Plays too high. Doesn’t exactly bend like Von Miller. Hands aren’t violent. Arm length decent. His RAS accurately reflects him. Functional. All this would be fine if Young punched like Mike Tyson or was Colossus-strong like Jared Verse, but he seems like an above avg DE known more for setting the edge than attacking the QB. Don’t we already have two of those? I do like that he plays with an attitude. Here’s a quick 2min run down:
Here’s Eric Edholm, lead Draft writer at NFL.com, breaking down Young. He compares him to Sweat, but Sweat was a RAS monster, so if this is Sweat-lite…
Albeit, I do agree with Edholm. I doubt the Bears could draft him in the 2nd, so if BJ/Poles want to get more turns at the roulette table, I’d rather trade down to draft Young. He’s a high-floor prospect, but Big Balls BJ doesn’t exactly “settle” while Poles is obsessed with 34″+ Arms and 9.5+ RAS. I could see Bears’ brass taking a swing at a higher upside prospects like OT Kadyn Proctor, S Dillon Thieneman, DT Kayden McDonald, DT Peter Woods, or even a chad like LB Jacob Rodriquez.
Joe Klatt ranks Zion Young as his 42nd overall player on his top 50 board which is more or less where I would take him; obviously need may drive his value higher.
I don’t know what really goes on at the owner’s meetings. Sometimes it feels like the NFL just likes filler; however, Cronin and other beat reporters did get some nuggets.
Some takeaways from Ben Johnson’s 30-minute session at the NFC coaches breakfast -Said he found out about Drew Dalman’s decision to retire in mid-February. Team quickly pivoted to Garrett Bradbury, who they believe “will fit us like a glove” -Johnson on left tackle: “There’s a lot of uncertainty there.” Said he’s not sure the Bears will have Ozzy Trapilo during the 2026 season after Trapilo suffered a “pretty serious injury” with his ruptured patellar tendon.” Johnson said it’s hard to say what the Bears left tackle position will look like this year or in five years. -Braxton Jones is up to 310 pounds and looked “yolked” when Johnson saw him come in to sign his contract during free agency. Said Jones is eager to get his career trajectory back on track. -Johnson isn’t happy with the offensive staff for how they didn’t coach WRs to get open enough. Emphasized getting back to fundamentals in OTAs on catching the ball to address drop issues.
[This makes me wonder about Rome sticking. I feel like BJ covets quick-twitch athletes like Burden and Loveland – players who can separate with short area burst. That’s not Rome. Johnson also brought up how Rome and others must do better on scramble drills.Bears were 3rd worst in drops, and 1st worst in dropped yardage.]
-Johnson and the Bears staff recently turned on the tape from Family Fest at Soldier Field in early August 2025 (the really sloppy practice that featured a bunch of delay of game penalties) to see where they were starting camp last year and how much further ahead they want to be in OTAs with the offense. -New OC Press Taylor (formerly the passing game coordinator) is “the most organized coach I’ve ever been around” per Johnson. Noted his “library of plays” for how to beat different defenses and how he organizes information as a benefit to Johnson in Taylor’s new role. -Johnson said coaches will be “hyper vigilant” to any complacency and entitlement after the success of last season. While he was happy to hear from fans/supporters “for about a week” about how exciting the 2025 season was, he said he doesn’t want to hear anymore about how good the Bears were as they have moved on to 2026. -New safety Coby Bryant wowed Johnson with a ‘holy cow, it-factor’ in terms of his leadership. Will be a critical piece to replace the leadership void created by Kevin Byard’s departure. -Johnson noted how “challenging” it was to form relationships with Jaylon Johnson and Kyler Gordon last year given how both missed significant time with injuries. “We’re starting over completely this spring” with their relationships so he has a better chance to get to know these players.
Bears coach Ben Johnson was asked about facing defensive coordinators — who now have a full season of game film on his offense — in 2026.
His long answer detailed some areas where he wants to be better offensively, including QB Caleb Williams.
Bearsszn@bearszn Ā· Bears GM Ryan Poles says the team will stay disciplined with their ābest player availableā draft philosophy even if that means drafting offense over defense:
āYou look at the draft, when Iāve been here, weāve taken the right mentality and taken the best available. Thatās been very offensive centric and I think thatās paid off for us. We got an All-Pro tackle (Darnell Wright) and Colstonās going to be All-Pro tight end. So, weāve done some really good things there. It just hasnāt lined up to be defensive lineā¦..I think the biggest mistake you can make is forcing something just because thatās what you need.ā
Standing on the bare ground…a mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate though me; I am part or particle of God.
