I don't see it happening, but who knows. The one thing about this nagy led bears is they play to the level of their competition almost always. That includes looking like trash against 1 win teams.
I expect them to lose, but in a close 1 TD game again.
I expect double digit loses against GB in both games but some home, bears manage to be single score losses to Detroit/Minn and single score wins against Houston/Jax. That would put us at 7-9 and I am afraid you may be right, not enough to make a change but it should be.
I just don't understand this franchise. Fun Fact: The Bears are one of the only major franchises where the owners have NO other outside business interests. So, all the McCaskey/Halas income is based solely on the Bears. One would then figure you would do whatever it takes to field the best team possible so that you increase ticket sales, merch sales and get as many prime-time games as possible.
Unfortunately, there are currently 12 teams that have worse records than the bears by 2 or more wins. So even if we lose out, we at best are looking at drafting between 10-14/15. Why i say that range is many of these teams have no chance at the playoffs so I suspect you will start seeing them play more and more rookies, early year players to see what they have (I would if I was in that position).
So lets say best case scenario we finish 5-11 and maybe jump 1 or 2 teams below us due to record or tie breakers, we are looking at the 11th pick most likely (but again, I bet we win 1 or 2 more games to totally fuck that up).
So looking at who would draft ahead of us (and who needs a QB)
- Washington needs a QB
- Jacksonville needs a QB
- Jets need a QB (i believe they will trade Sam D)
Then we get to teams that will draft ahead of us but most likely aren't in the QB market
- Bengals (just took Burrows)
- Falcons (too much money in Matty Ice and no one wants that contract)
- Panthers (alot of money in Bridgewater and he has looked solid when healthy)
- Texans (Deshawn)
- Chargers (Herbert)
And then you get to the "wildcard" teams that who knows what they would do
- Denver (they seem to like Drew Lock)
- Patriots (who knows with them)
- Giants (Seem to be good with Jones)
- Dallas (I would draft a QB if I were them, but Jerry is gonna Jerry)
- Vikings/Lions (complete toss up)
- 49ers (Who knows with Jimmy G)
So what this tells me (again, just opinion) that the top 3 QB's will be off the board by the time we draft, no matter what (Fields, Lawrence and one of Trask/Wilson/Lance). While I am NOT a fan of Trask ( I just don't trust him to be honest, I think its smoke in mirrors with him, but happy to be wrong) I think because of his video game numbers he is the 3rd guy taken. So that means, we MAY have a shot at Wilson/Lance by pick 11/12 baring any trade ups. However, if all 5 go before we can pick then we HAVE TO go for the best player available and I think that's going to be O-line. There are some interesting QB prospects we can get later on like Kellen Mond, KJ Costello or Sam Howell (North Carolina). Also, don't sleep on the QB from Boston College.
So my point is really, you are right, we will find a way to fuck this up, win 1 more game than we needed to and find ourselves out of the proposed top 5 QB's in the draft. So....Go O-line First and Second Round (unless someone drops) and in the 3rd go for a second tier QB.