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Originally Posted by weegeebored
Part of the reason that many QBs fail, I think, is the rush to get them on the field. As much as it pains me to write this, Green Bay seems to do it right. The new QB sits and learns from a good veteran. A team like the Bears, for example, can't even get a QB to be a good veteran -- their QB decisions have been awful. So they're forced to put their shiny new rookie on the field which hasn't worked out too well to put it mildly.
The last Bears QB to have a chance was Cutler -- who had talent -- but he had an O-line that made a sieve look like the Hoover Dam. Plus they really haven't had a good GM since Jim Finks, and that was a long, long time ago.
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The Bears did it to Trubisky with a lame duck coach and a situation where he played too early. They did it to Fields after the plan was to sit him and let him learn. They played him too early. Now, will they play whomever they draft in April too early? You can hope he's more like Stroud and can hit the ground running, but history says he'll need some time. Hopefully that won't set the rookie down a path he can't recover from in 3 years.
The Bears do have a better roster than most #1 picks walk into, one built to give a rookie QB a chance. Let's see if they've learned from history or are doomed to repeat it.