Okay, here's some of my thoughts and responses to your above-post:
(1) Jim Finks mightve been a HOF genius as a GM and shrewd evaluator of talent, and skill but even when he was with the Vikings and Bears, he had his share of swings and misses and that stubbornness in the mid/late 70's reared it's ugly head when he downright refused to even consider signing Oakland Raiders QB Kenny Stabler for a possible trade in summer of 1979 even though Bears then-HC and many Bears players, like Walter Payton, were absolutely pleading for him to make the trade. His response: we might trade for Stabler for a 4th rounder, but no more, otherwise, we're happy with what we have and at QB, in the late 70's/early 80's Bears had a three-pronged QB by committee, they didnt have a legitimately decent QB until Jim Mcmahon came along. Stabler, by 1979, was a 4-time Pro Bowler and SB XI winner, and still had a few good years left in the tank.
Oh, and BTW, most Bears draft scouts recommended he draft local nearby Notre Dame QB standout Joe Montana in the 1979 draft, well..Finks thought he knew better and chose somebody else.
(2). After Finks resigned and later died a year later due to smoking-related lung cancer, even though officially, there was a "three-headed monster" doing GM's responsibilities, in reality, it was mostly Jim Mora making the decisions off-field with input obviously sometimes from Kuharich and Miller because despite his GM title, Mora never really respected or saw Kuharich as being anywhere near his equal, he was a well-liked underling, he'd always been subservient to Mora even when both were in the USFL and Kuharich was an assiatant on Mora's Philadelphia/Baltimore Stars teams and that power-sharing role didnt change. Under Ditka, Kuharich didnt have the same power and influence that Loomis would later have because Ditka was hired with the premise that he'd have the final say in personnel and draft decisions.
(3) Heath Shuler was a terrible, sheetty bust of a QB in Washington as he was in New Orleans, no matter what kind of offensive play books he had. He's considered one of the NFL's biggest QB draft busts in history for a reason.