Greg Gabrial: Enough With The ‘Bears Lost By Winning’ Narrat

They fell into Brady. None of the 32 teams knew how good he would be or he would have been the first pick of the draft and no other team would have had the opportunity to pick him. They won the lottery by virtue of wholesale scouting ignorance.

Hell they could have traded down, and down, and down, and got Randy Moss if we are playing this game!

If anyone believes that John Fox wants to lose on purpose is smoking some good stuff. They may lose, but they are going to try to win.. They are going to make every team they face for the next four weeks fight like hell.

I think people are twisting this a bit.  Nobody (that I know of anyway) was saying the team should purposely lose games.  They were saying that if the team is going to be epic bad, then hopefully we would at least get a top-2 or 3 draft pick out of this horrific season.

This is how the NFL is set up.  It tries to help bad teams get competitive again by awarding them higher draft picks.

No sane Bears fans wants the team to suck.  But once the team does suck, then some fans do look forward to getting an opportunity to pick one of the very best players coming out of college.  

I'm now reading about how the Patriots got Brady in the 6th round... like it doesn't mean squat where you draft on draft day.  I've got news for folks, we are not getting a Tom Brady level QB in the 6th round of this coming draft.  

I deeply enjoyed the game on Sunday.  I love how the young players are making improvements.  But there is nothing inherently evil in wanting a high draft pick to help our team get better.  And I've said this many times on this board.  That high draft pick isn't just a "first round thing"  because it also means you pick high in EVERY round of the ENTIRE draft.  That is a "good thing" right?

It kind of pisses me off how some are trying to twist this.  Like fans want the team to throw games or something.