I want what best for the Bears. Not what is best for Fields. Your job as a GM is to help us. Not help a QB who failed his job...
Poles said “I am going to do right by Justin”. That means, if possible, he will not trade him to a crap team with terrible OL and WRs. I predict Falcons or Steelers for a second round pick.
I believe he meant that on the speed of the decision. So he is not in the gray area for long. God forbid he is picking teams to Fields liking. Its gonna be a matter of the best offer. If anything else is in play Poles needs to be fired today and hired as Fields agent. But, I have no doubt that is not the case.
This means Bears have #1pick and don’t get either Williams OR Harrison.
Brilliant.
I'm not so sure Gabriel is well-connected with Halas Hall sources anymore. Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think he knows one way or the other. I think he's spitballing here. So this may not be true info.
The #1 franchise QB in this draft may not be Caleb Williams. We "assume" he is, but just like the Stroud situation last year - Maye could possibly be evaluated as better than Williams. I am not saying that is the case. So don't get me wrong here. I'm just saying the Bears are going to focus on getting the BEST guy this time around. It may not be a slam dunk that the evaluation - that will include the critically important mental/emotional/maturity component - will end up with Caleb Williams being the best QB1 to draft in this class. He may not be the best and we want the best. I'm just saying that COULD be a possibility here. And admittedly I am just spitballing here too.
I'm still not sure how anyone can know that the Bears are trading down to get a QB when the Bears have not even interviewed these kids yet. I don't even think the Bears know who they want unless they locked onto someone without having all the facts and that doesn't sound right.
I'm not so sure Gabriel is well-connected with Halas Hall sources anymore. Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think he knows one way or the other. I think he's spitballing here. So this may not be true info.
The #1 franchise QB in this draft may not be Caleb Williams. We "assume" he is, but just like the Stroud situation last year - Maye could possibly be evaluated as better than Williams. I am not saying that is the case. So don't get me wrong here. I'm just saying the Bears are going to focus on getting the BEST guy this time around. It may not be a slam dunk that the evaluation - that will include the critically important mental/emotional/maturity component - will end up with Caleb Williams being the best QB1 to draft in this class. He may not be the best and we want the best. I'm just saying that COULD be a possibility here. And admittedly I am just spitballing here too.
I'm still not sure how anyone can know that the Bears are trading down to get a QB when the Bears have not even interviewed these kids yet. I don't even think the Bears know who they want unless they locked onto someone without having all the facts and that doesn't sound right.
Your logic is like you cannot get a divorce before you interview other women If your wife is 'bad' for you, you can think about trading her away asap. And then we gonna interview other chicks. One is bound to be better (or it seems like it, again), especially as we have a pole position in picking.
I'm still not sure how anyone can know that the Bears are trading down to get a QB when the Bears have not even interviewed these kids yet. I don't even think the Bears know who they want unless they locked onto someone without having all the facts and that doesn't sound right.
Your logic is like you cannot get a divorce before you interview other women If your wife is 'bad' for you, you can think about trading her away asap. And then we gonna interview other chicks. One is bound to be better (or it seems like it, again), especially as we have a pole position in picking.
That's because you may find out the other women are worse than what you already have. And yes, one is bound to be better. But what if you have found that you keep picking the ones that aren't?
Your logic is like you cannot get a divorce before you interview other women If your wife is 'bad' for you, you can think about trading her away asap. And then we gonna interview other chicks. One is bound to be better (or it seems like it, again), especially as we have a pole position in picking.
That's because you may find out the other women are worse than what you already have. And yes, one is bound to be better. But what if you have found that you keep picking the ones that aren't?
I think you have to marry them all and then just keep the best one
I am just wired differently. I do care about these players as people. My son played football, and I remind myself that these are human beings. They too have parents and they work so very hard to achieve the dream of being a Chicago Bear. Justin is a young man who gave everything he had to give to be a good player - but came up short.
These players are not trying to fail. On gamedays they put their heart and soul - and sacrifice their bodies and health at times. Justin Fields gave his best for us and it just came up short. I wish Justin Fields all the best.
I'm not so sure Gabriel is well-connected with Halas Hall sources anymore. Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think he knows one way or the other. I think he's spitballing here. So this may not be true info.
