He gets a pass because of his father, the same reason he's gotten those probowl nods.
The last 2 years he hasn't played good at all. Maybe we're watching 2 different bears teams.
I can only speak for myself when I say his surname is irrelevant to me.
I do want to see him lay off social media and dominate as opposed to being serviceable. There's a potential out in his contract in 2019 (would be a $3m cap hit to cut ties after 2018 season) so a decision will be made then. That's two years more play to evaluate and he'll be 30 by then anyway. My bet is he has another injury either this season or next and we think about cutting ties.
No need to do anything sooner. Regardless of what you think of him, he an above average guard at worst and a pro bowler at best and we currently have $27m in unused cap space.
Pace will continue to draft linemen and we'll likely have two new guards for the 2019 season.
Edit: I see now that this post isn't extreme enough and has no hashtags, please disregard.