#2: The 1957 group
#2: The 1957 groupHard as it may be to imagine, at one point in time the Bears were considered the premier quarterback-developing team in football. Between 1939 and 1949 they drafted three eventual Hall of Famers in Sid Luckman, Bobby Layne and George Blanda. The problem is the latter two of those three got their shots with other teams. It was by the 1950s that the team started its long fall into the pits of quarterback despair, and 1957 was (the first) rock bottom.
What’s amazing is their primary starter, Ed Brown, was named an All-Star the year before after taking the team to the NFL championship game. He regressed badly the following year though. Together with the somehow even more inept Zeke Bratkowski, the Bears threw seven touchdowns and 28 interceptions. Yep. That’s not a math error. Chicago threw four times as many interceptions as touchdowns. There really isn’t much else to say.
