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CBS Sports: Bill Polian is open to an NFL return and could land with the Bears
http://www.cbssports...with-the-bears/

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Sports on Earth: Air Bear? Chicago's Trubisky Gamble

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CBS Sports: Here's what NFL execs are saying about the Bears draft -- and it's not good
http://www.cbssports...d-its-not-good/

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SI: Bears Have Big Questions on Both Sides of the Ball

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SI: Bears' QB Battle Gets All the Attention, But Defense Will Dictate The Season

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The Ringer: The Bears Had a Historically Bad Day on Offense and Still Won

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#8 Roquan Smith, OLB, Georgia.

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SI: The Keys to Unlocking Trubisky’s Potential

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SI: Mitchell Trubisky Reflects On His Rookie Season and His Lessons Learned

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SI: 'What's the Next Thing?' Matt Nagy, Bears Focused on Staying a Step Ahead

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The Ringer: The 2018 Bears Are Following the 2017 Rams’ Blueprint

[SportsGuy]

Bears are trading for Khalil Mack

[SportsGuy]

They are giving up at least 2 first rounders for Mack..maybe more. Details still coming in.

[BobPhelan]

Seems like a lot but the Bears were already my dark horse for this year. This can’t hurt.

[SportsGuy]

This is what happens when you have a QB making no money.

They also signed Allen Robinson.

[SportsGuy]

Schefter:

Trade official, source tells ESPN:

Bears get: Khalil Mack, a 2020 second-round round pick and a conditional 2020 fifth-round pick.

Raiders get: 2019 first-round pick, 2020 first-round pick, 2020 third-round pick, 2019 sixth-round pick.

So Bears get back second-round pick, too

[bnickle]

Mack is terrific but the 2019 and '20 picks could easily both be Top 10 overall. Maybe higher. The late round picks kind of cancel out but I look at the 2nd and 3rd round swaps as the Raiders moved from the 2nd down to the 3rd to pick up an extra 1st rounder. I think they made out extremely well here.

[SportsGuy]

Schefter:

Khalil Mack and the Bears just reached agreeement on a record-setting 6-year, $141 million extension ($23.5M per year avg) that includes $90M guaranteed and $60M at signing, source tells ESPN.

Mack is the new highest-paid defensive player in NFL history.

[SportsGuy]

Mack is terrific but the 2019 and '20 picks could easily both be Top 10 overall. Maybe higher. The late round picks kind of cancel out but I look at the 2nd and 3rd round swaps as the Raiders moved from the 2nd down to the 3rd to pick up an extra 1st rounder. I think they made out extremely well here.

And they didn’t have to give him a record setting deal..deals where teams give guys and then rarely (if ever)!win SB.

Oakland did great here. I find it funny how many National people are slamming them for this deal. The art of building a team is lost on so many people.

[Mackus]

Interesting to me on a personal level that the two guys getting the crazy huge deals recently are Donald and Mack.