San Francisco Guilty of Tampering

by Adam T on Mar 24, 2008 6:38 PM CDT in News Comment 11 comments

NFL Commissioner has made his ruling and it favors the Chicago Bears. The Bears had previously accused the 49ers of talking with Lance Briggs while he was still under contract.

The 49ers have been stripped of their 5th round pick. More importantly, the Bears will swap picks with the 49ers in the third round.

The Bears will get the 49ers 7th pick in the third round, #71. The 49ers get the Bears choice, since the Bears have 2 selections that round.

The last part makes no sense. Why would the Bears opt to give up #76, when they can give up #91? If anything else they can then trade back and get another late round draft pick.

Perhaps though with a higher pick the Bears could move back into the 2nd at a higher spot if they want and go after a couple of guys they covet.

This is a very favorable deal for the Bears. Not only did they get to keep Lance Briggs at the contract numbers they wanted to give, but we pick up a few spots in the draft.
I'll post the Bears new draft order and some updated mocks once the Bears select the pick.

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I don't think they had a choice

I believe it was the same way the league worked the Patriots deal. In that, the Pats had to give up their own pick (31) not the pick they got from the Niners (7) eventhough it obviously would of punished them more by taking the seventh pick from them. If I'm not mistaken the 91st pick came from the trade with the Chargers, so while the Bears will be picking at that position it isn't technically theirs. So when the league announced the swap of picks it resulted in the Niners and Bears swapping their original picks.

I do agree that this works out well for the Bears. Even if it is only a few spots every spot helps when you dealing with first day picks.

by illini on Mar 24, 2008 7:08 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

That would make sense

but half the articles I have read said is was Bears choice. That makes no sense.

by Adam T on Mar 24, 2008 8:17 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

FYI

The third round isn't on the first day anymore. I know, it's just a technicality, but it does change the nuances of the draft. There did seem to be a line about what kind of players one could get on the first day compared to the second. Oh well, guess there's just more of a difference now.

by tyger1147 on Mar 24, 2008 9:39 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Not much of a penalty for 49ers

For a team that tampered with a player on another team during the season really did not get hit that hard. They lost a 5th round pick. That was basically it. Going down five draft choices in the 3rd round isn't going to make or break a team. The 49ers got to be feeling pretty happy about themselves because they SHOULD have gotten hit with a larger penalty, like the Bears receiving their 3rd or 4th round pick. In this penalty, the Bears don't even get the Niners 5th round pick!!! All the Bears get in this deal is a draft pick five choices higher in the 3rd round. The 49ers get lucky and the Bears get nothing.

by whitebearsox23 on Mar 24, 2008 10:44 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

There's a reason

There's a reason why the punishment for the 49ers wasn't that great and why the Bears didn't get much in return: Briggs resigned with the Bears and not the 49ers. If Briggs had signed with the 49ers, it would have been much more severe, I can guarantee that. But he didn't and in the end, the tampering didn't hurt us or help them. This punishment was more to deter future incidents rather than punish the 49ers.

by bs1220 on Mar 24, 2008 11:02 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Absolutely

the biggest punishment the niners got was not getting Briggs.

by Adam T on Mar 24, 2008 11:48 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Really

I think its a pretty sweet deal, I mean maybe this happened for a reason. Maybe we'll end up getting a better player just by goin 5 picks up, I know it doesnt seem like alot, but its the 3rd round, theres still alot of talent on the board then. Lets just hope JA knows what to do with it.

by DaNate23 on Mar 25, 2008 9:04 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

I'd beg to differ

In the third round is really when all the trading starts. People are constantly moving around rounds 3-5 to get players they didn't think would be available.

The higher up you are the more likely somebody wants to deal.

Teams miss out on players all the time, because they are a few spots to far back.

by Adam T on Mar 25, 2008 9:55 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

umm...

... isn't that pretty much what he said?

He is saying that this is a good deal, as it moves the Bears up a few slots which may be enough to get a player that they otherwise would not have gotten.

Or it will give them more trading power.

It is never a bad thing to have a higher pick, even if it is just 5 slots higher.

Further... your assertion that the Bears chose to give up the better pick rather than their later 3rd round pick is just silly.

visit the mindful mission.

by big_lowitzki on Mar 25, 2008 10:40 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Yeah, yeah

don't get all technical on me.

I did misread his comment.

by Adam T on Mar 25, 2008 11:09 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

thanks

as much as I respect WCG, I love your opinion biglowitzki, Im just sayin that maybe everything happens for a reason, look at the '83 draft where we got Jimbo Covert, Willie Gault, Mike Richardson, Richard Dent, etc. We ended up with Super Bowl winners there, whose to say we wont end up with similar results...call me an idiot, it builds my character more.

by DaNate23 on Mar 26, 2008 12:14 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs