With all due respect to you all I don't think Pace can worry too much about what this forum thinks about his pick or Bears fans in general. Whatever Watson may become if he does manage to land with the right team is not necessarily what he will be or become of he ends upon this team. IHMO I do not believe this team is ready for a top QB pick right now. The table hasn't been adequately set.
Pace isn't as venturesome in FA as I would like to see him so why would he be in the draft unless he's some how goaded or manipulated into a pick? A QB there is not the safer pick when compared to his other potential options. I see no difference in his professed policy of passing on the risk of a UFA who may be too rich for his blood and may not fit or disappoint than on a draftee for the very same reason. He'll have to make a $30 mil guaranteed investment in that guy too. He has no choice.
Eh. It won't be just this forum. Bear nation in general will literally poop their pants with fury if Pace passes on an available Watson (or Trubisky or Kizer, et al) if he has a good year and Glennon is avg to crappy.
I understand a lot of that will depend on team fit and blah blah blah, but ultimately angry fans aren't going to get into the nuances of whether it was a fit or not.
I also understand this is all projection. I'm not a scout. I don't know anything really about evaluation a players fit for a team. I do know I like what I see in Watson and while projecting those attributes on the Bears is optimistic, it's how I feel.
At #3 it will be a QB, a guy to protect the QB or a guy that gets to a QB.
No OT is worth a top 5 pick this year imo.
Now with Glennon on board I doubt Pace will take a QB at #3 (bad decision imo) and go after Thomas or Garrett. Or maybe he's gonna try to trade down and get additional pick(s). Just hope we won't get Allen.
Cant argue that logic, we did Cutler no favors over his tenure. I am hopeful Pace will put an end to that. I just see QB as so critical and if Fox and Loggains can not develop a young QB like Watson then I am hopeful Pace will pull the plug and get the proper staff in place. Time will tell.
Pretty sure nothing will change until we do get a good QB and I am tired of running amiss in the middle of the pack
Alex, why is the board not saving my posts? This is twice I lost a connection with the server only to reconnect seconds later but with my entire post lost?
What I wanted to add to this is that this time I would hope we have the table properly set for a new QB and not bring him in with some of the unrealistic expectation of one we did the last time.
No QB will ever do well on this team without the support and coaching that's needed for him to succeed. Not Mike Glennon nor anyone we draft. They need to do it right this time like they have never done before since Jim McMahon.
Have no idea really, probably just the way it is with proboards, or your browser, nothing I could do there
Alex, why is the board not saving my posts? This is twice I lost a connection with the server only to reconnect seconds later but with my entire post lost?
What I wanted to add to this is that this time I would hope we have the table properly set for a new QB and not bring him in with some of the unrealistic expectation of one we did the last time.
No QB will ever do well on this team without the support and coaching that's needed for him to succeed. Not Mike Glennon nor anyone we draft. They need to do it right this time like they have never done before since Jim McMahon.
Have no idea really, probably just the way it is with proboards, or your browser, nothing I could do there