Possible Mooney Trade?

Graziano brings up some TDL possibilities for late October. In particular for our WR room the Bucs situation is worth monitoring. Evans might be available:

www.espn.com/nfl/insider/story/_/id/38290808/2023-nfl-surprise-predictions-32-teams-stat-leaders-breakouts-fantasy-football#TB

Don't be surprised if ... one or both of Mike Evans and Chris Godwin end up in the trade mix.
What I'm hearing: Teams spent the offseason struggling for solutions at wide receiver, and not all of them found those solutions. The demand will continue as the season rolls along and as injuries set in. The Buccaneers are in rebuild mode after Tom Brady's retirement, and they're carrying almost $77 million in dead cap money this year, trying to dump as much of that hit as possible into this year so they can go back into acquisition mode next year.
Moving Evans or Godwin to a contender (assuming, as we are, that the Bucs aren't one) at the deadline would help with that project. Evans is the more movable one, because he's making just $13 million in salary this year and is a free agent at year's end, while Godwin has a (non-guaranteed) $20 million due in 2024. But you'll hear these names kicked around in October for sure.

Sorry man, this is just a very twisted interpretation.  If you expected every single resource (trade, FA, draft) to be used on Offense alone, then you were being very unrealistic.

The D was horrible too.  Especially the front-7 and especially vs the run.  In the spring Poles replaced Roquan with Edmunds and Edwards and added Billings (on the cheap) as a run-stuffing NT.  On Offense, he added Tonyan @ TE2, Davis as a starting OL (after backing out on McGlinchey in what turned out to be a wise move), and Moore as WR1.  Not to mention 2 new RBs which both made the team.

In the draft, he went O-D-D-D-O-O with his 1st-4th round picks.  I don't know what you're getting your panties in a wad for there.  Edmunds was the ONLY big money defensive acquisition.  You also seem to forget that trading for Moore (on OFFENSE) also nets and extra 1sr in 2024 and an extra 2nd in 2025 as part of the deal.  Way way more capital was transacted on offense than defense, the highest pick of which was late-2nd round.  If Poles had passed on Wright to draft Carter instead, you'd have a strong argument and I'd probably be right there with you.

The only quibble I have with Poles' draft is that I would have liked to grab a C with one of those DL picks but my two guys, Tippman and JMS, were gone.  It will have to wait till next spring for a young upgrade there.

Lets look at the top-3 WRs for each team in the division (2 outside WRs + 1 slot WR):


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Bears are only team that doesn't have a rookie or an old man (MJones) in their top-3.  At none of the 3 positions are the Bears worse than #2 in the division.  Overall, Bears top-3 >> Lions & Packers.  The only group I'm jealous of is the Vikings and that's 90% because of JJ who's probably a top-3 WR in the entire NFL.  

I'm not gonna go through the same exercise for the RB and TE groups but if you look it up you will see that again Bears are no worse than #2 in both.  Only Hockensen (Minny) is better than Kmet and only Jones/Dillon is better than Herbert/Foreman/RoJo.

When you consider that the roster got completely nuked last year in a tank season, that's a pretty impressive rebuild thus far.  Is it complete?  Of course not.  We are still one more offseason minimum away from getting there.

Who's asking for a completely healthy star at ever position OL? 0 people. But if you know that one of your starting OL is never healthy, it MIGHT be wise to take that into consideration come draft day.

The idea is to build as good an offense as you possibly can.  Don't know what you mean there.  Again, this is a work in progress. 

Does anyone really think we'd have a "complete roster" just one offseason after a total nuking?

Fields needs to prove himself as a passer this year.  If he flops badly (a la Trubisky 2019), then I hope Poles has the courage to move on next spring.  Fields wasn't drafted by the current regime.  We will have 2 1st round picks and likely two HIGH 1st rounders.

Obviously, I really hope that isn't necessary.  Be a way faster rebuild if Fields takes a major step this year.  If he does, you go ALL IN next offseason to set up some SB runs.