Both for an exciting low season led by a new Chicago Bears starting quarterback. It won’t happen, at least according to former Bears offensive linebacker Kyle Long.
Long gave a good feeling this Wednesday about what will likely come down to the ever-disturbing history of Chicago’s search for a quarterback.
“I think they won’t be able to get what they want to do in the draft in the quarterback position,” Long said of the Bears. “I think we’ll see Nick Foles with a low season behind him as the starting quarterback. Viously, obviously, I think Mitch is going somewhere else.”
Foles with a low season on his back doesn’t suddenly make him a good starting quarterback. It doesn’t even make him an average starting quarterback. It makes him the same quarterback he’s always been: a traveler who isn’t good enough to take a job for more than a season or two.
What Long does not recognize in his Foles prediction is the urgency with which Ryan Pace and Matt Nagy work. They can’t risk another season of Foles collapsing in their pockets like an athletic card deck. They need a solution; a legitimate update. And Pace will do everything he can to get it, even if it means overpaying for a player like Derek Carr in the commercial market or rolling the dice on Jameis Winston in free agency.
At that point, both players would give the Bears a better chance of winning ten or more games in 2021. And it will be a season like this for Pace and Nagy to win one more year in Chicago.