I will never want my team I root for to have the same plan of attack as the sorry excuse for a NFL squad called the Jacksonville Jaguars. I want to think that my coach is smarter then Jaguars guy, Doug Marrone. Not even sure I can say that Matt Nagy is the answer as head coach for the Chicago Bears. Both Jacksonville and Chicago are not too swift in the front office, is what many can agree upon. Jacksonville may do something better than the Bears do. Finding the guy behind center. Both franchises are stuck with guys like Blake Bortles and Jay Cutler for a long time, like these two guys had inappropriate pictures of the owners sleeping with a sheep. Both Bortles and Cutler had chance after chance, as they held the Bears and Jaguars hostage, of actually finding someone better and permanent behind center. Both teams need help filling the Swiss cheese holes throughout their rosters. The Jaguars though, seem to being doing a better job with the quarterback position.

In 2019, the Jaguars traded and paid Nick Foles to be their guy behind center. Nick Foles, in the very first game he suited up for Jacksonville, got hurt and was out close to half the season. Jacksonville inserted their 2019 sixth round draft, the mustache. Gardner Minshew, and his 1970’s porn style mustache, came in and was slinging the rock like he’s played in the NFL for years. Eventually Nick Foles came back and was inserted behind center but played poorly. The writing was on the wall, that it was Minshew Mania in Florida. Jacksonville unloaded Nick Foles and the big contract he signed to the Chicago Bears the following season.

Nick Foles came to Chicago to eventually to be replacing the Bears GM Ryan Pace’s gigantic mistake his number one draft pick in 2017, Mitch Trubisky. Due to the pandemic, Trubisky was awarded the opening day start as it was an open competition. No preseason games gave Trubisky the leg up and perhaps to give Mitch one last chance to prove he was worth being picked number one by the Bears that year, which cost them an extra draft pick to move up and get him. Trubisky was playing decently and the Bears were winning, playing bottom feeders of the NFL to open up the 2020 campaign. Then the Bears found themselves in a pickle trailing a bad Falcon team in the third game of the season. A Falcon team with a poor defense. Matt Nagy jumped on the perfect opportunity to end Mitch Trubisky’s experiment for good. As we all know, Matt Nagy inherited Mitch Trubisky when he accepted the Bears job. Nick Foles, the greatest relief pitcher quarterback in the league, led the Bears back in that contest versus the Falcons and won the game. Foles beat Tom Brady once again as Bears took out the Buccaneers on a Thursday night game for a signature victory. Matt Nagy was looking like a genius. The last few weeks Nick Foles has not played well. Some would say Trubisky’s play earlier in the year as a whole was much better than that of Foles. Bears have been on a downward spiral as soon as the schedule got difficult.

Meanwhile in Jacksonville, Minshew mania has slowed down. Jaguars are still themselves overall bad, but the quarterback play of Minshew was probably the only reason to watch this sorry excuse for a team, play. Over the last few games, Gardner Minshew has not been himself and has played poorly. Minshew hurt his hand and was not behind center versus Houston, last Sunday. Was Minshew playing with a bad hand that caused him to play poorly? Jacksonville instead of inserting in journeyman quarterback Mike Glennon, who the Bears are familiar with his bad play the year the team drafted Mitch Trubisky. You can say Glennon’s really bad play caused the Bears to rush Mitch Trubisky into action instead of having him learn from the side line that season. Last Sunday, the Jaguars inserted another 6th round draft pick from 2020 versus Houston. Jaguars still lost the game. A guy no one heard of threw for over 300 yards in his first action. Jake Luton played his college ball at University of Idaho and then transferred to Oregon State. Luton almost won the Jaguars the game on Sunday. Luton was 26-38 passing which is a 68.4 completion %. Luton tossed one touchdown pass and had one blemish for the day, an interception. Luton’s 73 yard strike to receiver D.J Chark was a pretty pass from the rookie. Jaguars finding talent behind center in late rounds.

Nick Foles still has the nod as starter behind center. Mitch Trubisky was used in a wild cat formation for one play versus the Saints two weeks ago and hurt his shoulder. If Foles does go down, then the Bears would have to throw in Tyler Bray ,an undrafted free agent who knows Nagy’s system from his days back in Kansas City. Tyler Bray started in Kansas City in 2013, and arrived in Chicago in 2018. The same year head coach Nagy took over the head coach duties for the Bears. Bray is flat out one of Nagy’s guys. Tyler Bray basically has lived on the practice squads his whole career getting in one game and throwing one incomplete pass for his career. I do not trust Bray to be as good as any quarterback the Jaguars insert into their offense, because he seems like a lifer on the practice squad.

No way the Jaguars should be the team you follow to fix the position that has haunted you since Sid Luckman was behind center for the Bears in the 1940’s. Yes, Jim McMahon knew how win games and help win a Superbowl in Chicago in the 1980’s. I would also give Erik Kramer and Jim Miller credit for the years they played in Chicago. That’s it. History keeps repeating itself. Bears continue to find some veteran to replace the veteran who has struggled. If Nick Foles continues his struggles this season, what will the Bears do? Make a trade with the New York Jets for Sam Darnold? The Jets will have the number one pick so they may desire to go after Trevor Lawrence with their pick from Clemson. That leaves the Bears or other teams looking for other teams’ scraps. Darnold is young, but it will be another quarterback the Bears will try the quick fix on. I’ve never seen the Bears able to fix any kind of quarterback that had struggles coming in from another team. Darnold may be another young guy they will ruin like they did with Mitch Trubisky. Not construct an offense around the quarterback’s strong traits. Maybe Sam Darnold is already ruined from playing with the Jets all these years with a bad offensive line. Same thing with the Bears; these teams don’t address protection for these young guys who get hit over and over. Bears drafted offensive linemen in the late rounds last season, trying to bandaid the trenches. Offensive linemen in later rounds take a long time to develop.

Chicago Bears passed over Patrick Mahomes, and a sure thing in Deshaun Watson in 2017, for Trubisky. Bear’s last pick in later rounds on the quarterback position was David Fales in 2014. Bears should be picking a quarterback every year in the draft. The Bears do not try to land quarterbacks in the later rounds when other teams have done it to perfection. Bears thought they had their guys and have passed on Tom Brady, Aaron Rodgers, Kirk Cousins, and Russell Wilson who were all drafted late. The Jaguars have picked up two quarterbacks in the last two years in the sixth round and both have been serviceable so far. Bears go the route of veterans and undrafted free agents or when they have a top pick they miss on the quarterback from whatever crap they select. Do you remember Cade McNown? He was another bum drafted in the first round by the Bears 12th overall in 1999. Rex Grossman was drafted 22nd in the first round in 2003. It was Good Rex or Bad Rex with his play. You could say Rex helped them get to the Superbowl to fumble it away. I feel like my team is Charlie Brown and all’s I keep getting is rocks after rocks in my goody bag. While Chargers go to Phillip Rivers to Justin Herbert. While Green Bay goes to Brett Farve to Aaron Rodgers and they drafted a quarterback in the first round this year, Jordan Love. It tells me if the Jaguars can find quarterbacks in the sixth round why can’t the Bears do this. Why can’t we find talent in the draft and trade the ones we don’t like to other teams? Patriots are very good at getting quarterbacks, developing them and sending them to other teams for assets. The Jaguars, if Jake Luton becomes the guy in Jacksonville, can trade Gardner Minshew next season and draft another guy late again in the 2021 draft. Sounds like it’s rocket science. To the Bears, it is.