Justin Fields has improved - but enough?

There's a legit point there in this context:

It was perfectly understandable why Poles passed on a QB last April.  Fields hadn't been given a proper evaluation the prior two years.  We all know why.  He was deserving of a good look with a better receiver group and a 2nd year in the same system.  

But you're right he did choose to pass.  Said he "needed to be blown away" and apparently wasn't.  He should have been.  His evaluation of Stroud was off the mark if he wasn't.  No question that if he had the ability to rewind the clock, he would have drafted Stroud and traded Fields.  He won OROY, threw for 4100 yards, 23 TDs, and only 5 INTs, and took his team to the playoffs.  And his team was just as bad in 2022 as the Bears were and didn't acquire DJ Moore in the following offseason so don't tell me he had a cast of All-Pros around him.

With the above in very recent memory, he now has the #1 pick AGAIN, practically unprecedented in NFL history, and you can bet your bottom dollar there's at least one QB in this upcoming draft that will end up being a stud.  

Is he gonna pass again?  Is he gonna miss out again?

No way

We are drafting Caleb.  I'm sure of it.

But that’s not what he said today. He said he’d still rather have the trade than CJStroud.  If the Bears had Stroud this year we’d be like the Texans waiting for our playoff games instead of trying to figure out the QB situation.  That statement just reinforced why I wanted him fired.

You understand that he's not gonna throw Justin under the bus in public, right?  JF will be traded by May 1.

And Poles certainly isn't gonna say he made a mistake last year either.

But he did.  He "needed to blown away" and he wasn't.  He should have been.

That's why he isn't gonna pass a 2nd time with a 2nd #1 pick.

That’s funny, because one of the questions (basically) was if he couldn’t get blown away by Stroud, why should we think he can figure this out any better this year? The question was phrased more politely, but that was the gist of it.  There are quite a few mocks that have him taking Harrison, but if he gets “blown away” by the wrong QB, we are REALLY screwed.