This is an indictment against the Chicago Bears organization
Sept 21, 2023 11:53:36 GMT -6
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Post by bearsfaninaz on Sept 21, 2023 11:53:36 GMT -6
From what I am seeing out of Getsy, he is repeating last season. Trying to reinvent Fields as a pocket passer. I am not trying to defend Fields here. Or say that he is out franchise QB. Just saying that Fields is not a conventional NFL QB. He has his strengths and weaknesses just as any other player does. We need an offense that will play to his strengths and try to minimize his weaknesses. Then in the offseason you evaluate everything and everyone and make hard decisions.
But what we have seen so far is not anything remotely creative or imaginative. And the long hard decisions that get made this offseason should start with the coaching staff. Do we draft a QB in 2024? Sure if that is what Poles sees as a need. But maybe we need a decent coaching staff before we ruin another QB, WR etc. Because IMO that is all we are really good at.
It's also very clear that Bears used Philadelphia and Hurts as a template this past offseason. They thought Fields would make the leap, or at "a leap", Hurts did with a better OL and better weapons. Obviously, that hasn't panned out at all.
I posted in another thread that I have been following the CHGO Bears videos/podcasts religiously for months now and Hoge/Carm have been reporting since OTAs that Fields was having some struggles. It's fair to criticize both the coaching staff for pounding a square peg into a round hole for this long (something Nagy did for YEARS) and to criticize Fields for not picking up the scheme better.
If there's any chance to "fix" or salvage Fields, the template has to be LAMAR JACKSON. He can become a better pocket passer over time. It's not gonna just happen all at once like it did with Hurts.
But it took Jackson 5 years to develop into a pocket passer. Fields and the coaching staff won't have that luxury. I just saw a video of an ex Bengals receiver saying that about Jackson. To top it off Jackson made big strides years 2&3. Fields has been basically the same.
