No Pro Bowls since Ronald Reagan was president. No Hall of Fame since the Elvis Presley was changing the landscape of music. The Chicago Bears have truly moved at a glacial pace when it comes to the quarterback position. Incredible to think about considering they were one of the franchises to first take it mainstream back in the 1940s with Sid Luckman and that T-Formation everybody loves to sing about.

Staying on the cutting edge is how one wins in the NFL, but the Bears forgot that lesson and have been paying for it ever since. If not for a historic defense and all-time great running back they wouldn’t even have one Super Bowl title. Meanwhile teams like New England, New Orleans and Indianapolis have won with average backs and decent defenses. Why?

They had quarterbacks.

Now the Bears are trying to enter that exclusive club yet again. Can they get one who understands both the physical and mental sides of the game? What must they do to succeed where past regimes have so spectacularly failed? One Hall of Fame GM has great advice for what it will actually take to pull it off.