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St. Xavier University, to welcome in Mike Golick Jr. from Draft Kings and the Gojo

podcast. Mike, thanks for joining me. Appreciate you having me. All right. It's a big off

season for the Bears coming up. I don't know if you've heard. You know what? Every once in a while, it makes it to the top of the pile.

I mean, going back, you guys had maybe the most exciting day between the Houston Texans

battle for the number one overall. Who could forget that as far as late season fodder?

Yeah, yeah. So $100 million in salary cap space, number and overall pick.

Let's start with Justin Fields, though. Sets a rushing record for a single game. Probably breaks

Lamar Jackson's record if he plays the last game, but he had the hip. He had the hip for the

number one pick. What did you see from him this year? And do you think that he's done enough to prove he's

a franchise guy that they can scrap the idea of trading him and drafting Bryce Young.

Yeah, I think so. I mean, we've heard that idea floated over and over again, but I just think that

going back to the player that you scouted with Justin Fields coming out of college, he's right in line with the guys that we're talking about in this year's draft, better than most of those guys. And at his size, too, there's going to be a lot of complicated conversations

coming up about Bryce Young, about C.J. Stroud, and about size at the quarterback position,

durability based on what's asked of these guys. To me, what you've got for Justin Fields is the

ability physically to get people out of trouble. And when you're a team with as many holes to fill as the bears,

you need a guy that's going to be able to do that.

Now, you've got to find a way to make that next step,

both in the way you approach the offense and the way he approaches it

at a player of opening up that passing attack and being less reliant on his legs,

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