So we should just throw him in the fire and hope he doesn't turn out like Trubisky?
We have no reason to throw him out there. Let him learn, let us get better supporting cast and play caller.
Joe Burrow had 3 ints today. Should the Bengals get Andy Dalton back and "sit" Burrows for another year? Cmon. I'm more ticked by the WRs not making catches today than with Fields.
Clearly correct. I was at game--ARob had a near perfect TD pass go through his arms and Mooney prob could have caught that pass too. Plus Kmet getting an OPI and a 3rd. Bears left at least 10 points on the board there, probably 14.
Throwing fields out there and making him Zach Wilson <<<<<< Being patient with him and having him sit to turn into Mahomes/Rodgers.
You realize KC's decision to "sit Mahomes" turned out to the WRONG one, don't you?
We understand why it happened--Alex Smith was playing lights out--but Mahomes should have been starting. He was clearly the better player almost immediately.
Fields will be starting week 3 and that ends it. He starts rest of the year unless hurt. The Dalton injury provides a convenient excuse.
You know this how?
Mahomes even went on record saying he needed that time to learn. Are you saying he's wrong about that?
So we should just throw him in the fire and hope he doesn't turn out like Trubisky?
We have no reason to throw him out there. Let him learn, let us get better supporting cast and play caller.
Trubisky "turned out" like Trubisky because he was Trubisky. It wouldn't have mattered if he started week 5 or week 50. No correlation between those two things.
No... no... no...
Trubisky was "ruined" due to the fact we started him as a rookie. We should have kept him on the bench until he died of old age. Then he'd be a Hall of Famer. LOL. LOL at the over-reaction to 1 game here :-)
I just watched Patrick Mahomes toss an int late in tonight's SNF game... could cost 'em the game. Clearly they need to "sit" Mahomes now for another year. Then he'll be ready. Right?
Trubisky "turned out" like Trubisky because he was Trubisky. It wouldn't have mattered if he started week 5 or week 50. No correlation between those two things.
No... no... no...
Trubisky was "ruined" due to the fact we started him as a rookie. We should have kept him on the bench until he died of old age. Then he'd be a Hall of Famer. LOL. LOL at the over-reaction to 1 game here :-)
We're Bears fans. All we have is over-reaction. We're Bears fans. We don't know what a real QB looks like. So when we see one, we don't see him. Here's an example.... does anyone see the bridge in this photo? I certainly don't.
Trubisky was "ruined" due to the fact we started him as a rookie. We should have kept him on the bench until he died of old age. Then he'd be a Hall of Famer. LOL. LOL at the over-reaction to 1 game here :-)
We're Bears fans. All we have is over-reaction. We're Bears fans. We don't know what a real QB looks like. So when we see one, we don't see him. Here's an example.... does anyone see the bridge in this photo? I certainly don't.
+1
LOL, Good point.
In fact, Shark, I was thinking this a few minutes ago. We have gone through traumatic QB play here spanning decades. And we're all about half-lunatics now. We wildly over-react to every little thing regarding Fields now. We'd better get over it though. Because Fields is gonna have bad games. Fields is gonna make bone-head decisions with the football this year. But he will make a ton of GREAT plays too. He will be fun to watch as he learns and grows as a good QB this year. Bears fans better strap in due to the fact we will see performances MUCH worse than today during his career. Even Tom Brady stinks it up in some games... we've all seen that.
If Justin Fields is too fragile emotionally to play football right now, then we wasted a draft pick on him.
Post by germansbombedph on Sept 20, 2021 0:42:27 GMT -6
If Dalton plays like this every game, the Red riffle will finish the season as Starter. If all we get is something like week 1, there is no reason to not play Fields. He won't get killed, he will make mistakes.
IMO Fields played good yesterday. Showed confidence and skills, more than enough for his 1st real game. And that pass to ARob was such a beauty.
I catch myself thinking this very thing when I watch his passes. He throws a beautiful ball, so much so that I've rarely seen the equal of it - even with the best QBs I've watched play over the past 60+ years in the NFL. It is such a "catchable" ball that he throws, with a nice touch on it. For our WRs to drop these passes, it's almost criminal. ARob looked like a total dufus letting that ball go right between his arms on that pass in the end zone. You can't throw a pass more catchable that that. A high school WR makes that catch.
Yeah, Fields (and this entire team) have plenty of room to improve. And I really believe we will see significant improvement this season as it goes on and on. Will we see ugly games and stupid plays? Yep. But at least Fields is a green as a gourd rookie and you expect that of a green as a gourd rookie... this is how he is going to learn his craft - by doing - and by making some mistakes this year in "real games" and then correcting these things in his game as he learns. The greatest learning curve in front of Fields is one that you only climb by getting real reps in real games - and with the #1s on offense and not the depth players on the practice squad. Then in 2022 he should be "that much farther along" in his learning curve climb. This year's a garbage year. Let the kid learn his craft. Let him make mistakes. And when the over-reacting Bears fans go on social media to moan and cry about him "being a bust" we can just ignore the idiots.
This kid is special. He doesn't have the perfect set of skill players around him. He doesn't have the perfect OL to protect him. But I do believe he has enough talent around him to play in real games this year. And let's be "real" here. In the NFL you don't get "perfect" everything. That's just the way it is.
And just for the record, I confess that I overreact more than anyone here... the "fan overreaction" stuff is a problem that I have as a fan too. All I'm saying is that the world won't end if Fields starts here... whenever that may be... later in the season, or next week or sometime in between - Fields is going to be okay here. Let's just enjoy watching this kid mature and learn his craft this season. We'll support him when he screws up (there will be a lot of that this year), and we'll be proud of him when he does good (there will be a lot of that too this year). It's gonna be a good season to watch for that very reason... Fields developing, not the Bears team winning a ton of games.
You realize KC's decision to "sit Mahomes" turned out to the WRONG one, don't you?
We understand why it happened--Alex Smith was playing lights out--but Mahomes should have been starting. He was clearly the better player almost immediately.
Fields will be starting week 3 and that ends it. He starts rest of the year unless hurt. The Dalton injury provides a convenient excuse.
You know this how?
Mahomes even went on record saying he needed that time to learn. Are you saying he's wrong about that?
Because he was clearly the better player as soon as he played and Alex Smith, as good as he was that year, was obviously limited.
Just like Russell Wilson was clearly the best player even though he was a 3rd round pick.