Weighing in here, I think those people who are upset we drafted a QB (even in the 1st) are wrong. Glennon was brought in as a stop gap with the small potential to be more. Our drafted QB being a 1st round guy significantly dampens that potential because he will be on the shortest of leashes but nonetheless, we all should've known what he was. That said, fans SHOULD be mad for several reasons.
First, we overpaid for him. We essentially spent our 1st, two 3rds, and a 4th for a guy that has started only 1 year and is not even considered a sure fire guy like, say, Andrew Luck. Not that scouts always (or even usually) get it right but you have to get a valuation somewhere and most valuations called this guy risky enough that he wouldn't be a top 10 overall player in the draft based on skill alone. All signs point at us probably being able to have gotten him at 3 while maintaining our picks and even if it worked out differently and someone leap frogged us, we could have done what the Browns did and gotten Kizer or someone to develop in the 2nd round. The Bears did what we are all guilty of doing in fantasy, they got infatuated with a player, stopped reasoning with their heads and let their hearts tell them that no price was too high.
Second, there is apparently a disconnect with Fox and Pace in terms of who was being drafted. I haven't read if this extended beyond the 1st round pick but since that pick essentially cost use 3 picks in this draft, it basicaly means a little less than half the draft was picked without the coach's input mattering. We can't have that. We are already one of the least talented rosters in football, if our front office isn't on the same page then we will stay that way because we A. won't be able to adequetely assess talent with multiple agendas at work and B. no one will want to come play here because of the dysfunction.
Third and most egregious in my book, we made only one defensive pick. A draft where all you could hear coming in was how immensely talent rich it was on the defensive side of the ball and you make only a single pick on defense?! I'm sorry but that is unforgiveable. I was an apologist for our defense last year because they showed a lot of good things. Our front 7 have definite promise. Our secondary plays less defense than James Harden on the basketball court. Our secondary is so bad that if you told me the strategy this year was to let the opposing WRs run free and to tire them out, I would tell you that is probably the best strategy for them. Prince was a good signing but we need an infusion of youth and talent at CB and safety and instead, we drafted almost exclusively for the offense. Horrible. If you told me I could go back in time and pick Jamal Adams in the 1st, Kizer in the 2nd, and have both those 3s and the 4 back, I would ask you whose soul you wanted and how soon can I get it to you.
That said, I would love to be the first one to eat crow on Trubisky. I would love for him to succeed and I personally thought the Bears needed to draft a QB but do not agree with the cost. I think that the odds of him living up to the price we paid is slim but anything is possible.