March Madness, Spring-Break Marauding, and Mocking – tis that time of year.
I don’t know if I’ll write up my own mock. I feel almost obligated to do so, but I may not be the most “qualified” since I don’t really watch college football because it’s basically just super-teams like in MLB and NBA; despite that, I have been an avid fan of combines, tape and the whole draft process for decades, and my takes -for better or worse – don’t totally buck the industry godfathers like Kiper, McShay, Prisco, Davis, etc…
Neither Lincoln nor FDR were soldiers in a war, but that didn’t make them awful wartime leaders. IKE wasn’t a military genius like Grant or Patton, but he didn’t have to be.
All those men simply listened to the ‘experts,’ interpreted facts and delegated correctly; now they’re heroes.
On the flip side, Hitler very much served as a runner in WW1 [In one of the biggest ironies in history, Hugo Gutmann, a Jewish lieutenant in the List Regiment, recommended Adolf Hitler for the Iron Cross, First Class, in August 1918]. Yet, Hitler made COLOSSAL mistakes [ahem, invading Russia whilst still at war with England. Immediately declaring war on the U.S. after Pearl Harbor. Slow-walking Dunkirk. Heading south to the Caucus Oil instead of beelining Moscow. Switching to carpet bombing instead of destroying RAF. Not investing more in Uboats… Bad moves, Mein Duh-rer].
Being an “expert” guarantees nothing and sometimes it can come down to blind luck [See, Bradshaw coinflip].
Or as Rev refrains, “The draft is a crapshoot”.
I view it more like running an FF team or a portfolio. Yes, unforeseen circumstances CAN fuck you [Black Monday, Covid, your HB1 and WR1 going down in the same game]; nevertheless a person can master a field to minimize risk.
Minimizing risk and taking tactical chances is essentially life. It’s possible to knock out Mike Tyson with a lucky shot, but uhm, probably prudent to take some boxing lessons beforehand.
So, here we are, avg fans wading through the draftnik datumsphere. Well, if the turnover of NFL GMs tell us anything, it’s that no definitive empirical evidence or Newtonian equation can be applied to draft well. Eventually some Tech Bro will create some algo, but we’ll likely live on Mars before that. Perhaps this is what makes it so fascinating. It’s a mystery dropped in a riddle inside an enigma, wrapped in a dick-in-o-box.
For every ‘self-evident’ draft truism, 10 exceptions exist. Great QBs only come in the first RD. [Brady]. WRs who don’t run at least 4.4 suck [Rice]. Winning a Heisman accurate predictor [Tebus]. Gotta play for big program. Nope. Gotta have long arms. Nope. Need to be a 3 year starter. Nope. Never draft a primadonna, a criminal, a white CB or RB! Nope – nope – nope!
Still, that doesn’t mean one must blindly spin the roulette wheel and simply put $ on some random number “Jesus, take the wheel!”
Bill Polian, a Pro Football Hall of Fame general manager and former analyst, once asserted, ‘don’t build your draft on outliers‘
How many HOF LTs have arms shorter than 33″? How many HOF QBs [in modern era] are under 6’1? How many HOF CBs are slow? How many HOF LBs are dumb and soft? How many HOF DEs are weak and stiff?
The draft industry constantly churns trying to discover the new all-predictive metrics like an alchemist attempting to turn lead into gold:
DT – 10 yard split; WR – fast gauntlet; CBs – some combo of 40, cone, and broad jump; Edge, bend, pop, pressure rates + arm length.
And this doesn’t even account fore the psychologically, medical or mental [Wonderlic, S2 Cognition Test]. A team once asked a prospect if his mom was a hooker just to test his response.
QB? fogget about it. Could do a dissertation on all the data used to find franchise QBs, yet teams still draft Ken Obrien, Jeff George, or treat Brady and Purdy as afterthoughts. There’s a tortoise in the desert lying on its back…
As such, dunno if I’m going to sit on my dragon throne dropping down draft dogma. Instead, I’ll relay and reflect on what the pundits are pushing.
With that in mind, let’s start with a 1st RD Mock Draft from Kiper. Again, not arguing this is how it’s going down [it’s not without trades, of that we are certain], but mostly to survey the 1st round landscape.
