Burrows picked #1 overall in 2020
Chase picked 5th overall in 2021...
I doubt bears will go full on Tank mode to get lucky as the bengals did, this team will be desperate to win some games each season while poles and ebutt is here trying really hard to keep their jobs.
Its becoming "a thing" on this board of late, to hate on Justin Fields... or at the very least, call him into question. Not me. I believe the guy has elite skills, elite leadership ability and elite toughness.... and he is smart. I think he will hit, and hit big!!
Mark it down, quote me on that in the years to come.
I saw a guy who did not play at all in pre-season with the unit that was thrown at him in the regular season. A guy with ZERO chemistry with his receivers for most of the season until eventually starting to make a connection with Mooney. I saw a guy lacking true difference makers on offense to throw to minus Mooney who is still developing and again, someone who Fields not given much a chance to develop chemistry with. I saw a guy with
no Oline and no quick outlets in the passing game to ease the pressure of having no Oline.... while playing with an Oline that could care less that its QB was getting smashed. I saw a guy who was clearly not being coached properly by this coaching staff.... AND DESPITE ALL OF THIS.... I saw a guy competing every week.... taking massive shots and getting back up.... I saw a guy, despite being under constant pressure, make some ELITE throws and show innate ability to be a playmaker...........
and I saw it all from a guy who was the tender age of 20 fricken 2!
Take that guy, remedy the problems outlined above (which Poles seems determined to do) and throw in a new weapon or two.... and watch out!!!
Kahlil Mack was not on the field much of the time anyway. The defense you saw for the last few years was a defense that performed good enough without Mack. If Poles can make a few moves, if Flus can work his magic on the defense, and if Fields takes the jump that I think he is going to make -- you are looking at a team with a legit chance of making the playoffs within the next 2 years.