I would rather have had Hurts on a cheap rookie contract to develop so they wouldn’t have had to trot out Foles and his contract all those weeks. Not over JJ, but certainly over Kmet.
Honestly, drafting Hurts would've been a recipe for wasting years committed to developing a guy who will probably never really develop into much more than what Foles is already (a high tier backup). There's also a whole politics thing clearly going on behind the scenes in Philadelphia between Pederson, Roseman and Wentz of which Hurts is becoming this sort of inexplicable beneficiary.
Not saying drafting Kmet was necessarily wrong, just not the direction I would have gone. Hurts is a gamer. We would both be speculating if I said he could be a franchise QB or if you say he will only be a good backup. No one knows except for a few special prospects.
Pouring top hundred selections into quarterbacks every year is not a great strategy though. I know Ryan Pace promised to do it when he was hired, but Pace is also right to have broken that promise. I could only imagine the position the Bears would be in if the Bears passed on players like Jaylon Johnson, Whitehair, Eddie Jackson, etc. to draft quarterbacks have made little or no NFL impact yet.
No, he really has not. You're just looking at the stat line. His actually play has not been very encouraging, the Eagles had multiple chances to win that game yesterday and each time Hurts failed to capitalize. One thing that never shows up in quarterback's stats are taking bad sacks, and Hurts did that twice in a row during a critical moment.
Who though? The quarterback you are suggesting the Bears should've taken instead of the selection they made does not exist. They obviously made the wrong decision at quarterback in 2017, but that's not really the failure you are alluding to. You are saying the Bears problem is they dont draft enough quarterbacks, but of all the quarterbacks drafted after the Bears first pick the last two years none have really shown that they are really worth fretting over.
Gardner Minshew? Are you kidding me? The guy who got benched for Mike Glennon and Jake Luton?
Well you gotta give his game a chance to develop. Sure, right now he's limited, but he's only played 2 games.
Gardner Minshew and Mitchell Trubisky are on Minshew's best day birds of a feather. I dont see the value in having one over the other, if anything Trubisky's play these last couple weeks have elevated his stock clearly above Minshew.
From the quarterback guru who brought you "Gardner Minshew takes care of the ball" we have "Jalen Hurts is a taller version of Russell WIlson"...the hits keep coming. I bet you can tell me also how Jacob Eason and Will Grier are surefire Hall of Famers for no reason other than the fact that the Bears passed on them. Trust me, if you had to actually watch Jalen Hurts or Gardner Minshew every Sunday you would not be wishing they were on the Bears.