ESPN is obviously grooming Field Yates to be Kiper’s successor. Personally, others like Charles Davis or Joel Klatt are waaaay better at breaking down film, stats, metrics and framing them in context, but Yates is more ‘plugged in’, and often the most accurate mocks aren’t even from proper scouts, rather “insiders”, like Schefter, esp on the night before the draft.
Since Bears have TWO picks in the 2nd, may be worth perusing to see who’ll be in our range. As to whom Poles should draft, need vs BPA, etc, well, that’s why the comments’ section exists!
you know the man in the back moved out couldn’t get his rent so I inherited this huge old cat big as an average dog mean yellow eyes old and furiously strong when he strikes with one of those paws the walls shake his name is “Butch” and he doesn’t play around he’s cranky has his own set ideas learned from somewhere long ago. he gets on the trip which is his sometimes he gets gone I’ll be petting him and then he’ll have me my hand trapped in his gut the teeth will incise into the top part of my hand And holding me there like that he’ll rip the back of my wrists with his two rear paws with the claws fully extended… I leave my hand there Until he’s finished then I lift it away rivulets of blood seep…he just looks at me.
I’ll send him to you in a whole natural almond crate I’ll cut holes so he can breathe
In this image taken from video, rap artist Afroman testifies in court on Tuesday, March 17, 2026, in West Union, Ohio. (WCPO via Associated Press)
“I hope Afroman really did fuck that cop’s wife” – rando internet comment
This piqued my interest into the Afroman saga which is much too long to totally explain, but here’s the gist.
– Some street rat [turns out was a felon] informed the police that Afroman sells drugs, kidnaps and tortures victims in his basement [NVM that his home doesn’t have a basement, but hey, it’s the Ohio police].
– Adam’s County sheriffs barge in, break his gate and door on top of ransacking his house. They turn off his security cameras because, ya know, that’s what perfectly legit cops do; needless to say, they didn’t find the sex dungeon. They don’t reimburse him for his damages and tell him to shove their apologies up his ass. Apparently, under the law, most cops can indeed break down YOUR shit, ransack your home, traumatize your family, and barge out like the Gustapo.
– So, Afroman makes a [shitty] song about it to try to raise enough $$$ for new gate and door.
“I asked myself as a powerless black man in America, what can I do? And the only thing I can come up with was, make a funny rap song about them, and make some money, use the money to pay for the damages, and move on.” – Afroman
He says some stuff about the sheriffs as you may imagine, including one particular officer he coins “Officer Poundcake.” He also accuses the cops of stealing $400 bucks from his legal stash [why else would they turnoff the cameras?].
– Ohio cops suddenly develop feelings like they’re on the Oprah Winfrey couch and claim Afroman’s songs have victimized THEM. I guess sheriffs are total snowflakes for enough shakedown. Officer Poundcake specifically cites emotional trauma esp since Afroman implies he fucked his wife, which under oath, he can’t actually deny. I don’t know how you can look your friends in the eye after that, but hey, you baked the lemon poundcake, now eat it! Welcome to Winchester, Ohio, pop 1K.
– Jury finds that Afroman actually has freedom of speech though he still has to pay the lawyers out of his pocket. $$$ most of us regular folk don’t have. Food for thought.
“I wanted to drug traffic, but then I got high…I wanted to build a torture basement, but then I got high…”
A JAG Lawyer breaks it down citing, of all things, the precedent of Hustler owner Larry Flynt writing that Rev Jerry Falwell literally fucked his mother.
Ran across a vid that confirmed what I suspected. While the new signings may not ‘wow’ anyone, and appear equilateral [or even downgrades], they fit schematically. It’s like buying that fancy Black&Decker circularsaw. It’s a fine expensive tool, but a lot of good it’ll do if you gotta screw something in.
Bears signed safeties Coby Bryant and Cam Lewis in free agency
Brisker and Byard didn’t play the slot as much as Lewis or Bryant. Obviously Allen wants a versatile secondary that can slot. Both Brisker and Byard were more traditional Cover-2 safeties which makes sense considering that’s essentially what Eberflus runs, but a new sheriff is in town. More flexibility obfuscates coverages; If Brisker lurked around the line of scrimmage high likelihood he’s blitzing which makes life simpler for opposing QBs. Well, with the new acquisitions, the QB must now think twice if he sees the safeties on the LOS. The Big Nickel is likely the template for upgrading the SS too through the draft or otherwise.
Here’s Saturday Morning Inspection breaking it down.
