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So WTH is John Fox Going To Do With Mitch Trubisky?


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I mean seriously?

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This much we can say for sure. Ten years from now, every Bears fan will still be talking about Thursday night and that jaw-dropping moment. It came at 7:16 p.m. when general manager Ryan Pace took a massive swing at finding his quarterback of the future.

Pace's man: North Carolina's Mitch Trubisky.

After months of curiosity and speculation about who the Bears might select with the No. 3 pick in the NFL draft, it turns out Pace couldn't wait that long to pull the trigger.

In a momentous trade that sent jaws to the floor, the Bears gave the 49ers three picks — Nos. 67 and 111 in this year's draft plus a 2018 third-rounder — to slide up one peg to No. 2 on the draft board. That's the intense urgency Pace felt to make sure he landed Trubisky.

Call it a bold move. Call it insanity. (And a success-starved fan base is already in quite the lather as that debate explodes.) Pace will identify it as a decisive vote of confidence in the upside of Trubisky, a talented quarterback with impressive pocket awareness but a very limited sample size from which to project his NFL potential.

The years ahead will sort out the argument for good. What's certain is that the final judgment of Pace's success as a Bears general manager will forever be linked to Thursday night's decision.

The all-in move stunned even Trubisky, who said his only visit with the Bears was a brief workout in March. After that, he noted, he never heard from the team again. Not even before NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell announced his name from the stage in Philadelphia.

"I didn't see that coming at all," Trubisky said. "I was surprised."

Are we looking at the 2010 Carolina Panthers?

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/football/bears/ct-bears-nfl-draft-spt-0428-20170427-story.html

 

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I have no idea if Trubisky will be good or not in the NFL

Fox will look like a genius if the dude pans out. If he doesn't? Well honestly I still wouldn't blame them. Yeah they signed a career backup but he's not  the answer for the future. You need a QB to take your team some place special. 

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For people who aren't UNC fans and didn't watch his every snap, it's hard to understand. He isn't a start week one type of QB,  but he is the elite "prospect" QB of this draft. Think of prospect from an NHL or MLB perspective. Sit him on the bench and watch him grow. 

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Just now, Jakob said:

For people who aren't UNC fans and didn't watch his every snap, it's hard to understand. He isn't a start week one type of QB,  but he is the elite "prospect" QB of this draft. Think of prospect from an NHL or MLB perspective. Sit him on the bench and watch him grow. 

 

Continuing the "prospect" status, no, he isn't the next Aaron Rodgers, but that is his path. 

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2 minutes ago, The Onion Knight said:

The deal isn't nearly as bad as people are acting like it is. Chances are someone else was trying to trade up above them to get Trubisky and they obviously think he's their franchise guy. 1st and two 3rds isn't bad for a franchise QB.

San Francisco wasn't taking a trade past maybe the Jets with Thomas, Adams, etc. looking to be gone in the top 5. 

Trading back one spot for a guy they were about to get anyways is a no brainer. 

Trading up one spot for a guy that you were about to get anyways is.....I guess you could call it a no brainer too, just not the same kind.

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Just now, The Onion Knight said:

You don't know that. I guarantee someone else was wanting to trade up for Trubisky. Chicago wouldn't just give up those 3rd's for no reason. There was multiple rumors that the Browns might try to trade up to #2 overall. 

And if I'm Chicago, I gladly let it happen, and if I'm absolutely sold on going QB that early, I go Watson at 3, and keep those picks to help get more around that young player coming in. 

Chicago has nothing at Safety, zero pass rush, and 2 of their receivers have battled injury for their entire careers.

Obviously, they went where they felt they needed to go, but with Adams on the board, or any one of those DL, to trade up picks that could be used for some picks to really support them and get them in better shape to perform this season instead of in the future, I just can't imagine going any other way.

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Fox will delay playing Trubisky for Mark Sanchez because he just has to play a veteran. Once that debacle is over, he'll be chewing his gum on the sideline, clapping every time Trubisky throws an interception and will make the most vanilla statements in the post game pressers.

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If they're committed to not getting impatient, it could wind up ok, likely in a post-Fox era. For example, the Rams were pressured into Goff but they stepped into that themselves picking him #1.  

A QB is either ready or not...but there are the occasions where it takes some time.  Mitch strikes me like a solid mid-tier.  Below a Matt Ryan...in a Tannehill type realm.  

I think Pace is on some opioids.  

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