Dom thinks the trade was dumb and torpedoed the season.
Bears were 12th in defense (yards per play) last year.
Bears are 30th in defense (yards per play) this year.
They absolutely made the defense worse. And the only way you can have any hope of winning games with a bottom 25% QB is to have a great defense.
So your dead money argument isn’t an argument. You can’t blame the prior regime for the defense going from 12 to 30.
Since Poles didn’t draft Fields there’s hope he moves on or trades him. Cardinals did it when they were in position to get Kyler and dump Josh Rosen
What is Fields trade value? You think any team would give up even a 2nd round pick for him?