"Tanking" in the NFL

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(12-04-2023, 01:41 AM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: Fields stinks. Building around him by getting him a second #1 WR to go with his $12.5m/yr TE, is not going to work well because he'll never be able to feed them all and it'll lead to locker room issues. 

They should have traded him off to someone who still believed in him last offseason to recoup some value and drafted Stroud. Now they should just take Williams and build around him, because after this year you'd have to pick up Fields' 5th year option at $23.25m and he's eligible for an extension. 

Don't Daniel Jones yourself, though at least Jones won a bit. It doesn't matter how bad your supporting staff is, if you're 3 years in and you've never won more than 3 games in a season (just assuming the Bears won't finish 2-3 or better), you're not the future. He'll probably be 8-30 after this season, assuming he doesn't get hurt again (missed multiple games every season and rushing 10 times per game won't help that).

Ehh, this makes sense normally but you're looking at the Bears as if they were a normal franchise.  We're talking about a franchise that has never had a 4,000 yard passer and has a season high TD record of 29 that was set by journeyman, Erik Kramer, in 1995.  How impossible is it in today's insanely passing-friendly NFL to keep passing records from almost 30 years ago?

And I think Fields with a loaded offense would cause fewer issues that drafting Caleb Williams who probably doesn't want to go to that cursed franchise, assuming he'd even be good there which is a stretch.  I'm not saying the Bears will ever be good, but rotating out Fields for Stroud or Williams just has "midwest AZ Cardinals" vibes.  They probably will draft Williams against his will though, and they'll end up looking like the Baltimore Colts dealing with Elway or the old school Buccaneers with Bo Jackson.

Maybe Caleb Williams is better than I think he is, I really don't know, but I've heard that he isn't perfect and it would take absolute perfection to drag Chicago out of NFL irrelevance like their 1985 team did for a brief, overly-marketed moment.