It’s not an either-or, apparently. The Bears are pursuing Kenny Golladay with the intention of also keeping Allen Robinson, Brad Biggs of the Chicago Tribune hears. 
The Bears franchise tagged Robinson earlier this month, but some have speculated about a tag-and-trade scenario — or a rescinding of the tag — with Golladay taking his place. But, the Bears want both receivers. With Robinson locked in for $18MM this year, they’ll need some cooperation from the Lions’ free agent. That could be easier said than done. The Bears are sticking to a one-year offer for $11-$12MM. Golladay, meanwhile, wants roughly $18.5MM per year, according to PFT’s Mike Florio.
An $18.5MM AAV would still be less than top-of-the-market money for wide receivers. Currently, Cardinals star DeAndre Hopkins leads the pack with $27.25MM per annum. After that, it’s Julio Jones ($22MM), Keenan Allen ($20.025MM), Amari Cooper ($20MM), and Michael Thomas ($19.25MM) rounding out the top five. Golladay’s asking price would position him sixth among all WRs, just ahead of Odell Beckham Jr.’s $18MM AAV.
Robinson, heading into his age-28 season, quickly signed his tender after news of Golladay’s Bears visit leaked out. Coming off his third 1,000-yard campaign, he probably didn’t envision a scenario in which both he and Golladay would wind up in Chicago, catching passes from new quarterback Andy Dalton,
Pay the man 16 a year a win
Like wanting Mariota to play for 3 million a year.
One snap away just ask Matt Cassell
And where will the bears get 16 million? They have already renegotiated as many contracts as they could. someone would have to go. How about Akiem Hicks and Bobby Massie and Charles Leno….that would be about $23 million in cap space…just enough to get this wide out and have $5 Million for the draft. But what are you going to do about replacements for these 3 positions that you let go of? Point is….Pace has out spent everything he has and now is playing the game of wack-a-mo.
Andy Dalton is their starting QB!
Yes…we have heard it before….Andy Dalton is the starting QB….Period.
Dalton gets a bad rap … he can win in this league. Went to playoffs several times , wasn’t productive there but he is a much better QB than he gets credit for.
4 playoff games 1 touchdown 6 picks, he scored 10 points or less 4 weeks in a row last year on an offense with much better weapons than the bears, dalton isn’t better than trubisky, and trubisky sucks
One area where Dalton is better than Trubisky is on deep throws, so maybe we’ll see more long TD plays. Stats show it. That said, I think Nagy messed up Trubisky’s development and got Pace to side with him and not Trubisky, so see you later Mitch…
Neither Pace nor Nagy know how to develop players. Watch Mitch to have some success just like Floyd did.
I kind of doubt that. Mitch will be a backup QB the rest of his career, if that much. The free agent QB heap is full of Mitch’s. You cannot develop a player that does not have it to begin with. As for Floyd and others, i agree with you.
Disagree. Pace and Nagy have nothing to do with Floyd’s development or lack there of. He needed the right DC, in the right scheme, and it just happens the Rams DC was part of the Bears coaching team in 2018.
No idea what the Bears are doing. Cut Fuller, sign a lateral move with Dalton, blow $18 million on Robinson, aggressively pursue Golladay, and try to trade Hicks.
Are they trying to contend? Blow it up? Do they have cap issues? Then why spend so much on receivers? Just baffling.
The issue is that Pace does not know how to draft players.
Actually, Pace has done well in the mid rounds. Unfortunately, he’s also absolutely blown his high draft picks.
All of the above, that’s the problem. Pace lead the team into cap hell trying to put a good team around the wrong QB.
The decision to move forward with pace/nagy makes no sense other than to delay the inevitable 4th regime change this decade.
The Bears are just a QB away…..
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The past few decades
Since 1986 to be exact. And before McMahon, for many decades.
Am I reading this right that D Hopkins is getting 5.25 million MORE than any other wide receiver in football? I get it that he’s in the top 2-3 or so WR in the game, but I don’t understand paying him QB money and that much more than any other WR. Is there any other position in the NFL where one player earns roughly 20% more than the second highest guy (and 25% more than the 3rd)?
Also, Amari Cooper being the 4th highest paid and making $20 mil makes me LOL
That could be nice but Mooney & Miller did a decent job