Not having to use picks on a QB for a decade is also a huge advantage. The other positions are easier to get lower in the draft and have a better percentage of success
Yet they still do draft QBs even though they have the position solidified. Look at the Raiders drafting the kid out of Michigan State last year when they already had their #1 & #2 QBs In regards to NE and their sustained success while poor draft position player development has played a key role. It is the one thing they control.
The Patriots have drafted 5 QBs in the last 10 years. Almost one every other year even though they've had the best QB in the NFL each of those years. When one of those QBs happens to play and does well they trade him off for more picks. It's brilliant!
The Bears on the other had have drafted 3 QBs in that same time span. It's been three years since the last time they drafted one. For some reason the ones the Bears draft just get released after a year or two as well.
Yet they still do draft QBs even though they have the position solidified. Look at the Raiders drafting the kid out of Michigan State last year when they already had their #1 & #2 QBs In regards to NE and their sustained success while poor draft position player development has played a key role. It is the one thing they control.
The Patriots have drafted 5 QBs in the last 10 years. Almost one every other year even though they've had the best QB in the NFL each of those years. When one of those QBs happens to play and does well they trade him off for more picks. It's brilliant!
The Bears on the other had have drafted 3 QBs in that same time span. It's been three years since the last time they drafted one. For some reason the ones the Bears draft just get released after a year or two as well.
I had an argument with my brother in law about the frequency with which you should draft a qb. I said you should draft one every year, if not every other. He said thats a waste of a pick. Of course he's a Giants fan and they've had Eli for a decade so he doesn't quite get it.
Yet they still do draft QBs even though they have the position solidified. Look at the Raiders drafting the kid out of Michigan State last year when they already had their #1 & #2 QBs In regards to NE and their sustained success while poor draft position player development has played a key role. It is the one thing they control.
The Patriots have drafted 5 QBs in the last 10 years. Almost one every other year even though they've had the best QB in the NFL each of those years. When one of those QBs happens to play and does well they trade him off for more picks. It's brilliant!
The Bears on the other had have drafted 3 QBs in that same time span. It's been three years since the last time they drafted one. For some reason the ones the Bears draft just get released after a year or two as well.
It also depends on where you draft them. I think Orton was the last QB the Bears picked in the first 4 rounds. The others were 5-7th. It's like they are playing the lottery 1 ticket every few years. It just doesn't work that way.
The Patriots have drafted 5 QBs in the last 10 years. Almost one every other year even though they've had the best QB in the NFL each of those years. When one of those QBs happens to play and does well they trade him off for more picks. It's brilliant!
The Bears on the other had have drafted 3 QBs in that same time span. It's been three years since the last time they drafted one. For some reason the ones the Bears draft just get released after a year or two as well.
I had an argument with my brother in law about the frequency with which you should draft a qb. I said you should draft one every year, if not every other. He said thats a waste of a pick. Of course he's a Giants fan and they've had Eli for a decade so he doesn't quite get it.
I think it's smart to draft one at least every other year. There should always be a young developmental QB on the team. Someone should always be pressuring the starter for their job. The back up QB should be one of the biggest assets on your team.
I had an argument with my brother in law about the frequency with which you should draft a qb. I said you should draft one every year, if not every other. He said thats a waste of a pick. Of course he's a Giants fan and they've had Eli for a decade so he doesn't quite get it.
I think it's smart to draft one at least every other year. There should always be a young developmental QB on the team. Someone should always be pressuring the starter for their job. The back up QB should be one of the biggest assets on your team.
I agree, if only b/c his job is to be the starting qb if needed. If he doesn't have qualities the team thinks it takes to be a starter, he does you no good.
The Patriots have drafted 5 QBs in the last 10 years. Almost one every other year even though they've had the best QB in the NFL each of those years. When one of those QBs happens to play and does well they trade him off for more picks. It's brilliant!
The Bears on the other had have drafted 3 QBs in that same time span. It's been three years since the last time they drafted one. For some reason the ones the Bears draft just get released after a year or two as well.
I had an argument with my brother in law about the frequency with which you should draft a qb. I said you should draft one every year, if not every other. He said thats a waste of a pick. Of course he's a Giants fan and they've had Eli for a decade so he doesn't quite get it.
I agree with you. Why on earth wait until you are in a full-blown crisis mode like we are, to begin thinking about drafting a franchise QB? I think that is stupid. Failure to be pro-active. And it is one thing that makes me crazy angry with the Bears over the past many years. And if you end up with too many good depth QBs then you can sell one for picks. It is a brilliant strategy.
The Bears are always blindsided and reacting, rather than being ready for change. It's management by crisis. And I am not just talking about the QB position here. This is a roster-wide issue.
Just one example (from many) was the Brian Urlacher transition. Brian was going downhill towards the end. He was getting slower and struggled to make the plays he had easily made his entire career. Where was the young gun on the roster to step up and replace him? Urlacher was the QB of the defense. He was just as important to our D as any QB on offense. When Urlacher was gone it hurt. Briggs wasn't the answer, and he was coming to the end of his own career soon, anyway. We just lurched around and had no clue. It just seems like our way of doing things on the Bears. We had crap drafting, and then we had crap management and planning on top of that. Of course one affects the other too.
What a crap fest with our personnel acquisition over the many years.
I think one of the reasons Pace ignored drafting a QB so far is because he got the team when it was in a pretty deep hole. I think he needed every pick to fill all the other positions while he had a good enough QB already. I really feel that once he gets the roster closer to what he wants that he'll most likely draft a QB every other year if he's still here. I believe he was quoted saying that he would like to draft a QB almost every year.
I had an argument with my brother in law about the frequency with which you should draft a qb. I said you should draft one every year, if not every other. He said thats a waste of a pick. Of course he's a Giants fan and they've had Eli for a decade so he doesn't quite get it.
I agree with you. Why on earth wait until you are in a full-blown crisis mode like we are, to begin thinking about drafting a franchise QB? I think that is stupid. Failure to be pro-active. And it is one thing that makes me crazy angry with the Bears over the past many years. And if you end up with too many good depth QBs then you can sell one for picks. It is a brilliant strategy.
The Bears are always blindsided and reacting, rather than being ready for change. It's management by crisis. And I am not just talking about the QB position here. This is a roster-wide issue.
Just one example (from many) was the Brian Urlacher transition. Brian was going downhill towards the end. He was getting slower and struggled to make the plays he had easily made his entire career. Where was the young gun on the roster to step up and replace him? Urlacher was the QB of the defense. He was just as important to our D as any QB on offense. When Urlacher was gone it hurt. Briggs wasn't the answer, and he was coming to the end of his own career soon, anyway. We just lurched around and had no clue. It just seems like our way of doing things on the Bears. We had crap drafting, and then we had crap management and planning on top of that. Of course one affects the other too.
What a crap fest with our personnel acquisition over the many years.
Yeah...and I think with Urlacher it was a bit of everyone kowtowing to him. Heaven forbid we drafted his eventual replacement. Hell even moving on from him and Briggs became a big thing. In comparison New England won't hesitate to move on from you the second you become less effective than you were. At times this franchise is loyal to a fault.