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The 2020 Bears will almost certainly be less talented, because life is a decaying march to death and everyone in the NFL just gets more beat up and bad the more football they play. You need a steady flow of fresh, talented bodies that they can't provide because of their missing draft picks, and if you bring in a QB who is definitely better than Trubisky you're going to have to weaken the starters at several other positions by either cutting guys or signing equal replacements for your UFAs.

 

But don't mind me, I'm just doom bonering.

While the Bears are far from an enviable position, the NFL is weird enough and there is enough talent still that a major rebuild seems silly. They're gonna have to role a few dice in areas, but even good teams are often patchworking solutions somewhere. They just need to identify a better glue to hold their fraying patches together. Also they have to hope guys like Leno and Burton are more "fluky bad season" than they are "stick a fork in them"

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The Bears have too much talent to tank. They've gone over 300 yards 1 time in 10 games and have had a chance in the final 3 minutes in all but the Saints game. The problem with competition for Trubisky is that "competition" isn't good enough. You need a guy better than Trubisky, and probably clearly. Otherwise the alternative is Trubisky either winning the job or that guy getting hurt and Trubisky inheriting the job. Even if he plays like last year, we saw that wasn't good enough to be a real contender, and it's even less effective now as the defense isn't as dominant as it was back then.

 

And I don't think Pace and Nagy want to deal with even the possibility of having this season happen again.

 

I'm not sure what your conclusion is, keep Mitch or ditch mitch? I think unless you are in love with a QB that drops to you in the second round this draft, you have to use those picks to revamp the o-line.Even if Mitch continues to tank you at least have the building blocks to surround the QB who takes over after Mitch leaves, HC and GM be damned. Reaching for a QB in this draft would be a huge mistake.

 

I think you have to ditch Mitch. While I don't think he would be as bad next year as he's been this year, he's definitely not the answer. Best case is a 2018 repeat where he figures out how to use his legs again. But I think he's lost the support of his teammates. They obviously won't say anything publicly, but you can see the body language on the field. Lackluster effort for high throws, stopping on routes when he misses them flash open, nobody moving down the field when he scrambles out of a pocket that he could have stood in. Nagy clearly can't do what he wants with the offense, and he's getting flack from the press and fans about his offense and playcalling. I just don't see Nagy being very willing to go into 2020 with his future tied to a QB that he has to dumb down his playbook for. Because after all, if Trubisky is here again and the offense struggles again with a half-filled play sheet....the offensive minded head coach is going to certainly take a lot of the heat for not having a good offense and not developing a talented QB.

 

I don't think Pace can go to ownership after 2 bad years and say, "Hey, I built up the rest of the team, let me get 1 more shot at QB" when the QB he picked is the reason for 2 bad years. And i don't think Nagy has been good enough to survive a GM change.

So if the plan is to ditch Mitch do you think there is any trade market for him? I'm not sure why this is, but according to OTC, he is cap neutral as a cut (all dead money), but would actually garner about 4M cap savings as a trade, at least.

 

If there is literally no cap benefit to cutting him it seems highly unlikely that they'll just cut lose in March. So he'd be in camp and presumably still good enough to not get beat out by 2-3 other guys and sticking around as the backup and its the same cap effect to cut or keep.

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The 2020 Bears will almost certainly be less talented, because life is a decaying march to death and everyone in the NFL just gets more beat up and bad the more football they play. You need a steady flow of fresh, talented bodies that they can't provide because of their missing draft picks, and if you bring in a QB who is definitely better than Trubisky you're going to have to weaken the starters at several other positions by either cutting guys or signing equal replacements for your UFAs.

 

But don't mind me, I'm just doom bonering.

While the Bears are far from an enviable position, the NFL is weird enough and there is enough talent still that a major rebuild seems silly. They're gonna have to role a few dice in areas, but even good teams are often patchworking solutions somewhere. They just need to identify a better glue to hold their fraying patches together. Also they have to hope guys like Leno and Burton are more "fluky bad season" than they are "stick a fork in them"

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I generally don't believe in rebuilds. I believe that if you're bad enough to need one, you're bad enough to try your best and fail anyway, it'll work out on its own. I think the Bears are gonna try their best in 2020 and fail miserably. No harm in trying, though, as long as you don't let Pace go crazy trading picks again.