Post by JABF on Feb 4, 2020 8:40:41 GMT -6
I think most would agree with you; but imo I think thats how you end up w/Tru or Carr or going back further Couch and so many others. Think about Den w/Shanahan leaving and getting a qb that the new HC didn't want. Huge investment in that qb lost bc of the instability around the team. The team needs stability before they get their qb, or even a good qb(Cutler wasn't great but was good) won't save them.
It would be better to pull the QB in after the O-line is in place and some of the other skill positions were in place as well. But my feeling is the franchise QB is such a rare and had to find player that if you need one and you can draft one, you just do it. Regardless of your situation with the rest of the team.
+1
And I get it, that this isn't an exact science where you can control all the factors exactly and build your team in an exact sequence. Consequently, you just draft the best players you can, when you can get them. And the hope is that misses in the draft are a very low percentage of your draft. You do this over a span of seasons and build a COMPLETE TEAM rather than have a few great players scattered among a bunch of mediocre to bad players.
It's a TEAM SPORT and so many fans (especially Bears fans judging from social media) are clueless about this fact.
It's more of a "holistic thing" where the overall TEAM is what makes or breaks you. The QB position is extremely important, obviously. And no question Trubisky needs to show that he is the guy - and show it this season. But we have critically important needs IN ADDITION TO the QB. This is not an "either/or" thing. It's a "get it all fixed" thing. And until the Chicago Bears can build a great TEAM there will be no joy here. It will just be more decades of pain and failure to build a great TEAM.
How on earth can anyone be watching football in the year 2020 and not realize these champions have great TEAMS rather than JUST a great QB? And even the TEAMS with a great QB also have surrounded that guy with so much more talent than what we have with our team now. This isn't rocket science. But obviously the Bears fans are not the sharpest knives in the drawer. It's actually kind of embarrassing to read about the constant "poor me" stuff about us not drafting Mahomes. Yes, it would have been fantastic to have done that. Yes, we wish the Bears offense had better talent everywhere too - instead of the suckage we have now. But we can't (or shouldn't) live in the past. I'm looking at the "now" of the team and want to see if the Bears can fix enough of this offense to compete this year.
Others? They will whine about the past and basically just be miserable people living in the past. It's really pretty ignorant, but that's their choice. Must suck to be them, to be honest.