Ryan pace offered everything including cutler to draft mariota in last years draft at #2. So we know how he feels if he can find a young QB he likes.
Its a new NFL, the days of going to the super bowl with rex grossman are over. Without an elite QB you have virtually no chance of winning a super bowl anymore, let alone being a playoff team year in and year out.
we just need to look at the teams who make the playoffs every year(colts, pats, packers, ravens, steelers, seahawks..).....they all have one common denominator....a QB who either is elite or rises to the occasion when the lights are brightest like flacco or eli manning. Every GM knows for sustained success a QB in todays NFL is a must.
I could argue the colts have one of the worst if not the worst rosters in the league, yet he trumps all their issues and gets them in playoffs 3 straight years he is in the league.
There are many scouts calling groh from cal the best QB prospect since andrew luck, if this holds true, he will be the #1 overall pick, hopefully by the bears. because unfortunally the next JJ watt does nothing for the bears. JJ watt is great and is awesome, but he touches the ball once a game if lucky and does not make the playoffs.