Anyone finding they're warming to the Bears drafting Caleb?

Poles did explain his decision process well today regarding Fields.  On a side note I liked how personal Ryan Poles made this sound when he said how hard it was to have to tell his young son, who was a big Justin Fields fan, and who had his jersey - that he was trading Fields.  I'm like you in that I honestly respect that we have a GM who is willing to make the touch choices in order to build the best team.  

It was always about the rookie contract. You have 4 years to evaluate your QB at a good price. With Fields you had one year and a tag year before paying him Jones money.

Everyone outside of Fields supporters saw that we were going to draft a QB with the #1 overall pick. Its also job security for poles. If Williams is another CJ Stroud. He would be fire the next offseason. It buys Poles another 4 years. 

What you want to be true just so you can continue to trash Fields doesn't make it true.

There was a 4th rounder on the table, but it was to a situation where Fields had no chance to start.

As for your histrionic "he needs to be fired" comment, not only does he not deserve to be fired, he made the SMART play.

What people with your attitude of shitting on Fields every chance they get fail to understand was Fields was absolutely LOVED in that locker room.  ALL of those guys were ready to go to war with him.  The locker room valued him a lot more than you will EVER comprehend.

"So, what, they are pros and they will get over it" you might be tempted to say.  But these are team mates, human beings, a ton of whom had a great relationship with Fields, looked up to him, and highly respected him, and a lot of whom were PUBLICLY advocating for him to stay.  What I find is a lot of people with your attitude GROSSLY underplay the significance:

Poles, by trading Fields, is risking a locker room meltdown and mutiny, thus undoing EVERYTHING he's been working towards.  Had he just coldly traded Fields for a 4th to another team, the locker room would be looking at each other, calling the organization shit, and the locker room would have been LOST.  Poles would have had to start all over again, and sell off pieces, IF he lasted that long.  People want to ignore that this is a very REAL thing and even now still a very REAL possibility.  All one has to do is look at Jaylon Johnson's latest podcast appearance, where he talks about Williams needing to leave all the "Hollywood" shit at home when he comes into the locker room, to see that what I am saying is 100% true.

However, Poles mitigated the risk of losing the locker room by trading Justin to a team where he has a chance to start this season, AND taking less to do it.
You may feel its a fireable offense; the locker room will feel like Poles actually did right by Justin, thus taking some of the sting out of the trade, and opening a window for Caleb Williams to at least have a CHANCE to win over the locker room - Poles is playing chess, and you want him to play checkers.

On top of that, the whole Pro Day visit was as much about the locker room as it was about the team and Caleb.   The Johnson comments on the pod cast came out a day or two before the pro day visit, and Johnson said Caleb needs to be "humble" coming into the locker room.

Then all the press coming out of the Pro Day was all about how much Caleb loves football, is good with his team mates, is indeed a humble dude in person, etc - in fact it was suspicious in that it appeared to be a 1-to-1 addressing of what Johnson said Caleb needs to be when he comes into the locker room.  

And on the flip side, Poles traded for Keenan Allen, who not only is another amazing mega receiver, but ALSO someone Caleb Williams has known for a whole year while Caleb was at USC and Keenan was with the Chargers, so Keenan being at the Pro Day was also a way to assure Caleb that even with a semi-hostile locker room, he will have a friend in Keenan in the locker room to help support him while he tries to win everyone over.

This whole thing was about trying to smooth out the locker room troubles.  Whatever you think of Fields, he was talented enough to have this kind of impact on the locker room.  Players don't just behave like this for "nice guys" - they do this over players the locker room believes in....

You ain't wrong about that. When the packers defensive players have said. If you want to beat the Bears. Have Fields play Quarterback. They knew something we as fans didn't.