The phones were a trap the Bears kept walking into, shipping out surplus on nearly every deal.

That edge rusher hole did not close this weekend, and it was the biggest one on the wall. It is a win-now wager, and the future is the stake. The Devaughn Vele pickup adds a known quantity to a class of unknowns.

There is no soft landing here: they fought the board and left edge rusher open, and the grade is the bill.