Ok so to progress the dialogue here, the main culprit to you should be Nagy right?
You're misunderstanding me. It's not about singling-out Nagy. It's about remaining objective in evaluating the multitude of issues at play here. The crux of my argument is that people are letting their emotions and envy of Mahomes and Watson's early success taint their perspective and evaluations of this team and Mitch.
So if Nagy gets them all playing back to mediocre football, and Mitch gets back on track for his whopping 25 TDs (ish) and 15 INT (ish) totals that he posted last year, is that a win?
Unless that translates into a deeper playoff run than last season, no, I wouldn't consider that scenario a "win".
Wouldn't it still be a legit observation that CHI would be dominant with a great QB instead of a middling QB?
Perhaps, but who's to say that hypothetical QB would still end up great in a completely different situation. I think it's naive to assume you can just swap players into vastly different situations and expect identical results.
I just have zero interesting in these types of hypothetical arguments.
How dominant would the Bears have been if they didn't pass on Rodgers back in 2005?
Answer: who fucking cares.
Let's discuss what's actually going on here in reality with the players we actually have, not obsess over hypotheticals.
Is it crying over spilled milk to say that Pace fucked up and I - for one - cringe at the apparent love and adoration ownership gives him with his shit track record at QBs?
Depends, do you plan on creating endless threads crying about it? Pretty sure everyone here is in agreement that Pace fucked up so I'm not sure what you're cringing about exactly. I don't see him getting much love and adoration from anyone.
As for ownership, I'm not sure why anyone would care what PR bullshit comes out of Halas Hall. They're going to tow the company line and support their staff/players right up until the moment they don't and said person is let go. Not sure what your expecting here.
You could easily construct gifs where the O-line holds up and Mitch sucks ass. THAT is the line that separates Mitch from his peers in KC and HOU and the line where Pace not only made a mistake but may NEED TO CORRECT ...
This dumb narrative that Mahomes/Watson somehow transcend the need of support from their teammates is obnoxious as fuck. Again, if Mahomes is such an ugodly talented he doesn't require support, how did he possibly lose to a vastly inferior team riddled with injuries starting a bunch of nobodies in the secondary? According to the narrative being peddled here Mahomes and Watson should never lose a game right?