Time for the Chicago Bears to make a change at QB2

Surprised there's no commentary here.

PJ Walker has been demonstrably bad since TC started.  This isn't "one tough day".  He has sucked consistently in practices and games for 4 weeks now.

Been screaming for years for the Bears to do what other teams do and constantly have a young QB in development as QB3.  I'd draft a late rounder every other year and constantly sift thru them.  They won't do it and seem to love paying "vet leaders" who suck as their backups.

It looks like you finally have a decent one from the UDFA market but will they have the balls to make him QB2?  I doubt it.

Based on performance, PJW should be cut and Bagent/Peterman promoted but I'll settle for this:
You're now keeping 3 QBs on the 53 man roster.  A new rule allows a 3rd QB to be active for every game as an "extra" player as long as he is on the 53 man roster.  If Fields can't play and PJW sucks as bad as he has in relief, at least then you could go to Bagent right away.

I haven't seen PJ Walker do anything positive as a QB for the Bears.  I understand that he was signed because they wanted a backup ho can play a similar game as JF1 does if they need to start the backup QB.

But over his career in the regular season, he has played in 25 games (over 3 years) and has a 57.5% completion and a TD/Int ratio of 5/11.  A W-L record of 5-10 and a QBR of 63.9 (link). 

So far in the 2023 preseason, he is 5 completions for 12 attempts for 25 yards with 0 TDs and 1 INT.  These are terrible stats.  I had to cobble these stats together from various box scores. So if anyone has a decent source of PS game stats, please correct me if I am wrong.  
  
Unless there is something going on with Bagent that we do not see, I feel that we could win games with Bagent as our backup QB.  Obviously Fields is our best QB.  But of the three other QBs on our roster, I feel that Bagent would give us the best chance to win games over the other two.  And PJ Walker would give us no chance at all.

If we cut PJ Walker, we will take a cap hit of $1.66 million and dead cap of $2.01 million (link). Poles and Eberflus preach a lot on accountability and personal responsibility. IMO it is time they show some of both themselves.

Without question, agree with you 100%

PJW is currently the FOURTH BEST QB

As I was surfing through the web after the game, I came across an Eberflus comment (can't remember where) in which he said that he wants a veteran presence in the QB room to help Fields.  I took that to mean Bagent can't offer that help because he is a rookie QB - and an UDFA rookie on top of that.  He was very pleased with Bagent in the summer camp and preseason games.  But I'm thinking PJ is a lock no matter what he failed to do as far as production in camp and in the PS games.  

I get it, about wanting a veteran presence in the QB room.  But if that's the case I'd keep Peterman over PJ Walker.  Both QBs came out of college the same year (2017).  Peterman was drafted and Walker wasn't.  Neither look very good to me but of the two Peterman looks better than Walker.  Walker looks lost out there.  Walker graded out 38.4 by PFF passing compared with Peterman's 75.8 (Bagent graded out 90.1 by comparison).  Granted 2 preseason games are a tiny sample size but the eye-test tells me Walker blows chunks as an NFL quarterback... Peterman is not a whole lot better - and Bagent looks really really good running an NFL offense.  Smart kid.  Great decision making under pressure.  He looks like a legit leader out there.  At least keep a player like that on your roster, right?