This is what makes you a coward and hypocrite.
You just waved off discussing an alternative in the Bears favor by stating the above but now you want to spew hypothetical bullshit when it suits you.
I addressed the fact they may have finished with a worse record and been able to draft Sweat or even a Brian Burns in the post 186. The offset to that is again they likely never tear down the team as with guys like Burns/Sweat, keeping Roquan and using the Mack money to sign a FA they likely dont finish with the worse record in 2023 and hence dont get Caleb, Moore, Stevenson etc.
So stop being a biased coward. Cant claim hypotheticals are bullshit but then try and hang your hat on your own hypothetical bullshit. Like Jesus dude have some intellectual honesty. So again make your argument for the alternative resulting in us winning a SB or otherwise you just being a whiny cunt on another team's message board.
It is also the height of stupidity to admit that you think Mack added more wins to the Bears but then still say he wasnt worth it. So we got an All Pro that made us a playoff team, a top 10 TE and a solid starty safety while the Raiders got 2 guys out of the league and a RB who they didnt even pick up his 5th year option and he left but somehow in a non-hypothetical situation we lost? Fuck outta here. We clearly won that trade from a production standpoint.
Dude, the reply wasn't to you, my god, what a moron.
Again, you won a net sum of zero playoff games, ergo, the trade was a fail, get that threw your stupid skull.
but yippee yahoo, you won a few more games, stuck in mediocrity.
Now, want to see a successful trade?
Look what the Lions got for Stafford, and the results.
That is a "successful trade".
the Rams gave up nearly the same amount for Stafford, they won a SB, that is a successful trade.
Meanwhile, the Bears posted one winning season with Mack, had a first round exit in the playoffs, then proceeded to go 8-8, 8-8, and 6-10, and you are trying to say it was a success?
the end.
*edit, also in my post I said "might" I didn't post it as fact, like your dumbass.