The running qb has a much shorter career projection all o lines being equal.
At the end of the day if a team believes jimmy g can win them games, then a top five pick in a draft with no highly rated qb's is a small price to pay.
I agree with this, people are looking at all stats and market variables when analyzing JimmyG possible trade market but this is something much more simple, it's like you said, win games, I think some are diminishing how important this is or simply not looking. The season is short and almost all divisions are no cake walk. The race for playoffs is always in the 10+ win conversation, with some exceptions to 9 and very rarely 8.
If you lose 4 games that you had a shot to win because of inconsistent QB play you are out. Game over. End of story. Because for a 8-8ish team there will be games they are supposed to lose, and in fact they will lose more often than not. So in the end for a team that is not the Patriots, or the Colts Manning or the good Aaron Rodgers packers teams, a normal team with playoff hopes have a 16 game schedule where there will be games they are under dogs, some games where they are favorites and inside the division games that are always tough. Some games they are supposed to win they will lose and vice-versa so that evens out. So we are talking about a very small delta here like 3-4 games that will define a teams season. So it doesn't matter how well the QB will QB your team as long as he win games, nice stats and blowouts be damned even though this is nice. There are few QB's that can win games they are not supposed to lose consistently in the NFL right now and they are all under contract. If a team without this kind of QB have a shot at getting one of them they automatically get into a different conversation, and it's important to build a culture of winning games. Teams that win less than 5 games every season never get out of this hole.
JimmyG makes a lot of sense in Chicago, a 1st round pick is important but is no guarantee you're getting a great player, there are injury risks, fit risks, behavior, a lot of factors, it's indeed a small price if you have a change to get a QB to get out of this mess Chicago is in right now. And I say it's a small price looking at both sides, I am reluctant to trade Jimmy for only a 1st because in the end if you draft a QB you trading 6 for half-dozen with a little more leverage on the duration of the contract (after all that's why you're making a trade, to get some return not lose). If it's a high dradt pick I can see, but if you are out of the top 10 BB could easily just draft another Easley or Glass I Dowling. If BB and McDaniels believe those 6 quarters of football were for real and tape-proof he is worth more that that and in this case I don't think there will be a trade. There will be a transition to Brady to Jimmy G.