Chicago Bears: 3 reasons why Nick Foles was still the better call

Foles knows the offense

This is the simplest way to explain general manager Ryan Pace’s reasoning. Foles knows this offense like he knows the back of his hand. Foles has years of experience in this offense and offenses similar to this and has shown he can win a Super Bowl with it.

Nick Foles spent time with every major offensive coach on staff important to him. Bill Lazor was his quarterbacks coach at one point and so was John DeFilippo. Matt Nagy was the offensive coordinator in Kansas City when he stopped there briefly.

With Covid-19 being a major concern in March and even now, the problem was the Bears weren’t sure what kind of offseason they would get.

Why would the Bears invest a good amount of money into Newton, Dalton, or Winston if they would never learn the offense? Doesn’t that defeat the purpose of bringing a quarterback in?

The Bears’ main reason for bringing one in was to create a quarterback competition for Mitchell Trubisky. How would it be a competition if Trubisky’s competition doesn’t even know the offense? Bringing in Foles creates competition and knows the offense. Easy as that.