Pernbronze wrote:
Brrexkl wrote:
CrimsonWolfZ wrote:
I'm tired of this narative that the Bears gave away their draft for Trubisky. First off at the end of the day the Bears only lost a 3 rounder and moved from 36 to 45 in the second round after trading back for more picks. The Bears didn't mortgage their future like other teams the last two drafts trading up for a QB; the Rams, Eagles, Cheifs, and Texans gave up at least a future first, some mutiple high picks for a QB. Personally I didn't like the trade at first but there are reports that the 49ners had offers, and even the Bears had offers for number 3 before the trade. This is the first time since 1951 that the Bears can say they chose the first QB in a draft. Also Mike Gleenon's is the 23 highest QB contract and is only 18M guaranteed meaning after one season the Bears can cut him with only a 3M penalty making him a perfect Bridge QB.
The narrative isn't that the Bears gave away their Draft, the narrative is that they gave away Free Picks because no one else was moving to #2 for Trubisky and SF was set on Solomon Thomas.
Given the QB trades that happened after that, I have a hard time believing that.
You can have a hard time believing it. That's cool.
What you are failing to miss is that SF wasn't going to miss out on Thomas. He was The Guy for them. Some reports say they had him #1 over Garrett.
They moved down one spot because they could get Thomas. They move down 2, 3 or more... they risk losing him.
Solomon Thomas is why SF wasn't Trading any further down than #3 Overall, and they were only going to #3 because they knew Chicago was going QB at #2 and the Browns were going Garrett at #1.