The #1 franchise QB in this draft may not be Caleb Williams. We "assume" he is, but just like the Stroud situation last year - Maye could possibly be evaluated as better than Williams. I am not saying that is the case. So don't get me wrong here. I'm just saying the Bears are going to focus on getting the BEST guy this time around. It may not be a slam dunk that the evaluation - that will include the critically important mental/emotional/maturity component - will end up with Caleb Williams being the best QB1 to draft in this class. He may not be the best and we want the best. I'm just saying that COULD be a possibility here. And admittedly I am just spitballing here too.
I'm still not sure how anyone can know that the Bears are trading down to get a QB when the Bears have not even interviewed these kids yet. I don't even think the Bears know who they want unless they locked onto someone without having all the facts and that doesn't sound right.
My gut feeling is that this interview with Williams is just a tiny part of a huge iceberg. We don't know what they have amassed by now on these top few quarterbacks. But I get the impression that the eval apparatus under Warren/Poles/Cunningham is a lot more in-depth and complex than past Bears front offices had in place. It sure seems like the Bears are finally in the 21st century as an NFL franchise. I have been impressed by listening to Kevin Warren and Ryan Poles. They seem so much more professional than past regimes here. Anyway, I'm rambling. My point is that they probably are very far along in this process. They know the answers to their questions, but will go through the important process of getting to know their guy (whomever that is) on a personal level now. To keep people guessing they will no doubt spend time with all of the top QB candidates. But I figure they do know who they want at this point. That's only my gut feeling so it's spitballing at best.
I'm still not sure how anyone can know that the Bears are trading down to get a QB when the Bears have not even interviewed these kids yet. I don't even think the Bears know who they want unless they locked onto someone without having all the facts and that doesn't sound right.
My gut feeling is that this interview with Williams is just a tiny part of a huge iceberg. We don't know what they have amassed by now on these top few quarterbacks. But I get the impression that the eval apparatus under Warren/Poles/Cunningham is a lot more in-depth and complex than past Bears front offices had in place. It sure seems like the Bears are finally in the 21st century as an NFL franchise. I have been impressed by listening to Kevin Warren and Ryan Poles. They seem so much more professional than past regimes here. Anyway, I'm rambling. My point is that they probably are very far along in this process. They know the answers to their questions, but will go through the important process of getting to know their guy (whomever that is) on a personal level now. To keep people guessing they will no doubt spend time with all of the top QB candidates. But I figure they do know who they want at this point. That's only my gut feeling so it's spitballing at best.
Do you? I disagree on that. I think the character, toughness, etc of a QB is of extreme importance to the BEars. I think it can point them one way or another if they have a couple of close candidates.
I believe he meant that on the speed of the decision.
+1 That's my take on it too. Poles has constantly repeated over-and-over again that he must put the Bears 1st in all of this. But of course he (Poles) seems like he does care about people, and will try to do the decent thing with Fields here.
On a side note. I think fans can be the same as Poles in these matters. It's okay to not hate a player who we move on from... they are human beings like us. I try to wish them the best. I'm disappointed if a player does not work out here with the Bears, but I get it, they don't intentionally fail... they simply don't get it done. LOL, some fans seem to hate these people because they failed. I don't get that personal hate thing. These are human beings and not trash. Not any more than if it were one of our own kids who fail in sports. They aren't trash children all of a sudden. Not everyone is successful in sports. Failures happen.
My gut feeling is that this interview with Williams is just a tiny part of a huge iceberg. We don't know what they have amassed by now on these top few quarterbacks. But I get the impression that the eval apparatus under Warren/Poles/Cunningham is a lot more in-depth and complex than past Bears front offices had in place. It sure seems like the Bears are finally in the 21st century as an NFL franchise. I have been impressed by listening to Kevin Warren and Ryan Poles. They seem so much more professional than past regimes here. Anyway, I'm rambling. My point is that they probably are very far along in this process. They know the answers to their questions, but will go through the important process of getting to know their guy (whomever that is) on a personal level now. To keep people guessing they will no doubt spend time with all of the top QB candidates. But I figure they do know who they want at this point. That's only my gut feeling so it's spitballing at best.
Do you? I disagree on that. I think the character, toughness, etc of a QB is of extreme importance to the BEars. I think it can point them one way or another if they have a couple of close candidates.
But don't you figure there has been months of accumulating a massive amount of information and data (not just football data) on these top few candidates? This isn't the ma and pa franchise anymore. I do believe Keven Warren is running the business like the multi-billion dollar entity it should be. The QB1 decision here is one of (if not the) most important decisions they will make. It will probably dictate the success or failure of the franchise for the next decade if it is done correctly. It would probably blow our collective minds if we truly knew what has been done to this point vetting these top guys at QB.