I like it A LOT!!!
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Stupid IMO, but not like we were using him correctly. The compensation is fine.
You can't pass up a 2nd rounder. GREAT move, although I do like Chase.
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One 2nd round pick? That's it?!? We all knew he'd be traded but it seems like the Bears got te better end of this deal.
Based on what data?Originally Posted by that1guy
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Well at least the Bears pick will be high (like ours). It's not like this team is going anywhere this year, let's just hope Omar can draft WR's like his predecessor.
EDIT: I just read they got the Ravens 2nd round pick that was part of the R. Smith deal. Oh well.
Don’t like it at all. If it had to be done, compensation is good. Not a fan of it though…
I wish they threw Canada in as part of the deal
A self proclaimed 3rd bed WR in the league for a 2nd rounder?!
I will be rooting hard against the bears now !
Nope. It is the bears original pick. Just corrected it on TV.
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Data? This is an opinion not a political debate.
Same.
This makes me have other super angry thoughts about WRs though. Almost certainly means either the mighty midget or Sims (please let it be Sims) is the new slot WR. If that is the case, why wasn't Sims playing before this season? Like that period last season where they didn't have enough capable WRs...why not try him then? It would seem (giant leap on my part) that he's your new starting slot WR now. Did he get all that much better in one off-season?
Be interesting to see what Claypool does as a Bear. If he ever puts it together, he could be a monster with like zero competition for targets in that offense.
"We want volunteers... ah, forget it.
Also...initially this seems like the kind of trade a rebuilding team makes. Fine. Great. That is what the Steelers are. So asset accumulation is never a bad thing.
But if 8 weeks into the season you are ready to push the "rebuild" button...why did they fart around all off-season with the "we're not rebuilding...we are competing" stuff?
This is starting to feel scarily like the lurching decision making of a "bad" franchise.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I know. Claypool wasn't that good and is likely to never live up to his size and speed measurables. I'm not debating that. It is that they seem to have switched "process" multiple times between Ben R's retirement and the halfway point of the subsequent season. That rarely leads to good results.
I like this, and think it is a good trade for each team. In the short term this degrades the Steelers, but it is not like the team's passing game is setting the league on fire this season anyway.
I like getting a 2nd round pick that should be a high 2nd rounder at that. It also gives Claypool a chance to be at least the WR2 and more likely WR1 for the Bears for the rest of this season. The Bears needs receivers for Justin Fields in the worst way.
He would leave after the 2023 season so I have no problem with this trade....Of course without Canada he will be much better in Chicago.....
Fair enough, but I was just interested in hearing your take as to why the Bears got the better of the deal. Yes, I get the whole bird-in-hand theory, but with the quality of the Steelers product so far, I prefer to see what's in the bush.
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I'll take it. He's gone after next year anyways. Now, we'll be the 1980s Commandos/Foreskins w/one tall receiver and 3 smurfs.
yup
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It could be a high second round pick too....The bears have traded 2 of their best defensive player in the last few days and they give up 49 points in Dallas....They are 3-5 right now
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None of this seems surprising. I wouldn't want to catch 3 yard crossing patterns in this offense for the next two years either.
Maybe this is one of those rare trades where everyone wins?
For Claypool and the steelers,likely....But for Chicago,we will see.They are 3-5 right now and they have just traded their 2 best defensive player in the last few days,so if the bears are not much better in 2023 and they don't sign Claypool after that,this is a bad trade for them
good move. now maybe the better receiver, Pickens, will get more targets. i guess tomlin finally accepted he doesnt have a winning formula, so its time to change the ingredients. EVEN Stevie wonder could have seen before the season started the offensive line was far from being fixed.
i am a bit shocked they made this move after they didnt activate austin.
I was in favor of trading him if we could get a return that high. SO glad I'm not the one running the franchise.
In all seriousness, I really did not see any way this guy had a future with the team, so it's good we got something for him, wouldn't have even expected it to be that high. Bears' pick is likely to be a high one, too.
A second-round pick this offseason also sure beats the hell out of a "third-round comp pick" in 2025 that more realistically would just be nothing.
See you Space Cowboy ...
the fact that the elephant is still in the room is the reason I don’t like it. Wasn’t Claypool one of the guys who just publicly dissed the playcalling?
What scares me most is there seems like there’s an arrogant feeling like any receiver can be replaced because “the Steelers know how to draft receivers”. Eventually there’s garbage that is selected and that actually happens way more frequently than people realize with this team…it’s gonna bite them in the ass…
James Washington
Demarcus Ayers
Sammie Coates
Dri Archer
Markus Wheaton
Justin Brown
Toney Clemons
There’s more misses than hits since 2010…
Antonio Brown
Martavis Bryant
JuJu Smith-Schuster
Diontae Johnson
Chase Claypool
Not to mention the free agents that don’t really workout…
Guess Boykin gets work in the offense now...
With Gunner and Sims probably getting more snaps, Canada probably sees this as an opportunity to call more jet sweeps and reverses.
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That would have downgraded it to a 7th rounder for compensation. But still worth it!
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