What Should the Bears Do With the 1st Overall?

[reyes the roof]

I'm really torn on this. It would be nice for the Bears to have a QB in my lifetime that doesn't need a great O-line, perfect play calling and weapons all over the field to succeed but I hate the idea of having to use that #1 pick on a QB when Marvin Harrison Jr is right there. I'm not opposed to one more year of Fields but this seems like the best opportunity they'll have to upgrade the position. The perfect scenario would be trading down to 3 with New England if you can pry next year's one away from them. Their roster is about as bad as anyone's in the league so maybe the Bears can get the #1 pick for a third year in a row and put off drafting a new QB for another year

[Keirik]

Quote: Originally Posted by reyes the roof

I'm really torn on this. It would be nice for the Bears to have a QB in my lifetime that doesn't need a great O-line, perfect play calling and weapons all over the field to succeed but I hate the idea of having to use that #1 pick on a QB when Marvin Harrison Jr is right there. I'm not opposed to one more year of Fields but this seems like the best opportunity they'll have to upgrade the position. The perfect scenario would be trading down to 3 with New England if you can pry next year's one away from them. Their roster is about as bad as anyone's in the league so maybe the Bears can get the #1 pick for a third year in a row and put off drafting a new QB for another year

That's idea, but I'm torn on whether it would be better to do the trade with NEcor WSH. Who has a worse 24 year and all that.

[SmashMan]

I think a lot of it depends on what they do with Getsy. You absolutely can't run it back with both him and Fields. Wrong coordinator for Justin's skillset and Justin's the wrong QB for the offense Getsy seems to want to run. It's just a bad fit.

If they ditch Getsy I could see them bringing Fields back to try it with another OC but with Justin's contract coming up they'd have to have instant success to justify it (and at this point that seems so unlikely so why would you just not draft a QB now?). If they keep Getsy they would have to draft a QB who can be mobile and improvise but really is more of a pocket passer. I'll let you guys who watch more college fill me in on who that would be.

Then again, if yesterday showed us anything it's that while a new QB might help out in a lot of areas, the team isn't just a QB away so trading down might end up helping them out more than anything else.

[adriano]

Getsy is fired and Eberfus is retained.

Pretty good article on why keeping Eberfus is a bad decision..

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/bears-k...173109341.html

[Keirik]

Quote: Originally Posted by adriano

Getsy is fired and Eberfus is retained. Pretty good article on why keeping Eberfus is a bad decision.. https://www.yahoo.com/sports/bears-k...173109341.html

Yes and no. Either way, Gets wasn't the answer. It's less of an indication of QB and more of an indication that he just wasn't good at adapting whenever a game plan wasn't going well.

[reyes the roof]

I’ll miss Getsy and his bag of 4th and 1 trickery

[reyes the roof]

Watching the playoffs has really swayed me in the direction of using the pick on a new QB. It’s depressing seeing all these teams with QBs that can process information and handle pressure so much better than Fields

[ggsimmonds]

I think the Bears need to move on from Fields.

I playfully give Bears fans hell over how they viewed Nagy (the way they said it he was the source of all their ills and once he wasn't there to sabotage the team they would take off) and now Nagy is gone and fans are still making excuses for why Fields hasn't met expectations.

Fields is the common denominator. He either isn't the guy period, or its just not a good fit with Chicago for whatever reason. Bears should hope its the latter, or at least hope that other teams think it is the latter, and gauge his trade value.

The risk the Bears run is that if they decide to run it back one more time with Fields and the results are more of the same, he likely won't have trade value after that. There aren't that many late bloomers in the NFL. 90% of the time what you see in the 3rd year is what that player is. Expecting a jump from 3rd year to 4th just seems like wishful thinking