Turn that page

Well. Alrighty then.

Guess we know now why the Chicago Bears signed All-Pro running back D'Andre Swift this offseason, and picked up tight end Gerald Everett from San Diego, and just a couple of days ago went to the Chargers well again to scoop veteran wideout Keenan Allen, who caught 108 balls for 1,243 yards last season and was leading the league in receptions when an ankle injury shut him down with four games remaining.

Guess we know it wasn't because they were going to stick with Justin Fields and were giving him more weapons to work with. No, sir. It was because they were giving presumptive No. 1 pick Caleb Williams more weapons to work with.

This after the Bears dealt Fields to the Pittsburgh Steelers yesterday, and were apparently so all-in on moving him it cost the Steelers only a provisional sixth-round draft pick. This soft market was interpreted as either a league-wide lack of enthusiasm for Fields' skill set, or an unwillingness to add a guy with that skill set who's in the last year of his rookie deal.

The Blob's take is it was probably a bit of both. 

The Blob's take is also that the Bears are clearly turning the page here after a 7-10 season in which Fields put up some of his best overall numbers essentially to no avail. So they've bookended DJ Moore with Allen and added oomph to their run game with Swift, and beefed up their tight end room by adding Everett to Cole Kmet. And now -- unless something extremely weird or extremely Bears-like happens -- they'll hope Williams is That Guy. 

I'm not sure he is. Then again, I'm not sure he's not.

But the Bears are shoving all the chips to the middle of the table betting he is, and, listen, if you're not getting a deja vu vibe from all this, you either don't live in Chicago or have some short-term memory issues. Because the Bears are right back to where they were three years ago, when they were moving on from Mitch Trubisky and betting Justin Fields was That Guy.

Turns out he wasn't, although the jury may still be out on that. All I know is the jury's definitely still out on Williams, who after all has yet to take an NFL snap.

And so we're right back to a familiar mantra with these Bears: Guess we'll see.