The thing is though, Nagy has absolutely no leverage here. He is in his last year and there has been no talk of contract extension. Plus, the top 3 QB's are basically off the board:
- Wentz is off the table (for honestly a pretty reasonable price)
- Stafford is off the table
- Watson is NOT coming to Chicago and people need to stop thinking otherwise. Accept it
So what is realistically left:
- Jimmy G? - doubtful as SanFran will make 1 more run with him but will probably also draft a QB. Their issue this year was injuries
- Cam - His career as a starter is over
- Carr - Maybe, but doubtful he is traded because he is not the issue there in Oakland and Bears would be dumb to give up the capital required to get him (more than likely a Stafford like haul instead of Wentz)
- Darnold - Maybe but A) What is it going to cost B) is he already broken a la David Carr and C) Do we actually trust Nagy to build him up if he isn't broken?
The facts are:
- We are in borderline Cap Hell
- We just got back our full compliment of draft picks for the first time in years
- We have an aging, albeit, solid defense
- We figured out the interior of the O-Line
- We were 8-8 but actually very close to being 11-5
- At a minimum, we should have beaten Detroit the second time, should have beat NO in the regular season not to mention a wide open TD drop that makes it a different playoff game, and we should have also beat MN in Game 1)
With all that being said, bringing Mitch back is not the worst idea, something along the lines of what Marriota got and you run it back 1 more year and use the draft to fill out with weapons and improve the O-Line. That is most likely the best case scenario. Anything else more than likely continues to set this franchise back.