D.J. Moore is the best player on the Bears entire roster.

Fields hopefully WILL prove to be the best player.  With D.J. Moore a Bear now, I think DJ can open that door to Fields ascending to being a solid passer as well as being an RB quarterback.  Time will tell.  But DJ is critically important to making that happen.  DJ Moore is a 1st round draft pick who has proven to not be a bust.  JSN?  He has about a 50-50 chance of busting... those are the odds pretty much of a rookie actually making the transition to the NFL and living up to that 1st round pick status.  A crap shoot.

Carter?  At least he hasn't been arrested as part of any deaths lately... not for a few months now.  There is that, I guess...

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That is true.  I agree with you on that.  When the Bears moved on from Nagy & Pace the franchise was at a low point financially and also talent-wise.  We were in cap hell.  We had an old/aging roster of under-performing players.  It made me sick to even think about the Bears pitiful situation.  We had sunk to being a joke in the NFL, and often an embarrassment on national TV when the sports world was cursed to have to watch the Bears crap the bed in prime time.

Ryan Poles did not make the mess.  Poles was tasked with fixing something that was horribly broken.  It reminded me of a home on our block here in Bloomington, that sat empty for 8 years.  It deteriorated so badly that possums and raccoons were living in it (this had been a beautiful home at one time).  It was actually sold at an auction.  I worried what the new owner would do with it, since it was bought at pretty much junk-level.  Would the new owner just do the bare minimum and let it be the embarrassment it had become for our neighborhood (we have nice home on this block) - or would the new owner do the right thing and basically nuke the old home and build it back right?

This, for me, was my worry with the Bears post-Nagy/Pace.  Would the new regime do the right thing and nuke the roster or just slap some band aids on the mess and keep chugging along with mediocrity (or worse)?  I am so thankful that Poles did the right thing and tore it all down.  He is building it back right.  But it takes fierce discipline to do the right thing - financial discipline, and discipline in both the draft and with FA & the cap.  It is hard on fans (the impatient ones).  Many fans did not like the soft tank.  Then when Poles executed that to perfection, those same fans were happy with the #1 overall pick of the draft - but then got pissed when we didn't use it to draft "their" boy in the draft (whomever their boy was in their eyes).  Thankfully, Poles did the right thing and parlayed that pick into getting a veteran 1st round WR, in D.J. Moore AND ALSO the best offensive lineman in the 2023 draft class.  Both.

But of course you never can please all of the fans.  D.J. Moore & the best OL (both) were not enough for them.  

I "get it" that this is essentially the 1st year of the rebuild (last year was the teardown and tank year)... and it will take at least another year to get the roster even close to where it needs to be.  Poles got us extra picks with his shrewd trade down and trading some of our old players - we have TWO 1st round draft picks and 10 total draft picks (already) for next year.  But that doesn't satisfy some fans.  I understand it's just "Monday morning quarterbacking" that's going on here.  I do understand it.  I just don't agree with it.  

Are the new guys proven yet?  Hell no.  We (fans) need to chill and watch what happens over the next couple of seasons.  Will the outcome be perfect?  No.  You don't get "perfect" in the NFL... of course some fans will bitch and moan over just about any near-perfect outcome.  Because THEY would have done something else (in hindsight of course).  

I'm trying really really hard to just be thankful for how Poles has done so far.  So far, so good.  Perfect?  No.  But you don't get "perfect" in the NFL - or in life for that matter.

That's exactly my feeling on it.  In the past we've complained about Bears' GMs who have gambled and lost like this.  Now we have a GM who actually thinks things through and has the self-discipline to not gamble.  And hey, I hope JSN has a great career (and he very well may have a great career).  But the Bears took a 1st round WR who is a proven talent just entering his prime years.  We know nothing about JSN other than he has a history of missing a LOT of games due to injury.  

Carter is a guy that I do hope has a great career too.  I hope he straightens his life out.  But it does look like he has a history of not learning from past failures... his "handlers" at Georgia were kept pretty busy fixing his off-field legal issues.  The Bears shouldn't gamble with a guy like that and lose.  The very people criticizing Poles for not taking Carter would be the same people wanting Poles fired after a few "gamble and loss" moves like that.  Heck, I'd want him fired.   I am so tired of having GMs who think they are the smartest guy in the room, when all they REALLY were, was GMs who gambled and lost way too many times.  

Poles is playing long ball and admits it.  No short cuts.  Build it right.  Build it to sustain winning over the long haul.  No fools gold stuff here.