We've got the QB we need

So the word comes out of Minnesota today: QB Daunte Culpepper could be had for a 2nd rounder.

This for a 29-year-old former Pro Bowl quarterback who could have as much as a decade of productive NFL years ahead of him. This for the guy I wanted the Bears to draft ahead of everybody but Donovan McNabb in 1999. This for a guy I thought was on the verge of dominating the sport before the kickoff of the 2005 season.

All for a second rounder.

And my clear message to Angelo? DON'T DO IT!

We've got the QB we need, and his name is Rex Grossman. Culpepper, for all his potential and proven greatness, has to be rated beneath Grossman as a prospect right now. Nobody really expects Culpepper to play in 2006, and nobody knows what he'll be 2007.

In fact, a quick look around the NFC North reveals something amazing: The Bears have the most settled and most promising quarterback situation in the division... Vikings? Brad Johnson isn't scaring anybody. Packers? Brett Favre hasn't yet committed to playing, and his skills are fading. Lions? Mike Martz is an over-rated loose cannon and doesn't look like the kind of guy who is going to transform Joey Harrington and his bruised ego into anything resembling a top-tier NFL signal-caller.