Rookie Minicamp Stuff

I think what's happening here with all of the worry about "getting it right" with this latest Bears effort to draft and develop a QB, is angst over past failures.  Even though some of this is overkill (maybe all of it) I do understand how some fans (including me) are probably over-thinking it all - as if Fields is some precious and fragile player.  It is just fans wanting to pull out all stops to finally "develop" a QB and not have yet another failure.  Some, of this is probably laughable and crazy thinking, but I do understand the worry.  It's all due to the history of past failures spanning so many years and decades.

Having said that, I do hope the Bears can provide Fields reasonable OL protection and enough skill players around him to give him a fighting chance of being a success here.  And it's looking like the Bears may have done that for 2021.  I say that with the realization that you never have a perfect OL and perfect O players surrounding a QB.  But you do want a reasonable level of quality on offense when you trot Fields out there as starter. 

I have been more fixated on this Fields draft more than any other QB in the past 60 years.  I want the pain to end at QB.  You'll laugh, but I have watched Fields plays from college almost every night since we drafted him.  It's like I can't really "believe" we drafted a kid with this level of potential.  We seem to have a very special but raw talent here.  He does make mistakes.  He will need to get better at the NFL level.  But holy cow, he is so gifted.  I can't remember us ever drafting a kid this "football smart" before.  He routinely makes quick and right decisions.  Yes, he has some brain fart plays too.  But very few.  He is about as perfect of a raw talent that you could hope for here. 

I just hope the Bears don't blow it with him.  As gifted as Fields is, he will still have a steep learning curve to climb on and also off the field.  I thought Trubisky could make the learning curve climb.  But he crashed and burned.  Horribly.  I don't want that to happen with Fields.  But yeah, he's got to go out there and start - and begin the part of that learning curve that only happens with real game reps in real regular season games.  That may be in game 1 of the season.  You never know.

I thought this was worth posting.

I didn't realize this.  These guys are here for awhile now.