Post by mpbears68 on Oct 5, 2022 11:07:48 GMT -6
To be fair...I don't think anyone expected us to be able to run the ball like we have...and the coaches told us all off season they really wanted to do that.
This problem on offense is what has killed this franchise for years here. Wouldn't you think that by now they would bring every resource to focus on fixing it? That doesn't mean tossing the stupid fans a bone by drafting more QBs here. It means REALLY fixing the problem rather than treat the symptoms of the disease. This year is done. It doesn't matter if it's 4 wins, 5, 6, 7 or whatever. It's just marking time until 2023. I've said all along that it is about 2023. Let's see if Poles invests the needed draft and cap money into top-tier roster talent on offense - or not. And I'm not talking about drafting another QB to be wasted here. OL/WR/TE units need to be fixed. Not with "hope and prayer" guys but with legit talent.
Would you have NOT drafted Fields because "the team wasn't ready"?
I can't help but notice that those here complaining loudly about "not having the proper supporting cast in place for a young QB" are the very same people who didn't want to move on from the Pace/Nagy regime earlier--under the reasoning that "teams who change management often are bad organizations and we don't want to be the Browns or Lions".
Well, you are now seeing those results. The results of holding on to a failed/failing regime for "continuity" or because ownership is too cheap to eat their remining contract money. Knowing their seats are getting warm, a failing regime will desperately try to "win now" to save their jobs. They will make risky, often foolish, short-term moves knowing it is now or never for them. They could care less about leaving their successors a mess to clean up if they are fired. Couldn't give a rats ass about that.
This teardown/rebuild should have started in 2020 as it was clear after the 2019 season that Trubisky wasn't gonna be The Guy. No one wanted to hear that back then and everyone made excuses. We signed expensive, overpriced contracts often for aging vets and squandered draft picks. That's what you get when ownership believes the nonsense the GM and HC are telling them--that all we really needed was a decent RB draft pick and Nick Foles to make a run! That's what they said.
The results of all that are on the field right now in 2022. Our most expensive player is a guy named "DEAD CAP". He is making $65m this season.