A Thank You Letter to Pete Carroll

Photo by Steph Chambers/Getty ImagesDear Pete Carroll,

We, the fans of the Chicago Bears, want to send you a sincere thank you for what you’ve done for this franchise. We want to thank you for delivering us Justin Fields. No, you didn’t draft him, but you opened the door to do so, and for that, we send our deepest thanks.

What’s that? You don’t quite understand why? Well, let me remind you that if you wind the clock back to January of 2021, George McCaskey sat down Ryan Pace and Matt Nagy and told them you have one year to fix the QB situation and make the playoffs (as we know, they came up short). So Pace went to work. He made calls. He was aggressive. He tried every which way to find a…