That $70 million contract for Quinn is a killer on cap space. Some say that he has had many more sacks playing 4-3 than 3-4. I am sure Mack can excel in any system, so maybe we should bring in a DC who is great at 4-3 and hope that helps recover some of the investment in Quinn over the next year or two.
Or just ride out 2021, a rebuilding year anyway, with Quinn and then dump him afterwards. No need to reinvent the wheel.
That $70 million contract for Quinn is a killer on cap space. Some say that he has had many more sacks playing 4-3 than 3-4. I am sure Mack can excel in any system, so maybe we should bring in a DC who is great at 4-3 and hope that helps recover some of the investment in Quinn over the next year or two.
Or just ride out 2021, a rebuilding year anyway, with Quinn and then dump him afterwards. No need to reinvent the wheel.
I am not ready to write-off 2021 until I see where we stand after FA and the draft. A few critical adjustments could yield significant improvements. If so, I see 11-6 within reach.
I just have the uneasy feeling Pace will try to prove he's the smartest guy in the room again and do something stupid with that first round pick for a QB. I don't mind drafting QB in the first round, but my sinking feeling is that Pace doesn't have a clue and will screw it up. I wish he'd go OL and not screw that one up. He hasn't drafted any OL in the first round spanning 6 drafts. If you include all of the first 3 rounds spanning those 6 drafts, he whiffed on Grasu in the 3rd round and he did draft Daniels and Whitehair as 2nd round picks. Massie is a 4th round pick from Arizona. Leno is a 7th round LT that Phil Emery drafted.
I wish Pace had put a higher priority on the OL before now. And regarding him drafting a QB this year, it just makes me so uneasy. You just "know" he's going to crap the bed again. I do hope I am wrong about all of this. But I don't thing Pace can get it done here. One year, or three years more... it's just going to be more of the same. I agree with you about the fact that if he's given a 1 year "prove it" or get fired situation in 2021 then bad things are gonna happen to the team. But I can't imagine having to watch him work for 3 more seasons here.
I was told you have to add in Germain Ifedi as a first round pick, so the Bears really have a (Rt to LT) 1st-2nd-UDFA-2nd-7th. Thats an investment of a 1st, 2nds, a 4th and a 7th assuming they line up Ifedi-Whitehair-Mustipher-Daniels-Leno next season. And again I was told that this represents a good investment by Pace in an OL.
To be honest I didn't realize he was a 1st round OL pick. I'm not impressed with his play as a starting RT for next season, but maybe I'm wrong.