GGabriel: Time for QB change?

It's a good thing to make that move after the team (including Fields, the players and coaches) are farther into the season.  Just tossing a D2 rookie into this mess won't tell the Bears much if anything.  Not right now anyway.  I agree with Butkus.  Training camp and preseason play isn't the same as real games.  Now, maybe you get the kid reps later in the season when he's had more time with the team, the OL (hopefully) is settled and Jenkins is back and we have our starting 5 guys there again - and with a lot more game reps together.  Clearly the WRs and TE's seem to be having issues now too... let that get cleaned up first.  Give the kid a fighting chance here.  Heck even some 1st round QBs like Mahomes, Aaron Rodgers, Love and others have been given time before starting and it has worked out.  Nothing good will come from throwing a D2 kid in to this present mess.

I'm not explaining this well.  My point is that over the course of the season the OL and WRs will (hopefully) become better - especially when Jenkins is back.  In fact I think the offensive line could be pretty good by then.  I really do.  And the WRs (everyone not named DJ Moore) seem to be lining up wrong at times and running wrong routes... this too should settle down with game reps.  In light of that, why wouldn't you set this kid up for success instead of failure?  Let's wait a bit before we break our new toy... in fact, let's NOT break this guy, but rather help in to be a success here.  Keep in mind this is a D2 kid who was facing "colleges" that had fewer students than a lot of high schools.  Let that one sink in.  We know that even the rookie QBs from the major colleges (who have faced NFL quality talent) struggle as they transition to the NFL.  How much more so would this kid from this tiny West Virginia school have to overcome in HIS transition.  This season is not going to go anywhere good, so what's the hurry to ruin yet another young QB here?  LOL, it's not like we've had a shortage of destroying QBs here in Chicago.  Are we in some kind of rush here to destroy another one - a kid who just might (might) have a chance of succeeding here.  

Let's - for once -  "get it right" with this kid, rather than hurrying this.  For once, let's do it right... and of course if we want to give the kid a series here or there (not now but later in the season) then go for it... and if he looks like he can handle the NFL this year, then hey, maybe you do start him if Fields is still struggling as badly as he is now (he may, or he may not be).  These kids coming out of college are not machines.  But like machines we can break them.  People may not agree with me and that's fine.  But I completely believe we can set a kid like this up for success or failure.  How we deploy him and when we deploy him matters.  It matters a lot.

David is 100% right.

He either can play or can't play.  Sure, having better surrounding cast makes any QB's job easier.  No one disputes that.  But if you wait until "all the pieces are in place", you'll NEVER try any new QB.

You know what % of new/rookie QBs start their first games on teams with a lot of holes?  92%, that's how many.