The 1985 Chicago Bears
The trend doesn’t stop with the Chicago Bears head coach mishaps. General manager Jim Finks drafted Jim McMahon in the NFL draft of 1982 as the 5th overall selection. McMahon was selected above Mick Munchak, Marcus Allen, and Mike Quick. Odd, sometimes trading down is essential.
My point behind bringing up moving around in the draft is that you never know. It gets under my skin a bit when someone says, well, Ryan Pace always trades up, and that is bad… He should always trade down. No…no…no. A general manager needs to find players that they value in specific areas. I believe Ryan Pace does this decently well. Sometimes players don’t work out.
Back to Jim McMahon and Jim Finks though. Many have said that Finks resigned because he was going to be fired for hiring Mike Ditka. We can’t always believe what we read on the internet (pause… except with me, haha).
Jim Finks had a good run with the Minnesota Vikings, but he honestly did not provide enough in Chicago. That might be the fate of Ryan Pace either way. If Ryan Pace has another double-digit winning season, I will for sure start comparing him to Jim Finks as a general manager. Sorry I got off track again. Ok, Finks drafts McMahon and gets fired the year after McMahon’s rookie season.
McMahon plays most of the season in 1985 and leads the team to a Championship, but this time the Chicago Bears win. That 1985 Bears team was the start of defense wins Championships for the Chicago Bears. So how much winning that the Chicago Bears have done historically is because of the quarterbacks they “hit” on? I believe they did not “hit” on any quarterback they have drafted. Draft hits are vital to what the future will become for Ryan Pace and Matt Nagy.