5 reasons Ryan Pace cannot be trusted with Chicago Bears offseason

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CHICAGO, ILLINOIS – DECEMBER 22: Outside linebacker Leonard Floyd #94 of the Chicago Bears celebrates against the Kansas City Chiefs in the first quarter of the game at Soldier Field on December 22, 2019 in Chicago, Illinois. (Photo by Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images) /

2. Reaching to fix mistakes

While many fans were wishing for Leonard Floyd to leave, we wrote that patience may see his breakout year come in year five. It takes pass rushers a bit to get going, and Floyd was playing for a contract. Why not give a motivated Floyd a chance to prove himself? Well, Pace was desperate. He knew he made a mistake trading up for Leonard Floyd and wanted to make it right with the biggest splash. That is why we see Robert Quinn.

What is funny about Quinn is that after a breakout year playing for a contract, he now has struggled mightily after getting the long-term guaranteed money that he had been looking for. Instead of looking to Quinn and seeing that when a contract is on the line that Floyd could see an explosion, he looked at Quinn and wanted to be the person who rewarded him for a good year in Dallas.

Robert Quinn has been a huge disappointment in 2020. If he were on the Floyd contract and were a free agent next year, this would be no big deal. He is signed for next year without almost no way to get out, and he has serious dead money for the longterm. Ryan Pace went way out of his way to fix a mistake hoping it would be pay off in 2020. It not only failed in 2020, it set the team back for the next couple of years as well.

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