2024 NFL Combine Thread: Schedule, Coverage & Bears' Stuff.

Okay, but if you are WRONG, you minimize the damage by trading him to an AFC team.  He’s only 24 years old, so this trade could possibly haunt the Bears for years after Poles is fired.

Duh, but you don’t discover you are wrong until after the fact.  This is why stock traders buy options to minimize losses in case they made the wrong decision.  That’s the rationale for trading him to an AFC team.  It protects against the worst case scenario, as Bears would never have to meet him in the playoffs, unless he gets his team to the Super Bowl.

It is worse.  You can be wrong in who you draft, but also who you FAILED to draft when you had the chance.  Panthers and Bears both missed on Stroud, and Texans hit the home run.

Trading him the AFC is preferable I agree.

But I'd take the best deal you can get regardless.  You can't base your decision on what you think the other team might do next season.  If he goes to Atlanta, they could get good and they could still suck too.  Besides this trade is not likely to involve next years pick so who cares?

I like Fields as a person too.  Rooted for him hard all along, believed in him, and bought his jersey.  But MOTM is right--this is BUSINESS and you can't make business decisions to placate him.  When Poles said he "wants to do right by Justin", I take that to mean he wants to get the Bears QB situation resolved fairly soon so Justin knows where he stands and where he is playing.  I don't take that to mean Poles is gonna take a lesser offer just to put Justin in a good situation.

As I've said here a million freakin times, teams that need new starting QBs usually are NOT in a "good situation".  And cold as it may be, I don't really care.  Lots of Bears fan blame the Bears for "ruining" Fields (another theory I'm highly suspicious of--the Bears didn't make him slow) and think he will be great with a change of scenery.  So give him one--any one is fine--and let him prove it.  

Atlanta, Vegas, Pitt, and maybe Tennessee are about the only plausible landing spots.  Maybe you could throw NE in there if they were to decide to take MHJ at #3 instead of a QB.  

Whoever gives you the best offer is fine by.  Tie goes to an AFC team.