The Cost of Trading For a QB............

Ha ha, I don't think I'm the one in denial.  After the Wednesday presser I'll let ya' know for sure.

Some people can't tell a QB from a hunchback but we mostly approve of any chance to enlighten them. 

Not a bad question considering of the only two championships we've won since the 1940s only one was with a QB we actually drafted.  The other came to us in a trade.

Call it a curse but ever since GSH trade Bobby Layne away we haven't even come close to drafting a HOF QB.  Hell most of them could be 1st stringers in the Hall of Shame.  We aren't very good at drafting them and we're even worse at developing them so there are many days when I feel like why bother?

If you look at Cutler and Rodgers you see two QBs with similar skills and attributes but one was developed for three years playing behind another HOF QB and has played for a team and in a system that's been ideal for his skill set.  The other hasn't.  That's a huge reason for the difference between them right there.

On a level of basic skills there's probably less difference than you think but Rodgers has mastered that offense over the years and knows it and directs it like he was a conductor in a symphony orchestra.  Cutler has never been able to do that but then how many different offenses under how many different OCs has he run by now?  It's always an unfinished project.

Tom Brady doesn't have the same level of skills of either but he's done the same in NE with an offense built to take advantage of his best traits and he's developed those well over the years for a guy who was a 6th round afterthought pick who was drafted as a backup to Drew Bledsoe.

IMHO you can't just select a QB in the draft, hand him a football, and say go win me some games.  The teams with the best QBs have done far more than just invest a draft pick and some cash in the guy and we haven't done that.  I really don't know that it's more complicated than that.

All I know is this.  We are floating and stinking in the toilet bowl of the NFL... with the other stinking ones - the worst of the worst.  I am getting tired of the stinking teams the Bears are putting on the field.  This 2.7-Billion dollar sports entertainment business needs to get a clue and figure something out.  A main piece in the puzzle is figuring out the QB situation that has dogged the franchise for decades.  

Nothing I can do about the past, here.  
Nothing I can do about the present, here.
Nothing I can do about the future, here.

But the Bears organization can and should be figuring this out... getting a clue... getting the players and coaches we need to finally turn this thing around.  This is not a "one season" problem.  This is decades of mediocrity and worse.  I'm hoping things change.  Hoping.