Did the Bears make a mistake?

Well, give me a minute (*feverishly goes through 15-bazillion MOTM posts on the topic) - yeah, BIH, it looks like we did not hire him.  

Mark this moment in time cuz I agree with David on this one.

I'm sick of being disappointed by this team and they haven't earned any trust from me.  Hope and optimism, yes, but trust, no.

We beat ONE playoff team last season.  In Fields "run" at the end of the year we only beat crap teams with crap QBs and we often did so unconvincingly.  

Show me something first.

I think it was George Will who said, “The future is like the past until it isn’t.”

Another one along the same line: “Everything is unprecedented until it happens.”

I have a little factoid to report: In the last 6 years, 5 centers have been drafted in the first round.  I think anybody who plans to draft Powers-Johnson in the second round may be disappointed.

I love that "Everything is unprecedented until it happens.”  We often forget that fact.  Things change.  There is a first time for everything too.  If people never dreamed for something better and then tried to accomplish something new, then we'd be a primitive civilization running around in loincloths and still chucking spears.  

You're right about P-J not going in the 2nd round.  I do think he'll be in the mid to lower first round somewhere.  Now this is just "me" talking and not something I've heard or read, but I'd think his high value may also be his ability to be an elite G as well as elite C.  If this guy never snapped a football his entire NFL career, and just played guard, I think he may very well be an All-Pro level player.  I know folks here would want him starting at C day one for us.  But if we do go with a rookie QB1, then I'd be paying to land Cushenberry for a veteran C, and start P-J day one at guard.  Having Jenkins/Cushenberry/P-J for our IOL would be one of the best - if not THE best IOL in the entire NFL.  Can you imagine your rookie having THAT to play behind at QB?  Dude would have a clean pocket that any QB would kill for.

The Bears could swing that too.  They have the money to sign Cushenberry.  I'd make him an offer he couldn't refuse.