Cuz we got a boatload of Mystery box assets in exchange for a Mystery Box QB? We're in Week 1. If Young, Stroud, Richardson go on to start killing it, then we can use our hindsight superpower to say we all knew Poles should've took a QB and he sucks. Until then, who knows.
If Fields and the Bears are THAT bad, we're gonna have plenty of assets to have a crack at his replacement (Unless Bagent is that guy, or Peterman starts playing God level ball) between our pick and Carolina's pick, and we got a free DJ Moore out of the deal.
It doesn't take hindsight super powers.
There has been shockingly few glimmers of being an nfl passer when he has the time and protection.
The bears were insane to not trade him to a desperate team and draft a qb.
I watched Kaepernick, Tebow and RG3 play.
They all had success with their legs and occasionally could make safeties bite on the run threat enough to get a wide open deep play.
Fun highlight reel stuff when you are ahead, unlikely to appear when you are down and pressed for time.
Fields has honestly showed as little as Tebow and Kaepernick as a passer, and trails far behind RG3.
Hell- even if fields was tannehill or Mayfield level as a passer with the legs he has now, I still wouldn't depend on him as the franchise qb.
He would still have to depend on his legs to get the team over the top.
Watching Steve Young and Andrew luck and Donovan McNabb among many others soured me on qbs who were far too quick to run and take hits.
Successful guys with shortened injury laden careers.
A gm that felt he could BE the unquestioned gm would have gotten a return on an electrifying runner- trading him away as the last regimes indulgence, took the shot at #1 and started his own clock on his own team instead of praying the decision of the last regime magically produces an nfl qb.
Hell- suggesting selling justin high to the texans or panthers pre draft and picking young or stroud just resulted in the rampant group of Justin crusaders losing their shit and persecuting any user that dared suggest it.
I said my piece on this pre draft, saw the pearl clutching it invoked, and spent from pre draft on away from this cesspool.
I am willing to bet as the season goes on, more and more fans will regret the bears failing to use history and common sense to guide their decision, instead hoping for the 4th consecutive possible franchise qb to have the light bulb moment.