The Chicago Bears General manager Ryan Poles, this off-season, has been in the laboratory creating the ultimate offense. It takes you back to when George W Bush was President of the United States accusing Iraq of having weapons of mass destruction. Poles and the Bears front office have been building a thing, a hybrid something no one has ever seen in the Windy City. It’s like the Axis of Evil countries building their new weapons and putting them on display. The Bears have done that with all sorts of free agent moves this off-season. Parading them in Halas Hall with contracts and a new uniform. The Bears have reinforced the walls of the offensive line. They have a new ground assault. They even have added to their aerial fleet. When the season opens up, who will be the general on the field of the operations this up coming season? We have not even made it to the draft as the Bears own the number 1 pick and two selections in the top ten.

Last season at this time, the Bears remade their entire defense through free agency and the draft. This year the team has still made some nice savvy moves on the defensive side but have concentrated on the offense. It started with the firing of offensive coordinator Luke Getsy, the former Packers coach. The experts, fans, and I believe Ryan Poles are still trying to figure out if Justin Fields will be the general of this operation going forward. Poles hired Seattle’s former offensive coordinator Shane Waldron and you have to believe he knows the plan. I also have to believe he has a say. Some of the free agents he has picked up have ties to him in other organizations he has coached. Finally someone at Halas Hall believes in reinforcing the offensive line. The Bears for decades addressed the O-Line with late round draft picks. Picked up some castaways.The Bears made a deal with the Bills and landed Ryan Bates who has 5 seasons in the NFL, all with Buffalo. Bates is 27 years old & out of Penn State. Here are some of Waldron’s guys. The Bears signed Coleman Shelton, a center for the Rams, who is 28 years old out of Washington University. Jake Curhan followed Waldron to Chicago, a former Seahawk who has 3 seasons under his belt. Curhan is a tackle who is out of the University of California. The Bears also signed a tackle from the 49ers where he played last year. Matt Pryor was drafted by the Eagles and has been in the NFL 5 seasons out of TCU. Poles is building the next Berlin wall.

Ryan Poles last year at this time fleeced the Carolina Panthers as they traded the Bears for the number one pick. Panthers selected Bryce Young out of University of Alabama. The Bears ended up getting the Panthers number one pick this season which is first overall. Plus they landed a big time wide receiver DJ Moore. The Bears lost one of their own to free agency. Wide Receiver Darnell Mooney signed with Atlanta. The Bears could draft Marvin Harrison Jr. out of the Ohio State University. They could still draft him even though they traded a 4th round draft pick to the Chargers for Keenan Allen, AKA Mr. I Catch Everything Thrown to Me. Moore had 96 catches, 1,364 yards, and 8 touchdowns. That was with Fields & mostly thrown to Moore. Allen last year had 108 catches for 1,243 yards with 7 touchdowns. INSANE. Then if you draft Harrison Jr. the Bears would have a trio of elite play makers running routes. The Bears added D’Andre Swift who will be the team’s featured back. Swift had a career year in Philadelphia last year over 1,000 yards. Swift is a bruising back. Then the Bears signed another tight end in another one of Waldron’s old guys from the LA Rams, Gerald Everett. Everett last season played for the Chargers & had 51 catches for 411 yards with 3 touchdowns. He has 284 all-time catches for 2,833 yards with 19 touchdowns. I forgot to mention the Bears’ other tight end, Cole Kmet. Kmet is coming off a monster year. Last year he had 73 catches for 719 yards with six touchdown catches. This is looking like the best offense the Bears have ever assembled in the history of the Midway Monsters. Who’s driving the car?

If Justin Fields was supposed to have been traded, he is running out of places to go. The Falcons would have been a homecoming for Fields as he’s a native out of Georgia. The Falcons signed Kirk Cousins. The Steelers signed Russell Wilson. The Raiders signed Gardner Minshew. The Seahawks still have Geno Smith but acquired Sam Howell from the Commanders in a trade. The Vikings are going with, for the time being, Sam Darnold. Who knows what Denver is doing with all the Wilson money still on their payroll? The Steelers are only paying Wilson the league minimum so the Broncos still have to pony up most of what is owed in that great flop of a trade a few years back. The Bears biggest problem since Sid Luckman last played for the team in the 1940’s is Chicago has not filled his shoes at the quarterback position.

The Bears have signed a quarterback in free agency this season. Brett Rypien is not the quarterback savior for this franchise. Rypien has 4 seasons as he was drafted by the Denver Broncos where he played 3 years. Last year he played for the LA Rams. He has played in 10 NFL games as a 2-2 record as a starter. Brett’s uncle was Mark Rypien who won a Superbowl behind center for the Washington Redskins during the 1990’s. Brett has only thrown for 950 yards and has 4 touchdown passes and ten interceptions, so this guy sounds like a Bears guy. The Bears still have Tyson Bagent, a division II quarterback who was not drafted. Bagent played in 5 games for the Bears last season filling in for the injured Justin Fields. He started 4 games in which he went 2-2 with 3 touchdowns and six interceptions. These guys are not the answer, but maybe one of them would be nice 3rd string option.

Do you give the keys to this offensive juggernaut to Justin Fields where the jury is hung with a noose around their necks as everyone is split on the Bears present day starter behind center? With the number one pick, do you pick the one quarterback that many think is the best and the next Patrick Mahomes in Caleb Williams out of USC? Williams cancelled a meeting with the Bears at a combine in Indianapolis. Williams is from the DC area and has said he would love to be the Commanders starting QB. Washington is selecting at number two in the draft and just traded away their starter last year, Sam Howell, to Seattle. Should the Bears select Williams anyways? They could draft another one of those options at the quarterback position or they may be destined for the booby prize like in 2017 picking Mitch Trubisky instead of Mahomes or the rapist Deshaun Watson. You know one of these guys may be the gem of the NFL draft starting with Drake Maye out of North Carolina, Jayden Daniels from LSU and Bo Nix from University of Oregon. Not in any order but with the Bears’ luck they will pick the lemon. The Bears could give Fields the keys and let him rip. No excuses now as this offense is ready to hum and has everything. The Bears could draft a quarterback and let him sit and watch for a season. Never a bad thing for example A Patrick Mahomes and Aaron Rodgers who I absolutely am disgusted by. It’s too bad Ryan Poles and the front office can’t create their own Hybrid Frankenstein quarterback programmed to win multiple Superbowls with this offensive power house they put together. Chicago is where quarterbacks come to die. We are all about the defense of which we got one of those too. Just can’t solve that question: Who’s driving the car?